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Search Continues for Escaped Convicts; South Korean President Cancels U.S. Trip over MERS Outbreak; Russia, Qatar World Cup Bids Under Scrutiny; Putin to Visit Pope Frances at Vatican; Pressure on Putin to Pull Out of Ukraine; ISIS Techniques Become More Sophisticated Including Using Women; Aired. Supreme Court Could Gut Obamacare; British Lawmakers Call for Referendum on Britain's Future in European Union. 2-3a ET

Aired June 09, 2015 - 02:00   ET

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[02:00:41] ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Police searching for two dangerous fugitives in the U.S. and are focusing on who may have helped them break out of prison.

ERROL BARNETT, CNN ANCHOR: New deaths in the MERS outbreak in South Korea as that nation tries to contain the virus.

CHURCH: And Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Pope Francis while the battle rages on in eastern Ukraine.

BARNETT: Hey, everyone. A welcome to our viewers in the U.S. and around the world. I'm Errol Barnett.

CHURCH: And I'm Rosemary Church. Thank you for joining us. This is CNN NEWSROOM.

BARNETT: We begin with the search for two convicted murderers who escaped from a New York state prison. Investigators are questioning a prison worker, Joyce Mitchell, about her possible involvement. She planned to pick up the inmates after they escaped but changed her mind.

CHURCH: Authorities also say her cell phone was used to make calls to several people connected to one fugitive, Richard Matt. It's not clear if she knew he phone was being used. Matt and David Sweat broke out of the Clinton Correctional Facility over the weekend.

Joyce Mitchell's son denies his mom was involved.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

TOMMY MITCHELL, SON OF JOYCE MITCHELL: She is not the type of person who will risk her lives or other's lives to help them escape. She wouldn't have an affair against my father. And it definitely would be with an inmate. There's no truth to that.

UNIDENTIFIED CNN CORRESPONDENT: There is a report your mom went to the emergency room with a panic attack. Did that happen?

MITCHELL: Yes, she was in fact in the hospital that evening. I don't know the exact details. But I just know that she was having severe chest pains and she was concerned about that.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BARNETT: At this moment, authorities are searching the area around the prison but, so far, reported sightings of the fugitives have turned up nothing.

Randi Kaye is there.

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RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It seems the only person to see the convicts is a man in his own yard the night of the escape. This is what he told "ABC News."

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I said, what are you doing in my yard? Get the hell out of here. He is like, I'm sorry, I didn't know where I was. I'm on the wrong street.

KAYE: Trouble is, no one is sure they've seen them since. And with the Clinton Correctional Facility just south of the Canadian border, officials are concerned they may try to flee north if they haven't already.

(on camera): If they tried to cross into Canada they may have done so here. This border cross is about an hour or so from the prison they escaped from. But this is a high-security crossing. It would have been tough. The U.S. Border Patrol says that their officers are trained in imposter detection and fraudulent documents.

UNIDENTIFIED U.S. BORDER PATROL AGENT: We are look at individuals and opening doors of cars and trucks. It's very expansive.

KAYE: I assume the pictures are at the ready?

UNIDENTIFIED U.S. BORDER PATROL AGENT: The photos are in the primary booths. The officers have them. They know who they are looking for.

KAYE (voice-over): But there are 300 miles of border in just this sector, a lot of it mountainous and all of it heavily wooded. And some are so easy to cross that authorities are at a real disadvantage.

(on camera): The escapees may be looking for a place like this to cross the border. They'd have an easier time. Border Patrol can't secure the entire northern border. So there are plenty of open areas where you don't need passports or documentation to cross the border. So watch this. Here I'm standing in the U.S. I can keep one foot in the U.S. and one foot in Canada. This is the border right here. Or I can just walk into Canada, no questions asked.

(voice-over): Helping patrol these open areas are highly trained canines.

(on camera): So if they do stop a suspicious vehicle, and they think someone could hide in the trunk, Border Patrol has a special way to find out. We asked Aaron to get inside the trunk of this car, hide himself in there so we can see how they do it.

(voice-over): This German shepherd smelled trouble and alerted at the car's trunk. So if this was the bad guys, forcing someone to smuggle them to freedom, this may be the best hope of finding them.

[02:05:15] UNIDENTIFIED BORDER PATROL AGENT: Good, boy.

Passenger side.

(SHOUTING)

KAYE: Randi Kaye, CNN, Dannemora, New York.

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CHURCH: We move to South Korea where the growing outbreak of the MERS virus has prompted the president to delay her trip to the U.S. It would have started on Sunday.

BARNETT: The Seoul chief press officer says that President Park Geun- hye will stay in South Korea instead of meeting with President Obama. This video from her visit to the White House is from 2013.

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome has hit South Korea with the largest number of cases out of Saudi Arabia where it was discovered.

CNN's senior international correspondent, Ivan Watson, is in Hong Kong.

A travel alert was issued this week, Ivan. Just explain how officials are splitting up hospitals in South Korea since all of the cases were contracted in medical facilities.

IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: First, let's get to the numbers of the cases here. So far, South Korea has 108 confirmed cases of MERS, this Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. Tragically, nine people have died who had contracted the disease, this virus. Two of the people announced by the Korean Ministry of Health who passed away were a 62-year-old man who was being treated for alcohol-related liver disease and a 75-year-old woman who had respiratory problems and a bone-related disease when she succumbed. So all of the people who have died, with the MERS virus, they already had existing serious health problems. And they tended to be older in age. And the World Health Organization has indicated that it is the elderly, and people already with immune deficiency problems and existing illnesses that are certainly the most at risk.

The South Korean government has acknowledged that all of the 108 people who have contracted MERS must have gotten it at hospitals in South Korea. So what they've announced is they are establishing dozens of hospitals that will be reserved for either treatment of people with confirmed cases of MERS or that suspected cases of MERS because the real concern is further spreading of the virus within hospitals, which is where it has spread in the first place in Korea. BARNETT: And considering it is confined to hospitals and people with

mostly preexisting conditions who are elderly who are suffering and have died from this, there is not a direct threat to the general public. But still though, you see the number of deaths and the quarantine creeping up. I wonder if the South Koreans feel the government has a handle on this.

WATSON: There is criticism of the way the government and politicians have handled it. Certainly it is the top story in South Korea. People are more on alert and wearing surgical masks in public. Journalists on the ground report as recently as last week that local pharmacies were running out of surgical masks and hand sanitizer. And the South Korean government has gone one step further. It has closed 2,400 schools and announced it will be testing everybody who is hospitalized with pneumonia. So additional measures are being taken right now. The world health organization has sent a delegation to Seoul to help coordinate with Korean health officials. But it has also gone and announced that there is no need to issue a travel or trade restriction or establish any new kinds of entry screening in Korea. So while the focus is on trying to prevent the spread it is also on trying to prevent panic in the wake of this outbreak which, again, has so far only resulted in 108 known cases of MERS in all of Korea.

BARNETT: They are using a bit of modern technology, tracking the quarantined. They're using the GPS in their cell phones, too. They have the resources they need.

Ivan Watson, live in Hong Kong, thanks.

[02:10:01] CHURCH: To another story we are watching closely. In three hours, FIFA's secretary-general will hold a news conference with Russia's sports minister and the organizer of 2018 World Cup. Russia and Qatar's World Cups are under scrutiny after the U.S. indicted FIFA sports officials with corruption.

The head of Australia's football federation says that his country's bid for the 2022 World Cup was clean. Qatar won instead, although FIFA says there are no legal grounds to revoke either World Cup.

CNN's legal analyst says a change could be made.

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JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN SENIOR LEGAL ANALYST: If they want to change the location of the World Cup, they can. I think from a logistical point of view, Russia is a very difficult thing to move at this point. It's only three years away and stadiums take a long time to be built. But Qatar is a different story since the idea of awarding the World Cup to Qatar was absurd when it was done. It's a ridiculous place to hold the World Cup. They can't do it in the summer. They have to move it to the winter, which would interfere with all of the professional sports leagues. If FIFA is really serious about reforming itself and that's, by no means, clear, it is certainly possible that they could move the Qatar games.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CHURCH: Meantime, a key figure in the case is lashing out now at the United States. In an editorial in his own newspaper in Trinidad and Tobago, Jack Warner says that the world shouldn't be duped by American propaganda.

CHURCH: Warner is accused of taking millions of dollars in bribes, a charge he denies and faces possible extradition to the U.S. He writes, "Regardless of what the United States of America wishes to say, the truth is, this current high moral position upon which it sits was predicated on nothing more than its failure to win the bid for the FIFA World Cup, 2022."

Another of the 14 men named in the U.S. indictment is now in custody. Alejandro Bazargo is an Argentine marketing director. He disappeared when seven FIFA executives were arrested last month.

BARNETT: Italian police say he turned himself in on Tuesday and his lawyers were with him.

Want to bring you this news just into CNN. Israeli security forces shot and killed a 20-year-old Palestinian man in the West Bank. Palestinian security forces say this happened at a refugee camp.

CHURCH: The Israeli police say they went to the camp to arrest a number of activists and the man tried to light and throw a canister at them during fierce clashes. One of the soldiers opened fire, hitting the man. Police say the canister exploded without injury.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin is set to meet the pope in a few hours. Ahead, we are live from Rome with a preview.

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[02:17:07] BARNETT: Russian President Vladimir Putin is headed to Italy later today. He'll have an audience with Pope Francis.

CHURCH: This will be the second time the two leaders have met but it's the first meeting since Russia annexed Crimea. The ongoing fighting in Ukraine is expected to be a major topic today.

BARNETT: And they are expected to discuss about a possible visit by the pope to Moscow. Russia has a relatively small number of Catholics.

Matthew chance has more.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

(SINGING)

MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): At mass in central Moscow, a rare glimpse of a Russian religious minority.

(SINGING) CHANCE: The sanctuary's Russia's Roman Catholics have kept a low profile, often viewed by their Orthodox countrymen with mistrust as outsiders in their own land.

UNIDENTIFIED ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST: We don't feel we have to prove something to someone. We are just there. We are there for a very long time. So, even if some people here in Russia think we came from somewhere, that we are aliens. We don't think this is true.

CHANCE: But it is true that tensions with the Russian authorities have frequently surfaced. Church officials say Roman Catholic missionaries and priests have had visas revoked for minor infractions and the church faces a general atmosphere of unfriendliness.

(on camera): This is, of course, the world's biggest Christian denomination. Here in Russia, Roman Catholicism is a tiny minority, less than 1 percent of the population. Many Russians want it to stay that way. Some Catholics say they are often seen as foreign agents, unwelcome in a mainly Orthodox Russia.

(voice-over): But there's hope that could now start to change. The pope and the Russian president have met before in 2013. This time, the Kremlin says further contacts will be discussed, fuelling speculation a first papal visit to Russia maybe explored.

Father Karill (ph) told me that may help to heal the rift between the Orthodox and Catholic Church.

UNIDENTIFIED ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST: I think the pope brings with him a certain craze charisma of love and understanding of invitation to dialogue and I very much hope when one day the pope will come to Russia the same miracle will happen.

CHANCE: A miracle that may bring Russia and the West closer together as well.

Matthew Chance, CNN, Moscow.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

CHURCH: For more on President Putin's meeting with the pope, let's turn to Delia Gallagher, CNN's Vatican correspondent. She joins us live from Rome.

Hi there, Delia.

Now of course, the Russian president will be eager to show the world he's not the pariah that many people think he is and has an ally in the pope. The question is how far might Pope Francis be willing to go to enforce the cease-fire in Ukraine and bring the fighting to a close?

[02:20:29] DELIA GALLAGHER, CNN VATICAN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, Rosemary, this is a trickier meeting than in November of 2013. In 2013, the two men found themselves in agreement against, for example, action in Syria or in agreement on protecting Christians in the Middle East. This time, Ukraine is on the top of the agenda and it is a trickier discussion for Pope Francis. He has already been criticized by the Ukrainian Catholics for not speaking out more forcefully against what they see as Russian aggression in their country. And the pope has two things to consider when he is talking to the Russian president. One is that the Vatican does not like to take sides and get involved in the political fray. They like to remain the moral voice for all people who are affected by war and conflict as well as a neutral place for political leaders to come and dialogue. The second point was brought out in Matthew chance's piece, that is the Russian Orthodox Church which split from Rome in the 11th century. All modern popes have wanted to go to Russian to heal that schism. And the Russian Orthodox Church is close to Putin and has a lot of sway over what goes on religiously and politically in that country. The Vatican has an eye on what the Russian Orthodox Church thinks. So it's a very tricky political discussion for Pope Francis today. We know, of course, that he has good diplomatic skills.

And to your question, Rosemary, I think we could possibly see a surprise from Pope Francis. We've seen it before. In Israel, when he invited the Palestinian and Israeli presidents to come to the Vatican for a prayer day. OK, it didn't affect anything in the long term. But we don't know yet what other things might come from those types of meetings. The pope is very creative when it comes to dealing with political leaders. We saw his role in Cuba as well. I wouldn't be surprised if we don't see something new today in his discussions with Vladimir Putin.

Keep in mind that the Vatican, after these meetings, issues a standard statement. So we'll have to see in the weeks to come, really, what the effect is of today's discussions between the pope and the Russian president.

CHURCH: We shall. You and I will have a chance to talk more on this next hour.

CNN's Vatican correspondent, Delia Gallagher, joining us there live from Rome. Many thanks to you.

BARNETT: In eastern Ukraine, fighting rages between the government and pro-Russian separatists despite a cease-fire in place since February.

CHURCH: Earlier, Ukraine's prime minster spoke with CNN's Wolf Blitzer. Aresniy Yatsenyuk praised the U.S.'s efforts to end the fighting and demanded stepped up effort to oust Russian forces from his country. Take a listen.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

ARSENIY YATSENYUK, UKRAINIAN PRIME MINISTER (through translation): I want to be very clear. More than 10,000 Russian military boots are on the Ukrainian soil. In addition, about 30,000 of Russian-led terrorists trained by the Russian army.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CHURCH: President Putin is facing growing pressure from world leaders to pull out of Ukraine.

BARNETT: As Jim Sciutto reports, there's fears that Ukraine is just the beginning of Russia's expansion.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

(GUNFIRE)

JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): These are the front lines of the war in Ukraine today.

(GUNFIRE)

SCIUTTO: Ukrainian troops locked in battle with Russian-backed rebels.

(GUNFIRE)

SCIUTTO: The four-month-old cease-fire, the second attempt to end the fighter here, looks meaningless.

President Obama is placing the blame firmly on Russian President Vladimir Putin.

BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Does he continue to wreck his country's economy and continue Russia's isolation in pursuit of a wrong-headed desire to recreate the glories of the Soviet Empire, or does he realize that Russia's greatness does not depend on taking over other countries?

[02:24:56] SCIUTTO: Like this Russian fly-by of a U.S. Navy destroyer in the Black Sea last week. Russian moves inside Ukraine, increasingly a direct challenge to the U.S. U.S. forces are now training Ukrainian troops against Russia's wishes and NATO war planes are now on rotation in the region. But despite the show of force, large parts of eastern Ukraine and all of Crimea remain under Russian control.

(APPLAUSE)

The 2016 presidential race heating up. Soon-to-be-candidate, Jeb Bush, blames failed U.S. policy.

JEB BUSH, (R), FORMER FLORIDA GOVERNOR: While Mr. Putin is a ruthless pragmatist, he will push until someone pushes back, and I believe that is NATO.

SCIUTTO: Increasingly, some of Russia's European neighbors, including NATO allies, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, fear they could be next.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't think we can assume that Putin's plans start and end with Ukraine. I think we have to assume that we may see threats like this else where in the future.

(EXPLOSIONS)

(END VIDEOTAPE)

BARNETT: That was CNN's chief U.S. security correspondent, Jim Sciutto, reporting.

CHURCH: The U.S. ambassador to the U.N. plans to head to Ukraine in the coming days. Samantha Powell will meet with Ukrainian government officials on her two-day visit.

BARNETT: And she will also deliver a speech to the Ukrainian people underscoring U.S. support for the country's citizens.

The Texas police officer caught throwing a teenager to the ground is out of a job. You'll hear from the police chief about this controversial incident after this short break.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

[02:29:55] BARNETT: A warm welcome back to those of you watching here in the states and all around the world. I'm Errol Barnett.

CHURCH: And I'm Rosemary Church. It is time to check our your stories this hour.

Investigators in New York believe a prison worker planned to pick up two inmates who escaped over the weekend but later changed her mind. A source says Joyce Mitchell is cooperating with authorities. A massive manhunt is underway for convicted murderers, Richard Matt and David Sweat.

BARNETT: South Korea's president is postponing a trip to the U.S. this weekend as her country fights a growing outbreak of the MERS virus. She will oversee her nation's response to the disease. South Korea officials has killed nine people and 3,400 are quarantined.

CHURCH: Bomb threats closed parts of the White House and Capitol Hill on Tuesday. The daily briefing at the White House was interrupted and reporters were told to leave. Hours earlier, the Transportation Security hearing in the Senate office building was also evacuated because of a bomb threat.

BARNETT: We keep our focus at the White House now. A senior U.S. official says it is considering about 500 additional forces to Iraq.

CHURCH: Most of them will train and advise Iraqi troops. This comes a day after U.S. President Barack Obama met with Iraq's prime minister and reiterated the U.S. pledge to help boost training for Iraqi troops battling ISIS. There are currently just over 3,000 U.S. forces in Iraq.

And U.S. officials are learning more about ISIS tactics, which are getting more sophisticated by the day.

BARNETT: And it's not just what the terror group is using on the battlefield, but whom.

Barbara Starr explains. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

(EXPLOSION)

BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In Iraq and Syria, the bombs are getting bigger --

(EXPLOSION)

STARR: -- much bigger. And the U.S. is trying to figure out what to do about the growing number of improvised explosives devices, or IEDs, right from the first bomb-making step.

Some in Congress are calling for the U.S. to do more to keep the explosives material itself from flooding into the battlefield.

SEN. BOB CASEY, (D), PENNSYLVANIA: You don't want ammonium nitrate or other elements to be developed because we haven't shut down the smuggling networks.

(EXPLOSION)

STARR: As Iraqi troops struggle to retain ground, like the Baiji oil refinery, U.S. military intelligence officials say the mega IEDs are changing the battlefield. Bulldozers and Humvees packed with explosives helped ISIS gain control in Ramadi. Below ground, ISIS operatives dig tunnels in multiple locations and pack them with explosives.

CNN learned the Pentagon is looking at highly classified new sensors that could patrol overhead, sniffing out explosives, looking for indicates of radio frequency or magnetic triggers. The idea, detonate the IED before it gets near Iraqi troops.

It comes as another ISIS tactic, using women as operatives or couriers, is getting attention.

The U.S. special representative on sexual violence in conflict described female slave markets where women are stripped, bought and sold.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We've had a study where a woman has been sold for a pack of cigarettes. After somebody buying her, he used her for a while and got tired and she was a slave.

STARR: She said they are also used to lure more foreign fighters.

But U.S. intelligence is looking at the possibility that some women who have joined ISIS may be more important than first thought. Some may even be working as couriers or involved in operations.

(on camera): These mega IEDs, a growing concern. The U.S. wants to get the Iraqis trained up to be able to deal with them. It is very much worth remembering over 3,000 U.S. troops lost their lives in IED attacks in over a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Barbara Starr, CNN, the Pentagon.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

BARNETT: Former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tells CNN he is not become critical of former President George W. Bush over the Iraq invasion.

CHURCH: Rumsfeld was an architect of the invasion. He says the idea of bringing democracy to Iraq was, quote, "unrealistic." But he tells CNN his comments were in no way anti-Bush.

BARNETT: And now Rumsfeld says he is skeptical about democracy in Iraq and, in a 2003 speech, he expressed hope that the nation would become a democratic model for the Muslim world.

CHURCH: Let's turn to that other story we're watching. The Texas police officer caught on video throwing a teenager girl to the ground at a pool party has resigned. Eric Casebolt has not been charged but his case remains under investigation.

[02:35:12] Police were responding to calls about a fight when the incident occurred on Friday. The police chief says his city's policies and training do not support Casebolt's actions.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

GREG CONLEY, CHIEF, MCKINNEY POLICE DEPARTMENT: Eric Casebolt has resigned from the McKinney Police Department. As the chief of police, I want to say to our community that the actions of Casebolt as seen on the video of the disturbance at the community pool are indefensible.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BARNETT: If you have seen the story bounced around social media, you know there has been debate over whether the incident was racially motivated. A white witness said the office was in fact targeting black teens there. However, a black witness said it was not a racial incident and that Casebolt was just trying to establish order.

CHURCH: Let's turn and check the weather now. And storms have prompted flood watches across large parts of the Western United States.

Let's go to Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri.

Where are we talking about?

PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Southwest of the U.S., areas that need the moisture and we are getting remnants of a tropical depression that made land fall in the past couple days. We have the prime area with the steering currents set up over southern California and Nevada. The heavy rainfall expected to continue. Parts of six states under flash flood watches at this hour. The temperatures with an onshore flow after a historic run in the Pacific Northwest with temps in the 80s and 90s, they will see a cooling trend where the 70s come back in the picture. And Medford, 87 Fahrenheit. But here is the perspective for showers and thunderstorms at this hour. Heavy thunderstorms in northern California. Over 200 lightning strikes in northern California in the past 24 hours sparked six fires. Yes, it's beneficial but unfortunately, it's so arid that lightning strikes are sparking fires that you see where the flooding concern remains in place and you look back from the month of May, the single wettest month for the United States in history. This is the perspective. The green areas including 100 to 500 percent above normal in the precipitation for an expansive area of the United States. The national oceanic and atmospheric administration releasing information saying we had 400 reports of tornados. We also had the wettest month of May on record in the states of Texas, Oklahoma, and the state of Colorado and the second earliest landfall to a tropical storm occurred in May. Tropical Storm Ana came on shore in the Carolinas in the month of May. And will leave you with perspective coming out of the state of Colorado. A supercell thunderstorm snapped. And you see multiple tornados. A double tornado storm and another one on the back end of the storm system.

BARNETT: Yeah.

CHURCH: Impressive. Terrifying.

BARNETT: Can you imagine?

That imagine is sure to win image of the year in some contest.

CHURCH: I think so.

BARNETT: Very daunting.

CHURCH: Pedram, thank you.

BARNETT: Likely U.S. presidential candidate, Jeb Bush, is facing harsh criticism for a book he wrote in 1995 calling for the restoration of shame for single parents. We'll discuss this after the break.

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[02:42:08] CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. A U.S. federal appeals court has upheld some of the strictest provisions of a Texas law that could force most abortion clinics in the state to shut their doors. It requires abortion clinics to meet hospital-like standards.

BARNETT: The Texas governor, Greg Abbott, applauds the rulings saying that it raises the care for women while protecting the unborn. The opponents call it a sham law that risks harming countless women.

Jeb Bush is being haunted by comments he made 20 years ago about shaming single mothers.

CHURCH: In his 1995 book, "Profiles in Character," the possible Republican presidential candidate wrote this, "One of the reasons more young women are giving birth out of wedlock and more young men are walking away from their paternal obligations is that there is no longer a stigma attached to this behavior, no reason to feel shame. Their parents and neighbors have become ineffective at attaching some sense of ridicule to this behavior."

BARNETT: The book was published before Bush became Florida's governor.

CHURCH: Meanwhile, if another presidential hopeful, single Senator Lindsey Graham, were to win the election, many are wondering who would play the role of first lady.

BARNETT: Graham says he has lots of friends. There could be a rotating first lady, and joked that his sister who introduced him at this announcement could have the job.

CHURCH: There you go. If chosen to be president, he would be the first life-long bachelor since James Buchanan, back in 1856.

BARNETT: In the coming weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether to gut the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. The court is also expected to rule on the federal legalities on how it works.

CHURCH: U.S. President Obama, speaking to the Catholic Health Association on Tuesday, is defending the health care law, which has been key to defining his political legacy. He's trying to build the case that millions of Americans are benefitting from Obamacare since its implementation five years ago and he's also taking aim at the motives of those challenging it. Take a listen.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I have to say, just deeply cynical about the ceaseless, endless, partisan attempts to roll back progress. I mean, I understood folks being skeptical or worried before the law passed and there wasn't a reality there to examine. But once you see millions of people having health care, once you see all the bad things that were predicted didn't happen, you'd think that it would be time to move on.

(APPLAUSE)

(END VIDEO CLIP)

[02:45:04] CHURCH: Earlier this week, Mr. Obama questioned why the Supreme Court took up the case but he voiced confidence the justices will leave the law intact.

A huge majority of British lawmakers have backed a bill in second reading which could have profound implications for the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe. It calls for a referendum on Britain's future in the European Union, a key part of the Conservative Party's election manifesto.

BARNETT: Over the next few months, Prime Minister David Cameron will be negotiating with his E.U. counterparts ahead of the referendum, which could take place as early as next year.

CNN's Max Foster has more from London. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

MAX FOSTER, CNN LONDON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It will be a vote that could change the shape of Europe.

UNIDENTIFIED U.K. PARLIAMENT MEMBER: European Union referendum bill second reading.

FOSTER: On Tuesday, members of the U.K. parliament had their first chance to debate it.

UNIDENTIFIED U.K. PARLIAMENT MEMBER: Mr. Speaker, this is a simple but vital piece of legislation. It has one clear purpose, to deliver on our promise to give the British people the find say on our E.U. membership in an in/out referendum by the end of 2017.

(CROSSTALK)

FOSTER: The bill is facing minor opposition only and expected to pass.

After David Cameron won the U.K. general election last month, he's wasted no time moving forward with his pledge to renegotiate Britain's place in the E.U. He wants to stay, but he also wants to see a number of changes that will slow down immigration into the U.K., including restricting the amount of benefits that immigrants can claim, and delaying the freedom of movement for citizens of new citizens of E.U. member countries. He also wants greater powers to block E.U. legislation.

Once the negotiations are complete, Cameron says he will put his reforms to the test with a referendum that could be as early as May 2016.

While it was all smiles in the German Alps for the G-7 meeting, the thorny topic is causing Cameron problems, not least within his own party.

On the international front, some countries like Germany are resistant to Cameron's proposed changes. But German Chancellor Angela Merkel showing signs she is willing to compromise.

ANGELA MERKEL, GERMAN CHANCELLOR (through translation): The European Union is better off with the United Kingdom as a member and I believe that Britain's national interests can be best served by staying in the European Union on the basis of a reformed settlement. That's what we both want to happen and what we will work together in the coming months to achieve.

FOSTER: Even President Obama has weighed in, saying he's looking forward to the U.K. staying a part of the European Union.

With the latest opinion poll suggesting that more than 50 percent of Britons would vote on staying in the E.U., at this stage, the chances of an exit seem slim. But David Cameron has said he will not rule out backing a withdrawal if he doesn't get what he wants from his E.U. counterparts.

Max Foster, CNN, London.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

CHURCH: We're going to take a short break here. But just ahead, a man in Australia considers himself an average guy. But the live- saving gift in his right arm is nothing short of extraordinary. Find out why. That's next.

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[02:52:23] CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. We all know that when we give blood we are giving the gift of life to those who need it.

BARNETT: Quite literally. You are about to meet a man whose blood contains something so unique he has saved millions of lives.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta shares his story.

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DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): On the surface, James Harris is an average guy. He loves his dog and grandchildren. He collects stamps. But it's what is under the surface that makes James extraordinary.

JAMES HARRIS, WEEKLY BLOOD DONOR: I got nicknamed the man with the golden arm.

GUPTA: Specifically, it's what is in his veins, James's golden arm, his right arm, from which he has donated blood every week for the last 50 years.

HARRIS: In 1951, I had an operation and they removed a lung and I had 30 units of blood.

GUPTA: At that time, you had to be 18 to donate blood in Australia. Not long after James became a donor, doctors called him with an idea. His blood could be the answer to a baffling problem in Australia.

JEMMA FALKENMIRE, AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS: In Australia, up until about 1967, there were thousands of babies dying each year and doctors didn't know why. The women were having numerous miscarriages and babies born with brain damage. Researchers discovered NTD and then James was discovered to have this anti-body in his blood, which was amazing.

GUPTA: It's called rhesus disease, a condition where a pregnant woman's blood actually starts attacking her unborn baby's blood cells. In the worst case, it can result in brain damage or death for the babies.

FALKENMIRE: Australia was one of the first countries to discover a blood donor with this anti-body. It was quite revolutionary at the time. James has helped babies in Australia, but he's helped babies all around the world.

GUPTA: James worked with doctors to develop a vaccine using the anti- bodies in his blood.

HARRIS: Today, I will be making my 1,101 donation.

GUPTA: A that donor center, his plasma is separated from the red blood cells and he gets those back. The plasma heads off to become the vaccine.

FALKENMIRE: It's easy for him to do. He doesn't see it as anything big and that's the other rare thing about James. He thinks his donations are the same as anybody else's. He doesn't think he's remarkable.

[02:55:08]GUPTA: His blood is precious. In his home country, James is considered a national hero. But he doesn't see it that way.

HARRIS: It is quite humbling when they say you've done this or that or you're a hero. No, no, no. It's something that I can do. It's one of my talents. Not my only talent, is that I can be a blood donor.

GUPTA: But is it a big deal. James and his vaccine are credited with saving the lives of more than two million babies. That's according to the Australian Red Cross Blood Service. Yes, two million lives saved by one man's blood.

FALKENMIRE: Every batch of NTD has ever been made in Australia has come from James' blood and more than 17 percent of women in Australia are at risk. So James has helped save a lot of lives.

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CHURCH: Two million lives. That is remarkable.

BARNETT: Let's be clear, James, let me say to you and the rest of the world, you are a hero. That's incredible.

CHURCH: A great story there from Dr. Sanjay Gupta.

You have been watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Rosemary Church.

BARNETT: And I'm Errol Burnett. Rosemary is up next, solo.

CHURCH: Yeah, leaving me.

BARNETT: I'm off tomorrow. You all have a great day.

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