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Donald Trump to Hold Massive Rally in Phoenix; Twitter Prematurely Announces Scott Walker Bid; FBI Admits to Making a Mistake on Gunman's Background Check; Toddler's Body Found in Trash Bag Off Boston Harbor; Cancer Physician Gets 45 Years in Prison; Interview with South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley; Stop and Frisk in New York Not the Fix?; Serena Williams Wins 4th Straight Grand Slam Title. Aired 1-2p ET

Aired July 11, 2015 - 13:00   ET

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[13:00:08] FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: All right. So much more straight ahead in the NEWSROOM and it all starts right now.

Happening right now in the NEWSROOM, Donald Trump making a bold prediction.

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DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: When it's all said and done, I will win, win the Hispanic vote.

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WHITFIELD: All right. This as the presidential candidate prepares to speak to thousands about immigration in just hours.

And later, the search is on for the parents of this little girl only known as Baby Doe. We talked to a former senior FBI profiler about what the evidence tells us about the toddler and possibly family.

Plus a doctor heading to prison after giving patients chemotherapy when they didn't need it, all because he wanted more money.

You're live in the CNN NEWSROOM.

Hello, again and thanks so much for joining me. I'm Fredricka Whitfield.

Next hour, Donald Trump continues his western swing. First up is a libertarian conference in Las Vegas. And then he heads to Phoenix where several thousand are expected to attend a major rally on an -- on immigration with controversial Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Organizers in Phoenix had to change venues to accommodate the larger-than-expected crowds now.

MJ Lee is following the story for us.

So, MJ, Trump's immigration remarks have him angering a lot of people, but at the same time his popularity, he's rising in the polls, at least. And I understand you have some new information about who might be introducing him today in Phoenix when he meets up with the sheriff.

MJ LEE, CNN POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: That's right. We've learned that Jamel Shaw, Sr., the father of a high school student who was killed years ago in Los Angeles by an undocumented immigrant will be introducing Trump on stage in the Phoenix rally today, Fredricka.

Shaw was one of the family members of victims of crimes perpetrated by undocumented immigrants that Trump met with in Los Angeles yesterday. Shaw actually spoke about his meeting with Trump earlier this morning.

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JAMEL SHAW SR., SON KILLED BY UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT: He told me that my son's life was not going to be in vain, and that he was going to do something about it by, you know, enforcing immigration law, securing the border, you know, everything that we want. Everything that people are asking for, he's going to do it.

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LEE: This is an important reminder, Fredricka, that while there are many people who have been very offended by the comments that Donald Trump has made about illegal immigration and illegal immigrants coming into the country, there are also people who think that he is making an important point about addressing illegal immigration into the country.

WHITFIELD: And then MJ, despite the fact that many have said, you know, his remarks have been very offensive, Donald Trump, when we heard in his sound bite earlier, he says he insists he is going to win the Latino vote. How and why?

LEE: That's right. It's been fascinating to see Trump talk about the Hispanic vote, despite the backlash that he has gotten in the last couple of weeks. He is confident as ever that he will be the candidate that wins the majority of the Hispanic vote. I think in part because he really believes that he is the candidate who has the strongest message when it comes to job creation.

Here's what he said last night.

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TRUMP: When the word gets out, I will win. Romney let us all down. He was a very poor campaigner. He did a horrible job. He should have won that race. And he did not do well with the Hispanics. When it's all said and done, I will win -- win the Hispanic vote over the Democrat whoever it may be, probably Hillary Clinton.

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TRUMP: So, Fred, as you can see, Donald Trump as confident as ever.

WHITFIELD: Always. All right, MJ Lee, thank you so much.

All right. Let's turn now to another Republican presidential candidate, or shall we call him that just yet? Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker tweeted Friday that he is officially running for president. But was that inadvertent? A little unusual, because he is expected to formally join the race at an event on Monday. So the Friday evening tweet was deleted very quickly. What really did happen?

CNN tech correspondent Samuel Burke joining us now.

All right, so contrary to past Twitter faux pas, this may not have been the Walker camp's fault. At least that's what Twitter is saying, right?

SAMUEL BURKE, CNN TECH CORRESPONDENT: Fredricka, when I first saw this tweet I had to think back to my time as a digital producer at CNN for Christiane Amanpour.

[13:05:06] And many times I use the feature that lets you schedule a tweet. You type it now but then it gets sent out over the weekend or in this case maybe during a campaign event, a presidential announcement. I thought for sure some campaign worker accidentally set it for the wrong time. But then we received this statement from Twitter.

Take a look at this from Twitter spokesperson Nu Wexler saying the following, quote, "We're looking into today's issue. And we've determined the Walker team was not at fault."

WHITFIELD: What could that mean?

BURKE: So Twitter isn't saying that they're at fault, they're saying the Walker team isn't. So what does this mean? Well, it could be a miscommunication between the Walker team and somebody else or another group that might be managing the account. It could be a hacking, even though the Walker team and Twitter haven't indicated that or what most people are telling me, experts who deal with this type of situation all the time, there's likely there was some type of glitch with Twitter, whether that's a wrong time zone or some type of problem in the system. It's probably a tech glitch that really spooked Scott Walker.

WHITFIELD: So it's interesting because this happening in the same week when we saw other huge glitches in many systems across the country. So coincidence? Or is there something else going on? Something more nefarious behind all of this?

BURKE: After the tech problems with the "Wall Street Journal."

WHITFIELD: Yes.

BURKE: With United Airlines and with the New York Stock Exchange it certainly makes you wonder. But I've been investigating those all week and we haven't anything to connect the dots to those ones. Even though it definitely looks suspicious, it makes you wonder, it doesn't look like anything like that.

You also have to remember, lots of people whether it's digital producers for CNN or campaign workers under these presidential candidates, are using third party apps many of the time. So it could be one of these third party apps. Presidential candidates are not perfect and neither is the technology that they use.

WHITFIELD: So what's the lesson here for everybody? You know, in circumstances like this? This is just kind of the latest, you know, example of an inadvertent or, you know, unintentional message being sent out. But does this mean this really could happen to just about anyone? If only we knew a little bit more about how this happened but --

BURKE: It happens to all of us quite frankly from time to time. And a list of bad tweets that have been sent out, I mean, everything from Anthony Weiner to this, this certainly is low on the list. But you have to hand it to the Walker campaign. It looks like they're embracing it. They're saying stay tuned, you're going to have to check out what we're saying Monday. And that's the only thing you can do when you have some type of accident on Twitter because once it's out, everyone takes a screen shot. It's almost impossible to delete a tweet and have nobody re-tweet.

WHITFIELD: Right.

BURKE: So you have to do what the Walker campaign is doing and just keep on dancing with the music.

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WHITFIELD: All right. Good advice. All right. Samuel Burke, thanks so much. Good to see you.

All right. New details about a deadly attack targeting ISIS in Afghanistan. Former Taliban leader Hafiz Saeed also thought to be an ISIS leader in Afghanistan and Pakistan has been killed in a U.S. drone strike. The Afghanistan Intelligence Agency says Saeed was one of 30 other insurgents killed in the strike on their compound in eastern Afghanistan. A spokesman says the leader who was killed is not the man, not the same man, who has a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head.

All right. Still ahead, the FBI now says Dylann Roof never should have been able to buy a gun. He is accused and he's confessed to killing nine people in a Charleston, South Carolina, church. What's happening now as a result?

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[13:11:56] WHITFIELD: The FBI is now reviewing their own policy after Dylann Roof's background check was not followed through thoroughly. This after the agency admits Roof should not have been able to purchase the gun he is accused of using in the Charleston, South Carolina, church shooting that left nine people dead.

CNN's Sunlen Serfaty is live for us at the White House with the latest -- Sunlen.

SUNLEN SERFATY, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Fred, this is a big admission by the FBI that there was an error in the background check and Dylann Roof should never have been cleared to get that gun. Now FBI officials met with families of the victims this week to explain to them in person this mistake.

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SERFATY (voice-over): The man who confessed to gunning down nine people inside a South Carolina church should never have been able to buy the .45 caliber gun used in the slaughter. That admission coming from FBI Director James Comey, who told reporters his bureau made a mistake during Dylann Roof's background check, a mistake he said, quote, "rips all of our hearts out."

According to law enforcement officials, within days after the shooting, agents on the ground knew something was amiss and suspected that Roof's arrest record should have prohibited the gun purchase.

PAUL CALLAN, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: It just shows how a bureaucratic mistake can cost human life.

SERFATY: Director Comey says the FBI examiner during Roof's background check didn't discover Roof had previously admitted to illegally possessing drugs when he was arrested in late February. That information would have prevented Roof from passing the background check.

CALLAN: There's a regulation that says if he was a drug user, he shouldn't have got a gun. And there was abundant information for the FBI to have had that information. Had they had it, no gun sale and possibly no shooting here.

SERFATY: Comey says the FBI examiner failed to make contact with the Columbia, South Carolina, Police Department, which arrested Roof on the felony drug charge, in part because of a clerical error that listed the wrong police department in the online court system.

After three days of waiting for the background check, the South Carolina gun shop legally used its discretion to sell Roof the gun even though his status was still pending.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Grassley said in a statement, quote, "It's disastrous that this bureaucratic mistake prevented existing laws from working and blocking an illegal gun sale." But the family of one Charleston victim, surprise and understanding.

REV. ANTHONY THOMPSON, WIDOWER OF MYRA THOMPSON: I thought, you know, being that it was an FBI, you know, check, that they were very thorough. So I was surprised that they weren't very thorough. And so -- but I know people make mistakes.

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SERFATY: And there are already calls on Capitol Hill to make changes. Senator Chris Murphy and Senator Blumenthal are calling on President Obama to take some executive action. They want changes that would stop the gun dealers from being able to proceed and to sell weapons from people, Fred, if law enforcement needs more than a three days' time during the background check -- Fred.

WHITFIELD: All right. Sunlen Serfaty, thank you so much.

All right, joining me now from Washington, CNN law enforcement analyst Tom Fuentes. So Tom is also a former FBI assistant director.

[13:15:02] Good to see you, Tom. So when you hear of an error like this, whether it's a clerical error, or whether someone didn't quite follow through with information, how often does something like this happen in this country?

TOM FUENTES, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST: Well, the problem, Fredricka, is you don't know how often because not everybody that obtains a gun that they shouldn't have immediately goes out, kills nine people and gets arrested for it, linking the gun to the murder. So we don't know what we don't know if a gun is misused that shouldn't have been obtained by somebody. But I think the problem in this thing is that, you know, it's kind of a complicated system to conduct this record check. And it required the examiner at the FBI to do a lot of trying to chase the information that wasn't immediately supplied. In other words --

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WHITFIELD: And information supplied by a locality of -- you know, jurisdiction, right?

FUENTES: Right. Information was furnished by Lexington County Police. The majority of the city of Columbia is in Richmond County next door. And unfortunately when that information came in it said that there was a pending arrest. It did not say that he had admitted to drug use that.

WHITFIELD: Admit.

FUENTES: That was in the police report but it was not furnished immediately to the FBI. The examiner tried to get the disposition of the arrest. Was he convicted? Was there more to this? And unfortunately, the directory that was being used listed for that county, the Columbia wasn't in that county, West Columbia was. And West Columbia actually was where the gun was purchased. So the examiner checked with West Columbia. They said we don't have any record. Well, that was because it was in Columbia in the adjoining county.

So it sounds kind of complicated. And, you know, with more time it was eventually sorted out. But again as mentioned, you've got three days. Especially this one I think the purchase attempt was on a Saturday. So we're talking about over a weekend trying to get information and information that's in a police report from a local police jurisdiction that wasn't readily furnished up front.

WHITFIELD: And so it seems like trying to fix or correct this is going to be very difficult. It's not just, you know, one simple answer because you're talking -- you've already just laid it out. There's so many different branches, you know, that are involved here. So then in a case like this where that local gun shop owner didn't necessarily receive any information by that third day, and it's legally at the discretion of the seller to then say OK, let me assess this. I'm going to go ahead and sell, you know, to this individual. Does that need to be fixed?

FUENTES: That's true. That's true. He has the discretion. Well, you could extend the period. You know, the original justification for the three-day wait had less to do with background checks and more to do with people tend to commit murders when they're really upset and angry. And so it was to allow a cooling off period as well. So, you know, if a husband and wife have an enormous fight and one wants to kill the other they can't run off to the gun shop, come home an hour later and gun down their spouse. So that was --

WHITFIELD: I think it's the discretion part that I'm wondering about. I mean, I think, you know, just when you have a checks and balances so to speak in place and then there's no reply, that doesn't necessarily raise a flag that oh, my gosh, I haven't heard now from, you know, the FBI on this or -- why is it? Why is the onus now being put on the gun owner to make a determination as to whether this person is, you know, fit to buy a gun even though the FBI hasn't given a final stamp of approval or not?

FUENTES: Well, the onus doesn't have to be on the gun dealership. I mean, they could pass -- they could make this be a week or two weeks before, you know, the deadline that if they don't get a response, and usually they get a response the same day or the next day. But if they don't get a response that they can't sell it. And that's period. You know, that they have to wait. So that could simplify it just right there, that if this is taking a little more time to get to the facts, which this examiner needed in her situation, that if the FBI facility in West Virginia.

And the other reason that there's a little bit of confusion here is not every state uses the FBI system. You know, there are about 20 states that use their own state systems. And you don't know what kind of quality control they have. And that goes back to your first question that you don't know if somebody has already -- how many people are out there that have purchased weapons that they really weren't entitled to purchase but they just haven't been discovered yet. Having the weapon or having used it to commit a murder.

WHITFIELD: All right. Very complicated. All right, thank you so much, Tom Fuentes.

All right. Ahead, a horrible mystery in Boston. The body of a little girl is found in a garbage bag. So who is she? A former senior FBI profiler takes a look at the evidence next.

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WHITFIELD: Over 50 million people have seen her picture on Facebook. But police still don't know the identity of Baby Doe. The little girl's body was found wrapped in a zebra-striped blanket, and inside a trash bag along the shore of the Boston Harbor. More than 50 million people have viewed this composite sketch of the girl believed to be about 4 years old. Hundreds of tips have come in but so far none have panned out.

CNN spoke with the district attorney on the case.

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DAN CONLEY, SUFFOLK COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY: If she looked like this in life I think we can all agree she's precious. And, you know, she really deserves the dignity of a funeral and a burial and in her own name.

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WHITFIELD: Joining me now is former FBI special agent and senior profiler Mary Ellen O'Toole who has worked on many high profile cases like the disappearances of Elizabeth Smart and Natalee Holloway.

Good to see you.

MARY ELLEN O'TOOLE, FORMER SENIOR FBI PROFILER: Thank you.

WHITFIELD: So, Mary, so Baby Doe had on fairly new clothing. Her ears were pierced. It appears that she was cared for. And I know a lot of attention has been on the composite and what might anybody know about this little girl. But I wondered, that kind of information, how much does that kind of information tell you about possibly the family of this little girl?

O'TOOLE: Well, that information does give insights for me into the caregivers or the family. We're not sure which it may end up being. But you have behavior that suggests that the child is taken care of. She -- from what we know, she's healthy. Her weight and height are proportionate to a 3- or 4-year-old. And that's a very good thing.

[13:25:10] And then you can contrast that with the callous behavior of putting a little child into a garbage bag and putting in the blanket and the tights and then taking that garbage bag and putting it into the bay and treating Baby Doe like she is garbage. So you've got the caring, loving type of behavior, and you compare that to the callousness. To me that would suggest we're dealing with two different people. In terms of how they deal with her.

WHITFIELD: And it's confusing. It is confusing.

O'TOOLE: Well --

WHITFIELD: Because you're talking about the blanket, too. Blanket, you think, you know, comforting unless there is evidence on that blanket -- of course we haven't heard anything about that and I'm sure they are going to try. And maybe you can tell us about what kind of evidence you try to extrapolate from that blanket. But the blanket being put in there with. I mean, it doesn't make any -- it doesn't make any sense when you talk about the callousness of yes, in the bag, disposing of throwing away. But then these comforts in there with her.

O'TOOLE: Well, yes. But if Baby Doe was already dead, or Baby Doe was in the process of dying, the offender could have just shoved the blanket in there. So it really -- at this point it's too speculative to say the blanket was done as something to comfort her, or she's already dead and they just shoved the evidence into the bag.

WHITFIELD: Getting rid of evidence. I got you.

O'TOOLE: Right.

WHITFIELD: OK. And then -- then what else are investigators trying to glean from this little bit of information that they have? I mean, do you even wonder about the composite drawing and its accuracies now of the composite drawing if you've got 50 million people who have viewed this image and then no one has come forward with any kind of information that says, I know something about this child. I can identify the child or the family or caregivers.

O'TOOLE: Sure. No, I think it's a wonderful composite. And I think the artists at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children have done a phenomenal job on this composite. But here's the situation. The reluctance of the people involved in this -- in this case, that reluctance is disproportionately much stronger than their desire or their ability to come forward and tell us what happened. So there's reasons for that.

And those reasons could be, for example, the people responsible are undocumented. People responsible know that they are responsible for her death and they don't want to get in trouble. A person responsible could have been threatened and continues to be threatened not to come forward. But the longer this goes on, what this tells me is that the circle around this small child was really very small to begin with.

It's not typical of a 4-year-old child. And that in itself I think will be very helpful to law enforcement. She did not live in a typical environment if 50 million people are looking at this -- what appears to be almost a photograph and no one has come forward so far.

WHITFIELD: And then really quickly before I let you go, perhaps you can help people. What is the behavior that people need to be looking out for? You know, unusual behavior of anyone who may be involved with her disappearance? What kind of things do you think they would be doing at this juncture? You know, is it as strange as seeing someone who's just disposing of a lot of, you know, children's -- I don't know, you know, belongings? I mean, what are the things that people should be mindful of?

O'TOOLE: Well, the first thing that I would suggest is don't look for unusual behavior. What we find is we tell people look for usual behaviors. And look for behaviors that you may have just ignored in the past. But in this case where I see that loving behavior compared with that callous behavior, I would be looking at this point for a couple. And that would have drawn a wedge between these two individuals. So you would see -- and that loving, caring behavior is more female.

And the callous is more male. So I'd be looking for a wedge between a couple because of this. The person that's loving and kind is probably under a tremendous amount of stress because they didn't want this to happen. The other person is like, this kept us from getting into trouble. That relationship between those two people is going to be very problematic.

WHITFIELD: Also troubling. All right. Mary Ellen O'Toole, thank you so much.

O'TOOLE: You're welcome.

WHITFIELD: All right. Coming up, what this cancer doctor did to hundreds of patients, and then how a federal court is making him pay for it.

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[13:31:22] WHITFIELD: Mortgage rates fell this week. Have a look.

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WHITFIELD: A Detroit area doctor is headed to prison for giving cancer treatment drugs to more than 500 patients who did not need them. Some who did not even have cancer. Dr. Farid Fata was sentenced Friday to 45 years in prison. But many victims and their families say that's not enough time.

Jonathan Carlson from CNN affiliate WXYZ reports.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So sorry for all you went through.

JONATHAN CARLSON, WXYZ REPORTER: Tears and hugs come naturally these days for this group.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's not all right, actually. It's not all right, you know? It's not all right. But you have an amazing attitude.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Amazing. That's God.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I know.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: All god.

CARLSON: They're bound by tragic circumstances, each one a victim in some form or fashion of a cancer doctor prosecutors say did the unthinkable.

BARBARA MCQUADE, U.S. ATTORNEY: This we believe to be the most serious fraud case in the history of the country. CARLSON: But it was so much more than just fraud to these folks.

They lost their health or their loved one to Dr. Farid Fata's care or lack thereof. More than 500 patients were unnecessarily pumped with drugs, prosecutors say. Lives altered or ended. An emotional week which began with victims sharing their stories of pain finished with Dr. Fata himself sobbing before the judge, begging for leniency. But it didn't seem to matter. The judge went by the book, tallying the crimes and the mandated sentences that go with them. 45 years in jail.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Forty-five years for the lives that he took.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It wasn't enough. All the victims? My sister's gone. It just wasn't enough.

CARLSON: Prosecutors wanted what the families wanted, 175 years.

[13:35:03] MCQUADE: We believed that nothing short of a life sentence was appropriate in this case because the harm was so egregious.

CARLSON: But for families, they concede prison terms will never bring complete closure.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Can't bring any of them back. Can't heal the hurt.

CARLSON: So where do these men and women go from here? They're still trying to figure that out.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hopefully, you know, move on somewhat or try to now.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's been a very long road. And a very hard journey for all of us.

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WHITFIELD: Our thanks to Jonathan Carlson with WXYZ for that report.

All right. Still ahead, Serena Williams has won her sixth Wimbledon title, completing her second Serena slam. Details next.

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ANNOUNCER: This is CNN Breaking News.

WHITFIELD: All right, this breaking news. The Salty Brine Beach in Narragansett, Rhode Island, has been evacuated after a woman was injured in an explosion this morning. A spokesperson for the Department of Environmental Management tells CNN the explosion -- I'm quoting now, "The explosion came from under the sand and knock a 50- year-old woman onto the rocks."

The Narragansett Police Department bomb squad responded and is at the scene right now. The injured woman has been taken to the hospital. But there is no word on the extent of her injuries at this time. And of course, we don't know what caused the explosion as yet. But we will of course keep you updated on the story as soon as information becomes available.

[13:40:10] Also, today marking the first full day in 54 years that the Confederate battle flag has not flown on the grounds of South Carolina's capitol. The flag came down yesterday in a ceremony led by Governor Nikki Haley. She sat down with CNN's Don Lemon a few minutes later to talk about the historic event.

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GOV. NIKKI HALEY (R), SOUTH CAROLINA: This is a surreal moment. Standing out there and watching that flag come down, it felt like the biggest weight was lifted off the state. It just felt so -- it's like the state -- it's a true new day in South Carolina. It feels like a new day in South Carolina.

DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: You have said this, and I don't know if it's in the exact words. But you have all done this because you weren't always on the side of taking this down, but you -- I think it takes a big person to change their mind. Why did you change your mind?

HALEY: It wasn't that I wasn't for taking it down. First of all South Carolina very much respects history, respects tradition, and so the flag has just always been up there. So when I came into office, you know, to have a two-thirds vote threshold was a huge one. And it's not a Republican-Democrat, white-black, there hadn't been a bill filed to bring that flag down since 2007. There was so much of a divide and so much hurt in the compromise of 2000, that no one wanted to talk about it. So it was almost like people just assumed it was going to be there.

LEMON: Yes. These -- you've used the words in the signing of this bill, you said tradition, you said history, you said respect, and love and forgiveness. It has to have been hard to strike a balance because not everyone was on the side that you were on.

HALEY: It's important for people to know what it's like to be in another person's shoes. And if you watch the legislative debate, that's what happened. People put themselves in each other's shoes, so they understood what the respect of tradition and heritage was, and that it wasn't about hate. But the other side also learned how painful that flag was and the pain that it was causing people. That's what brought South Carolina to this new day, was the ability to look at each and listen and say, it's time.

LEMON: You're an immigrant, your family -- you grew up here.

HALEY: Born and raised in South Carolina, but the daughter of Indians parents.

LEMON: Does that -- does it mean more to you? Does it make you more connect to do this issue? Do you have a special feeling about it?

HALEY: You know, we grew up, an Indian family, in a small town of South Carolina. My father wears a turban. My father at the time wore a sari. It was hard growing up in South Carolina, but what I've always been proud of and what I worked towards is to make sure that today is better than yesterday, and that my kids don't go through what we went through. And now I feel good because now I know my kids can look up and there won't be a flag. And it will be one less reason to divide, and there will be more reasons for us to come together.

LEMON: Now, as I understand, you went up and looked over the -- at the flag in the capitol this morning and it was important for you to do that. Why?

HALEY: I just needed to see it one last time. I needed -- I wanted to remember the moment. You know, so much of this has a whirlwind over the last several weeks, it's been extremely emotional, but I just needed to see what was about to happen.

LEMON: This flag went up in 1962, correct? Do you think it was sort of a poke in the eye to the civil rights movement?

HALEY: You know, I'm not going to try and figure out why people did what they did. I think the more important part, it just never should have been there. And I think that even when it was on the grounds of the statehouse, it was right in front. And these grounds are a place that everybody should feel a part of. And these grounds are a place that should be -- that belong to the people of South Carolina.

And what I realize now more than ever is people were driving by and they felt hurt and pain. No one should feel pain. You know, we can have our disagreements and we can have our policy back and forth, but no one should feel pain over something, not over a symbol.

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WHITFIELD: All right. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley there talking after that historic moment of the Confederate flag being taken down off the grounds of the state capital.

All right. Still to come, a new report is out on the New York Police Department's controversial stop and frisk policy. And it's raising additional concerns. Hear why next.

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[13:48:10] WHITFIELD: A federal monitor in charge of reviewing the New York Police Department's controversial stop and frisk program has issued his first report. And it's revealing new information about the police practice that is raising concerns.

Here's CNN's Sara Ganim.

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SARA GANIM, CNN INVESTIGATIONS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The numbers show controversial stop, question and frisk encounters are down in New York City. But not for the reasons you'd think. The first report examining the NYPD since stop and frisk tactics were found to be unconstitutional shows that New York City police officers aren't properly documenting their encounters with the public.

Peter Zimroth, the former federal prosecutor tasked with developing remedies for stop and frisk, also found officers are not confident or are misinformed about the policy. And so they're failing to make stops when they should.

Back in December, Mayor Bill de Blasio said the revisions to stop and frisk were working.

MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO (D), NEW YORK: We have driven down crime. We have seen substantial decreases in the stop and frisk approach. And substantial decreases in low-level marijuana arrests. So a lot of change is happening and that change is happening while at the same time the city is becoming safer. Fewer complaints by New York City residents to Civilian Complaint Review Board.

GANIM: The policy peaked under Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration. Then police could detain, question, even search people if they suspected foul play. It was widely credited with dramatically reducing crime. However, a 2013 report by the Public Advocates Office found the majority of those stopped were African- American or Hispanic.

Months later, a federal judge found the policy was a violation of the Fourth and 14th Amendments, which says there has to be a, quote, "reasonable suspicion" that a person committed a crime. Critics including now Mayor Bill de Blasio called stop and frisk racial profiling.

[13:50:07] DE BLASIO: We believe in respecting every New Yorker's rights, regardless of what neighborhood they live in or the color of their skin. And we believe in ending the overuse of stop and frisk that has unfairly targeted young African-American and Latino men.

GANIM: Now Zimroth is recommending a random body camera trial to see how the cameras impact the actions of the NYPD and the people who they encounter. In response, the NYPD has revised its training, emphasizing that accurate reporting of stop and frisk is of the utmost importance.

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GANIM: Context is important here, Fred. New York City's police force is the largest police force in the country. This sets a tone, especially after months and months across the country of protests over how police officers interact with the public -- Fred.

WHITFIELD: All right, Sara Ganim, thank you so much.

All right. Let's talk more about this. Joining me now from Philadelphia is a 28-year veteran of federal, state, and local law enforcement, former ATF executive, Matthew Horace.

So, Matthew, good to see you. What do you believe has happened here? Why are the numbers down in your view? MATTHEW HORACE, FORMER ATF EXECUTIVE: Good afternoon, Fredricka. As

you know, a program like this needs several things to succeed. First, it needs proper training. The officers need to understand what's expected to bring crime down while not violating the rights of citizens. Number two, it needs careful and adequate monitoring and number three, it needs careful execution and executive leadership at the top.

The numbers don't lie. The data can be manipulated, but in this case, we need to pay attention to what the numbers say, go back to the drawing board. And what I heard you say was that Mayor de Blasio and Chief Bratton are going back and retraining officers on what they need to be doing.

WHITFIELD: Yes, you heard our Sara Ganim's reporting on that. So then in your view is stop and frisk happening less? Is it an issue of communication? Is it an issue of it's not being documented? Or is it just the case?

HORACE: Well, you know after 28 years of law enforcement, what I found is that my colleagues, although I love them to death, will find a way to get around anything. And in this case, there's several factors. Number one, it's probably being documented less. People aren't being stopped less because that's what police officers are paid to do. Number two, the data can be skewed in a couple of different ways and we might not be getting total accurate data.

And let's face it. Every law enforcement organization in the world is looking for progressive and unique ways to bring crime down. I don't know if stop and frisk is the answer, but it's what we have to live with at the moment in New York City.

WHITFIELD: And then what do you think is next, given this information, whether there are discrepancies in the findings or, you know -- or whether they are being accepted?

HORACE: Well, you know, Chief -- Commissioner Bratton is a very experienced law enforcement leader. I think what you're going to see next is they're going to examine the data, analyze it and determine what has to be done next, if there are changes that need to be made, officers need to be retrained, and not just retrained on what the elements of the process are, but retrained as to what their jobs are and how to do their jobs properly in the context of stop and frisk.

WHITFIELD: All right. Matthew Horace, thanks so much for being with us.

HORACE: Have a great day, Fredricka.

WHITFIELD: All right, you, too. We'll be right back.

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[13:57:13] WHITFIELD: All right. Checking your top stories.

Texas arson investigators say two churches were intentionally set on fire. Both incidents happened Friday morning in the town of Cargill. The sanctuary suffered significant damage, but there were no injuries reported. Authorities are investigating if the fires are linked.

Next week, President Barack Obama will become the first sitting president to visit a federal prison. The White House announced Friday he will tour Oklahoma's El Reno Federal Correctional Institution. He'll meet with inmates and law enforcement officials. The visit also includes an interview for an upcoming HBO documentary that examines America's criminal justice system.

And Florida State running back Dalvin Cooke has been suspended indefinitely after being charged with misdemeanor battery for allegedly punching a woman in the face outside a Tallahassee bar last month. He is denying the allegation. It is the second battery charge against an FSU player in the past couple of days. Quarterback De'Andre Johnson was dismissed from the team and charged with battery for this incident caught on videotape in a Tallahassee bar.

And now to the big day at Wimbledon. Today, Serena Williams, the world's number one women's tennis player, won her sixth Wimbledon crown and her 21st grand slam title overall.

CNN's Christina McFarlane has been following the story from Wimbledon.

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CHRISTINA MCFARLANE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The queen of centre court has done it again. 13 years after Serena Williams took her first Wimbledon title, she has followed up today with her sixth and her 21st grand slam title.

Now, on paper, it looked like this would be an easy match-up for the world's number one against the world's number 20 Garbine Muguruza of Spain, who was competing in only her first ever Grand Slam Final. But it didn't pan out that way, and Serena had to battle back twice to stay in this game, often screaming out in frustration at points that went wide. She hit serves of up to 123 miles per hour. That's faster than some of the men on this tour, and eventually, she dominated. 6- 4, 6-4, the final result.

Now all eyes will turn to the U.S. Open, and that's because Serena is in with a chance of taking that calendar grand slam. That's all four grand slams in one year. And it's something that hasn't been done since Steffi Graf back in 1988. And I tell you what, you wouldn't bet against her, and that's because Serena has won 24 -- 21 grand slam finals and lost only four. And at the age of 33 she is now the oldest and the most dominant player of her generation.

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WHITFIELD: Incredible news there, Christina McFarlane. Thank you so much.

All right. The next hour of the CNN NEWSROOM begins right now.

ANNOUNCER: This is CNN breaking news. [14:00:04] WHITFIELD: All right. Hello, again, everyone. Thanks so

much for joining me. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. Breaking news now out of Rhode Island.