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Trump, Clinton Win Big on Super Tuesday; Apple, FBI Spar Over Locked iPhone in Front of Congress; Looking Ahead in the Democratic, Republican Primaries. Aired 8-9a ET

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[07:53:13] KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. And welcome to News Stream.

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DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I would love to see the Republican Party and everybody get together and unify.

HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: What we need to do together is make American whole again.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: A big night for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The front- runners triumph on Super Tuesday. But their rivals for the White House are vowing to stay in the race.

And Apple's top attorney appears before U.S. lawmakers, warning that helping the FBI break into an iPhone will make everyone less safe.

Now one of the biggest days in the U.S. election cycle is now in the rearview mirror. And Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump

are firmly in the driver's seat.

A dozen states voted on Super Tuesday. And the two frontrunners, they picked up seven wins apiece as they tried to secure their party's

nomination for president. But their rivals in the race for the White House are more than holding on.

Now in this race it's not just about racking up states, but delegates.

Now Clinton's success with African-American voters helped her across the south where she won in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas and

Virginia. She also picked up the northeastern state of Massachusetts where Bernie Sanders was hoping for victory.

Now Sanders on the other hand won his home state of Vermont as well as Colorado, Minnesota and Oklahoma.

Now, here is how the delegates count stacks up so far. Clinton has more than 1,000 delegates and she will need just under 2,400 to clinch the

nomination. Now, Sanders's estimated delegate count tops 400.

Now, meanwhile in the Republican race, Donald Trump emerged with wins in seven states on Super Tuesday, followed by Ted Cruz who captured his home

state of Texas, along with Oklahoms and Alaska.

Now Senator Marco Rubio of Florida finally secured his campaign's first win of the primary season in Minnesota.

Now, Donald Trump so far has more than 300 delegates, Ted Cruz, 205,Rubio a little bit more than that -- or half that, rather.

Now, Republican candidates, they need more than 1,200 delegates to secure their party's nomination.

Now, every one of the Super Tuesday states on the Republican side, with the exception of Vermont, saw record voter turnout in their primaries and

caucuses.

Now Texas, where Ted Cruz won his home state, saw over a million more Republican primary voters than the previous record set in 2012. Jim Acosta

has more.

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TRUMP: We have expanded the Republican Party.

JIM ACOSTA, CNN SR. WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It was a big night for Donald Trump. The clear front-runner now well on his way to

clinching the Republican nomination.

TRUMP: The Republicans have tremendous energy. The Democrats don't. They don't have any energy. Their numbers are down. Our numbers are through the

roof.

ACOSTA (voice-over): The billionaire businessman racked up seven state wins, including delegate-rich Virginia, Georgia and Tennessee.

TRUMP: I think we're going to be more inclusive. I think we're going to be more unified and I think we're going to win in November.

ACOSTA (voice-over): After days of controversy over support from white supremacists, Trump tried to strike a more diplomatic tone, claiming he can

unify the country.

TRUMP: I'm a unifier. I know people are going to find that a little bit hard to believe but, believe me, I am a unifier.

SEN. TED CRUZ (R-TX), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The path to beating him is for us to unify.

ACOSTA (voice-over): Ted Cruz also called for unity, asking the other three non-Trump candidates to drop out after he won his home state of Texas,

neighboring Oklahoma and Alaska.

CRUZ: Listen, if we remain divided, then in all likelihood Donald Trump becomes the nominee. That result was made clear tonight. But I think Donald

has a hard ceiling of 35-40 percent.

ACOSTA (voice-over): Cruz is making the case that he's the GOP's only hope to win the White House.

CRUZ: For those who have supported other candidates, we welcome you on our team, standing united as one.

ACOSTA: But Trump said GOP leaders should get behind him -- or else.

TRUMP: I'm going to get along great with Congress. OK? Paul Ryan, I don't know him well but I'm sure I'm going to get along great with him.

And if I don't, he's going to have to pay a big price. OK?

ACOSTA (voice-over): And even on night of victories, Trump continued the war of insults with Marco Rubio.

TRUMP: I know it was a very tough night for Marco Rubio. He had a tough night. But he worked hard. He spent a lot of money. He is a lightweight.

ACOSTA (voice-over): But Rubio did pull off his first win in Minnesota and vowed to fight on.

SEN. MARCO RUBIO (R-FL), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: There will never come a time in this race where our supporters are asking us to get out and rally

around Donald Trump. What people are saying fight is, fight as hard as you can to save the party of Lincoln and Reagan from a con artist who refuses

to criticize the KKK.

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LU STOUT: And that was CNN's Jim Acosta reporting.

Now, for the Democrat's part, Super Tuesday helped Hillary Clinton cement her lead in the nominating contest. Now, she won seven states, increasing

her delegate cushion over rival Bernie Sanders.

Now, at her victory rally in Florida, Clinton turned her attention to the GOP front-runner Donald Trump.

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CLINTON: America prospers when we all prosper. America is strong when we're all strong and we know we've got work to do. But that work, that

work is not to make America great again, America never stopped being great.

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LU STOUT: And that comment directed at Trump's campaign mantra of make America great again.

Now, as for Bernie Sanders, he won his home state of Vermont along with three others, ensuring that the Democratic race is still far from the

finish line. Have a listen to what he had to say on Tuesday night.

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SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT), DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: What I have said is that this campaign is not just about electing a president, it is

about making a political revolution and what that revolution is about is bringing millions of millions of people into the

political process.

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LU STOUT: Bernie Sanders there.

Now here to help us break down the Super Tuesday scorecard is CNN politics executive editor Mark Preston. Mark, first let's talk about the GOP race.

It was a momentous night for Donald Trump. Is he unstoppable?

MARK PRESTON, CNN POLITICS CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kristie, certainly if you were in the Republican establishment here in Washington you are very

frustrated and upset that Donald Trump scored seven wins last night, and in many ways he may be unstoppable. The next two weeks are going to be

critical right now in American politics, certainly on the Republican side, as Donald Trump heads into crucial contests that will occur on March 15.

Why they are so important is that if you win a state or several of these states on March 15, you

will collect all of those delegates. And if that is the case, and Donald Trump continues this momentum,

then he will become the Republican presidential nominee.

[08:05:20] LU STOUT: What about Ted Cruz? I mean, he won Texas, Oklahoma, Alaska. He actually prevented a Trump clean sweep last night. Does that

make him the anti-Trump Republican candidate?

PRESTON: Well, he's trying to be. And he -- the problem for Ted Cruz, though, is that he is not very well liked here in Washington either. He

has made his name about being a Washington outsider.

What you will hear, though, over the next 24 to 48 hours is you'll see this pitch battle between Marco Rubio, the Florida senator, who is the favorite

establishment candidate, and Ted Cruz fighting about who should get out of the race next.

In some ways, though, it might actually benefit Republicans who do not want to see Trump win the Republican nomination if everyone stays in the race.

And the reason why you do that is that you would deny potentially Donald Trump the number of delegates to actually become the nominee when the

convention were to take place in July. Basically you split it up in so many different ways that Trump can't win.

LU STOUT: Yeah, interesting hypothetical there.

Now, let's talk about the Democratic race. Hillary Clinton, she won seven states, but her rival, Bernie Sanders, won four. So, is there still room

for Sanders to surge ahead?

PRESTON: Well, there is certainly room for him potentially to lap Hillary Clinton. But the bottom line is, is she has the wind at her back. She had

some very impressive wins last night. And the fact of the matter is, is that in the next two weeks, again, for Hillary Clinton, she could shut the

door on Bernie Sanders.

Now, Hillary Clinton won't become the official Democratic nominee probably until late April, early May, based upon how Democrats actually choose their

nominee and how they allocate delegates, so to speak.

Bernie Sanders could stay in all the way to the end. And if he doesn't become the nominee, what he can do is amass power that he could try to

force the Democratic Party to come closer to his views on policies.

LU STOUT: And lining up Hillary Clinton versus Donald Trump, I mean does Clinton's team have a plan to defeat him?

PRESTON: You know, all conventional wisdom is thrown out the window. If you can imagine the epic battle here in the United States between Donald

Trump and Hillary Clinton, who would have thought about it? It's really like a Hollywood political thriller in many ways. Who knows what is going

to happen.

And anybody right now -- and certainly we have polling that shows that Hillary Clinton would defeat Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders would defeat

Donald Trump, the bottom line is we don't know what is going to happen in November.

I will tell you this, there is a lot of anger right now in the American electorate, and that is what is fueling Donald Trump's candidacy.

LU STOUT: It is interesting to see in his victory speech Donald Trump pivot away from the GOP pack and more towards the general election, saying

that he's a unifier. But is that enough for him to unite the party and to seem more presidential?

PRESTON: Well, certainly -- a couple of things, one is when you make that pivot, what you are trying to show is strength and try to basically say

that I am going to become the eventual nominee. So, that is a time honored tradition that you would often see in a presidential race.

The question is can he be a uniter of the entire Republican Party? I mean, we have already seen several high profile Republicans come out and say they

will not back Donald Trump if he becomes the nominee. And I have to tell you, I was talking to party elders last night who say that they are looking

at scenarios to either try to deny Donald Trump the nomination, or if he becomes the Republican nominee, to then try to run a third party candidate

against Donald Trump with the idea of giving voters, Republican voters and Republican candidates who are running for the Senate

and the House of Representatives, a safe haven if Trump becomes too nuclear heading into the

November elections.

LU STOUT: It is interesting to see how anti-Trump sentiment and strategizing is definitely growing on the back of Super Tuesday.

Mark Preston, we thank you so very much indeed for your analysis. Take care.

PRESTON: Thank you.

LU STOUT: You're watching News Stream. Still to come in the program, squaring off over racism. Now, Donald Trump's response draws a heated

exchange between two CNN commentators.

Also ahead, we dig deeper into Apple's battle with the FBI over privacy. Here what an information security experts says later this hour.

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[08:11:01] CRUZ: We are blessed with a deep talented, honorable field. For

the candidates who have not yet won a state, who have not racked up significant delegates, I ask you to prayerfully consider our coming

together, uniting.

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LU STOUT: U.S. Republican Ted Cruz there asking his party rivals to unite behind him with a goal of stopping Donald Trump's march to the nomination.

Now, he won Texas, Oklahoma and Alaska. Now, another candidate, the Ohio Governor John Kasich, says despite no victories on Super Tuesday, he will

do well in the states that have yet to vote.

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GOV. JOHN KASICH (R-OH), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We have a campaign plan. And here's what I want you to know, when this election goes north, fasten

your seat belt, it's going to be a new day and a new way.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: Now, race and ethnicity have come up time and time again in this campaign. And Donald Trump continues to push forward, undented by

controversial remarks he has made.

He drew fire this week for dancing around a question about whether he rejects an endorsement from a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan. And that

triggered a fiery exchange between two CNN commentators. Just listen to this.

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VAN JONES, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: The things that Donald Trump has done in this race are horribly offensive. You can go with back with this guy for

a long time. I want to talk. I want to talk. This is important.

JEFFREY LORD, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: I didn't say anything yet.

JONES: You breathed.

(LAUGHTER)

JONES: You can go back to the central jogger case. He came out and had innocent black kids...

LORD: No, innocent kids.

JONES: Hold on a sec -- innocent black kids. Listen, hold on a second.

We have a big problem at this point now, because I agree with you about a lot. I think we have taken him not seriously, we have not respected his

voters, but there is a dark underside here.

And S.E. is right. He is whipping up and tapping into and pushing buttons that are very, very frightening to me and frightening to a lot of people.

Number one, when he is playing funny with the Klan, that is not cool.

LORD: He didn't play funny with the Klan.

JONES: Hold on a second. I know this man when he gets passionate about terrorism. I know how he talks about terrorism. The Klan is a terrorist

organization that has killed...

LORD: A leftist terrorist organization.

JONES: You can put whatever label you want, that's your game to play.

LORD: No, it's important to history.

JONES: We're not going to play that game.

LORD: We're going to understand history.

JONES: No, you need to take a serious look at the fact that this man has been playing fast and loose and footsie -- when you talk about terrorism,

he gets passionate. He says no, this is wrong. But when you talk about the Klan, oh, I don't know, I don't know. That's wrong.

And then you came on the air and you said, well this is just like when Reverend Wright was speaking. Reverend Wright never lynched anybody,

Reverend Wright never killed anybody.

LORD: Reverend Wright is an anti-Semite.

JONES: Reverend Wright never put anybody on a post. And you guys play these word games and it's wrong to do in America. It is wrong to do.

LORD: It is wrong to understand that these are not leftists. They were...

JONES: What difference does it make if you call them leftists? They kill people. They don't play games with that.

LORD: You're right. You don't hide and say that's not part of the base of the Democratic Party. That has been -- they were the military arm, the

terrorist arm of the Democratic Party, according to historians. For God sakes, read your history.

JONES: Listen, I'm not, I don't know -- I don't care who...

LORD: This whole attitude of dividing by race is still here. And this is how Democrats do the deal.

JONES: I don't care how they voted 50 years ago. I care about who they killed.

LORD: I care about American history. It counts.

JONES: You have stood with Donald Trump. And you made a case for Donald Trump and nobody else wanted to. And you've earned the respect of an awful

lot of people.

But when you do not acknowledge that he did not answer that question with the passion, he answered with other terrorist organizations, you do

yourself a disservice. You do...

LORD: He has made this point over and over and over again. This is a media thing here. Did he make a mistake? Sure. But he said this many, many times.

I've gone back and looked. He's well on record, over and over on this.

[08:15:06] JONES: It's worse than that, sir. The whole thing with the central jogger kids, he got the entire city of New York whipped up on this

idea that these kids had done nothing wrong. And then it turned out they were innocent, we all make mistakes.

LORD: Right.

JONES: He never apologized to those kids. That's a stain on him. You can walk through, time after time, where he's done stuff like that. The stuff

he said about Native Americans, being criminal organizations and mafia. He said so many --

LORD: Van, but what you're doing right here, is dividing people. We're all Americans here, Van. You are dividing people. This is what liberals do.

You're dividing people by race.

JONES: I'm not.

LORD: This is what liberalism is all about.

JONES: The Klan divided it by race.

LORD: You have to divide by race.

JONES: The Klan kill people by race and he had the opportunity and he didn't do --

LORD: And they did it -- they did it to further the progressive agenda. Hello?

JONES: That is, first of all, so absurd.

LORD: It is not absurd.

JONES: The Democratic Party of the south of the old days was a racist party. And you are correct, sir. They were a violent party. You were

correct, sir.

LORD: How do you think we got Woodrow Wilson elected?

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JONES: Hold on a second. That's not the Democratic Party of today. So, what are you talking about that for? You play these games --

LORD: It is the Democratic Party of today. The Democratic Party of today divides by race.

JONES: You know, I've got a kid, 7 years old.

LORD: Right.

JONES: He can't even watch -- I used to say -- I don't want you watching "The Kardashians." I want you watching the news you can learn something.

You know what? Watching in nonsense in your party, he says you're a liar. He doesn't know what the word means. But he sees so much vitriol from your

party.

LORD: Right.

JONES: He brings that into our house. Now, we have to have him watching Nick Jr. He can't observe civics because of what is going on in your party,

the circus wing in your party.

Do not play -- and tell Donald Trump -- I know you. I trust you. Tell Donald Trump he needs for my children's sake, for the children's sake of

America, if he's going to lead this country, he needs to be as passionate about my community as anybody else.

LORD: We have to be passionate about making sure that as Robert Kennedy used to say that this country is color blind. We have to, as President

Kennedy used to say in that Birmingham speech, that race has no place in American life or law.

That's what we have to do. We have lost that totally because the Democratic Party insists on dividing people by race and it's wrong. It's morally

wrong.

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LU STOUT: A heated an powerful exchange there. CNN contributors Van Jones and Jeffrey Lord on the subject of race in the Republican campaign.

Now, Apple's showdown with the FBI reaches the U.S. congress. And we'll tell you why the tech giant's top lawyer fears that everyone's privacy is

at stake if Apple helps crack a terror suspect's iPhone.

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[08:21:16] LU STOUT: Now some breaking news just into CNN, a powerful and shallow earthquake has hit off the west coast of the Indonesian island of

is Sumatra. The U.S. Geological Survey says it registered 7.9 in magnitude with a depth of 10 kilometers. Now, so far there have been no reports of

damage or casualties.

Reuters is reporting that Indonesia has issued a tsunami warning for parts of the country.

Now, we are monitoring developments and we will bring them to you as soon as

they come in.

Apple's battle with the FBI that's now playing out on Capitol Hill. And the tech giant's argument is very clear: everyone's privacy is at stake.

Now, its top lawyer told American lawmakers that Apple is, quote, in an arms

race with cyber criminals. But the FBI insists its demands are reasonable as investigators try to crack a terrorist's iPhone.

Now, CNN Money's Jose Baglieri has more.

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JOSE PAGLIERY, CNN MONEY CORRESPONDENT: Members of congress finally got a chance to weigh in on this Apple versus FBI debate, which is really about

whether or not the FBI can force Apple to write code so that the FBI can break into the iPhone 5c of one of the dead San Bernardino shooters.

Take a listen.

JAMES COMEY, FBI DIRECTOR: There's already a door on that iPhone, essentially we are asking Apple take the vicious guard dog away, let us try

and pick the lock.

BRUCE SEWELL, APPLE GENERAL COUNSEL: We can all agree this is not about access to one iPhone. The FBI is asking Apple to weaken the security of

our products. Hackers and cyber criminals could use this to wreak havoc on our privacy and personal safety.

PAGLIERY: Now, the FBI director made very clear that if the FBI gets its way, this will create precedent. Law enforcement around the country will

be able to pressure Apple to help them solve criminal cases too. The worry here is that if the FBI does not get its way, we have allowed for the

creation of safe spaces. Safe havens for criminals where everyone from terrorists to child pornographers will know that when they put their data

on the phone it is protected from law enforcement.

Now, Apple's attorney -- their top attorney said that this isn't the case, because if the FBI gets its way, it won't really stop terrorists,

terrorists and other criminals will merely get their phones from abroad. Other companies overseas are not affected by U.S. laws, and they can even

use easy to get apps like Signal or Telegram that mask the data they're using and encrypt it thus protecting it from law enforcement.

What is clear, though, is that at this point congress knows that they've got a way in. The right place to answer this question is congress, not the

courts, because this applies to every American citizen and answers how much privacy and security they are essentially allowed to have on their devices.

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LU STOUT: And that was CNN's Jose Pagliery reporting there.

Now, Apple insists this is not a one off case and a dangerous precedent could be set. And I put that claim to information security expert Bryce

Boland.

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BRYCE BOLAND, ASIA PACIFIC CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICE, FIREEY: If you look at this as a precedent as well, it's unheard of for the U.S. government to ask

a private company to build a technology to defeat their own security. And the broader implications of that of course would be that non-U.S.

technologies would be favored in the market. They would have a huge impact on the U.S. economy

and that technology-based economy is enormously important for the U.S. in terms of both its hard and soft power production.

LU STOUT: So, that would put the United States at a competitive disadvantage.

I also have to ask, why is it that the FBI needs to ask Apple to weaken its security? Because, you know, in the post-Snowden era, a lot of people out

there, we were kind of under the assumption that if the U.S. government wants access to data, mobile data, it will be able to get it without asking

for a company's permission.

BOLAND: Well, this is a pretty interesting case. In this example, the specific phone had the ability to be backed up to the iCloud.

Unfortunately, the FBI directed that the iCloud password be changed. And as a result, they are not able to get a recent iCloud backup, which would

enable them to do that type of forensics.

Instead, they are asking for this specific new operating system to be built to enable the FBI to bypass the encryption and gain access to the code that

way.

Of course, creating this tool is very, very dangerous. Not only would other governments want it, but criminals would also want it and the chances

of them getting hold of it are fairly good.

LU STOUT: And separately, I have to ask you about this interesting case out of Brazil involving a Facebook executive. This Facebook executive has

been detained for failing to comply to court orders to hand over a user's account data

from a WhatsApp account, WhatsApp, of course, being part of Facebook. This is information relation to a drug trafficking investigation in Brazil. Are

we going to see this happening more and more just governments around the world strong arming tech companies to say hand over user data?

BOLAND: I think we absolutely are. In fact, one of the arguments, I think, for Apple in this case is the fact that other governments could

strong arm them into giving up the same technology.

And we have seen this also with Microsoft making the same argument about why they shouldn't give up access to information in their data centers in

Europe to the United States government. It would be nothing to stop other governments demanding the same about data centers in the United States.

So we need to look at this as a much broader issue. It's not just about one

particular case, one particular phone. It is really about the broader needs of security and how we use it in our modern economies.

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LU STOUT: Information security expert Bryce Boland there. And it is worth noting Apple's main competitors Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter all

support the company in this dispute.

Now, a day after a missing Hong Kong book seller appeared on Chinese TV denying he had been kidnapped. The city's police chief says he believes

Lee Bo has not been telling them everything. But since there is no evidence he was abducted, he must be taken at his word.

Now Lee says that he traveled to China in secret without using official travel documents, because he didn't want others to know that he was going

to help the police investigate his colleagues.

All five men who disappeared were involved in selling gossipy titles about China's elite.

Now, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, they are riding high after racking up more states on Super Tuesday. But they can still be caught by their

rivals. We will take a closer look at the races.

Also ahead, how a U.S. air force veteran is on a new mission to crack down on child pornography.

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[08:31:29] LU STOUT: Now, let's refocus on the race for the White House. The Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses solidified the front-runner status

of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. But the race is far from over.

Let's take a closer look at the results and what's next. CNN's Jim Acosta is with us from Palm Beach, Florida. Jeff Zeleny is in Miami. Let's go to

Jim Acosta first.

And Jim, after those impressive wins on Super Tuesday, what was the tone of Donald Trump's victory speech?

JIM ACOSTA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Donald Trump, Kristie, was trying to say he can unify the country, that he can unify the Republican Party. This

was a big victory for him last night on Super Tuesday. He won seven states in just about every section of the country. So he is showing the

Republican Party that he can win in different parts of the United States.

But at the same time, you know, and this is something that is unusual during this presidential cycle. Typically when you have a front-runner

like Donald Trump, who is doing well in the polls, winning states, winning delegates, this is

typically the time when the rest of the Republican Party would coalesce around the

front-runner. That is just simply not happening at this point.

Ted Cruz won three states last night. He is vowing to stay in this race. He is saying that the other non-Trump candidates -- Marco Rubio, John

Kasich, Ben Carson, they should drop out, get behind him, because there is this very potent anti-Trump movement inside the Republican Party, Kristie.

Just last night a prominent anti-Trump super PAC, not a liberal one, not a Democratic one, but a Republican anti-Trump super PAC announced that it is

dedicating more resources, dedicating more staffing, to stopping Donald Trump from

the nomination.

That is simply unheard of. And so while Donald Trump is saying he can unify the country, unify the Republican Party, a big chunk of the GOP just

isn't buying that at this point.

LU STOUT: Yeah, this anti-Trump movement, it's growing inside the party. It's definitely a story to watch.

Jim, hang tight, let's bring up Jeff Zeleny on the Democratic race. And Jeff, Hillary Clinton, is she now getting even harder to beat?

JEFF ZELENY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: She is mathematically speaking, Kristie.

The race for the Democratic side is all about winning delegates. And even though she amassed a big lead last night. She won seven states, as you

said, across the southern part of the United States. Bernie Sanders won four states, certainly a respectable showing, but in the delegate fight,

she is now leading him pretty handily here.

So, the Clinton campaign believes that over the next two weeks or so they will have an insurmountable lead and Bernie Sanders simply will not be able

to catch up to her.

Now, so right now the Clinton campaign is doing two things at once, a dual track strategy, if you will. Focusing on Bernie Sanders a litle bit to

ermind Democrats that they still need to come out and vote for her, but also turning their attention ever so slightly and sometimes not so

slightly, even more so to Donald Trump.

They were really using this, Democrats are using Donald Trump as an energizer, if you will, for their own voters. Hillary Clinton is making

the case that she would be the strongest person to run against him here.

So -- and no coincidence, also, that Jim and I are both in Florida. Of course, ground zero of politics. Donald Trump was in Florida last night.

Hillary Clinton was also in Miami last night.

The Florida primary March 15th in two weeks exactly could be all she wrote for both sides of this race. And of course Florida, ground ground zero in

U.S. politics certainly be one of the most important general election battle grounds as well, Kristie.

[08:35:01] LU STOUT: Yeah, big contest to watch there. Jeff Zeleny in Miami, Jim Acosta live from Palm Beach, both of you live from Florida for

us. Many thanks indeed for that. Take care.

And now that Super Tuesday races are over, let's take a look at what's next on the presidential campaign calendar. Over the weekend, there are votes

in Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, and Nebraska as well as Louisiana and Puerto Rico.

Next week, March 8, Republicans will vote in Hawaii and in Idaho.

Now, both hold primaries in Michigan and Mississippi.

And on March 1h, that's when you're going to have another big Tuesday with the primaries in Florida as well as Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina, and

Ohio.

Now, to our CNN Freedom Project special report. Now, some U.S. veterans have traded ground combat for a new mission: stopping the trade in child

pornography.

Now, the elite HERO Corps is help to child predators across the country. Lynda Kinkade reports.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

LYNDA KINKADE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: These are the first steps...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sheriff, let me introduce to Steven Blackstone.

KINKADE: ...in Steven Blackstone's new life. The retired air force master sergeant is meeting his new boss and joining a Pasco County, Florida task

force aimed at stopping the trade in trafficking of child pornography.

CAMILLE COOPER, DIRECTOR OF LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS, PROTECT: These children are actually tied up and gagged and bound and tortured, that's how bad

these images are.

KINKADE: Camille Cooper works for the National Association to Protect Children. The organization trains U.S. war veterans and places them with

law enforcement agencies around the country.

This is the program's fifth year with a group planning to graduate its 100th hero.

Across the country, working with homeland security investigations, members of the HERO child rescue corps have helped identify and arrest dozens of

child abuse suspects and rescue the children being abused.

COOPER: Each of those offenders that they have arrested is going to have conservatively 13 victims in their lifetime. 32 percent are related to

that child, another 22 percent are a close family friend. So, you have the majority of these perpetrators that are within a child's circle of trust

that are producing this material.

KINKADE: Blackstone, a former high-level criminal federal investigator in the military, says this program has given him a new mission.

STEVEN BLACKSTONE, HERO CORPS: I was in the military for almost 21 years.

Beterans and military personnel, we have a bias to action.

KINKADE: And he says much of the motivation will come from his family.

BLACKSTONE: What motivates me is my 9-year-old and 4-year-old kids. And this HERO program was the perfect opportunity for me to be involved in this

kind of work, trying to stop a child sexual exploitation.

COOPER: We thought we were just going to be saving these kids by bringing these, you know, veterans in to save them. And we didn't realize we saved

the veterans in the process, too. So that's been really moving.

KINKADE: As for the child predators, Blackstone and his friends will soon be training their sights on, he has this simple message.

BLACKSTONE: We're coming for you.

KINKADE: A warning for those who would abuse children and a promise for the

victims that help may soon be on the way.

Lynda Kinkade, CNN.

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LU STOUT: And to learn more about the work that this group does, just log to a special section of our website CNN.com/heroes.

And up next, Sara Sidner introduces us to a former army ranger who is proof that heroes are made on and off the battlefield.

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SARA SIDNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: With his training and steely determination, Tony Whaley is one of the last guys a child predator will

ever want to see. Less than a year into his work, the retired army ranger recently discovered key evidence that took a child offender off the

streets.

TONY WHALEY, HERO CORPS: You can see the children. They will look at the camera like, is anybody out there. Is anybody out there looking to help

us. And, you on the other side is us actively trying to find them.

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LU STOUT: Now, this week our Freedom Project is meeting heroes at home fighting on behalf of those children. On the series, it's only on CNN.

You're watching News Stream. We'll be back after this short break.

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[08:40:54] LU STOUT: OK, Breaking News in to CNN regarding the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a piece thought to be from the Boeing 777

it's been found on Mozambique. The horizontal stabilizer skin was found washed ashore over the weekend. And a source tells CNN there is no record

of this part missing form any other Boeing 777.

It's now being taken to Malaysia for examination.

Now, a NASA astronaut is back on Earth after spending almost a year without gravity. And this is the moment Scott Kelly emerges from the spacecraft

that took him and two Russian cosmonauts back.

Now, Kelly had lived 340 days on the International Space Station, longer than any other U.S. astronaut. And it is hoped that the mission will shed

light on how humans can survive long periods in space so NASA can eventually take astronauts to

Mars.

So, how did Kelly spend his year away from Earth? Well, let's put it into numbers.

Now to help NASA learn more about how the human body changes in space, Kelly carried out nearly 400 experiments. And during the time he drank

over 700 liters of water recycled from sweat and urine.

Now, he also shared hundreds of stunning photos on social media. Now this one, it shows a spectacular Aurora just dancing above the U.S. northwest.

And on this one, it could be a symbol of our relation with the universe, our planet, the International Space Station and the Milky Way all in one

shot.

Now, I want to update you on the breaking news that we're following out of Indonesia about that powerful and also shallow earthquake that's hit off

the west coast of the island of Sumatra.

The U.S. geological survey says it registered 7.9 in magnitude with the death of 10 kilometers. The Reuters news agency reports that Indonesia has

issues a tsunami warning. Now, the epicenter is almost 700 kilometers from the nearest town.

And we will be following both the earthquake in Indonesia and the possible MH370 debris found in Mozambique in the hours ahead right here on CNN, but

that is News Stream. I'm Kristie Lu Stout. And World Sport with Amanda Davies is next.

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