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Protestors Demonstrate at Donald Trump Rally in California; Donald Trump Accuses Hillary Clinton of Playing the "Woman Card" in her Presidential Bid; Floods Hit Parts of Texas; Children Found Tied Up in Backyard of San Antonio Home; Bill Clinton to Appear at Democratic Fundraiser in Indiana; Heroin Abuse among Americans Increasing; Comedian Larry Wilmore to Host President Obama's Final White House Correspondents Dinners. Aired 10-11a ET
Aired April 30, 2016 - 10:00 ET
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[10:00:30] ANA CABRERA, CNN ANCHOR: Chaos and violence at the California GOP convention just ahead of a speech by Donald Trump. Trump now taking to Twitter, calling the protesters, quote, "thugs and criminals."
VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN ANCHOR: Also new information in the investigation into Prince's death. We now know emergency calls were made to his Paisley Park compound as far back as 2013.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To call this horrific is an understatement.
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CABRERA: Two toddlers found chained in the back yard of a home in San Antonio. One of them is in the intensive care unit this morning. Authorities say they are grateful they found these children before it was too late.
You're in the CNN newsroom.
Hello, it's the weekend. Thanks for being with us. I'm Ana Cabrera in for Christi Paul.
BLACKWELL: I'm Victor Blackwell. Good morning to you. CNN Newsroom begins now.
And new this morning, Donald Trump weighing in on Twitter about the angry mob, some people call it, yesterday outside the GOP venue where he spoke. Now, the protests forced Trump to sneak in here, jumping up this little wall, up an embankment, across the street into the back entrance of that hotel. But he says it didn't faze him much. In fact he made a joke about it, comparing the experience to, in his words, "crossing the border."
CABRERA: Trump also took a moment to mention that he has now cross the 1,000 delegate milestone, and he released a new ad slamming what he calls Cruz's job killing deal. He's also calling Ted Cruz a cheat, saying he might bribe his way into the nomination.
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DONALD TRUMP, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: He has no path to Victory. It's impossible for him to win with the votes. The only way he can possibly win is if things go terribly wrong and he goes through the backdoor and he bought all of these delegates. And I will never use the word "bribe." I would never use a word like "bribe." So if he bribes the delegates, but I don't call it bribe.
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BLACKWELL: CNN national correspondent Jason Carroll is live now from Burlingame, California. And Jason, before we take a look ahead today, we've got to look at what happened Thursday night in Costa Mesa, yesterday where you are in Burlingame, and these intensifying protests outside of places where Trump is showing up in California.
JASON CARROLL, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, certainly. Donald Trump received a warm reception inside but a much different reception outside as you can see from some of the video there. Hundreds of demonstrators gathering outside the Hyatt here. They blocked the street, they blocked the entrance. I wish you could have seen what it was like as you have got some of these GOP insiders trying to come in to listen to policy and listen to Trump speak. But they're met by officers in riot gear in the lobby, outside the protesters throwing eggs, blocking the street, at one point blocking Trump's motorcade. Secret Service had to get him out of the car, have him walk through a field through a fence in order to get inside to talk to the people here. Trump, defiant as ever, made a joke about it.
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TRUMP: That is not the easiest entrance I ever made. My wife called, and she said there are helicopters following you. Then we went under a fence and through a fence. I felt like I was crossing the border, actually.
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TRUMP: It's true, I was crossing the border. But I got here. They said, Mr. Trump, it would be really much easier, sir, if you didn't speak today and just left and go back immediately to Indiana. I said, you know, we can't let these people down, right? Do you agree? We can't do it.
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TRUMP: But I appreciate it. But it was fun. It was a little different. That was a different kind of a thing.
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CARROLL: Trump also tweeting about what happened out here yesterday. He tweeted this morning that protesters in California were "thugs and criminals. Many are professionals, they should be dealt strongly by law enforcement."
Also yesterday, Victor, Trump did mention the word "unity" here at the state GOP convention. He said there should be a need for more friendship, unity, people coming together. I spoke to some people here in the room about that. Many people thought he struck it right tone here yesterday at the convention. But there are also a number of people here, Victor, who said he missed an opportunity. He should have talked more about unity and bringing the party together.
[10:05:00] Trump also telling voters there in Indiana, the crucial state there, 57 delegates up for grabs in the state of Indiana. He said if we can win there, this will all be over. Certainly it won't be over until June 7th. As you know, 172 delegates up for grabs right here in the state of California, Victor.
BLACKWELL: All right, Jason Carroll for us there in Burlingame, California. We'll talk about that call for unity, although it was a bit muddled from Donald Trump, a little later in the show. Jason, thanks.
CABRERA: Tonight in Los Angeles, another small private memorial will be held to remember Prince. And then on Monday a court hearing will start to sort out what happens to his estimated $300 million estate. This could be a complicated process because Prince's sister says he did not leave behind a will.
CNN's Sara Sidner is live in Minnesota. Sara, this is all coming as we're learning about an earlier medical call to the estate.
SARA SIDNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes. There were four calls over the past three years that were for medical assistance that came from the Paisley Park compound. We should be clear that of those, the last call was the call saying that Prince had died in the elevator.
And we're hearing now from investigators, sources telling us that there was actually opioid-based pain medication on his person when he was found, and investigative sources telling us that also they found pain medication inside of his home.
As for those other calls, the three other medical calls that we were able to ascertain from the sheriff's department, we still don't know exactly what those were for. We just know that medical assistance was called in from the Paisley Park address to his compound. And we should mention that lots of people would go into this compound. He would have, for example, public dance parties were people were invited to come in and enjoy his music and have a good time, so lots of people coming in and out. It doesn't necessarily mean that they had anything to do with Prince himself. There were 47 calls in total to law enforcement, service calls, from Paisley Park over the past five years. Many of them were for innocuous things like suspicious activity, Ana.
CABRERA: All right, Sara Sidner reporting from Minnesota, thank you so much.
BLACKWELL: Much more ahead on NEW DAY, including Donald Trump's attacks against Hillary Clinton and what she's now saying in response. Also, what does Trump do now about uniting the party? What is his message? We mentioned a moment ago it was a bit muddled. You'll hear it.
CABRERA: Also ahead, a disturbing story out of Texas, a report of two toddlers tied up like dogs behind the home.
BLACKWELL: And later, the national conversation about prescription drugs, recovering, how dangerous they can be, and a new federal campaign to get them off the streets across the country.
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[10:11:05] HILLARY CLINTON, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I have a lot of experience dealing with men who sometimes get off the reservation in the way they behave and how they speak. I'm not going to deal with their temper tantrums or their bullying or their efforts to try to provoke me. He can say whatever he wants to say about me. I could really care less.
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BLACKWELL: That was Hillary Clinton brushing off Donald Trump's taunts and this new moniker that he's assigned her, "crooked Hillary." Let's talk now with Trump national campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson, and Miami Beach mayor and Hillary Clinton campaign surrogate Philip Levine. Good to have both of you.
KATRINA PIERSON, TRUMP NATIONAL CAMPAIGN SPOKESWOMAN: Thank you.
PHILIP LEVINE, HILLARY CLINTON CAMPAIGN SURROGATE: Thank you.
BLACKWELL: So Philip, let's start with what the secretary was talking about there and these monikers that have been handed out by the Trump campaign. Trump called Jeb Bush "low energy." It stuck. Bush dropped out. Trump Rubio "little Marco." Rubio ignored it, then engaged, and then he dropped out. Trump calls Senator Cruz "lyin' Ted." Cruz is now 400 delegates behind and in a do-or-die situation in Indiana. So is Clinton making the most effective strategy by brushing off these? We've seen they can stick and can work.
LEVINE: Well, Victor, I can tell you that Secretary Clinton is about uniting our country, not about dividing our country. She's not about personal insults. I don't expect to see her insulting Donald Trump personally.
I think what she is going to do, what she is doing is explaining how she can make America better for everyone in our country and unite our country. She's a very strong lady, a very resilient lady, but she is also a very classy lady, and I don't expect her to be doing that.
Now, her surrogates are different. I can come out and say we got trash talking Trump again. But the fact of the matter that's what it's going to be. And it's going to be quite an election. BLACKWELL: All right, let me come to you, Katrina. Donald Trump
obviously during this campaign has been very critical of Hillary Clinton, saying just in the last few days that she's playing the woman card, that is all she has. But this is what Trump has said about Clinton in the past. Let's watch and then we'll talk.
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TRUMP: I think she's been through more than any woman should have to bear, everything public. Women go through this on a private basis and can't take it. She's on the front page of every newspaper in Washington. I think she's a wonderful woman.
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BLACKWELL: "A wonderful woman." Putting aside the qualifications and her work in Washington and Arkansas, how does the campaign square that Donald Trump with the one who's on the campaign trail now?
PIERSON: And just think a few months ago she called Mr. Trump a sexist and a misogynist. How do you square that? Look, Mr. Trump always says nice things about people just because he's good person. And then he's critical of them when they deserve criticism. So let me be clear, just because you criticize a woman, it doesn't make you a sexist. And the entire country knows that Mrs. Clinton is very familiar with men who go off the reservation and men who have very poor behavior. And she is running on the gender card because she doesn't want to run on her record. And that's what Mr. Trump is talking about.
BLACKWELL: So the suggestion is, and again, I want to give you an opportunity, to clarify here, that the only qualification she has to not only win the nomination but to become the next president of the United States is that she is a woman? Is that the case?
PIERSON: Mr. Trump is saying that she's using the woman card to run because she doesn't want to run on her, quote-unquote, "qualifications." She doesn't want to run off being secretary of state and creating the Libya mess that gave birth to ISIS. She doesn't want to run on her record of not declaring Bolo Haram a terrorist organization when she took $5 million from a Nigerian businessman, #bringbackourgirls. She doesn't want to --
BLACKWELL: Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. We've got to stop there. You're connecting Hillary Clinton to the abduction of the girls in Nigeria?
[10:15:00] PIERSON: Well, what I'm talking about is on the campaign trail today she's talking about Boko Haram being a terrorist organization when she had the opportunity as secretary of state to declare them one and she didn't.
BLACKWELL: All right, let me come to you, Philip, with a response to that, what we're hearing from Katrina.
LEVINE: Well, Victor, it's turning into a great reality show. But you know that it really reminds me of. If you can remember the battle of the sexes tennis match when it was Billie Jean King against Bobby Riggs. And if you remember that match, Billie Jean King with great skill and great ability and Bobby Riggs came with a big mouth and was trash talking. And we know what happened during that tennis match. Billie Jean King beat him and beat him bad. And the same thing is going to happen here because the American people are very smart. Secretary Clinton has experience, she's trained. She's excellent. She'd be an amazing CEO of the United States of America. And we know what Donald Trump is bringing to the table. He's bringing something which is dangerous, which is deficient, and which of course we think if very disrespectful to the American people, whether it's African- Americans, whether it's Hispanics or whether it's women. His numbers of disapproval are so high that he's building a wall. He's building a wall against the Republican Party, and we love seeing that wall being built.
BLACKWELL: Does the Clinton campaign risk overplaying this? You now bring up Billie Jean King in the 70s and that battle of the sexes. There's not a physical, tangible woman card on sale for donations for the Clinton campaign. Is there a risk of overplaying this opposition to what --
LEVINE: I think it very clear, Secretary Clinton is not overplaying it. Secretary Clinton's ability, her experience, her history as being the commander in chief of America -- she has the qualifications. We all know that. Listen, Donald Trump can be the "I inherited $300 million from my daddy card" if you'd like, and I pretend to be a billionaire. He could bring that card as well, but he chooses not to.
BLACKWELL: Katrina, let me come to you with party unity. And this is what Donald Trump said yesterday in California about the ability to unite the party moving into the general election.
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TRUMP: I speak to the people in this room because there has to be unity in our party. There should be and there has to be unity. Now, with that being said, would I win? Can I win without it? I think so, to be honest. I think so, because they're going to vote for me.
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BLACKWELL: So he starts the sentence by saying that there has to be unity in the party, but I really don't need it. Donald Trump in the past has said that moving into the general election he would and could unite the party. Why this vacillation now?
PIERSON: First I want to say that Mr. Trump is an actual CEO and does bring that to the table because he's created tens of thousands of jobs for the working class, not the transnational banks like Goldman Sachs.
But, yes, Mr. Trump has always said that we do need unity in the Republican Party but he's not going to force anybody to vote for him. And he said that several times before. He is in a position right now where he is ahead in the popular vote, set to break the record in Republican primary turnout, has over 1,000 delegates, and you still have a faction of the party who don't want to get behind him. And he's just simply saying, look, we are going to win, we are going to unify even if that faction doesn't come together, and we're going to bring Hillary in November because he does have crossover appeal. He's bringing in new voters. And even Bernie Sanders supporters are coming over to our side.
BLACKWELL: Let me bring it to you --
LEVINE: That's pretty funny. Bernie Sanders are coming over?
PIERSON: It happened into in Iowa, too.
BLACKWELL: Hold on, hold on. Mr. Mayor, let me ask you about this, the fear or concern that Donald Trump will attract those disaffected Democrats, those independents. We know that in Pennsylvania more than 90,000 Democrats and independents registered as Republicans to vote in that primary.
LEVINE: I can tell you this, the chance that Bernie Sanders supporters backing Donald Trump are as good as Donald Trump getting Mother Teresa as his running mate.
PIERSON: It's already happened.
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LEVINE: It's not happening.
BLACKWELL: If the Bernie or bust crowd, they determine we're not voting.
LEVINE: Not happening, because, Victor, the longer Donald Trump stays in the race and the longer he is there and the longer his rhetoric continues, the more Bernie Sanders folks are joining Hillary right now, because whether you're African-American, Hispanic, or you're a woman, or you want real change in America, you're not voting for Donald Trump. Donald Trump represents the one percent. He represents the inherited class.
BLACKWELL: We got to wrap up here.
PIERSON: Which is why we have so many blue collar workers supporting for Mr. Trump. Most people aren't identified by their gender or their skin color these days, but they know corruption and they want to stop it.
BLACKWELL: Thank you both, guys.
PIERSON: Thank you.
BLACKWELL: Don't miss Jake Tapper's exclusive interview with Hillary Clinton Sunday on "State of the Union." Ted Cruz is on the show as well. The candidates join Jake Tapper on "State of Union" tomorrow morning. Remember that's at 9:00 eastern only on CNN. CABRERA: Right now next on NEW DAY, a horrific discovery at a home in Texas, two toddlers just three and four years old found chained and tied up in the backyard.
[10:20:07] Also rescuers and residents working side by side, working against time, trying to find and save as many people as they can from this rubble of a building collapse in Kenya.
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CABRERA: Terrible news out of Texas. CNN has confirmed a 64-year-old grandmother and her four grandchildren died overnight, swept away in floodwaters. Police in the town of Palestine which is just outside of Dallas say their bodies were found some distance away from their home.
BLACKWELL: We're just getting this tragic information as severe weather continues today across the south. CNN's meteorologist Allison Chinchar has the latest for us from the CNN Weather Center. And it's going to areas that have already had too much.
ALLISON CHINCHAR, CNN METEOROLOGIST: That's right, yes, many of these areas have already had their wettest area on April and now we're adding more rain just like this that you can see here. This is the radar estimated rainfall for the last 24 hours. Again, notice Dallas, Houston, and basically all the areas east of it.
But notice one particular spot about halfway between both cities, called Palestine, Texas. This is the city you just referred to. This area received seven inches of rain in one hour, one hour, which is why they had such rapid flooding in that area where those unfortunate folks were found killed.
[10:25:04] Now, again, here's a look at the seven inches. Now, some of these other areas, Detroit, Texas, also impressive numbers, but do note that theirs were over a couple of hours, so it was at least spread out enough so that they didn't have quite nearly as significant flash flooding as the city of Palestine did.
Going forward, yes, we do still have the front for not just severe weather but also flooding potential as the rains are continuing to slowly trail over the same spots over and over again. Forecast rainfall accumulations are expected to dump at least an additional two to four inches widespread, but some areas Victor could get an addition six inches of rain.
BLACKWELL: We'll watch out for that. Allison Chinchar, thank you so much.
CABRERA: Another heart breaking story out of Texas, this time in San Antonio where two toddlers were found tied up outside like dogs at night. The woman who is believed to be responsible has been charged, but the story doesn't end there.
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JAMES KEITH, SPOKESMAN, BEXAR COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: To call this horrific is an understatement.
CABRERA: Sheriff deputies near San Antonio, Texas, shocked by what they found at a home Thursday night after a neighbor called to report the sound of a child crying, two toddlers bound in the backyard like animals.
KEITH: The little boy was chained to the ground. The little girl was tied up with a dog leash to a door.
CABRERA: Deputies climbed over a fence to free the two-year-old boy and three-year-old girl.
KEITH: It was obvious they had been there a while. There was obvious signs of abuse. Our deputies quickly freed them, rushed them to the children's hospital of San Antonio where they are receiving care right now.
CABRERA: But that was only the beginning. Inside the house six more children, ranging in age from 10 months to 13 years, and their parents nowhere to be found. Early Friday morning the parents of the six children returned to the home. The mother, 34-year-old Porucha Phillips, believed to be responsible for caring for the two toddlers, she is now charged with injury to a child by omission with serious bodily injury and injury to a child by omission with bodily injury. She is now being held in county jail. The father has not yet been charged.
KEITH: It's disgusting, it's sad. It's unbelievable.
CABRERA: Child protective services were called in. The toddlers are said to be recovering, although the girl is in intensive care. Neighbors are simply stunned.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It was shocking, especially something happening across the street and we didn't even know about it or see it.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is pretty sad kids have to go through that. I don't understand why parents take kids if they can't take care of them.
CABRERA: Six children have been cleared for foster care, but police are far from finished with this case.
KEITH: We will use every ounce of our energy to make sure the people who did this are held account and these children are never hurt like this again.
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CABRERA: And we here at CNN will also continue to follow the developments in the story. We'll bring you any new details as we learn them. Victor?
BLACKWELL: Thank you, Ana.
Still ahead, former president Bill Clinton soon will appear at the pancake fundraiser, flipping some flapjacks in Kokomo, Indiana.
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BLACKWELL: At least seven people are dead, dozens injured after a seven-story apartment building collapsed in Nairobi, Kenya.
CABRERA: And people are still trapped. Earlier this morning this young baby girl was rescued from the rubble along with another child. And just a few hours ago a man was pulled out alive. Surrounding buildings, however, are now under review. The Kenyan president said the building that collapsed here was already condemned and the warnings were ignored.
BLACKWELL: Live pictures here from Kokomo, Indiana, where the local Democratic Party was hoping that a surrogate from Hillary Clinton's campaign would come to its pancake breakfast fundraiser. They're getting a pretty high level surrogate. The former president himself, Bill Clinton, as surrogates go it doesn't get much better than that for that campaign. We're expecting to see him very soon. Maybe he'll flip a few pancakes and speak to the audience this morning. If he does we'll try to take that to you.
Now, let's stay with the Clinton campaign. Hillary Clinton poised for strong showing in the Hoosier state on Tuesday. That would put her on the threshold of becoming the Democratic presidential nominee. So let's talk about the Democratic race on Tuesday. With me now, chairman of the Indiana Democratic Party, John Zody. John, good morning.
JOHN ZODY, CHAIRMAN, INDIANA DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Good morning, Victor. Thanks for having me on.
BLACKWELL: Good to have you. Let's start with the "Indianapolis Star" and the editorial board this year handing out their endorsements. And essentially it's none of the above. Let's put up what they wrote, and again, this is among Republican candidates and Democratic candidates, they didn't choose anyone. They start with Bernie Sanders saying "He has shown little aptitude for serving as commander in chief or in international relations. He's simply not prepared to lead the nation." And they share the love for Secretary Clinton, saying the former secretary of state Hillary Clinton "is the stronger of the two and has a deep resume, but she also is hobbled by serious concerns about her judgment and ethics." Your reaction to that?
ZODY: Well, this is a long campaign I think. Secretary Clinton and Senator Sanders have both shown that they have a lot of stamina on the campaign trail. They have both been talking about substantive issues. I think when we look to the other side, the three remaining Republican candidates are talking about each other rather talking about the United States and what they would do for the country. And I think both Secretary Clinton and Senator Sanders deserve a lot of credit for staying focused on substantive issues and who they think can do better for Americans on those issues.
BLACKWELL: Former secretary Clinton and in some respect Donald Trump are now looking toward the general election. Let's look toward November. Indiana went blue but barely for President Obama back in 2008. Look at the numbers here. We say 50 percent, but it was 49.9 to 49.0.
ZODY: Narrow win.
BLACKWELL: Really narrow win. Mitt Romney in 2012 he pulled out a 10-point plus win over President Obama. How do you put Indiana back into the Democrats' column?
ZODY: We're here now. The campaigns being in Indiana during the primary season is great. We're seeing all kinds of new energy in the party. One thing that's important, no matter how this goes on Tuesday, whether it's Secretary Clinton or Senator Sanders, that one of my jobs is to make sure people feel like they can be involved in the process. We need to make sure until Tuesday that people are given the best information, the right information on where to vote if they haven't already taken part in the early vote process. So as we move down the road and on the campaign, we hope, that the campaigns if they're not here will have a strong showing nationwide.
[10:35:03] And Indiana can go blue. Elections are won in the middle. You've got the left or the right, but Indiana voters are commonsense voters and they will vote for the candidate that will do the best job for them, and I think the next president of the United States will be a Democrat.
BLACKWELL: Chairman of the Indiana Democratic Party John Zody, thanks for being with us this morning.
ZODY: Thank you, Victor.
BLACKWELL: And we are still watching that event in Kokomo where former president Bill Clinton will be speaking to the local Democratic party. This is a pancake breakfast fundraiser. If he comes out, we'll try to dip into that for you.
CABRERA: You just like to say "Kokomo."
BLACKWELL: I also like to say "pancake breakfast."
CABRERA: That sounds good to me today.
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BLACKWELL: Let take a serious turn today, and something we've been talking a lot about considering what's happening across the country, this take back of prescription medication and its drug overdoses. They are skyrocketing in the U.S.
CABRERA: And the numbers are showing no signs of slowing down. Up next, why one DEA agent says you have the equivalent of a drug cartel in your house. And after that we'll take you out on those streets where agents are busting drug dealers.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK) CABRERA: Four out of five people that end up addicted to heroin start with prescription pain killers. And this is a growing concern here in the U.S. Get this -- the United States consumes 80 percent of the world's pain killers, and we only have five percent of the world's population.
[10:40:00] The number of opioid overdoses is also up four times what it was in the year 2000. This morning one DEA agent fighting this problem summed it up like this:
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DANIEL SALTER, SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE, DEA ATLANTA FIELD DIVISION: We at the DEA, we attack drug cartels from Mexico, that's our primary work. Unfortunately there's cartels in each and every medicine cabinet if we don't get it and get it out of the house, because a number of first-time users get it from someone they know or from a medicine cabinet.
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CABRERA: So what is it like to fall into that cycle of addiction and how do you fight your way out of it? Justin Riley has been there, a drug user starting at the age of eight. Justin, thanks for your bravery to come on and talk about this issue and your story. Eight years old, how did end up into drugs at such a young age?
JUSTIN RILEY, RECOVERING ADDICT: I think especially in light of these circumstances, and though I may have felt a certain way or maybe not good enough at that young age, what's most important to lift up especially in times like these when we do have an epidemic on our hands, it is most important to lift up that people just like me all over the country, they can and do recover. And the most important story to underscore isn't so much why it happened but what happens when you believe in young people and you equip them and empower them to change their communities.
CABRERA: And I want to talk about the possibility solutions. I know that is very important to you. But just to give us some background, what happened? What is your story?
RILEY: So my story is, like millions all around the country, I tried to look to fill that kind of hole in the soul through alcohol and other drugs, and along with being successful in school and getting good grades and playing sports. But for me that turning point was when I finally heard that message of hope, and I'm excited that you too want to talk about the solution and the options that do exists all over the country.
CABRERA: Do you feel like the services to help people like yourself are adequate?
RILEY: You know, that's one thing I think we can all agree on is that there are several ways to recover, whether it's using helpful resources like prevention, treatment, or many pathways to recovery. But by and large the underfunding is catastrophic compared to the need that exists. We know, for example, the president has pledged $1.1 billion to go towards prevention and treatment, but we also need to make sure that we equally fund recovery support services to make sure that things like our young people in recovery chapters or things like the association of recovery schools and their schools exist all over this country.
CABRERA: I understand that you yourself have gone in and out of rehab over the years six or seven times. I know you've been clean for almost a decade now, congratulations. But it must be really difficult to get clean. Help us understand.
RILEY: You know, the most difficult part for me was believing that everyone around me, whether it was mentors, parents, professionals, peers, it was believing what they told me was possible for me. It wasn't -- the most difficult thing was believing in myself, because fortunately there are so many people in my community rallied around me and said I can, just like they did, I can recover.
CABRERA: You're trying to chip away at this problem one person at a time. I know you run an organization called young people in recovery. Right now we have a spotlight on opiate drug abuse, especially among the youth. That's such a huge problem. Is it a matter of keeping these drugs out of their hands? Or what do you think is the solution?
RILEY: For me the solution is not as one size fit all as it may be, it is really making sure that there is adequate access and funding to support recover support services that specifically focus on things. And I think we can all agree in this country are very important things --employment, housing, education, and other types of coaching and mentoring and peer programs, those are things that not just help people emerging in their early recovery journey, those are things that make this country amazing. We're creating jobs, we're buying homes, we're bettering ourselves through education. Those are things that we have to as a nation go all in on and make sure that the real epidemic at hand doesn't happen, which would be that we stop believing that young people are the future and they are changing culture in this country for the better.
CABRERA: You are a success story in itself. Thank you so much, Justin Riley, for talking with us today, appreciate it.
RILEY: Thank you.
CABRERA: Victor?
BLACKWELL: As you heard there, sometimes this addiction starts with pills in a medicine cabinet and then leads to heroin. Next, we'll take you out on the streets where agents are busting drug dealers and trying to stop the skyrocketing number of overdoses. After that --
CABRERA: And the White House Correspondents dinner tonight, who is going and who is skipping it?
[10:45:00] But first, we want you to meet another one of this year's top 10 CNN heroes. Sheldon Smith grew up without a steady dad in his life. He became a young father himself at age 21, and now he is a role model for other young fathers, helping them stay involved in their children's lives.
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SHELDON SMITH, CNN HERO: I grew up broke. I was hurt, but I was able to overcome all of those things. What I want for these young men is for them to be involved and engaged in their children's life, to give their children what I missed as a boy, which was a great father, someone who would be there for me and give me the advice that I need to be a successful young man today.
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CABRERA: You can watch Sheldon's full story right now at CNNheroes.com. And while you're there, be sure to nominate someone you think should be a 2016 CNN hero. You can vote once a day at CNNheroes.com. Stay with us.
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BLACKWELL: Before the break we talked about how prescription opioid addiction can accelerate to heroin addiction. It's an epidemic the feds are battling, using a holistic approach in some communities, in part healing the people and the neighborhoods impacted. Of course a major part of that is getting the drugs off the street.
[10:50:00] And recently I rode around with Atlanta police as they took their fight to one of the longest operating heroin markets in America.
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BLACKWELL: An early morning drug raid in downtown Atlanta. City police say undercover investigators have bought heroin here from this man, David Crockett Sr., known on the street as Bean. Now they're back to shut down what they call a drug house.
They just completed the primary sweep and they found the man they were looking for, their target here, and also who they believe is his girlfriend. They did not find anyone else inside this home. Now they're going to start to look for the heroin here, any potential illegal weapons. That's that secondary sweep that's beginning right now.
The bust is part of Justice Department's year-long initiative here to wrest this community from the more than 30 year long grip of crime and the drug trade. John Horn is the U.S. attorney for Georgia's northern district.
JOHN HORN, U.S. DISTRICT ATTORNEY, NORTHERN DISTRICT, GEORGIA: The English Avenue community, unfortunately what you're looking at is the longest operating open air heroin market in the southeastern United States.
BLACKWELL: The heroin crisis stretches far beyond the southeast. In 2014 heroin overdose deaths across the country skyrocketed to more than 10,000, marking a more than 400 percent increase in just the last decade. In 2015, Horn's office working with Atlanta police launched what's called a drug market intervention, pairing law enforcement raids of suspected drug hours and prosecutions of the high level tier one operators with community restoration, offering desperately needed support services like job training and addiction and mental treatment to the people who live here.
HORN: Doing that model with the community involvement, bringing the community in as partner in the project, the community residents themselves are empowered to restore the neighborhood and push the drug market out.
BLACKWELL: Part of the drug market intervention is an actual intervention with nonviolent, low-level offenders.
HORN: Their involvement in the market was economic. And so for those people, what we decided is we would offer them a route out of drug trafficking. They could stay in the neighborhood, they could be members of the community, but they just couldn't sell heroin anymore.
BLACKWELL: Crockett admits he sold heroin, but he says there were no drugs in the home this day.
DAVID CROCKETT, SUSPECT: I street hustle like everybody else. But I don't try to be, but, you know, but that's where what I find myself doing right now. I was working jobs, but you're not making no money.
BLACKWELL: Police found no drugs here. However, Crockett was charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. As for the initiatives effectiveness, Horn can point only to anecdotal success, but he is confident this holistic effect will rehabilitate this blighted and frustrated community.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're in for the long haul. We're in until we accomplish the goal of restoration of the neighborhood. And I think we have made a tremendous impact. We still have a little more to go.
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CABRERA: Wow, a big problem.
The final White House Correspondents dinner of Mr. Obama's presidency is tonight. Comedian Larry Wilmore is going to share his thoughts about hosting the high-profile event. We'll let you know how you can get in on it as well.
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[10:57:07] BLACKWELL: Well, Monday marks the fifth anniversary of the killing of 9/11 mastermind Usama bin Laden. And for the first time ever President Obama sits down inside "The Situation Room" to describe that raid.
CABRERA: That's right, the president tells CNN why May 2nd, 2011, that is going to be Monday now, might have been the U.S.'s last chance to get bin Laden, and why the stakes were even higher if that mission had failed.
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BARACK OBAMA, (D) PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: After the discussion with the principals, it was clear to me this was going to be our best chance to get bin Laden, that if in fact we did not take the action, that he might slip away, and it might be years before he resurfaced.
I had confidence that we could get our guys back. We knew that it was going to cause some significant blowback within Pakistan, and that if it wasn't bin Laden, probably the costs would outweigh the benefits and we would lose face internationally because there was probably going to be a lot of difficulty keeping it secret once the operation started.
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BLACKWELL: Watch the rest of that interview on Monday night when it airs on CNN, "We Got Him, President Obama, Bin Laden, and the Future of the War on Terror." Again, that's Monday at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on CNN.
CABRERA: In the meantime, tonight comedian Larry Wilmore is going to host the big White House Correspondents dinner. Of course Larry Wilmore is the Comedy Central host of "The Nightly Show." He really said he's excited about this, a little nervous. It's going to be President Obama's final time presiding over this event.
BLACKWELL: Wilmore has a long history with writing and producing and acting credits, a number of well-known sitcoms, including "The Facts of Life." John Berman had some fun with that as he sat down with Wilmore to talk about tonight's big gig.
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JOHN BERMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Which one of "The Facts of Life" characters reminds you most of which presidential candidate?
LARRY WILMORE, COMEDIAN: Wow, you're forcing me to remember all "The Facts of Life" characters.
BERMAN: That was the best part of the question.
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WILMORE: I guess Tootie would have to be Obama, I suppose.
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BERMAN: Blair and Donald Trump, that's the only two I can actually remember.
WILMORE: They're both blonds in a sense.
BERMAN: And rich, right. Wasn't --
WILMORE: She was a rich girl, that's right. BERMAN: You're acting like you don't remember.
WILMORE: No, not at all. It's all coming to me. Joe was the tough girl. She'd be Hillary. And Natalie, Bernie Sanders. He's got that Bernie charm. I think I've nailed it.
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CABRERA: Berman asking the tough questions. We hope you'll join us.
