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Billy Bush Exits NBC; Trump's Comments About Ivanka; Pope Calls for Ceasefire; Parody Sites Rewrite the 2016 Debates. Aired 9:30-10a ET
Aired October 12, 2016 - 09:30 ET
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[09:31:53] CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: And good morning. I'm Carol Costello. Thank you so much for joining me.
Sources telling CNN at Billy Bush could be out at NBC by the end of the week. But while the morning news team may be getting ready to show him the door, the joke writers on the "Tonight Show" seem to be welcoming him with open arms.
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JIMMY FALLON, "THE LATE SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON": What is this thing here? A new national poll found that Democrats now have a significant lead over Republicans in the congressional races. Republicans said, and there's only one man to blame for this. And Donald Trump said, exactly, Billy Bush.
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COSTELLO: Brian Stelter is following this story. And I'm not going to laugh because this man's going to lose his job and I guess a part of me is surprised by it and another part -- and a bigger part of me is not because what he -- what he did with Donald Trump was inexcusable, right? But, you tell me.
BRIAN STELTER, CNN SENIOR MEDIA CORRESPONDENT: Well, it's a business calculation, isn't it?
COSTELLO: Yes.
STELTER: And it's the only logical business calculation for NBC given that Bush's reputation has been tarnished by this. It's been stained. And if you see him on the air, if he was to be on the show tomorrow, you would see him and all you would think about is Donald Trump. A person who is close to him, who spoke with him last night said, Billy Bush knows this is an unsurvivable perfect storm. There's no way for him to stay at NBC right now.
But this is all about the election context, isn't it? This audio tape, this videotape that aired in 2005, the year it was taped, it would have been a very different reaction. It still would have been disturbing, it still would have been uncomfortable, but right now the election context is what's causing NBC to have him head toward the exit.
COSTELLO: Well, but let me ask you this because I never got the impression that the folks at NBC, especially on the "Today" show, were especially happy that he was coming to the show, especially during the Olympics, right? Billy Bush said that stuff about Ryan Lochte and he got into a fight with Al Roker and things were not all like fabulous between -- right?
STELTER: And that's always the factor. That's right. You know, morning TV, it's all about chemistry. There wasn't a lot of chemistry early on between Billy Bush and his colleagues. So that was sort of the subtext of this decision. He didn't have a lot of fans internally and he wasn't -- he wasn't established enough internally in order for anybody to be rooting for him to keep him there. So there's that -- there's that element as well. I think really it's a business calculation by NBC. The viewers might be turned off seeing him on the air.
Meanwhile, of course, Donald Trump, you know, is -- is continuing to fight on. There's an interesting contrast between Bush and Trump in this situation. But, obviously, there's no business that Donald Trump reports to right now except sort of the voters.
COSTELLO: Brian Stelter, many thanks.
STELTER: Thank you.
COSTELLO: OK, so she is Donald Trump's top surrogate. She's often in the spotlight. And she's even been praised by Hillary Clinton. But Donald Trump's daughter, Ivanka, has been at the center of some uncomfortable moments with the candidate. Deborah Feyerick has more for you.
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IVANKA TRUMP, DONALD TRUMP'S DAUGHTER: Thank you, everyone.
DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Donald Trump has every right to be proud of his daughter. Ivanka is a successful Ivy League educated businesswoman, author and mother. She's now helping run his campaign and introduced her father at the Republican Convention. Yet at times his fatherly praise is downright cringe-worthy, like on "The View" in 2006.
D. TRUMP: I said that if Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her, you know.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (INAUDIBLE).
[09:35:00] UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, it's so weird. Stop it.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You know what you are --
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Moving on.
FEYERICK: Far from protecting his daughter from being talked about as a sex object, he has encouraged it multiple times. On Howard Stern's radio show in 2004, and then again in 2006.
HOWARD STERN: And, by the way, your daughter --
D. TRUMP: She's beautiful.
STERN: Can I say this? A piece of ass.
D. TRUMP: Yes.
STERN: She looks more voluptuous than ever.
D. TRUMP: She's actually always been very voluptuous.
STERN: It's unbelievable.
D. TRUMP: She's tall. She's almost six feet tall.
FEYERICK: In May, Ivanka described herself as a feminist, while defending her father on CBS after a scathing "New York Times" article about his alleged negative treatment of women.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Is there unending commentary on the female form?
I. TRUMP: No. No. I've known my father obviously my whole life, and he has total respect for women.
WENDY WILLIAMS, TALK SHOW HOST: Please welcome the lovely Ivanka Trump.
FEYERICK: Still, even Ivanka seems confused when talk show host Wendy Williams asked about things the two have in common.
WILLIAMS: What's the favorite thing you have in common with your father?
I. TRUMP: Either real estate or golf.
WILLIAMS: Donald, with your daughter?
D. TRUMP: Well, I was going to say sex, but I can't relate that -- I can't relate that --
FEYERICK: Donald Trump has always been proud of his daughter.
I. TRUMP: I'd call collect to his office. I was probably, you know, ten years old. He would pick up the phone every single time. And he'd put me on speaker phone. Wouldn't be a long conversation. He'd introduce me to whoever was in his office.
FEYERICK: And he was front row which Ivanka took to the cat walk during her short-lived career as a fashion model.
Still, Donald Trump repeatedly points out how hot his daughter is, saying last year in a "Rolling Stone" article, "yeah, she's really something and what a beauty that one. If I weren't happily married, and, you know, her father." D. TRUMP: My daughter Ivanka.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She is, yes.
D. TRUMP: She's six feet tall. She's got the best body.
STERN: Yes, she's hot.
FEYERICK: Ivanka continues to defend her father and has said he's not sexist. Earlier her Twitter account showed a little heart liking an article about her father's decade old comments to Howard Stern. The Trump campaign referred us to Ivanka's brand managers and a source there tells us it wasn't Ivanka herself who liked the article, it was a simple mistake by a staff member. CNN has reached out to the Trump campaign for a response to the comments themselves.
Deborah Feyerick, CNN, New York.
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COSTELLO: We'll be right back.
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[09:41:28] COSTELLO: The horrors of the war in Syria sometimes seem to be told best with images like this one. A little girl, she's eight years old. You can see she has blood pouring down her face. Oh, and she's crying out for her daddy. Her name is Aya (ph). A man asks her what happened. She says a bomb hit her house. Pro-rebel activists posted this video online and it's now gone viral.
A look at Aya in a different light on the left. That's a picture of Aya at school on Sunday, one day before the airstrike hit her house and wounded her. Her mother, father, and three siblings also hurt in the bombing. They're OK, but their house is completely destroyed and now -- now they're looking for some place to live.
As tragedies like this keep happening in Syria, the Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, tells CNN that a new round of talks on trying to get a cease-fire will take place soon. He sat down to talk about that with CNN's Christiane Amanpour.
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CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Mr. Lavrov, I want to show you this picture.
SERGEY LAVROV, RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER: Sure.
AMANPOUR: This went viral in August. This is a little boy. He's got a name. He's called Omran Dutli (ph). He's five years old. This is not a terrorist. This is a boy who is surrounded --
LAVROV: Absolutely.
AMANPOUR: And besieged -- LAVROV: Absolutely.
AMANPOUR: And bombarded --
LAVROV: Absolutely.
AMANPOUR: In Aleppo. What do you say to the civilians who are simply asking for the right to not be bombed? That is a war crime, sir.
LAVROV: It's really a tragedy. And they must insist that the moderates who want to protect them, they must separate themselves from Nusra.
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COSTELLO: Pope Francis is also speaking out in a desperate bid to save Syria's children. CNN Vatican correspondent Delia Gallagher has more on that. She joins us live from Rome.
Hi, Delia.
DELIA GALLAGHER, CNN VATICAN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Carol.
Just a few hours ago, out in St. Peter's Square, the pope made an impassioned plea for an immediate cease-fire. He said, an immediate cease-fire in Syria in order to evacuate civilians, and especially children, he said, who are trapped still under bloody bombardment. So the pope making one of his most impassioned pleas for Syria, as he has done, frankly, Carol, since the beginning of his pontificate.
But this time, very forthright, saying that those who are responsible must come together, must put together a ceasefire and must respect it. Because if you remember, in September, a ceasefire agreement failed. He said the conflict is inhuman and must be ended, even if you cannot find peace in Syria at this moment, at least we can agree that we need to get the children and those civilians, those images that we've all seen by now, something needs to be done about it, and Pope Francis using his pulpit here hoping that those responsible will hear his words and will come together. He's calling for an immediate ceasefire.
Carol.
COSTELLO: Delia Gallagher reporting live from Rome.
I'll be right back.
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[09:48:54] COSTELLO: Checking some top stories for you at 48 minutes past.
Hurricane Matthew has left behind death and devastation in North Carolina, and it's not over yet. At least 19 people have died in that state because of the storm and the rising flood waters. In some areas, rivers are rising three to five inches an hour. The federal government has declared disasters in 31 of the state's 100 counties. One woman and her five children were stuck in a car on I-95. They nearly drowned when water poured into their car. She told CNN's Polo Sandoval what happened.
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BREANA LAWSON, WAS TRAPPED IN NORTH CAROLINA FLOOD WATERS: I was feeling water coming up to my neck. I'm stacking things in the car to put the babies on. Like I started finding like cardboard, clothes and like -- kind of like making like a chair out of it, sitting the kids on it because -- so that the water wouldn't reach them. And then I started to scream and like all the way back, onto the highway, for people to see us. They started swimming onto 95 and I passed off my kids out the window one by one.
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COSTELLO: Lawyers for the main suspect in last November's Paris terror attacks are quitting the case. They tell CNN affiliate BFMTV Salah Abdeslam plans to invoke his right to silence. And if he won't talk, they can't defend him. Abdeslam is in solitary confinement near Paris. The attacks, which were the deadliest terror incident in France's history, killed 130 people.
[09:50:17] A just released toxicology report says an unarmed Oklahoma man who was shot to death by a police officer had the drug PCP in his system when he was killed. An attorney for Terrance Crutcher's widow calls the report a distraction and immaterial to the crucial issues of the case. Tulsa Officer Betty Shelby has pleaded not guilty to felony manslaughter in Crutcher's death.
Samsung facing a jaw-dropping financial loss over its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones. The South Korean electronics giant is slashing its third quarter profit estimates by more than $2 billion. Samsung has permanently stopped producing and selling the Note 7 after some of the smartphone, including replacements, burst into flames.
If you've been watching the presidential debates, and sometimes can't believe what comes out of the candidates' mouths, well, brace yourself, you're about to be shocked at the lip service from some online parody sites. CNN's Jeanne Moos explains.
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JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The candidates were hard on each other. But not this hard.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey, hey, hey, have to say, you suck.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Look.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well that's just stupid.
MOOS: Nor were they this nice.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (singing): Had the time of my life, no I never felt like this before.
MOOS: Two debates. Two parodies. UNIDENTIFIED MALE (singing): I've been waiting for so long now I
finally found someone to will stand by me.
MOOS: "Stand By Me" lyrics.
DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: Congratulations. Great job.
MOOS: Was actually a sarcastic comment in the real debate.
MOOS (on camera): The funny thing is, this U.S. election spoof wasn't even made in America.
MOOS (voice-over): A Dutch video artist did it.
SANDER VANDE PAVERT, VIDEO ARTIST (voice-over): I just noticed the way these candidates were strolling around the stage and I just felt this needed a song, really. Some sick courting ritual in a way, you know.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (singing): Saw the writing on the wall, as you felt this magical fantasy.
MOOS: With a magical fantasy of a different sort. Bad lip-reading is back with a new video.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, I can do this. Brrp. ooh-ha, ooh-ha.
MOOS: Actually, Trump was saying this.
TRUMP: Wrong.
HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: That is absolutely --
TRUMP: Wrong.
CLINTON: Proved.
MOOS: Bad lip-reading has been around for five years now.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, yes, I can do this, ooh-ha.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hipa (ph).
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yabadabado a besa hey, hey, everybody say --
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hmm, I doubt you're quite that good.
MOOS: Hillary did actually wink, a la Sarah Palin, at the debate.
CLINTON: Well, not quite that long.
MOOS: Commenters commiserated, "we are doomed. This makes more sense than the actual debate."
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You know you want to lick my feet. You know you want to lick my feet.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's psycho.
MOOS: The video producer who does these bad lip-readings wants to remain anonymous.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Favorite way to eat chicken?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Raw.
MOOS: Actually, Donald's favorite way to eat chicken is with a knife and fork.
The public eats up these parodies. Forget "Dirty Dancing."
UNIDENTIFIED MALE AND FEMALE (singing): So we take each other's hand --
MOOS: The debates are dirty politics and could use a little harmony.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE AND FEMALE (singing): Now with passion in our eyes there's no way we could disguise secretly.
MOOS: Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE AND FEMALE (singing): So we take each other's hands --
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COSTELLO: Coming up in the next hour of NEWSROOM, the title of Donald Trump's newest ad, "Corruption." With just 27 days until Election Day, is this all part of his plan to depress -- to suppress, rather, Clinton voters? We look into that in the next hour of NEWSROOM.
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[09:58:07] COSTELLO: Tonight, CNN films presents "We Will Rise: Michelle Obama's Mission to Educate Girls Around the World." Join First Lady Michelle Obama and Meryl Streep, Frieda Pinto and CNN's Isha Sesay on a journey to meet adolescent girls determined to get an education.
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MICHELLE OBAMA, FIRST LADY: My goal as first lady was to make sure that I was the best first lady I could be. So I made sure that every day I came to my job that I brought a level of passion and confidence and trust. And I try to operate from that place every single day. Maybe those are some of my strength is the ability to just be me no matter where I am. You don't have to be somebody different to be important. You're important in your own right. People want and need to value you because of who you are, because of your story, because of your challenges. That's what makes you unique.
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COSTELLO: Don't miss CNN films "We Will Rise," tonight, 9:00 p.m. Eastern, only on CNN.
The next hour of CNN NEWSROOM starts now.
And good morning. I'm Carol Costello. Thank you so much for joining me.
Donald Trump at war, launching his own shock and awe bombardment. His target, the very party that nominated him and two prominent Republicans who have abandoned his campaign. He ripped Senator John McCain, himself a former presidential nominee, and he turns on House Speaker Paul Ryan, the most powerful Republican in Congress. Expect Trump to wage war again today as he stumps in the key battleground of Florida. Running mate Mike Pence campaigns in Virginia and in North Carolina. Among the Democrats, Hillary Clinton visits swing states Colorado and Nevada, while husband Bill Clinton kicks off a two-day bus tour of Iowa. And VP nominee Tim Kaine is in North Carolina.
[10:00:03] In the meantime, Trump and Clinton are sparring over some e-mails stolen from her campaign. Trump now says they show she was in cahoots with the Justice Department.
