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Secret service is considering renting one floor in Trump tower; Missing jogger who vanished three weeks ago; Donald Trump is considering three additional names for secretary of state along with Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney; Mosul neighborhood now cleared of ISIS fighters but still not immune to sporadic attacks; Aired 3:30-4:00p ET

Aired November 25, 2016 - 15:30   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

[15:30:00] BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN HOST: Let's go to our justice correspondent Pamela Brown who has got some of the breaking details.

Pamela, tell me what the plan is.

PAMELA BROWN, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT: Well, as of now because this plan is evolving day by day, I'm told, the according to a law enforcement official. We also spoke to person responsible for all available space at Trump tower and we are told the floors available to rent would cost about 1.5 million a year.

Now, the law enforcement official I spoke to said the current plans for security at Trump tower would be different if the future first lady was living at the White House full time and her son Baron. But we know they are staying behind, at least through the school year through the spring. And so you have the security apparatus in place. And also the expectation that the president-elect and president Trump will be going back to Trump tower visiting his family. So there's a lot to be looked at once the first family officially lives in the White House full time, the United States secret service will reassess what kind of security presence will be needed at Trump tower depending on how often the family returns there. But the official says this kind of plans is typical for the secret service after every election.

What is unordinary here, Brooke, is that the president-elect lives on 5th avenue in New York City. What is also unprecedented here is that the building is owned by the Trump Corporation so the secret service in essence would be renting the space from Trump's company for protecting him and his family.

BALDWIN: How about that?

BROWN: So there's a lot of details that still need to be ironed out. The security plan as I said earlier is still evolving. But this is unusual in many ways and typical in other ways - Brooke.

BALDWIN: Pamela, thank you.

Now to this story out of California here. This missing jogger who vanished three weeks ago, has now, she is OK. She was found. She was reunited with her family on thanksgiving morning. Investigators say 34-year-old Sherry Papini was found along this California highway yesterday Sunday morning. She is a wife. She is a mother of two. She was found in the side of the road down with some sort of restrained which managed to flag down a passing drive for help. The location where she was found is about 140 miles from where she initially disappeared. Investigators say they now are just trying to track down the apparently big women who kidnapped her.

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SHERIFF TOM BOERIKO, SHASTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA: We are looking for a dark colored SUV with two Hispanic females armed with a handgun.

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BALDWIN: Former NYPD detective and law enforcement consultant Tom Verni joins me now. Tom, nice to see you.

TOM VERNI, FORMER DETECTIVE, NEW YORK POLICE: Nice to see you, Brooke.

BALDWIN: This story, I mean, thank goodness she is OK. She is back with her family but, you know, details are very vague. We know police are looking for two Hispanic women in a dark car and that's it.

VERNI: Yes. Well, listen. I guess that family has a lot to be thankful for. In many of these cases, as you know, the outcome is not this. So I'm very happy to hear that she was returned. And it seems from reports that I have been reading that she has been returned relatively unscathed and it's unusual, too, for a woman -- for anyone, really, to be abducted by other women. I can't think of a case off the top of my head, quite frankly, where this has occurred at least in recent memory. So it is unusual.

BALDWIN: Yes. Do you think law enforcement, by now, I mean, she was found yesterday morning. Do you think that know they knows the full story?

VERNI: It's hard to say. You know, this -- in kidnapping situations as well as sexual assaults -- and we don't know, you know, I don't know if she was assaulted in a physical or sexual way. Either way when you are dealing with these types of incidents the victim obviously has suffered a tremendous amount of trauma so the investigators will have to treat them with what we would call psychological first aid.

In that you have, first and foremost, get medical attention to her which I'm sure they have already done. And then the actual -- what's taken place to her in the last three weeks may not all be clear to her. It may be spotty, I don't know if she was blindfolded, I don't know what her situation was specifically. But the actual -- even if she wasn't blindfolded, the trauma, mental trauma -- and psychologists could corroborate this -- is so great that many times the victim can't even remember a lot of the details.

BALDWIN: They have to be very delicate, very delicate with her.

VERNI: Yes.

BALDWIN: We know Tom. Her husband is the one who reported her missing. He was clear because police had him take a lie detector test so he is not being considered a suspect. He said he never told the kids that their mom was missing in those entire three weeks. What's your reaction to that?

[15:35:06] VERNI: Yes, I mean, for him to be - it sounds like he was attempting to shield them the best he could which makes sense. I mean, if you think about it, if you are a parent and now you have children that you want to try to shield them from, you know, the worst possible scenario that may be occurring until you know for sure. So I don't blame him for that. I think that was a good idea. And then God forbid if things would have turned out differently then you have to break that news. So I don't think that that's such a bad idea, until they get to a certain age where they can understand that. I can only imagine what he and/or the family must have been going through as well. And that's even their own set of trauma that they have to work through.

So I think that there's going to be some, you know, some -- probably some counseling in order certainly for the victim and maybe even for the husband as well. And if the children did understand on some level they may also need some attention.

BALDWIN: Can't begin to understand. Thank goodness she is OK. I'm sure we will learn more in days and weeks to come. Tom, thank you very much.

VERNI: Yes. Any time. Thank you.

BALDWIN: You got it.

Next on our breaking news, we are getting word that Mitt Romney has some new competition for that secretary of state job, including general David Petraeus.

But first, a sneak peek of Sunday night's all-new episode of "PARTS UNKNOWN." This week Anthony Bourdain explores the heart of Brazilian cooking.

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ANTHONY BOURDAIN, CN HOST, PART UNKNOWN (voice-over): These guys grew up here in farm country. Now they're at the center of the culinary scene. Philippe, owner of Alma chef and champion of Minera cuisine and his friends and fellow chefs, Philippe (INAUDIBLE), Fred (INAUDIBLE), and boy. They come back here to (INAUDIBLE) family farm. They come back often to cook and eat and, of course, drink.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: One important thing from here that we make food to share. And I can't remember dish that's --out make for you.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just for yourself or for -- everybody's got to eat, you snow everyone's got to eat. Everyone is welcome. BOURDAIN: Smoked pig's head with vegetables and chilies. Native

green beans prepared with bacon and Farofa. Everybody here is a professional cook and chef?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.

BOURDAIN: Everybody?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. We all came to Europe to learn, to be a cook, then we came back to rediscover new ingredients.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right back home.

BOURDAIN: Thai food is huge in the states, all over the world. Italian food is huge all over the world. French. But why do you think Brazilian real Brazilian food, does not have a high profile international.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's a hard question because all chefs, other people who work with food, we think this every day.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We just have to figure out how to get the ingredients there.

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[15:42:42] BALDWIN: More of our breaking news. We have learned that Donald Trump is considering three additional names for secretary of state along with Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney, a Trump transition source tells CNN that retired generals John Kelly and David Petraeus are in contention along with Senator Bob Corker.

So with me Douglas Brinkley, CNN presidential historian.

And Doug Brinkley, let me also add this other tidbit that we can now report that Trump and Mitt Romney, both of whom, obviously, in separate places with their family for thanksgiving did hop on the phone briefly over thanksgiving. This is according to a source with the call.

So that said, let's just first begin with these additional names now officially, General Kelley, general Petraeus and Senator Corker. What do you make of those three?

DOUGLAS BRINKLEY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN: Well, you know, Donald Trump seems to like billionaires but he also likes people from the U.S. military tradition. And he constantly talk about General Petraeus on the campaign trail. It is about what a rob deal he had for a problem he had with having a girlfriend and leaking top secret information compared to Hillary Clinton. So I think the fact that General Petraeus is in a mix, is in rust estate, and Kelley, then we will just have to wait and see. I mean, Mitt Romney and Giuliani are kind of in a twitter war in the sense right now about Giuliani has got the hard right back in his becoming secretary of state and Romney has the mainstream Republicans.

BALDWIN: So I think it's interesting in how all the frustration over maybe even specifically governor Romney is out there over twitter thanks to Kellyanne Conway and other Trump hardliners therefore it could create this opening for a dark horse secretary of state candidate like the former CIA director general David Petraeus.

You mentioned it, though, I mean, he was known for how he was sentenced to two years probation for sharing the personal information with his biographer/lover. Do you think - I mean, Republicans really cared about Hillary Clinton and that classified information and that private email server, you don't think Republicans will care about his past?

BRINKLEY: Well, I think they care a little bit but General Petraeus is beloved in Republican circles and by many Americans. And positive at the very least, Donald Trump is just invoking his name to make people realize he is a great American patriot. Whether he is going to be in there for secretary of state, could he, you know, I think the drilling that would happen to him from Democrats on Capitol Hill if he was the nominee, it seems remote to me at this point, Petraeus. I still think we are looking at a Romney or Giuliani situation but Donald Trump likes, you know, to talk about and surround himself by top military analysts.

[15:45:23] BALDWIN: So you led with military but also billionaires. So let's throw a graphic on the screen and we can talk about potential, you know, billionaire picks for his cabinet. And I'm wondering if you think American, and in particular, those, you know, working class Trump voters making maybe 40,000, 50,000 a year do you think they care that billionaires could be helping run the country? Would that appear out of touch or not?

BRINKLEY: Not at all. After all, they elected a billionaire Donald Trump. Well, I mean, they love him.

There is two kinds of Americans in some ways, the superrich and everybody else. Donald Trump tends to hang around with a lot of wealthy people. But I think part of Trump's message is that people that make a billion dollars understand how America works. He constantly on the campaign trail said I'm going to get the best people to do negotiation and I know who the right financial wizards are. So I think he can get away with doing that play easily. You are not throwing American history. We have had a lot of very wealthy people in cabinet posts, Andrew Melon back during the, you know, Hardening, Coolidge and Hoover administrations, long time secretary of treasury. John F. Kennedy picked C. Douglas (INAUDIBLE), exceedingly wealthy Republican as his secretary of treasury. And in recent times everybody talked about Ross Perot running for president, billionaire, Bloomberg running for president. So I think it's just an era, particularly now, where billionaires are looking into politics. It costs so much money to run, keep your name going, it makes sense the super-rich are looking to perhaps do something more than being known in history than as a money maker.

BALDWIN: Yes. And I think the rest of America appreciate Donald Trump because he has been successful and he is not apologizing for it.

Doug Brinkley, have a wonderful weekend. Thank you.

BRINKLEY: Hey, thank you.

BALDWIN: Next, a heartbreaking look at the aftermath of battle. CNN takes you inside a Mosul neighborhood now cleared of ISIS fighters but still not immune to sporadic attacks. One of the latest victims, an 18-month-old baby girl.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He cries what did she do wrong? She was just playing. She is gone from me and she is my only one.

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[15:51:44] BALDWIN: In the war against ISIS, Phil Black gets an exclusive look at the battle inside Iraq.

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PHIL BLACK, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): These people have just lived through the horror of open warfare. They're showered in their homes for days. Prayers and white flags their only protection as Iraqi forces fought their ways through the neighborhoods of Eastern Mosul against fierce ISIS resistance.

Now there is little food, water or medicine. No electricity, but there's much relief.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's like a daunting on his chest.

BLACK: ISIS (INAUDIBLE). And it's gone now?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. (INAUDIBLE)

BLACK: You could hear the fighting in the near distance. It's still dangerously close. ISIS has gone from the streets. But its ability to harm these people hasn't passed.

Just 24 hours ago we are told a family was sitting here outside their home when a mortar struck just a short distance away and an 18-month- old girl was killed.

Her name was Amyra Ali (ph). Her father Omar is overwhelmed by grief.

He cries, what did she do wrong? She was just playing. She is gone from me and she is my only one.

Every day this make-shift clinic inside Mosul sees the terrible consequences of mortars fired into civilian areas. It is a bloody production line. The wounded are delivered, patched up quickly, loaded into ambulances to transport to hospitals. At times it seems endless as one ambulance pulls in, another military vehicle speeds in carrying more wounded civilians.

They have unloaded with great care as the medics worked to help the victims of yet another ISIS mortar attack. But they can't save everyone. This man's 21-year-old son was killed. He says, a mortar just fell in front of the door. We came and he was just a piece of meat. Four or five of my neighbors were standing with him and they are all dead.

Here, another parent falls to the dusty ground before the body of her son.

These people endured two years of living under ISIS only to be killed by the group's desperate military tactics and it is (INAUDIBLE) indifference to the lives of the innocent.

Phil Black, CNN, Mosul, northern Iraq.

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[15:59:09] BALDWIN: Voting is now under way for CNN's hero of the year. And one of the year's top ten CNN heroes is Sherri Franklin.

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SHERRI FRANKLIN, CNN HERO: I started dog walking at my local shelter. I noticed that the older dogs just weren't getting adopted and most of them who end up getting euthanized. You know, a dog that was seven- years-old didn't stand a chance.

Are you ready to come home?

I don't think any dog should ever spent its last days alone like that. Muttville is a cage-free, open space. I don't even want to call eight facility because we have tried to make it very home like. When an old dog that's been in a shelter gets some go, it's like --

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BALDWIN: Nancy. Sherri, thank you.

You can vote for your CNN hero. Go to CNNhereos.com.

I'm Brooke Baldwin. Have wonderful weekend. "The LEAD" starts now.

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