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Justice Department Investigates Priest Abuse; Heitkamp in North Dakota Race; Trump Stopped FBI Move; Mega Millions Jackpot Soars; . Aired 6:30-7a ET

Aired October 19, 2018 - 06:30   ET

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[06:33:38] JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: All right, there is some breaking news.

Several people were injured when a Navy helicopter crashed on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan in the Philippian Sea. The cause of the accident, which happened shortly after takeoff, is currently under investigation. All of the victims are in stable condition. None of the injuries, we are told, life- threatening.

ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: The Justice Department launching a federal investigation into alleged sexual abuse of more than 1,000 children by hundreds of catholic priests in Pennsylvania.

CNN's Rosa Flores is live in Miami with details.

Rosa.

ROSA FLORES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Alisyn, good morning.

I just can't underscore enough the importance of these developments. Here's what we know.

The U.S. DOJ has served subpoenas on diocese in both Pennsylvania and New York. Let me start with New York.

Now this is specifically in the diocese of Buffalo, where we have learned from a source with direct knowledge of this federal subpoena that the feds were looking for documents related to the following, pornography, taking victims across state lines, inappropriate use of cell phones and social media. Now, according to internal e-mails also obtained by CNN, the diocese met the deadline by the U.S. DOJ, and that deadline was June 13th.

Now to Pennsylvania. We learned yesterday that seven of the eight diocese there, including two of the largest, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, they were served with federal subpoenas as well.

[06:35:05] Now, U.S. attorneys in both states are not confirming or denying that an investigation is going on, but the diocese have issued statements saying that they are cooperating with authorities and the diocese in Buffalo is going a little further, saying that they don't believe that the subpoena that they received is in any way related to the investigation going on in Pennsylvania.

Which brings me to a very important point, because we are not clear as to what exactly, what specifically the probe in Pennsylvania is about. However, we do, of course, know that this comes on the heels of the scathing Pennsylvania grand jury report, which revealed that there were about 1,000 victims, 300 predator priests and that the corruption went all the way to the Vatican.

And, Alisyn and John, I want to leave you with this, because I've spoken to two survivor groups who say that it is about time that the U.S. DOJ is getting involved. These groups have asked the U.S. DOJ in the past to get involved. And they add this as well. They say that it's not just New York and Pennsylvania. That there are survivors all over this country.

CAMEROTA: Absolutely, Rosa. Absolutely. This is a long time coming for the survivors and we'll see what happens now that the DOJ is involved.

Thank you.

BERMAN: All right, it is a Senate race that could have a major impact on the entire balance of power. And one candidate just made a plea to save that race. We'll tell you where. Of course we picture on the screen to give you a tease there, next.

CAMEROTA: OK, that's fine.

Plus, the Mega Millions jackpot could reach $1 billion by tonight's drawing.

BERMAN: That's a swollen jackpot.

CAMEROTA: It is a swollen jackpot.

BERMAN: A bulbous jackpot.

CAMEROTA: OK. We'll tell you more, next.

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[06:40:42] CAMEROTA: OK, a tight race in North Dakota could have major implications for which party will control the Senate. We are now just 18 days away from the midterm elections and incumbent Senator Heidi Heitkamp is reeling after her campaign misidentified victims of sexual abuse and, without their permission, had them in a campaign ad. Heitkamp again apologized for it in a debate last night.

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SEN, HEIDI HEITKAMP (D), NORTH DAKOTA: Unfortunately this week I not only disappointed many North Dakotans, I disappointed myself. My campaign wrongly listed many names in a campaign ad that were not authorized and were inappropriate. I can only say, this is a terrible mistake. And the last thing I would ever want to do would be to cause trauma for any victim of violence.

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CAMEROTA: All right, so what will this mean for the race? Well, there's something about Harry, so let's get "The Forecast."

BERMAN: (INAUDIBLE) --

HARRY ENTEN, CNN SENIOR POLITICS WRITER AND ANALYST: Well, yes.

BERMAN: For North Dakota. Harry.

ENTEN: Wow.

CAMEROTA: We go to a lot of non-(INAUDIBLE) with Harry. This is Harry Enten. He's our senior politics writer and analyst.

Is this a fatal blow for Heidi Heitkamp?

ENTEN: Well, let's talk about where this race was before this happened. And what we see is that my forecast had that Kevin Cramer, the Republican candidate, was favored to win by about four points. So she was already behind there. And, if anything, I would argue that this forecast was too optimistic for Heidi Heitkamp because we haven't had a lot of recent polling, but the polling that we have had actually shows that my forecast again may be too optimistic. This was the last Fox News poll. This had Kevin Cramer, the Republican, ahead by 12 percentage points. So, again, the forecast says him only winning by four, but the most recent poll has him ahead by 12.

BERMAN: The fact of the matter is, Heidi Heitkamp would have needed to be perfect in North Dakota probably to have a chance of winning. Why?

ENTEN: Well, there are a few things why.

Well, let's look right now. Look at -- when she won her first election in 2012, right, Barack Obama, although he lost the state by a fairly wide margin, was somewhat competitive. He got 39 percent of the vote. But then go to 2016, the last presidential election, Hillary Clinton only got 27 percent of the vote. In other words, North Dakota ran to the right very, very frequently.

And you may be asking, is it perhaps going to revert back to where it was in 2012. Maybe Hillary Clinton just wasn't a good fit for the state. Well, let's take a look at where the president's approval rating was in that Fox News poll.

BERMAN: Look at that.

ENTEN: All the way at 62 percent. That is sky high, especially considering where he is nationally. This was our last CNN poll among registered voters. He was only at 43 percent. So 43 percent is significantly lower than 62 percent.

BERMAN: And I knew that.

ENTEN: Even you knew that.

CAMEROTA: I did too.

ENTEN: A 19-point difference. So North Dakota is very much to the right of the nation as a whole. So Heidi Heitkamp, a Democratic incumbent, really would have needed to run a perfect campaign.

CAMEROTA: OK, do you want to move on to your national forecast?

ENTEN: Sure. Let's take a look at where our national forecast is for the House right now.

Look, it's the same where it was yesterday. No change. I'm sorry. That's a little bit boring. But this is actually what a good model kind of does, right, it takes into account the data that we're receiving and if none of the data has really changed, then it's not going to change.

But, right now, still in the House, we have the Democrats favored with 227 seats to Republican's 208. Of course, in the Senate, it's a very, very different picture, in part because of the Heitkamp race. We have Republicans at 52 seats, that's one more than they currently have at 51.

Now let's say for whatever reason Heitkamp's able to get back in the game, where Texas or Tennessee, which have been moving to the right, perhaps move a little bit back towards the left. Well, we still have Dems with the best case scenario at 53. This is a long reach. And so they still have a shot there. But, overall, still what we're looking at is that the Democrats are most likely going to control the House and Republicans are most likely going to control the Senate. And what that means for 2019 comes the next Congress will be very interesting.

BERMAN: It's a very rangy area you have this morning.

CAMEROTA: Oh, no, he pulled something.

ENTEN: Well, the Red Sox gave me a little ump. Anything to make the Yankee fans unhappy gets me going.

BERMAN: (INAUDIBLE). Can I throw you a curveball?

ENTEN: Sure.

CAMEROTA: Oh.

BERMAN: Much like David Price may have thrown last night? Immigration. The president desperately wants to make immigration a central issue the last two and a half weeks. In the House, or in the midterm elections, is there somewhere that that helps him better than other places?

[06:44:59] ENTEN: I think it absolutely helps them in the Senate, right, because there's so many red states that have Democratic incumbents, or states that Democrats want to pick up. You mentioned Texas, Tennessee, North Dakota. These -- Arizona is another place. These are places where it could potentially help drive Republican turnout. But in the House it's a completely different ballgame because where Democrats are really trying to pick up seats are in suburban areas with a lot of well-educated voted, specifically well-educated white women, and they do not like the president's rhetoric on immigration.

CAMEROTA: Harry Enten, there's just something about you.

Thank you.

ENTEN: Well, thank you so much. My mother agrees.

CAMEROTA: Harry's forecast is available each day by 9:00 a.m. at cnn.com/forecast. You can just watch NEW DAY because he's on every day here, too.

BERMAN: Exactly.

All right, it's the stuff that dreams are made of. The Mega Millions jackpot could actually become mega billions.

CAMEROTA: Billions.

BERMAN: Billions.

CAMEROTA: Yes.

BERMAN: Actually, no, that's not actually true.

CAMEROTA: I don't think that's right.

BERMAN: Mega billion jackpot. Lottery frenzy, next.

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[06:49:53] BERMAN: New this morning, internal e-mails reveal that President Trump was more instrumental than previously thought in stopping the FBI headquarters move out of Washington. Why? Democrats say the president stood to benefit financially by keeping the FBI in Washington, D.C.

Our Lauren Fox live in Washington with more.

Lauren, what's going on here?

LAUREN FOX, CNN POLITICS REPORTER: Well, congressional Democrats are demanding the Trump administration explain how the plan to build a new FBI headquarters, which has been in the works for years, suddenly changed course. The original plan was to move the headquarters to one of several nearby cites, in Maryland or Virginia, to the tune of $3.6 billion. But now the administration is planning for the FBI headquarters to be rebuilt where it is, even though it would be smaller and more expensive, costing taxpayers $8.3 billion.

Notably, the FBI's headquarters is a block away from President Donald Trump's D.C. hotel. Democrats are arguing that President Trump is opposed to the government selling the FBI's headquarters because he doesn't want other commercial developers to compete with his property. They've released a series of staff e-mails that they show the president was directly involved in the decision to keep the headquarters in D.C.

The documents staff reference -- they reference an Oval Office meeting between President Trump, GSA Administration Emily Murphy and other officials, with one GSA staffer writing about the final proposal, ideally I think it would first recap the Oval meeting with what POTUS directed everyone to do. Then ask Emily to execute POTUS' orders.

Press Secretary Sarah Sanders has responded, insisting that, quote, the president wanted to save the government money and also the FBI leadership did not want to move its headquarters.

As we noted before, the new plan is actually more expensive.

The GSA also issued a statement saying that the e-mails Democrats referred to were taken out of context.

Alisyn.

CAMEROTA: OK, Lauren, thank you very much for that report.

All right, just hours to go until I win $1 billion in tonight's Mega Millions drawing. The jackpot has soared to a record $970 million and growing. It's currently the second largest jackpot --

BERMAN: It's swollen.

CAMEROTA: It's quite swollen -- in U.S. lottery history.

CNN's Polo Sandoval is live in Times Square with more.

Polo, John and I can't tell you how many times we have stood in that basically exact location and reported on a swollen jackpot.

POLO SANDOVAL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: And I am almost as confident as you are, Alisyn, that this will be the machine that will sell the winning lotto ticket here in midtown Manhattan. That's where I plan to buy mine.

And I can tell you that there certainly is that Mega Millions fever in Manhattan right now, really throughout the country, especially now that that number has reached such an incredible amount. Let's take a look right now, $430 million. That's for the Powerball. But the Mega Million right now, $970 million. That's the big headline maker right now, as there are many people, at least in this particular location, that are expected to stop by. The manager at this Rite Aid in Manhattan telling me that they do expect a big rush a little later today.

Now, has this number gotten so high? Well, nobody's really won the Mega Millions jackpot since last summer when about 11 co-workers walked away with about $570 million. So that is why we've reached that amount and that is why people have at least a billion reasons, as "The Daily News" calls it, to go out and get your ticket.

Guys.

CAMEROTA: Polo, the reason we sent you there was because we expected there to be a long line out the door.

SANDOVAL: Well, it's coming.

CAMEROTA: We didn't know you were going to have to do this alone, OK.

SANDOVAL: It's coming, the general manager says.

CAMEROTA: That's so much harder than what John and I have ever done. I stand corrected, you -- this is the yeomen's duty of reporting that you have to do a lottery jackpot story alone in a Rite Aid.

SANDOVAL: At 7:00 in the morning.

BERMAN: It's a silent frenzy. It's a special kind of lottery frenzy.

CAMEROTA: What kind of fervor is this? Don't people want a billion? I guess not.

BERMAN: That means Polo's going to win.

Polo, you're --

SANDOVAL: The manager says the masses will come.

BERMAN: You're a mensch. You're a mensch.

Polo Sandoval, thank you very much for being with us.

We'll give you time to buy your many tickets to increase the lotto frenzy.

SANDOVAL: Yes. Yes.

CAMEROTA: I think Polo stands a very good chance of winning if he's alone there.

BERMAN: I think he's the only apparently buying it in the tristate area.

The biggest story of the morning, though, in many ways -- I've already won --

CAMEROTA: Yes, you have.

BERMAN: The jackpot.

CAMEROTA: Yes.

BERMAN: Look at that. It's the World Series-bound Boston Red Sox.

CAMEROTA: Oh, my gosh. BERMAN: The world rejoices.

CAMEROTA: You're wearing your special tie.

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[06:58:42] BERMAN: All right, got something to show you here.

CAMEROTA: Sweet.

BERMAN: Boston Red Sox going to the World Series!

CAMEROTA: Oh, yes.

BERMAN: They're going to the World Series.

Lindsay Czarniak has more in the "Bleacher Report."

LINDSAY CZARNIAK, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT: How many of those do you have in your closet?

CAMEROTA: Yes, how many do you have?

BERMAN: As many as I need.

CZARNIAK: Oh, my goodness.

BERMAN: It's a lot.

CZARNIAK: All right, well, you should, I guess, your team's dominant.

Two things I love about this. The team gave manager Alex Cora a win on his birthday, and David Price, who ended up as starting pitcher because the intended starter had a stomach bug, pitched the game of his life.

This "Bleacher Report" brought to you by Tums.

The Red Sox got a dominate performance from Price. He was pitching, after all, on just three days' rest. He got his first win in 12 post season starts, striking out nine in six innings. The Red Sox knocked off the Astros, celebrating Boston's first trips back to the World Series since 2013.

You know what's better than popping the champagne in the clubhouse with your team? When it's also your birthday.

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CROWD: Happy birthday dear Alex, happy birthday --

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CZARNIAK: A moment Cora, a rookie manager, will never forget.

Now, we hear from David Price on what that moment, that win, meant to him.

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DAVID PRICE, BOSTON RED SOX PITCHER: It's one of the -- one of the most special days I've ever had on the baseball field. So it was very special.

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CZARNIAK: And, Berman, I mean, you know, because that guy, he had a lot of stuff to prove, right? That fan base was out was waiting to see what David Price could do in the clutch, and he did it. And he was there with his little one, which is (INAUDIBLE).

[07:00:09] CAMEROTA: I love that new trend, by the way, bringing your baby.

CZARNIAK: Right? It's awesome.

BERMAN: David Price is my --

CZARNIAK: (INAUDIBLE) better.