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Tiger Woods Makes Historic Comeback with Masters Win; 8 Dead in Tornado Outbreak, Threat Moves to Northeast; Sarah Sanders: Congress 'Not Smart Enough' to Review Trump Taxes; Pete Buttigieg Launches Presidential Bin. Aired 6-6:30a ET

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Here it is, the return to glory.

TIGER WOODS, MASTERS WINNER: This has meant so much to me and my family. It's something I'm never going to forget.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: For Tiger to get back to the top is the greatest comeback in sports history.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The public has a right to know whether their president is working in the interests of the country?

SARAH SANDERS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: I don't think the Congress are smart enough to look through President Trump's taxes.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's like many of the arguments from this White House. It's really chum in the water for their base.

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ANNOUNCER: This is NEW DAY with Alisyn Camerota and John Berman.

ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is NEW DAY. It is Monday, April 15, tax day, 6 a.m.

POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR: I did mine.

CAMEROTA: I just by the hair of my chinny-chin-chin, did mine. John Berman is off. Poppy Harlow joins me.

Great to have you.

HARLOW: Good to be here.

CAMEROTA: Should be an exciting show.

HARLOW: Yes, a big week.

CAMEROTA: So let's get to it. We begin with the comeback for the ages. Tiger Woods clinching his fifth Masters and 15th major title, ending a decade-long championship drought.

The embattled sports legend pulling off one of the most stunning comebacks in sports history. At 43 years old, Woods is now just three majors behind the all-time record of Jack Nicklaus.

HARLOW: It is remarkable. Our other top story that we're following very closely this morning, a deadly tornado outbreak in the Southeast United States killing eight people.

Entire communities ripped to shreds and several states damaging homes, flipped over trailers and downing of trees and power lines. The threat of severe weather continues.

Twenty-five million Americans waking up under tornado watches as this system moves across the northeast.

Let's begin, though, with our Andy Scholes. He is live in Augusta, Georgia with our top story this morning. Then we will get to our friend, Christine Brennan there.

Andy, remarkable. And then, after all of it, you get to sit down one on one with Tiger.

ANDY SCHOLES, CNN SPORTS: And what a day it was, Poppy. I mean, this is one of the best moments in sports history. And it's a moment that fans around the world have been waiting so long for.

Eleven years, multiple back surgeries. Both professional and personal adversity. You know, many thought that Tiger Woods would never be back on top of the golf world. But he proved all of those doubters wrong, winning his elusive 15th major here in Augusta.

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SCHOLES (voice-over): It's the putt that caps off one of the greatest comebacks in sports history. Eleven years, nearly 4,000 days since his last major victory, Tiger Woods is a Masters championship once again. The 43-year-old walking off the green to delirious cheers and putting on the green jacket for the fifth time

(on camera): Did you ever think this day would come? And how does it feel?

WOODS: Yes, I did think it would come. Just because of what I did last year. I knew it was in me. Now, did I know it was going to be this week? No. But I had a good feeling that the way I was hitting the golf ball that I was going to be in the mix.

SCHOLES (voice-over): Praise came pouring in from decorated athletes, avid golfers like President Trump and former President Obama and golf great Jack Niklaus, who still holds the record to green jackets with six.

The win completing an improbable return to the top after a series of personal scandals that could have been career ending --

WOODS: They did not do these things. I did.

SCHOLES: -- and debilitating injuries that took a toll on Woods.

WOODS: I could barely walk. I couldn't sit, couldn't lay down. I really couldn't do much of anything.

SCHOLES: Woods underwent four back surgeries, including a career- saving spinal fusion in 2017 that prevented him from swinging a golf club for months.

But the former No. 1 would not quit and is now celebrating another win, where he won his first major 22 years ago. Woods sharing an emotional moment with his 10-year-old son Charlie, mirroring the embrace he shared with his late father in 1997.

SCHOLES: You joked before that your kids think of you as the video game golfer, because they had never seen you win a major. And what was that moment like when your son, Charlie, jumped in your arms?

WOODS: Surreal. I did the same thing to my dad. And now I'm the dad with my son, doing the same thing. So it's amazing how life evolves. It changes.

It's hard to comprehend right now. I mean, honestly, I'm just a few hours out of winning the tournament. I'm still trying to enjoy it and trying to figure out that actually, I won it. I know I have the green Jacket on. But it's just -- it's still -- I think it's going to take a little bit of time for it to sink in.

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SCHOLES: Yes, and I followed around Tiger for much of the weekend. And I really can't even put into words how much this means to people. You know, after Tiger would make putts, I saw people hugging. I saw so many high fives. A guy next to me literally said, "I never thought I would cheer for another person like this."

There's just something about Tiger Woods, guys, that brings out so many emotions in people. And that emotion on Sunday was just pure joy.

CAMEROTA: Andy, that's so interesting. So stick with us if you would.

We also want to bring in Christine Brennan, CNN sports analyst and "USA Today" sports columnist.

Christine, how do you see this remarkable comeback?

CHRISTINE BRENNAN, CNN SPORTS ANALYST: Stunning. It really is. It's one of those things you -- you don't have enough superlatives to describe it.

Alisyn, when you think of the depths for Tiger Woods. Obviously, couldn't get off the couch, he said, to watch his kids play soccer a year and a half ago. Had the spinal fusion surgery just two years ago. Obviously, the personal scandal, all self-induced which was now almost ten years ago.

One thing after another after another. It almost seemed like the bad news just kept coming. And for him to be able to put it together at the place he loves most, as Andy was describing, we saw each other there. It was electric. It was magical. And it almost seemed as if the golf gods came down from the heavens and said, "This is going to happen" the way the other golfers fell by the wayside.

[06:05:02] CAMEROTA: I mean, Christine, beyond divine intervention -- and maybe it was just divine intervention -- but how did he turn it around over these past years to come back in such a major way?

BRENNAN: Certainly, the surgery helped, Alisyn. I mean, having that spinal fusion, that was a tough call for him. But he wanted to have the chance to maybe play golf again and to walk again without pain. So that was a big deal almost two years ago.

Then his recovery, which was also marred by the DUI and the mug shot, which was Memorial Day weekend of 2017. So it was not a steady climb. It was a difficult recovery for him.

And then his mindset. Tiger is 43. He's a balding, middle-aged man, and his mindset has changed. He is a nicer person. He was tough to deal with when he was younger, not always the nicest guy. And he has become a kinder, gentler person.

He also, as he said was plodding around the golf course, not plotting with a "T," but plodding with a "D." And he was happy to use, as he said, the library of information about Augusta National that's in his brain. He relied on age. Longevity actually helped him, because he knows he doesn't have the power or the ability to practice as much as he used to. Because his body has taken such a toll over the years.

CAMEROTA: And Andy, I mean, you alluded to his personal scandal. And everything that he went through. And so it is remarkable that not only was he able to turn around physically but that after something that was so public, so tawdry that, as you say, so many people were rooting for him. So how do you explain that?

SCHOLES: Well, you know, I think a lot of people just put the personal problems, like Tiger did himself, you know, kind of behind him.

The thing that always hurt him in terms of trying to get back on top, in the end was the physical problems. You know, just two years ago, Tiger Woods came to the champions dinner here in Augusta. And he was telling people at that dinner at the time he thought his career was over. Because as Christine said, he couldn't even play with his kids anymore. Sitting and standing was a chore.

And Tiger, you know, after I interviewed him yesterday, after he had played four straight rounds of grueling golf, he struggled to get up and down the chair. You can tell that, you know, he's still not 100 percent in terms of his health.

So the fact that he was able to pull this out after so long is just incredible. And he joked with us yesterday, saying one thing is for sure. Wasn't going to be hitting a golf ball today.

CAMEROTA: And Christine, tell us about the poignancy of seeing him with his kids at the end. His son coming in for that embrace.

BRENNAN: Exactly, Alisyn. It was 22 years ago that he, of course, came off the green and fell into his father's arms. A man who, of course, made him the golfer that he is. And then, now on this day, he -- he is the father going into -- walking into the arms of his son, Charlie, and then his daughter, Sam, who had a soccer tournament the day before, and thankfully, it finished so that she could then fly down for the final round.

This is his sports family. And then, of course, his mother, who has been ever present in the gallery all the way along since the -- since '96 when he got started on the PGA tour. So this was one family member after another. And because Tiger, because of the personal crisis and the scandal, you think of Tiger's family, and it's kind of like, "Oh, what's that about?" And of course, his ex-wife and now he has a girlfriend.

And yet here, this was a coming together for Tiger that I'm sure he had only dreamed of, that he would have them all there and that they knew their dad now not for playing -- playing through pain in golf but now for the joy of winning in golf. And that was so important, as Tiger said. Probably the most important thing, to have them there at that moment for his great 15th major victory.

CAMEROTA: Well, Christine Brennan, Andy Scholes, thank you very much for letting us relive it and walking us through all of these really memorable moments.

BRENNAN: Thank you.

CAMEROTA: Great to see you guys -- Poppy.

HARLOW: All right. On top of this, the breaking news that eight people are dead this morning after a tornado outbreak carved a path of destruction across the Southeast. Let's go to our colleague Ed Lavandera. He's live in Alto, Texas, with more.

Ed, I mean, we can just see some of it behind you. What can you tell us?

ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, here in deep East Texas. This is where the storm system started dropping tornadoes over the weekend.

We are in the town of Alto, Texas. And here in East Texas, four people were killed in the storm system that carved up homes in this area just like this.

Here in this small town, about 75 homes have been destroyed, 200 people displaced. And that trail of destruction continued from East Texas into Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

In all, about eight people were killed. In fact, in one town in Mississippi, a volunteer fire department was destroyed in these storms. So a great deal of concern here.

And in those deaths also includes three children. Two here in East Texas that were killed while they were in the back seat of their car with their parents in the front seat when a tree collapsed onto their car.

[06:10:05] And what is really stunning here, Poppy and Alisyn, is that on Saturday afternoon, about an hour and a half after the tornado ripped through this town of Alto, Texas, the police chief here in this town says a second tornado came through the -- almost the exact same area, causing even more damage on Saturday afternoon -- Alisyn.

HARLOW: Ed, I'll pick it up from here. Thank you so much. Please keep us posted on that. And again, you've got 25 million people still in the path of this dangerous weather. Where is it all headed?

Let's go to our meteorologist, Jennifer Grey. She's got the forecast. What are we looking at?

JENNIFER GREY, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Well, Poppy, most of the storms are now pushing through the northeast. Don't have the severe component that we saw throughout the south, throughout the weekend.

But still, a lot of lightning strikes associated with this. If you are in New York, Philadelphia, D.C., even Boston, I'm sure you heard the thunder early this morning.

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Now, as this starts to move offshore for today, we will definitely clear out quickly behind it. The problem is, we're going to have extreme winds across the Northeast. And that is going to mean trouble for the flights across this region as we go throughout the morning, as well as the afternoon.

There is a wind advisory. We could see gusts up to 55 miles per hour for today all up and down the northeast.

So New York City, D.C., do expect major delays today. Boston could see moderate delays because of the winds. High temperatures, though, will be nice: 65 degrees. Of course, you add to that the winds, though. It's going to be pretty brutal. Sixty-two in D.C., 56 in Cincinnati, 66 in Nashville for today. Seventy-four in Little Rock -- Poppy.

HARLOW: OK. All right. Thank you for keeping an eye on it, Jennifer. We appreciate it.

Let's turn to politics now. The battle over the president's tax returns taking another strange twist. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders now has a new line of attack, insulting the intelligence of members of Congress.

Let's go to the White House. Joe Johns is there with more. This is a turn I did not expect, Joe. JOHNS: Yes, that's for sure. Happy tax day, Poppy.

Taxes is one of the things that's going to be driving the conversation for the administration today. And the president's own tax return certainly is going to become an issue. The president is going to be heading out to Minnesota for a tax event, even as the House of Representatives has issued another demand for the president's records. And there's been another objection from the administration.

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JOHNS (voice-over): The White House going to new lengths to discredit demands for the president's tax returns.

SANDERS: I don't think Congress, particularly not this group of congressmen and -women, are smart enough to look through the thousands of pages that I would assume that President Trump's taxes will be. My guess is, most of them don't do their own taxes.

JOHNS: Sarah Sanders' harsh words dismissing Congress's oversight role as the legal battle to obtain Mr. Trump's records intensifies.

Ten members of Congress are certified accountants, including members of both parties. This comes after House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal sent a new letter to the IRS commissioner, demanding six years of the president's tax returns by next Tuesday. The Treasury Department missed Neal's first deadline last week. Sanders also addressing the possibility of releasing undocumented immigrants to sanctuary cities.

SANDERS: We're looking to see if there are options that make it possible. The president likes the idea.

JOHNS: Democrats say the president is using people claiming asylum as political pawns. The controversial plan is shining the spotlight on the president's hardline advisor Stephen Miller, who's behind the push.

REP. JERRY NADLER (D-NY): Steve Miller, who seems to be the boss of everybody on immigration, ought to come before Congress and explain some of these policies.

JOHNS: Meanwhile, tensions rising over the latest controversy surrounding Congresswoman Ilhan Omar after comments she made about 9/11. The president tweeted a video showing select portions of comments Omar made in a recent speech, spliced together with horrific images of the terror attack.

Omar says she's seen a spike in death threats after the president's tweet. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she's talked to Capitol officials about the congresswoman's safety.

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JOHNS: With all that playing in the background, Washington continues to brace for the release of the full Mueller report into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

The president's lawyers are working on a rebuttal already, and there continues to be a question about how much of that report might be redacted in the event the administration claims executive privilege -- Poppy.

HARLOW: Appreciate the reporting. Joe Johns, happy tax day to you. Thanks very much.

Joining us now is Toluse Olorunnipa, the White House reporter for "The Washington Post."

Good morning.

TOLUSE OLORUNNIPA, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: Good morning.

HARLOW: Let's begin on taxes, because you know, it's April 15 so why not? And Sarah Sanders's line of attack there, slamming members of Congress.

I didn't expect this for a number of reasons. But also just the facts. I mean, you have ten, at least ten members of Congress, by our count, this morning who are tax professionals, who are accountants. Take Rep. Brad Sherman, right? He's a CPA. He also taught tax law at a little school called Harvard.

[06:15:04] How do you think this plays for the White House?

OLORUNNIPA: Yes, this is the latest argument from the White House about why the president should not release his taxes.

Unfortunately, in the law, there's no provision that says the IRS should -- will turn over the tax information for any American if Congress is smart enough to understand those tax returns.

The law is pretty clear that the IRS must turn over those tax returns based on the requests from the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.

Now, obviously, there's some back and forth between the Treasury Department and the Justice Department and the Congress about whether or not this is an appropriate request. But there's nothing in the request that has anything to do with the intelligence level of members of Congress.

It's just sort of the latest argument from the White House. First, it was the president was under audit. And then we heard that, you know, this is just a fishing expedition. And now we're hearing that Congress is not smart enough to understand these returns.

HARLOW: It's just so clearly a P.R. battle here, like, to try to convince more of the American public. Sixty-four percent of Americans want to see the tax returns, many more when you look at it by party on Democrat.

But OK, I digress on that. Let's talk about this and the development with what the president tweeted on Friday. That video taking Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's words out of context here in the address she gave to CAIR. And now the Congresswoman says there have increased threats to her safety, death threats for her.

You've got Nancy Pelosi saying that she's talking to the sergeant in arms about protecting her. What is the strategy here from team Trump on this?

OLORUNNIPA: This is an opportunity for the president to change the narrative and not have people talking about his tax returns or other investigations or the Mueller report.

He seizes on every opportunity that he gets to shine the spotlight on some of these progressive members of Congress and to paint them as the other. And he sees Congresswoman Omar as a chief opportunity for that.

He has singled her out on several occasions. This is, in the eyes of several Democrats in incitements of violence. The president doesn't seem to mind that there are people out there that are making death threats based on this video. He sees it as a political winner for him, because he can sort of stand next to the flag and say, "We will never forget 9/11 and look at these Democrats who are, you know, downplaying the tremendous loss that happened on that day."

So this is a clearly political move by the president. But it does seem to be having some ramifications for the Congresswoman that she's facing death threats all over.

HARLOW: Yes. Right. Which is -- which is horrific.

Before you go, the divide within the Democratic Party over Ilhan Omar and her choice of words. Going back to her words about repeated words about Israel and then this.

One thing that struck me in Nancy Pelosi's statement, condemning the president for putting out this video. She also said this. Let me read it: "The memory of 9/11 is sacred ground, and any discussion of it must be done with reverence. The president shouldn't use the painful images of 9/11 for a political attack."

That part of any discussion of it must be done with reverence, did you read that at all as a message, as well, to Congresswoman Omar?

OLORUNNIPA: Definitely. Speaker Pelosi realizes that a large number of the people that helped her win the speakership come from moderate districts, come from districts where the type of rhetoric that President Trump puts out is relevant to them.

And they, in many cases, voted for President Trump and then eventually voted for a Democrat for that seat. So those are moderate districts. And Nancy Pelosi is trying to figure out a way to not only placate the progressive wing of her base but also make sure that the moderate members do not feel like they are being put out to sea by her rushing to defend only the progressive members. So I did see in that statement and opportunity for her to try to sort

of strike that balance between condemning the president, which is broadly popular across the party but also making sure that she's not rushing to defend what some see as the most extreme wing of her base.

HARLOW: All right. Interesting. Thanks for the analysis, Toluse. We appreciate it

OLORUNNIPA: Thank you.

HARLOW: All right, Poppy. It's official. Mayor Pete Buttigieg is now in the race for the White House. What's behind his momentum thus far? We discuss it, next.

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[06:22:48] CAMEROTA: The field of Democratic presidential candidates continues to grow. Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, officially throwing his hat into the 2020 ring. Watch this.

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MAYOR PETE BUTTIGIEG (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: They're telling us to look for greatness in all the wrong places. Because if there's one thing that the city of South Bend has shown, is that there is no such thing as an honest politics that revolves around the word "again." It is time to walk away from the politics of the past and towards something totally different.

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CAMEROTA: All right. Buttigieg's campaign says he has raised $1 million since his announcement yesterday. Buttigieg is doing well in the early polls, the state polls. He's No. 3 in Iowa and New Hampshire.

So let's talk about this. Let's bring in CNN's Vanessa Yurkevich. She was at Buttigieg's announcement in South Bend. CNN political correspondent M.J. Lee; and Alex Burns, CNN political analyst and national political correspondent for "The New York Times."

Vanessa, tell us about the announcement. What was the crowd size? What was the mood like?

VANESSA YURKEVICH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, hi, Alisyn, it was definitely electric inside the Studebaker former manufacturing plant. There were a couple thousand people inside and then there was an overflow outside.

Pete Buttigieg made sure that he said hello to those people outside who were waiting in the rain for hours. But I thought it was really interesting. You know, we heard a speech from him touching on a couple issues.

He never mentioned the president by name, which I thought was interesting. But he definitely gave a couple of digs at some of the president's policies, such as the family separations at the border.

He also didn't bring Vice President Pence into the conversation at all. And he had had sort of a little feud with him over the past week about whether or not people of religious faith could accept a gay man as president.

And finally, I thought it was interesting that he never referred to himself as a gay man. We've heard him do that on the campaign trail. But he really talked about his sexuality in a way that referred to his marriage to his husband, Chasten. They got married just last year. And he talked about his most important freedom in life, Alisyn: being that right to marry his husband just last year, as I mentioned.

[06:25:15] CAMEROTA: Alex, so tell us who you think, now that he's officially in, who does Pete Buttigieg threaten the most?

ALEX BURNS, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, look, I think any candidate who was counting on becoming a figure of generational change and of sort of shiny new object excitement in the Democratic primary has a real problem on their hands when it comes to Pete Buttigieg. That if you are Beto O'Rourke or Kamala Harris, to some extent Bernie Sanders though he's obviously a generational opposite, because so many of his supporters are young people, and young liberals who like the idea of rejecting politics as it is, this guy who it sounds like is running as, looks like just a change agent, a generational change agent really presents a threat to their past.

You know, it's obviously striking to see a candidate like this rise so fast in the polls. It's striking to see somebody with such light qualifications for the presidency rise so fast in the polls.

The question is, you know, can they sustain this over a period of many months now? And sort of what is the meat behind the candidacy, right? Because when you heard that announcement speech yesterday, there was a lot of soaring oratory about generational change, about rejecting the past.

A lot of Democratic voters at some point. And we saw this in the last primary four years ago, at some point are going to want to know what does that mean in practice?

HARLOW: I think that's interesting from your piece. It's a great, great deep dive in "The Times" this morning. I mean, you talk about how he really captivates sort of the elite and the coastal voters and then also, you know, the sort of run-of-the-mill Democratic voter, rank-and-file Democrat.

But you do note that that is sort of his Achilles heel at this point. What are his specifics going to be? But then he acknowledges that candidates with shorter platforms win.

BURNS: Well, this was a newspaper column that you wrote in 2004, when he was an even younger man than he is today about research into the platforms of political parties and found that parties with shorter platforms that make less reference to the opposing party where the platform isn't just chock full of "The Democrats are terrible. The Republicans are terrible," tend to do better.

You know, whether that's the kind of platform he'd put together as a nominee, we'll see. But he's a big believer in simplicity and, frankly, kind of vagueness. I spoke to him last Thursday, and he was totally unapologetic about this idea that he doesn't have particularly a detailed policy agenda. Because he said, look, that's not -- that's not what's going to distinguish one Democrat from the other 17 in this race.

HARLOW: Interesting.

CAMEROTA: M.J., we've left the numbers for you. And there's a lot of them.

So today is tax day. Kamala Harris just released her tax returns. She's released 15 years' worth of them.

Here are the other Democrats who've released them. Twelve years, Kirstjen Gillibrand and on down from there.

And then, in terms of how much money everyone's been raising, let's look at that, because Bernie Sanders is at 18 plus million. Kamala Harris, 12 million. Beto O'Rourke, more than nine million. Pete Buttigieg at 7 million. And then you compare that to President Trump's first quarter, 30 million dollars.

M.J. LEE, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, and you have to wonder, because the Democratic field is so big right now, is that a reason that we're seeing, obviously, the money be so spread out?

I think that, in addition to the fact that there is such an emphasis now among the Democrats on grassroots fundraising. It's almost sort of shameful if you have too many donors that are writing two big of checks. I think that's probably also the reason that we're seeing that contrast.

I mean, the most obvious one being there are too many Democratic candidates that are going for the same pool of money. And then, on the Republican side, there is obviously just the one.

But very quickly on Pete Buttigieg and the amount of money that he's raising. Obviously, he's been able to really capitalize on the momentum that he has right now. He's raising an impressive amount of money, given how new he is relative to everyone else, a lot of the other folks that are in the field.

I think the big question is how he actually uses that money, right? His campaign is first to acknowledge that they haven't spent a lot of money that they raised. You remember, it was the $7 million in the first quarter.

A million, the campaign said just yesterday, soon after his speech, you know, if you look at the rest of the field you are seeing the campaign operations of various candidates really build out what they are doing on the ground. They are hiring staff. They are making sure that there is a field

operation in place. Pete Buttigieg obviously has not done that. And on the policy point that Alex was talking about, we are at a point in the campaign where a lot of the candidates are putting out policy proposals, and Pete Buttigieg has not done that.

So I think in the two big areas we have to see where Pete Buttigieg goes. And it's a reminder of sort of the catch-up that he has to play if that is the kind of campaign he wants to run.

CAMEROTA: All right. M.J., Alex, Vanessa, thank you very much for all of that.

Coming up in our next hour, we're going to have Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, he has also officially jumped in. He is going to join us, as well.

HARLOW: Also ahead, an incredible story of survival. You'll remember. Take a look at this video.

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