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More Than 1,000 Former Justice Department Officials Call For Attorney General Bill Barr To Resign; Democrats Crisscross Nevada Days Before Caucuses; Kobe Bryant, Daughter Gianna To Be Honored At NBA All-Star Game; Hundreds Of Americans Flying Home After Cruise Ship Quarantine; Businesses Pay The Price Amid Virus Fears; Bloomberg Faces Criticism For Past Comments On Discriminatory Practices; Viral Video Has People Debating Reclining Seats On Planes; The Windsors: Inside The Royal Dynasty. Aired 7-8p ET

Aired February 16, 2020 - 19:00   ET

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ANA CABRERA, CNN HOST: Hello, I'm Ana Cabrera in New York. You are live in the CNN NEWSROOM. And tonight, more than 1100 former Justice Department officials are calling on the Attorney General William Barr to resign after what has been an extraordinary week at the DOJ. One that included accusations of political interference as well as Barr going on TV to publicly rebuke the president.

Here's part of the statement signed by more than 1100 former officials. "Mr. Barr's actions," they write, "In doing the president's personal bidding unfortunately speak louder than his words. Those actions and the damage they have done to the Department of Justice's reputation for integrity and the rule of law require Mr. Barr to resign."

All of this comes after Barr seemed bow from public pressure from the president, reducing the sentencing recommendation for his longtime political adviser Roger Stone and ordering a re-examination of the case against another Trump ally, former National Security adviser, Michael Flynn.

Barr did go on TV and say no one bullies him to do anything but one thing that is clear, the president's message remains, go easy on my friends and get tougher on those he sees as his enemies.

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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: They treated Roger Stone very badly. They treated everybody very badly and if you look at the Mueller investigation, it was a scam and nothing happened with all the people that did it, that launched a scam. Where's Comey? Why -- where is Comey? What's happening to McCabe?

Roger Stone was treated horribly and so were many other people. Their lives were destroyed. In the meantime, Comey walks around making book deals. The people that launched the scam investigation and what they did is a disgrace. And hopefully it'll be treated fairly. Everything else will be treated fairly. (END VIDEO CLIP)

CABRERA: And there's something else from a president who is clearly emboldened since his impeachment trial. A tweet of a quote from an essay of Ralph Waldo Emerson. And he writes, "When you strike at the king, you must kill him."

Let's get to our White House Correspondent, Jeremy Diamond.

And Jeremy, the president is now back in the White House. You watched him land there a short time ago. Is he giving any hint as to how he feels about his attorney general today?

JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN WHITE HOUSE REPORTER: Well, Ana, it was just a few days ago that the Attorney General Bill Barr rebuked the president's use of social media, rebuked his tweets in particular about the Roger Stone case and about the Justice Department, saying that it was -- it's disruptive and making it impossible for him to do his job. So I asked the president tonight as he was returning to the White House, whether or not he was going to heed Bill Barr's advice.

The president walked into the White House, ignored that question, but what the White House is trying to say is that the president and Bill Barr, that their relationship is on solid footing. And we heard from the vice president's chief of staff, Marc Short, who was echoing that message earlier today, but he did say that he disagreed with what Bill Barr was saying about his job being impossible. Listen in.

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MARC SHORT, CHIEF OF STAFF TO VICE PRESIDENT PENCE: I don't think that it's impossible to do his job. In fact, I think that Attorney General Barr is doing a great job. He has a lot of confidence inside the White House. I think that the president's frustration is one that a lot of Americans have, which feels like the scales of justice are not balanced anymore. There has been a bias inside the Department of Justice that Attorney General Barr is trying to correct.

I think, as he has said, that the president has not called him directly to say, please do this. He has acted independently to initiate these reviews and I think he's doing a fantastic job with it.

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DIAMOND: "I think he's doing a fantastic job with it." Ultimately, that is the bottom line for the White House and for the president because regardless of whether or not the president instructed Bill Barr to intervene in this case involving Roger Stone, the president and White House got the result that they were looking for, which was the attorney general stepping in here to recommend a lighter sentence for the president's longtime political adviser Roger Stone -- Ana.

CABRERA: All right, Jeremy Diamond at the White House.

So how will this play in the 2020 contest? We know the next primary is just less than a week away. At least the primary contest. The caucuses in Nevada. They officially take place this coming Saturday, but early voting is underway right now. Nearly 12,000 Democrats showed up on the first day of early voting. Some waiting in incredibly long lines where the wait was more than three hours long in at least one precinct.

Not competing in Nevada, however, but waiting in the wings is Michael Bloomberg and his billions of dollars. Just today we've learned that he's already spent more than $400 million on ad buys alone.

Joining us now is Margaret Talev, politics and White House editor for Axios, and David Swerdlick, assistant editor at "The Washington Post."

We're still waiting to see how things play out in Nevada and then South Carolina. After that, of course, but come Super Tuesday when Bloomberg is finally on the ticket.

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Margaret, could this entire race change?

MARGARET TALEV, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, that's what we're all waiting to see and the former New York City mayor is betting a lot of money on the idea that he can have an impact by being in places where the other Democrats weren't competing, trying to break in at least 15 percent in individual congressional districts and states nobody else is playing at, maybe try to win them. And then those big stakes like California, and Texas, and North Carolina and Virginia have a real impact.

And so there's a lot of money riding on this. There's a lot of strategy riding on this. And we'll all be looking to see how all the Democrats handle this in this upcoming debate in Las Vegas. Later this week. Whether or not, although we expect he will be, whether or not Bloomberg is on that stage. Certainly, this will be a topic of discussion because the other Democrats need to figure out what to do about this.

CABRERA: Joe Biden was asked this morning about his road ahead and take a listen.

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CHUCK TODD, MSNBC HOST: South Carolina is it. Isn't it? I mean, you have to win that.

JOE BIDEN (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Well, I think I have to do really well in it. But --

TODD: Is there such a thing as doing well without winning?

BIDEN: Well, I think so. But look, it's -- look, right after that, within March of course we end up with going into all the sates which the polling data is now showing me doing incredibly well. Whether it's North Carolina or Georgia or Texas or any of these other places. So look, it's not an apt comparison, but Bill Clinton lost his first eight, 10, 12 primaries and caucuses before he won one. I don't plan on taking that long. But we're just getting to the meat

of getting to the number of delegates you need to be able to win this election. And I'm confident we're going to be in good shape.

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CABRERA: David, he is right on one hand. Bill Clinton, I think won one of the first 11 contests, but he was doing better in some of those earlier contests that what we've seen Joe Biden do so far. Does he have to do really well or does he actually have to win?

DAVID SWERDLICK, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Well, I think he does have to win South Carolina and if you look at the RealClearPolitics polling average right now, he is 6.5 points ahead of Senator Sanders in South Carolina.

But he's a little bit behind Senator Sanders in Nevada and if he comes in another sort of third, fourth, poor performance in Nevada, I think you'll see a little bit of his lead further slip in South Carolina and you don't want to limp into March 3rd Super Tuesday with a couple of losses and a close but not convincing win in South Carolina. Especially in those big states where you've got, as you said, Bloomberg playing on TV in places like California and Texas where you can't shake every hand and kiss every baby. You've got to win the air war and that's what Bloomberg is banking on.

CABRERA: And you need money in order to be --

SWERDLICK: Yes.

CABRERA: Also really stretch your wings. This morning, Pete Buttigieg was asked about the homophobic comments made about him by Rush Limbaugh this week. I'm not going to play the comments but I do want you to hear how Buttigieg responded.

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PETE BUTTIGIEG (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Well, I love my husband. I'm faithful to my husband. I'd say we usually just go for a hug, but I love him very much, and I'm not going to take lectures on family values from the likes of Rush Limbaugh.

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CABRERA: Margaret, when candidates are asked about uncomfortable issues, oftentimes, they try to appeal to both sides, but Buttigieg here is unapologetic and that is a powerful moment.

TALEV: But this is unchartered territory. I mean, we're talking about a fundamental question which is not just inside the Democratic Party, but the American electorate writ large. But for this moment inside the Democratic Party in southern states, in other key states, will voters embrace a candidate who's gay?

And so this question about public displays of affection on stage really get to much broader issue, which is do Americans -- is this a hang up for Democratic voters anymore or not? And I think we're going to see as we move out of Iowa and New Hampshire into some other states.

CABRERA: It's 2020, David. If Buttigieg goes on to be the nominee, would Republicans risk attacking Buttigieg's sexuality?

SWERDLICK: Well, a couple of things, Ana. First of all, I think the attack is meant to come from people like Rush Limbaugh. I don't think you'll hear President Trump make that attack himself because I think he's smart enough to snow that we as a society have moved at least enough forward that it's at least unseemly and frankly bigoted for the president of the United States to make that kind of comment but he knows that it might work with some voters so he'll be happy to quietly accept that help from people like Limbaugh.

If I could just go back to Buttigieg for a second, Ana, I will just say I thought that answer that he gave Dana this morning was what you would expect a solid answer from a politician. He didn't want to make it about himself so he kind of answered it, stood up and then kind of moved on.

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But this is an issue where look, we need to have a broader discussion and I don't know if he's the one or some other candidate or if it's going to come in the debate this week, if two men are married and one of them is running for president, then there's nothing wrong with them kissing on stage. That's what candidates do and if we can't get past that, that's just one more problem we've got in an election where we've got a lot of problems.

CABRERA: Let's talk about Senator Elizabeth Warren and her campaign. She desperately needs to perform well in Nevada this week and she has been campaigning so hard she's lost her voice. Listen.

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SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN (D-MA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The bad news is after more than 100,000 selfies, I picked up somebody's cold. The good news is, nevertheless, she persists. I'm on this stage tonight because I am a fighter.

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CABRERA: Margaret, talk about terrible timing considering the next debate is just three days away and this next contest is really critical to her campaign.

TALEV: Yes. I mean it absolutely is. She's come out of the first two contests with a lot of the progressive support consolidating behind Bernie Sanders instead of Elizabeth Warren and she needs to take this opportunity to get it back and to be able to be viable from a fundraiser perspective but look, losing your voice in the middle of winter when you're not campaigning and not sleeping enough and on a lot of airlines is no shock. And I think this is just a reminder like these people are human beings

like in the 24-hour news cycle where they're doing a bazillion rallies a day, it's easy to say, just keep going, go harder, like we're all people. These are people and you lose your voice when you don't -- when you're out on the stump too much and you're not taking care of yourself so she's got a couple of days to, you know, take honey and cough drops and tea and try to get her game back on.

CABRERA: Hopefully recharge and of course we wish her well and all the best help.

And David, there's an ideological split right now, right, between the progressives and moderates within the Democratic Party. It seems like Bernie Sanders has garnered the support of progressives and Buttigieg did come out on top among moderates in the first two states.

SWERDLICK: Right.

CABRERA: Is there a lane for Warren or for somebody like Senator Klobuchar right now?

SWERDLICK: Yes, so, Ana, the way I kind of have looked at this is that there are these two main lanes in the Democratic Party but maybe within each lane, there's two lanes, right, in the progressive lane there is the Sanders half a lane, and the Warren half a lane, and then in the moderate lane, there's the Buttigieg lane, and then the really moderate lane, like the Senator Klobuchar lane.

I think the problem for Senator Warren is that she's had a hard time being seen as different enough from Senator Sanders to attract some people who for whom Senator Sanders is too far left, but she's had a tough time also distinguishing herself from the moderates to say, look, I'm not a moderate. I'm a progressive. I'm just not a Democratic socialist. Her campaign has struggled with that since the October debate and I think she's got a couple more weeks where she's really got to turn this around.

CABRERA: David Swerdlick and Margaret Talev, thank you both. It's good to have you here.

SWERDLICK: Thanks, Ana.

TALEV: Thanks, Ana.

CABRERA: Be sure to join CNN for a series of town halls this week with the top 2020 Democratic candidates. Live from Las Vegas Tuesday and Thursday night at 8:00 Eastern only on CNN. Just ahead of the Nevada caucuses.

Before his name became synonymous with basketball greatness, this was 19-year-old Kobe Bryant going up against Michael Jordan in Bryant's first appearance at an NBA All-Star game. That was in 1998. Bryant was the youngest All-Star player ever. In that game, he racked up 18 points and six rebounds. It was the first of 18 All-Star selections. Second only to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Bryant was named game MVP, a record four times, and tonight, at the

NBA All-Star game in Chicago, the NBA and athletes wills pay tribute to the man who inspired so many who was killed along with his 13-year- old daughter Gianna and seven others in a helicopter crash last month.

With us now is CNN's Sports Anchor, Andy Scholes. He's in Chicago for the big game tonight.

Andy, I can only imagine how emotional this is going to be for those who were there, who participate and who are in the stands. What is the energy like there right now?

ANDY SCHOLES, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT: Well, I'll tell you what, Ana, seeing all the fans filing into the stadium and all the ones that were already inside, I've seen so many Kobe Bryant jerseys in the house. I certainly imagine there's going to be Kobe chants throughout the night as they just continue to pay tribute to his life and legacy, and this All-Star game has a completely new format. Unlike any All-Star game we've ever seen and it's in order to honor Kobe Bryant.

The first three quarters are going to be mini games within themselves. They're going to reset the score each time with the teams competing to raise money for Chicago-based community organizations. Then the fourth quarter is going to be completely untimed with the teams trying to reach a target score in order to win the game.

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Now how they determine that target score, they're going the take the cumulative score from each of the first three quarters, add them together and then they're going to add Kobe's jersey, number 24, to the team with the highest score. So, for example, if one team is winning 195 after three quarters, they add 24 to 100 then each team is trying to get to 124 in order to win the game.

That fourth quarter, like I said, untimed and it's going to be completely commercial free on our sister network, TNT, and the players all going to be honoring Kobe and his daughter Gigi with what they wear as well. Team Giannis all wearing Kobe's number 24 for the game. Team LeBron all wearing Gigi's basketball number two. And all those jerseys have a memorial patch on them with nine stars to remember those who lost their lives in the helicopter crash.

The jerseys also have a black band on them to pay tribute to late NBA commissioner David Stern. Certainly going to be an emotional night here, Ana. Jennifer Hudson going to start things off with performing a musical tribute before the players are announced. And like I said, so many people here wearing Kobe memorabilia, wearing Kobe jerseys. It's all about remembering Kobe here tonight in Chicago.

CABRERA: And it sounds really, really meaningful. Andy Scholes, thank you.

Coming up, hundreds of Americans quarantined for two weeks abroad a cruise ship because of coronavirus are ready to head home, but not all the passengers are happy with the evacuation plan. Hear why, next. (COMMERCIAL BREAK)

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CABRERA: More than 300 Americans are headed back to the U.S. from Japan right now after being stranded aboard a cruise ship during the coronavirus outbreak. The U.S. State Department arranged today's evacuation aboard two chartered 747s, but anyone who took the offer had to agree to be quarantined for two more weeks once they're back in the U.S. They will stay at military bases in California and Texas.

And passengers on the Diamond Princess had already been quarantined on board since February 3rd when the cases were initially detected on the ship. Meantime, the global death toll from the novel coronavirus has jumped to 1,770. China's Hubei Province, the epicenter of the outbreak, reported 100 additional deaths just today.

I want to go live to CNN's Matt Rivers who watched those jets leave Tokyo a short time ago with American evacuees.

Matt, what's next for the Americans who had to stay behind in Japan because they are or their loved ones have the virus?

MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Right, Ana. Yes, there's basically two kinds of people, two kinds of Americans that had to stay behind here in Japan. Of course the first group being the people who tested positive for this virus and are already off the ship being treated in local hospitals. The other group of people will be the people that chose for different reasons to not take this voluntary flight that the U.S. Department of State offered.

They have to remain on the ship. They are still under quarantine as regulated by the Japanese government. Basically through at least February 19th if not a few days after that. But say they don't test positive for the virus before they get off that ship, that's fine. They're free to go around Japan, but the U.S. government has said that people who did not get on that evacuation flight would not be allowed back in the United States for at least 14 days from now if not longer than that.

They'll come to that determination over the next days and weeks, and that's led to a very difficult decision for some people who have loved ones here who are sick. So take the couple, Kent and Rebecca Frazier. Rebecca, pretty early in the quarantine process, tested positive for the virus. She's in a local hospital being treated. Ken is still on board a ship. And he said how could I get on a plane and go back to the United States when my wife is in the hospital?

But even if she gets out of the hospital in the next three, four, five days, they can't go back to the United States because of this situation that's been set up by the U.S. government. So it's just another example of how this virus, this quarantine, the subsequent quarantine of the United States, it has upended the lives of more than 400 Americans who can't get back to their businesses, their families, their jobs. You know, it was a dream vacation for many, many people, and whether

they're on a flight right now back to the United States set to do two weeks quarantine there or whether they're stuck here receiving treatment or trying to be with a loved one, Ana, there's just really no good way to look at this for these people other than the fact that, you know, no one has lost their lives yet aboard this cruise ship.

CABRERA: And for those, Matt, who are still on the cruise ship, what is their life like right now?

RIVERS: I mean, it's been terrible for them, frankly. I mean, they're in what one person describe to me as a floating prison. They get out of their rooms for about an hour or two each day. They do have some TV inside. But they're bored out of their minds. They're restless, they're tired, they're exhausted and they just want to get home, and yet they won't be able to. Everyone has to be tested by the Japanese government before they're allowed off that ship and it takes three days for those test results to come back.

And so even though the quarantine was supposed to end on the 19th, people could easily remain on that ship -- you know, through maybe the 19th, 20th, 21st. Just a heck of an ordeal -- Ana.

CABRERA: Wow. Matt Rivers, thank you for that update from Tokyo.

Fear of the coronavirus is costing businesses around the world. In China, the epicenter of the outbreak, grocery stores have empty shelves and food prices have gone up but even Chinese businesses in London, even in New York, are seeing a drop in customers.

CNN's Robyn Curnow reports.

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ROBYN CURNOW, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A temperature check at the entrance of a Wuhan market. For many in this quarantined city, there's no escape from the coronavirus. Even in the most basic daily activities.

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Here in this empty store, shoppers wear masks, workers wear protective suits and some shelves are bare.

SONG, WUHAN RESIDENT (through translator): You see what it's like in the supermarket. People are not picky. We grab everything we can. As long as we have enough to eat and basic food supplies are secured.

CURNOW: Not many customers have dared to venture out, but those who do find it to be a costly excursion.

SONG (through translator): I feel though the prices are a bit more expensive than usual. Vegetables aren't supposed to be this expensive. I think the prices of daily consumables has gone up a bit.

CURNOW: Businesses in Wuhan and those connected to Chinese culture are paying the price of fear even as far away as Chinatown in London.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A lot of people stopping in Chinatown to eat because they reckon that the Chinatown may be an easy place to catch virus, which I don't believe is correct.

CURNOW: Some store owners say that business is noticeably down. And believe it's due to fears of the coronavirus. Chinese residents say there's a growing stigma against them.

REBECCA LYU, CHINESE STUDENT LIVING IN LONDON: We are afraid that we are not able to wear face mask in London because people will look at us, but we are still afraid of being infected.

CURNOW: There are similar scenes in New York's Chinatown that are filled with empty chairs and lunch special sales. Officials say business here is down by 40 percent. Customers are staying away, afraid of anything that could be tied to the coronavirus. Another casualty of the virus that's spreading fear as well as sickness around the world.

Robyn Curnow, CNN.

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CABRERA: Coming up, he is popping up all over Instagram and on TV. But with new momentum for a former New York City mayor, Michael Bloomberg, comes new criticism from his fellow candidates.

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NINA TURNER, NATIONAL CO-CHAIR, SANDERS PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN: We're not going to do yes we can and then all of a sudden have all these Democrats that's bandying President Obama's image on their commercials. Hello, somebody.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch they are supporting stop and frisk. Hello, somebody.

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CABRERA: That was Sanders Campaign co-chair Nina Turner with a not so subtle attack on Michael Bloomberg at a campaign rally in North Carolina.

The former New York City mayor is facing tough criticism on his record in New York City on issues important to minority communities.

CNN's Kyung Lah reports.

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KYUNG LAH, CNN SENIOR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over): As Mike Bloomberg rises in national polls, his past is drawing fresh scrutiny. The former New York City Mayor apologized again Thursday for the controversial stop and frisk policy used by the NYPD during his time as mayor.

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MICHAEL BLOOMBERG (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: What I can do is learn from my mistakes.

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LAH (voice over): The city policy allowed police to stop and search anyone for weapons discriminately targeting people of color, a policy Bloomberg supported, as heard in recently resurfaced comments from 2015.

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BLOOMBERG: We put all the cops in minority neighborhoods. Yes, that's true. Why do we do it? Because that's where all the crime is.

And the way you should get the guns out of the kids' hands is to throw them up against a wall and frisk them.

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BLOOMBERG: I defended it looking back for too long because I didn't understand then the unintended pain it was causing to young black and brown families and their kids.

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LAH (voice over): His Democratic rivals say his words are just not enough.

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SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I think at the end of the day when people A, learn about Mr. Bloomberg's record of stop and frisk in New York City, I think that will change their minds.

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LAH (voice over): Older Bloomberg comments also roaring back. In 2008, he appeared to defend redlining, a discriminatory housing practice which denied loans and assistance to people in low income neighborhoods.

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BLOOMBERG: It probably all started back when there was a lot of pressure on banks to make loans to everyone.

(END VIDEO CLIP) LAH (voice over): Bloomberg seemed to suggest that ending redlining

led to the financial crisis.

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BLOOMBERG: And then Congress got involved and local elected officials as well and said, oh, that's not fair. These people should be able to get credit.

And once you started pushing in that direction, banks started making more and more loans where the credit of the person buying the house wasn't as good as you would like.

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LAH (voice over): His campaign put out a statement after those comments came to light saying, "Mike's saying that something bad -- the financial crisis -- followed something good, which is the fight against redlining he was part of as Mayor." His Democratic rivals pounced.

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SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN (D-MA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: That crisis would not have been averted if the banks had been able to be bigger racists. And anyone who thinks that should not be the leader of our party.

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LAH (voice over): Kyung Lah, CNN, Las Vegas.

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CABRERA: Coming up, how a viral video sparked a national debate over whether it's wrong to recline your seat on an airplane.

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CABRERA: That was the sound of a house and you could see it there in the background completely collapsing as it slid down a rain-soaked bluff and into the Tennessee River.

And take a look at the scene in Hardin County, Tennessee in the morning light. The house was empty when it collapsed. Thank goodness.

Heavy rainfall and fear mudslides and landslides prompted evacuations in the area. Emergency responders say they are still worried about what's to come.

Police in Portland, Oregon are searching for suspects who broke into a tow yard, stole a pickup truck and then ran over an employee while trying to flee the scene. And I have to warn you this video is difficult to watch.

Police say during the break in, one -- look at that -- one of the suspects, a woman got into the truck, rammed it into the gate hitting the employee in the process. Remarkably, as you can see, that employee gets up and actually goes on to try to stop the truck banging on the window.

The victim suffered multiple injuries, including a broken collarbone.

And frightening moments at London's Heathrow Airport. A British Airways jet was forced to abort its landing due to high winds caused by England's so-called storm of the century.

And in this footage, you can sort of see that plane tipping from side to side as it tries to land amid the fierce crosswind. The tires do eventually make contact with the runway, but then the plane bounces back into the air.

Official say the storm was packing winds of 60 miles per hour at the time.

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CABRERA: To air travel etiquette now and to borrow a line from Shakespeare, to recline or not to recline. That is the question. Well, a viral video has sparked a big debate. Here's Richard Quest.

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RICHARD QUEST, CNN BUSINESS ANCHOR (voice over): When Wendy Williams reclined her seat on an American Airlines flight, she had a little idea of the trouble that was in store.

She says she was flying back from a teacher's convention, when the man sitting behind her, asked if she would return her seat forward while he ate his meal. Williams said she did and that she reclined it again, only when he was finished eating.

But William says the man started punching her seat repeatedly as the video shows.

CNN is not able to reach the man in the viral video for comment.

To recline or not to recline, it's not the first time the issue has been brought up in the close quarters of economy.

In 2014, a United Airlines Flight was forced to divert when two passengers got into an altercation over a gadget called the knee defender.

The tool was invented by Ira Goldman in 2003. The idea is to block the seat in front of you from reclining. Goldman told me it's all about passenger consent.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) IRA GOLDMAN, INVENTOR, KNEE DEFENDER: If I buy an economy ticket, and

it's this much space, that's the space I get. But I don't agree when I get on an airplane to say, sure, come and whack me on the knees.

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QUEST (voice over): And so the traveling world is once again roiled by the question of reclining seats in economy, and just what is the right thing to do?

As airlines cram in more seats to fit more passengers, they are going to have to reckon with the consequences of their design.

Richard Quest, CNN, New York.

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CABRERA: The world has watched their every move and now, CNN is taking you behind the palace walls for an inside look at the British Royal family.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Twenty seven million people watched this ceremony.

PRINCE HARRY, DUKE OF SUSSEX: I know that I am in love with this girl and I hope that she is in love with me.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The public totally in love with this ideal couple. And yet the public can't see everything.

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CABRERA: They have survived war and scandal, the death of a princess, a shocking abdication. Tonight, a brand new CNN original series is taking you inside the world's most famous Royal Family and here's a sneak peek at "The Windsors."

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: King Edward has been on the throne for just nine months. Until now, he has managed to keep his two-year affair with Wallis secret from the British public.

ANNE SEBBA, BIOGRAPHER: The world knows all about this relationship, but in Britain, they're still in the dark.

TED POWELL, BIOGRAPHER: Expatriates in America are writing home to Britain saying what is happening?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Finally, Edward has a meeting with the Prime Minister Baldwin

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Edward declares his hand. He says that he is determined to marry Wallis.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is a bombshell.

NYM MAYHALL, HISTORIAN: The Prime Minister tells him that he has three options. He can give up his relationship with Mrs. Simpson. He can marry Mrs. Simpson against the expressed wishes of his ministers who will then resign -- or he can abdicate.

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CABRERA: Joining us now is CNN Royal Commentator, Victoria Arbiter. You know all things Royal, Victoria. We've had so many conversations in recent weeks and months, especially with all the drama around Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, and I mean, that seems like small potatoes compared to so much that's come before.

VICTORIA ARBITER, CNN ROYAL COMMENTATOR: It really does. And that's what is so exciting about this series for me tonight. It goes right back to the abdication crisis when Edward VIII was forced to step down, very different with Prince Harry who chose to step down.

And really, just over the course of six episodes, leads people through the history of this Royal Family, everything that they've survived, everything that -- they've beaten the odds in order to continue.

And I think really, in doing so, it shows you that well, what's happened with Harry and Meghan is, of course very disappointing and the Queen will be so sad to not have them as serving members of the Royal Family anymore.

It is a blip in this thousand-year history. And so I think really what is very exciting about this is we can see what's happened before, what's informing the decisions of today and which elements of history are being repeated.

CABRERA: Do you think it's fair to draw parallels about what happened -- between what happened with King Edward VIII and his abdication when he goes on to marry his love, Wallis, who is a twice divorced socialite, and what we're seeing happening with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's decision to also step back from their Royal duties?

ARBITER: Comparisons are always going to be inevitable. But I think really the key differences here is first of all, Meghan was allowed to marry Prince Harry. At the time, Edward VIII was looking to marry Wallis Simpson, the Church didn't allow remarriage after divorce.

Of course, Wallis had been divorced twice, but more importantly, I think with Edward VIII, he was forced to step down. It was deemed not constitutionally possible for him to serve on the throne while married to a divorcee.

Harry and Meghan chose to step back. And I think the way the Queen handled all of that was really impeccable and she did so because she is so informed with what's happened throughout her reign.

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ARBITER: She's the longest serving monarch in British history. Last week, she marked the 68th anniversary of her accession to the throne and really, she is just going to leave Charles I think the most impressive blueprint of any other monarch in history.

CABRERA: But how do you think the public received those two different scenarios which we just discussed with you know, King Edward VIII -- I almost said King Henry VIII. King Edward VII -- I've got to keep my Royals in order in my head -- and Prince Harry and again, those two situations that aren't really fair to draw comparisons, like as you mentioned that the circumstances were very different but do the public see it in the same light?

ARBITER: I think a lot of the people that are supporting Harry and Meghan don't know too much about Wallis and Edward. They've come to the royal family quite late because they were so excited about everything that Meghan represented marrying into the Royal Family as the first biracial member of the Royal Family, the first American to marry into the Royal Family. She was exciting on so many levels.

So I think they sort of see the comparison, but they don't know too much of the history, which is why this series is so exciting, particularly at this point in time.

I think that Harry and Meghan choosing to leave the Royal Family is disappointing for those same reasons. So of course, we're excited to see what they're going to do next and how they plan to live this financially independent life, what charitable organizations they're going to support.

All of that is to come because of course they're working members until the spring, but of course, it's disappointing to no longer have them as part of the fold.

CABRERA: What's the biggest thing people will be surprised by watching the show, do you think?

ARBITER: I think for me, anyway, and of course, this is something that I've been around pretty much my entire life. I think what I love about it is that it really humanizes the Royals. Their lives are shrouded in secrecy, so it's very easy to cast them as two dimensional figures devoid of any feeling.

But of course Charles and Camilla have long been vilified because of how their relationship came about and I'm not saying adultery is ever okay, but what comes across in this series is how heartbreaking their romance was. How heartbreaking the choices were that Prince Charles made because he misunderstood direction from his father.

And you see how his childhood played into the choices he made in later life. So I think people will come away thinking probably a little bit more highly of Charles and Camilla than perhaps they've ever done in the past. CABRERA: Put these people on a different light. Thank you very much,

Victoria Arbiter.

ARBITER: Yes. Thank you.

CABRERA: And we hope you will tune in tonight. The all-new original series, "The Windsors" premieres at 10, right here on CNN.

We're back right after this.

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CABRERA: Finally, this hour, Trump tweets a clip from Curb Your Enthusiasm, but misses the punch line. Here's Jeanne Moos.

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JEANNE MOOS, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Who knew that a Make America Great Again hat could be a protective device? Larry David knew.

In a scene tweeted out by President Trump, Larry cuts off a biker --

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What the [bleep] are you doing? What the [bleep] are you doing?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh god.

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MOOS (voice over): Amid a torrent of profanity, Larry reaches for a MAGA hat.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You little [bleep].

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm sorry, I didn't see you.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just be more careful next time, okay.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Will do.

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MOOS (voice over): Turning the biker into a pussycat. The fact that President Trump tweeted this prompted fans to say, "So refreshing to have a leader with a grand sense of humor," while critics lashed out, "It's a joke on you idiot. It's not in favor of you."

MOOSE (on camera): About five minutes after that scene came one President Trump didn't tweet, one that wasn't a feather in his cap. MOOS (voice over): The hat has come in handy --

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's a great people repellant.

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MOOS (voice over): Larry uses it.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey, Phil. Good to see you.

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MOOS (voice over): To cut short a lunch he didn't want to have in the first place. This is LA where a rarely sighted MAGA half might be a magnet for dirty looks.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Phil.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, no. We will -- something.

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MOOS (voice over): At a sushi bar, it keeps the empty seats beside him unoccupied.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You know what actually? I think we'd prefer to sit at a table, please.

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MOOS: In a real, interview Larry David was asked if he's worried about alienating MAGA hat wearing fans --

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LARRY DAVID, ACTOR: Go and alienate. You have my blessing. Though I could give a [bleep].

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MOOS (voice over): After all, this is a guy who's been playing Bernie Sanders on SNL for years.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, Hillary, I'll miss that lack of charm.

(END VIDEO CLIP) MOOS (voice over): No one would expect him to be charming to

President Trump --

MOOS (on camera): When it comes to controversy, scenes like this never gets old hat.

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DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: It is the hottest thing out there.

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MOOS (voice over): Oh, it's hot all right.

Jeanne Moos --

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sad. Very sad.

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MOOS (voice over): CNN --

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You little [bleep].

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MOOS (voice over): New York.

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CABRERA: You are live in the CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Ana Cabrera in New York. An enormous outcry rising out of Washington, D.C. tonight. A growing chorus of people demanding U.S. Attorney General William Barr step down.

That call coming from more than 1,100 former officials of the Justice Department, career prosecutors, political appointees, people who worked in both Democratic and Republican ad ministrations.

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