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Strauss-Kahn Granted Bail But Still In Jail; Gas Prices Falling; Trump's School Under Investigation; Jack Kevorkian In Hospital; Schwarzenegger's Comeback On Hold; Surviving The Floods; Surviving the Floods; Obama and Netanyahu Meet
Aired May 20, 2011 - 13:00 ET
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RANDI KAYE, CNN ANCHOR: You as well, Suzanne. Thank you.
We begin with a new national terror alert. The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are warning police across the U.S. right now that al Qaeda has a continuing interest to attack our oil and natural gas resources.
So, let's go straight to Chris Lawrence who joins me now live from the Pentagon with the very latest.
Chris, what was Al Qaeda targeting specifically?
CHRIS LAWRENCE, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Specifically, Randi, they're looking at oil and natural gas installations. And this comes from initially getting some Intelligence last year that they were looking at possibly oil tankers and other commercial oil infrastructure here in the United States.
KAYE: And what do officials mean by this so-called continuing interest?
LAWRENCE: What that means is they didn't get anything here that necessarily pointed to something specific. What they found was, last year, they got some intelligence that Al Qaeda was targeting these oil and natural gas installations in the United States. And what they're saying is some of the information that they just got shows that Al Qaeda still has a continuing interest right now in going after some of those targets.
KAYE: Where is this intel coming from?
LAWRENCE: It's coming from that treasure trove of information that those SEAL teams hauled out of Osama Bin Laden's compound. We don't know if it specifically came from Osama Bin Laden's journal, but we do know it did come from the effects that were found in his compound.
KAYE: So, whenever we hear a warning like this, Chris, you wonder, well, is there a specific time or a date where this attack might be possible? Do you know anything about that?
LAWRENCE: Yes, that would be what they would call actionable Intelligence. In other words, they found out that so and so may be plotting an attack on this date against this installation. That's not what they have here. This is a little more general and that's one of the reasons the department of homeland security and the FBI did not put out a full terror alert.
What this warning does is really get the police departments all across the United States to just take another step and remember, you know, the random screenings, the procedures for reporting something suspicious, to brief their personnel, to keep them vigilant because they do believe that Al Qaeda is still interested in attacking some of these oil and natural gas installations.
KAYE: And any idea, Chris, how long a plot like this might have been in the works?
LAWRENCE: Well, we know that they've had some intelligence on this from last year. So, it looks as if Al Qaeda has the interest by Al Qaeda and getting to some of these installations has not abated.
KAYE: All right, Chris Lawrence with the very latest on this latest terror alert for us at the Pentagon. Chris, thank you.
Well, it will soon be lunch time at the White House. A working lunch for President Obama and his guest, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and they've got a lot to chew on, beginning with the president's sweeping maybe it's the address barely 24 hours ago and one line in that address in particular, quoting Mr. Obama here, "the borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states." That's not a new idea, but no president has ever declared it U.S. policy until now.
The swaps envisioned could affect the west bank, home to 300,000 Jewish settlers, and East Jerusalem, which Israel claims as part of its eternal capital, of course. Palestinians claim Jerusalem as their capital, too.
So, I want to take you now over to the maps. If you come over here with me, let's take a look at this. Here you see Israel right here on the map, OK? Well, before the six-day war of June, 1967, Israel was less than 10 miles across at its narrowest point. The west bank was controlled by Jordan and Gaza by Egypt.
And now after the war, if you take a look, Israel controlled the west bank, east Jerusalem, Gaza, the Sinai Peninsula, and of course, the Golan Heights right there, which it captured from Syria.
It gave back the Sinai in the early '80s and pulled out of Gaza in 2005, but everything else has been in dispute ever since. Netanyahu didn't wait until he got to Washington to reject the president's proposal, which I should note, was paired with a demand that Palestinians guarantee Israeli security. Throwing its support for the president's approach is the so-called Mideast Quartet made up of the U.S., U.N., E.U. and Russia.
We'll dig into this further in our "Stream Team" next hour. And we expect to hear from the president and prime minister themselves sometime in the next few months.
It has been almost a day since the former head of the international monetary fund was granted bail in a New York courtroom. But so far as we know, Dominique Strauss-Kahn is still on Rikers Island.
Now, the issue isn't the court which set bail at $1 million cash, plus a $5 million bond, plus home confinement with an armed guard and electronic monitoring, the issue reportedly is finding a home that Strauss-Kahn can be confined to. As I'm sure you're aware, the fallen superstar of global finance is charged with sexually assaulting a Manhattan hotel maid, that was last Saturday.
So, I want to turn now to CNN's Senior Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin.
Jeffrey, let's start with the bail conditions. I'm guessing a suspect who couldn't afford those terms would stay right there in jail, stay put until his trial.
JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN SENIOR LEGAL ANALYST: You bet. That's why it's good to have money in America. If you're arrested, it's better. If you're not arrested, it is better. I mean this is a real difference in the legal system between those who can afford this kind of bail arrangement and those who can't. The goal of bail is to make sure people show up for trial, it is not to punish them for a crime they have not been convicted of.
This is a situation where someone who is wealthy can create circumstances that will allow him to show up for trial, but someone who didn't have this kind of money just wouldn't have this option.
KAYE: Yes, and as far as the reports that Strauss-Kahn is having trouble finding a temporary New York address where he can be monitored, my question is, can he legally be turned away from renting an apartment if they don't want him there?
TOOBIN: They probably could legally keep him away. This is such an unusual set of circumstances. And remember, this is going to be a somewhat bizarre setting. I mean, it's not unprecedented in New York city, but it is certainly very, very unusual.
First of all, there's going to be tons of press attention to wherever he is living. Then there's going to be 24-hour guard. There will be photographic equipment installed. There will be the ankle bracelet and the GPS responder installed. All of that is unusual, to say the least, for a New York city apartment and there are certainly some apartment buildings that will say we don't want him.
KAYE: And you don't expect they'll let him leave Rikers until he has an address that he can give them, correct?
TOOBIN: Oh, absolutely. He's not going to just -- you know, let him take a cab to wherever he winds up. No, he's not going to be -- he's not going to be on Craigslist looking around - looking for an apartment. KAYE: So, what's next after he gets out of Rikers, if that does happen?
TOOBIN: Well, then he's going to settle into this apartment, and it's certainly going to be a complicated set of initial circumstances, what with the guard and the electronic monitoring. But then he and his lawyers are going to have to start preparing for trial and that is going to be a big, big task.
There's a lot of evidence that has not been accumulated yet. All the scientific tests, DNA tests, hair and fiber tests, video, surveillance cameras, the records of the comings and goings from that hotel room, all of that has to be assembled. Both the defense and the prosecution have to have the opportunity to test that. It's going to take months to get this case ready for trial.
KAYE: Well, I'm sure you'll keep an eye on it and we will as well. Jeffrey Toobin, thank you, appreciate it. Have a nice weekend.
TOOBIN: OK.
KAYE: A little good news for your wallet today, gas prices are falling. You may have noticed the slight drop earlier this week. Well, today AAA reports the national average for a gallon of regular gasoline dropped to $3.89, that's about 10 cents less than a week ago. A nice break after a dizzying run-up for sure, but you are still paying about $1 more for a gallon than you were one year ago.
A for-profit university founded by Donald Trump which charges up to $35,000 a course is said to be under investigation by the New York state attorney general. Sources close to the attorney general tell news organizations that students filed at least a dozen complaints accusing Trump's unaccredited school of deceptive and illegal business practices. The attorney general subpoena is just the latest problem for the company that was known until last year as Trump University.
Jack Kevorkian known for helping terminally ill patients commit suicide is in the hospital with pneumonia and kidney problems. His lawyer says the 82-year-old has struggled with kidney problems for years and was hospitalized in Detroit earlier this month for similar problems. Kevorkian has been called Dr. Death, made national headlines as an advocate of physician-assisted suicide. He was convicted on second-degree murder charges back in 1999 but was paroled four years ago.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is putting his Hollywood comeback on the back burner until, quote, "further notice." Schwarzenegger's lawyer says California's former governor is focusing on personal matters. Production has stopped for the "Governator," the children's comic book and TV show based on Schwarzenegger's life and all his plans for new films are now officially suspended. The announcement follows shocking details that Schwarzenegger fathered a son with a former housekeeper around kept it secret for more than a decade.
Today's "Sound Effect" is proof that sounds do have effects. It didn't take long for the celebrated Cannes Film Festival to declare one film maker Lars Von Trier a persona non grata. After these remarks at a news conference on Wednesday, and check out the reactions of Kirsten Dunst wishing she were anywhere else in the world but there.
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LARS VON TRIER, FILMMAKER: What can I say? I understand Hitler. But I think he did some wrong things, yes, absolutely, but I can see him sitting in his bunker in the end.
KIRSTEN DUNST, ACTRESS: Oh, my God, this is terrible.
TRIER: There will come a point at the end of this -- there will come a -- no, I'm just saying that -- I think I understand the man. He's not what you would call a good guy, but, yes, I understand much about him and I sympathize with him a little bit.
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KAYE: Yes, can you say uncomfortable? Well, if you didn't catch what Dunst was whispering there, she said, oh, my God, this is terrible. Well, later he reached that same conclusion, so he issued an apology denying that he's anti-Semitic, racially prejudice or a Nazi. But Cannes canned him anyway and a distribution company tore up its contract to handle his latest film "Melancholia."
Well, no man is an island unto himself, unless you are the one waiting out the flood on a homemade island in Mississippi. Wait until you see this. We are taking you there, next.
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KAYE: Well, what a difference a few weeks and a few feet of water can make. Check out these satellite image from NASA. They show the Mississippi River as it travels from Missouri south through Kentucky and Tennessee. You can see over about three weeks, what was once dry land is now awash with floodwaters. Farmland and entire neighborhoods are now under water.
But not everyone in the flood zones lost their homes. Look at this, some homeowners in Yazoo County, Mississippi decided to build their own be levees around their homes, talk about an island of one.
And one of the families that took matters into their own hands hired a crew and spent three weeks building their own homemade levee around their house just before the flooding hit Mississippi. And that's where CNN's Martin Savidge is right now, in this home you see right here on the larger island in Yazoo County, Mississippi.
Martin, I have to ask, how did you get there and how is the family holding up on their own make shift island?
MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, we got here by boat, which is the only way you're going to visit the Hart (ph) family these days. They are an island unto themselves. And I have to say, I think it's the first time I've ever gotten into a boat in the middle of a corn field because that's actually where -- the closest approach you can make.
And it's a beautiful day out here on the lake. If only this weren't a lake. I mean (INAUDIBLE) what normally should be about a thousand acres of cotton that's planted. And as you can see, there shouldn't be water within sight anywhere. But we are (INAUDIBLE) completely surrounded by what I've now dubbed (INAUDIBLE) high it was going to be. They've lived here a long time. They weren't going to be driven out. You can see the (INAUDIBLE) now protecting their son's house.
KAYE: All right, Marin, we're having some trouble hearing you. We're going to try and fix that audio difficulty. I know you're on a lake, which used to be a corn field, so we will try and get you back as soon as we can.
In the meantime, some bad news for oyster lovers. The Mississippi oyster business is taking a big hit due to floods. According to the "Biloxi Sun Herald," all the fresh water heading down the Mississippi River will cause oysters to die. And the paper says it will take about two years to get the oyster population back on track.
Out of the financial crisis the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was born. But will it lead to any real change? Will it help you? We ask one of the group's architects next. So don't go anywhere.
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KAYE: Owning a home has always been a part of the American dream. But in recent years, that dream has turned into a nightmare. Not only for millions of homeowners stuck with toxic mortgages, but also the country. Out of the crisis, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was born. Elizabeth Warren was brought in by the Obama administration to get the consumer watchdog group off the ground. And earlier today, Ali Velshi asked her just how much authority this bureau has.
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ELIZABETH WARREN, CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU: It has, in my view, enough authority to get the main job done. That is to be able to work on things like this to make prices clear and to make it easy to compare products.
But it works under real constrictions. When Congress built this thing a year ago, they put a lot of constraints on this agency. Constraints that are not there on other banking regulators. Two big ones, we have a real constraint on our budget. Other banking regulators set their own budgets. Ours is capped. But importantly, it is kept out of the political process. There are politicians now who want to put it in the political process so that the lobbyists will have a real influence over the activities that we take.
The other thing we have that I think there's nothing like it anywhere in government is that the other banking regulators can take a look at our rules and say, well, yes, it may help consumers, but we think it might not work out for financial institutions or be hard on the economy and, therefore, we're going to veto your rules. Nobody else does that. And I've got to tell you, I don't think we'll do anything like that, but, boy, you kind of look over your shoulder when you know that your rules could be vetoed. So there are real constraints in place on this agency.
And, of course, the ultimate one, if Congress doesn't like what we do, they can pass a law and say, not that. They could do that any time. We have real constraints. But here's the good news. Come July 21st, we're going to take over from -- we're going to take over the authority from 19 different federal statutes that are out there right now in consumer protection. Right now they're administered by seven different agencies, none of whom has consumer protection as its central mission. We're going to take that over on July 21st, start to work with those statutes, and, once we get a director in place, we're going to be in a position to start rockin' and rollin'.
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KAYE: And don't miss the rest of the interview on "YOUR MONEY" with Ali Velshi Saturday at 1:00 p.m. Eastern, Sunday at 3:00. And be sure to join Christine Romans for "Your Bottom Line" each Saturday morning. That's at 9:30 Eastern.
Twenty-one minutes past the hour. Time to update our top stories.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn could leave Rikers Island jail any time now after being granted bail. The former head of the International Monetary Fund will have to remain at a Manhattan apartment and where an electronic monitor. Strauss-Kahn, who is charged with sexually assaulting a hotel housekeeper, posted $1 million cash and a $5 million bond. He denies any wrongdoing, we should point out. And we just got word that the IMF will give him a $250,000 separation payment and an annual pension following his resignation.
President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are meeting at the White House today. This comes a day after President Obama called for the borders of Israel and a future Palestinian state to be based on the 1967 lines. Border lines, that is. Netanyahu says that would leave Israel indefensible.
Astronauts aboard the space station completed their first spacewalk today. The walk was cut short because of a glitch in one of the space suits. A carbon dioxide sensor apparently failed. There was no evidence of any real danger, but officials say they had no way of monitoring carbon dioxide levels so they cut that space walk short.
And 30 years after the space shuttle program began, the final space shuttle flight is now slated to take place on July 8th. The space shuttle Atlantis will make the program's final voyage on a mission to deliver supplies and spare parts to the International Space Station. CNN will, of course, be covering that live.
Israel's ambassador said there were many things in President Obama's speech yesterday that his country appreciated and welcomed. But it was the few sentences about Israel returning to its 1967 borders that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu most certainly addressed with the president today. No doubt about that. Ed Henry joins us with all the details next. (COMMERCIAL BREAK)
KAYE: And now back to the flooding in Mississippi, where a family built their own homemade levee around their house. Martin Savidge is back with us live from Yazoo County, Mississippi.
Martin, tell us about this makeshift island.
SAVIDGE: Well, the levee that they've built stretches for about 2,200 feet around three acres, which is where the main house of the farm sits. And as I say, this family's been out here in Yazoo County for almost 200 years. So the floodwaters weren't going to chase them away.
Actually, let me bring in I.N. Hart. He's the landowner here. If you would, I.N., step this way.
What made you go to such great lengths to do this work?
I.N. HART, HOMEOWNER: Well, Martin, we -- like you say, this is my family home. I've been here all my life. My boyhood disappeared (ph) in this backyard. And (INAUDIBLE) out here and when we -- we heard that we were going to have water, they were reporting 52 (INAUDIBLE) in Vicksburg, we know that related to about 102 feet here. But when the -- when the water level started rising, well, when it got to 55'5", we knew we had to -- had to do something.
SAVIDGE: And it's worked. I mean so far it's holding.
HART: So far it's holding. I called a dear friend of mine who's done dirt work for me for years and he came out and we started designing the levee to hold 105 feet. Well, you know, and then it came out it was going to be 107. And when we started, we said we were going to put it as high as the levee in Sitarsha (ph) at 110 feet. And that's what we built this levee, to make it sea level.
SAVIDGE: Did people think you were crazy when you were doing this and there was no water in sight?
HART: You know, they didn't call me crazy, but they -- I was getting some strange looks, you know. We didn't build a dike. We did come out here and build a levee. And, you know, hopefully it will hold.
SAVIDGE: Well, we're going to hope right along with you. Congratulations so far. And as you've see in those pictures, we're on the bigger island. The littler island back there belongs to their son. But an amazing view. And when you stand out here and listen to this water lapping against the side of the levee, you would swear you're out in the lake in the middle of Mississippi and not a cotton field, but that's exactly where we are (INAUDIBLE) well.
Randi.
KAYE: Wow, that is an amazing sight. It looks like -- and he certainly said that the levee seems to be holding. Is there any sign of leakage, Martin, at all, or they look like they're in pretty good shape? SAVIDGE: No. You know, we've grown accustomed now to look for the telltale signs of weakness. And you not seeing any sort of, you know, water on the other side of the levee. You're not seeing sand boils, as they call them, which would be an indication of some kind of breakthrough. And they've got plastic down on the side of the levee here.
The only thing I think you're going to have to worry about is, there is a wind and there is a wave action coming in off of a cotton field, which you would never normally believe you could have. And that wave action, of course, it has -- it beats up against the side. But they've got the plastic down. And as we say, it is holding. They've tried to account for everything and it certainly looks like they have.
KAYE: Wow, an amazing effort to save their homes and I guess their livelihood as well.
Martin Savidge, thank you for bringing us that. Appreciate it.
Well, President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sat down to talks at the White House this morning. And as far as we know, they are still talking. Ed Henry joins me now from the White House.
Ed, we haven't seen the two leaders yet. Any idea what this could possibly mean?
ED HENRY, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Maybe there's some china being thrown, or maybe, on the other hand, they're coming together in some wonderful agreement. I mean, it could obviously go either way. But as you know, they went into this with pretty frosty relations. And it is fascinating that, you know, that is the atmosphere going in, and then here we are now waiting for well over an hour after they were supposed to come out and address the media.
And I stress -- you know, I was joking a little bit about throwing china around. On the other hand, this could mean that they're airing their differences and they're spending more time in this one-on-one meeting and not bringing the TV cameras in because they can more effectively work out their differences.
In fact, I spoke to two people close to the prime minister who told me that while, certainly, in public, they've had their battles, that behind closed doors, these two leaders actually get along a lot better than people think and they actually are pretty frequent phone buddies. They talk to each other. They try to work these things out. Again, it's not always perfect, it's not always completely warm, but that they actually speak a lot more frequently behind the scenes than we ever know.
The White House doesn't release the word that they had the phone call. The Israeli government doesn't. But behind the scenes, these two have an understanding, that there's still a wide gulf between where they both stand in terms of how to get this peace process going, but that it's not quite as nasty as a lot of people think. KAYE: Yes, and I'm just curious, I mean, obviously, this isn't the first time there's been talk of returning to the 1967 borders for Israel and the Palestinians.
HENRY: Right.
KAYE: But the president did go further by actually suggesting this should be U.S. policy now. Any insight as to why he did take it that far?
HENRY: Yes. Absolutely. I mean, when you talk to top White House aides, they say the strategy really was, Let's do something that will try and get the Palestinian side back to the negotiating table and they certainly want the '67 borders. Now, of course, the Israelis don't. That's why we're talking about this whole controversy.
But the fact of the matter is that the Israelis -- the reason why this has blown up to some extent is that the Israelis don't want to see some sort of a sop to the Palestinians right now because their view on the Israeli side is, Look, the Palestinian government recently cut a reconciliation deal with Hamas, which the Israeli government strongly feels is a terror group and has no business in any of this. And so until the Palestinian authority renounces its agreement with Hamas, the Israeli government is not going to sit down with the Palestinians.
So they believe it was a flawed strategy from the president's standpoint to try to do something the Israelis do not like to get the Palestinians to the table, when the Israelis are not going to that table until Hamas is rejected.
KAYE: All right. The inside scoop from our Ed Henry there at the White House. Ed, thank you.
Well, when you think of kindergarteners, you think crayons and stickers and alphabets,right, not heroin. But that's exactly what one kindergarten student brought to school and handed out. Yes, that is the case. That in 80 seconds.
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KAYE: Let's get caught up on some stories that you may have missed. The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI warning police across the country to be on alert for al Qaeda and what they say is their, quote, "continuing interest" to attack our oil and natural gas resources. But Homeland Security says they aren't aware of any specific or imminent attacks.
A U.S. official says that intelligence comes directly from those computers, drives and documents seized nearly three weeks ago from Osama bin Laden's compound.
We're just learning the former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who you see right there, who resigned this week will receive a quarter million dollar separation payment and an annual pension from the IMF. This news comes as we wait for Strauss-Kahn to be released from jail on Rikers Island. That is expected to happen any time today.
A judge granted him bail on charges he allegedly raped a hotel maid. The wealthy politician and banker forked over $1 million in cash, plus an additional $5 million bond. Strauss-Kahn will be confined to his New York apartment while wearing an electronic bracelet and under watch by armed guards and around-the-clock surveillance.
We're getting a better look into the mind of the accused gunman charged with shooting Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and killing six others. Under a court order, the Arizona Community College Jared Lee Loughner attended released e-mails that show there were clear signs of Loughner's increasingly disturbing behavior. One e-mail showed campus police were so worried, they contacted federal authorities to check whether Loughner owned a gun. The school alerted local police at least five times about Loughner last year before he was expelled finally last September.
Police say a kindergarten student in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, brought packets of heroin to his school and gave them out to his friends. A teacher found the heroin and alerted the principal, who found 18 bags of the drug -- 18 bags! -- in the boy's locker and his backpack. The 7-year-old boy called the bags "the magic ticket" because they were stamped with a sticker of a rabbit with a magic hat. Detectives do not know where the boy got the drugs, but police and child welfare are investigating that incident.
And take a look at this video out of South Carolina that was caught on a dashcam. You can see a man attack a police officer, but he then drives off with the officer's cruiser. The suspect is the one behind the wheel. Police arrested the man after he crashed into a truck and landed on a tree. The man was charged with several felonies, including armed robbery and assault. That is a bold move.
They are American war heroes who have lost a limb on the battlefield. Now they're on a different type of field, competing against each other. Their inspiring story is next.
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KAYE: Not even a lost limb is enough to keep some wounded warriors from competing in an Olympic-style competition. They're competing this week in the second annual Warrior Games. It's organized by the Defense Department and the U.S. Olympic Committee. Jason Carroll shows us how they're striving for excellence despite their injuries.
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JASON CARROLL, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): They marched on Colorado Springs, the drums of battle igniting the warrior within. But this time, these servicemen and women who once fought side by side will be competing against each other.
SPEC. DAVID OLIVER, U.S. ARMY: Being lazy has not been an option, and I like that. I've been pretty damn busy training for this thing.
CARROLL: Army Specialist David Oliver is ready. So is Marine Captain Jonathan Disbro.
CAPT. JONATHAN DISBRO, U.S. MARINE CORPS: I wasn't really an athlete before this, so this whole experience has been really an eye- opener for me.
CARROLL: The experience, the Warrior Games, an Olympic-style competition for wounded service members. David Oliver lost his right arm during a humvee accident in Afghanistan two years ago, Jonathan Disbro's right leg amputated below the knee in 2005 after an injury in Iraq.
JENNIFER DISBRO, CAPT. JONATHAN DISBRO'S WIFE: It was 17 surgeries where they tried to save his foot.
CARROLL (on camera): Seventeen?
JENNIFER DISBRO: In six months.
OLIVER: The challenges there (ph) presents itself to you, so you can either accept that limitation or take that challenge and overcome it.
CARROLL (voice-over): And there are more than 200 others here eager to show how they have overcome their challenges.
(on camera): Right now, Jonathan is getting ready to compete in his first event of the morning. It is the shotput. So they're going to strap him in to get into position.
(voice-over): Disbro gets the shotput gold and competes in four other events. David Oliver medals, too, fighting for the bronze in the 800 meter.
OLIVER: I was about to fall on my face, like, the last quarter of the thing. And I'm sitting there, thinking to myself, I got my family to think about, the Army to think about. I haven't pushed myself harder than that in my entire life.
CARROLL (on camera): Do you remember what happened when the idea first came across your table, you first heard about it, what your thoughts were?
LT. GEN. ERIC B. SCHOOMAKER, M.D., SURGEON GENERAL, U.S. ARMY: It was a blinding flash of the obvious. Even as they recovered from these wounds and injuries and illnesses, to be symbols of the highest and most capable of their type, and I think they must take -- I would take extraordinary pride in that.
DISBRO: Some of these guys that hadn't been involved in sports before, now they're involved in sports. They have expectations on them. And the Marine Corps team's doing pretty well, as you can see, a lot of medal winners here.
CARROLL: Including you. That's got to --
DISBRO: I'm just happy for the whole team. I'm proud of the whole team. And I -- you know, it's just been a great experience so far.
CARROLL (voice-over): Ultimately, that's what Warrior Games is all about, men and women continuing to push themselves, never giving up. Jason Carroll, CNN, Colorado Springs.
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KAYE: And coming up, a U.S. convoy brutally attacked in Pakistan and a new warning of revenge from the number two leader of Pakistan's Taliban. That is next.
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KAYE: The Pakistan Taliban is claiming responsibility for today's suicide attack on a U.S. consulate convoy. A Taliban spokesman says the attack was in revenge for the killing of Osama bin Laden. It happened in the northwestern city of Peshawar and is the latest in a surge of violence since bin Laden was killed earlier this month.
CNN's Stan Grant joins us from the Pakistani capital of Islamabad. Stan, what is the latest that you have that you can tell us about this attack?
STAN GRANT, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes, Randi, as you say, there have been a series of attacks since Osama bin Laden was killed, the Pakistani Taliban saying that they are out to avenge his death. And what they're trying to do is to show that they have the firepower to do it. Now, American and NATO targets are very high on their list, and that's why we saw this convoy of U.S. vehicles from the U.S. embassy that were targeted today.
We were speaking to police in the area. They say that a car loaded with explosives, about 50 kilograms of explosives, was parked by the side of the road. As the convoy went by, it was detonated by remote control. Now, only 11 people were injured in this attack. Of course, the fears were that it could have been much higher than that. We understand two of those were foreigners, but the injuries are only slight. One person, however, was killed. That was a civilian, a bystander, according to police there.
But as we say, this is part of the Taliban's strategy. They're going to go after more and more targets not just avenging Osama bin Laden's death but also in retaliation for the continual operations, the drone strikes and the operations by the Pakistan military against them -- Randi.
KAYE: And Stan, tell us about your interview. I know that you spoke with the number two commander of the Pakistan Taliban. What did he tell you?
GRANT: Yes, Wali Rehman. He is the number two commander. Of course, these people lead very secretive lives. They have to. They live along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, rarely seen. But in this case, he agreed to an interview, and through an intermediary, we were able to get hold of this tape and broadcast this interview.
What he's really saying here is that Osama bin Laden's mission is greater than the man himself. In fact, the mission is greater in death. While they mourn bin Laden's death, they're going to continue with this fight. Now, he's also threatening not just American and NATO targets but anyone, he says, who works for them, and that particularly is the Pakistan government.
This is what he had to say.
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WALI UR REHMAN, DEP. CMDR., TEHREEK-E TALIBAN PAKISTAN (through translator): In the Koran, God says to fight the infidels until they are finished, not just infidels but also their lackeys. We have been fighting infidels for 10 to 12 years unarmed. Now America, its allies and NATO confess that they cannot win the war in Afghanistan. If all these countries together cannot stand up to our guerrilla war in Afghanistan, I'm sure that the Pakistan, which is weak and lacking technology, cannot defeat us.
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GRANT: You know, Randi, these militant groups pre-dated Osama bin Laden's emergence in this region and al Qaeda, and they're going to continue the fight now. If anyone thought that bin Laden's death was going to be a circuit-breaker or bring an end to this, these messages say think again.
KAYE: All right. Our thanks to Stan Grant in Islamabad, Pakistan. Thank you.
"Fast Company" magazine names the top 100 creative people in business. Names on the list range from Oprah to the 29-year-old who, for good or bad, discovered Justin Bieber. But who's number one? And how have they changed the business world? Well, you can find out along with us right after the break.
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KAYE: Beautiful sunny day there in Atlanta. Well, this week, "Fast Company" magazine released its list of the 100 most creative names in business. The list includes some names you may never have heard of, along with celebrities like Oprah Winfrey. Rick Tetzeli, the executive editor of "Fast Company," joins us now to talk about this. All right, Rick, the question is, who is number one and why?
RICK TETZELI, EXECUTIVE EDITOR, "FAST COMPANY": Well, number one is the head of Al Jazeera, Wadah Khanfar. And he's number one because of his innovative use of social media and television, the way he's blended those together and the way that Al Jazeera has had a massive impact over the last year. KAYE: OK. I notice that so many names seem to come from tech and the Internet companies. I guess we should probably not be so surprised by that.
TETZELI: No. I think that's still where, you know, innovation is coming from mostly in America. But it's extending into all kinds of industries. We've got people from all different industries on this list.
KAYE: And I notice also that you have names like Tina Fey and Conan O'Brien, who many look at really as comedians. I mean, that is what they are. What have they done in the business world that impressed you so?
TETZELI: Well, I think, you know, Tina Fey is beginning to build a little business empire around herself. I was in Barnes & Noble the other day buying a book, and the clerk yelled out, Next Tina Fey book buyer, please, because that book is doing so well.
KAYE: Wow.
TETZELI: And then -- and Conan is really an enormous business success. I mean, the way -- when he was bounced from the "Tonight" show, people really wondered if he could come back, and he performed a remarkable turnaround using social media. It was a brilliant business strategy. And now he's, you know, on top of his game again.
KAYE: Well, I want to ask you about number 86. That is one of our own, CNN's David Bohrman. Now, his son, Harrison, is producing this segment, and he thinks -- I know he said we think, but I'm going to amend that. It must have been a typo in my script here. He thinks that he should be on the list. But let's get back to David Bohrman. What did he do that is so special? I mean, I have a whole list of things, but I'm curious what you think.
TETZELI: Right. Well, you know, now that I'm on CNN, I think he should have been much higher on the list.
KAYE: Absolutely.
TETZELI: You know, I think if you look at how people responded to things like the "magic wall" and that sort of thing, that's innovation in practice. There were a lot of skeptics at first, and now that stuff has come into being, you know, accepted everywhere, and you see other networks trying to do the same thing. And it's one of the wonderful things about innovation, and why we love covering it at "Fast Company," because it starts out one place and then it gets picked up in all different places.
KAYE: Yes. As you're talking, we're looking at the hologram which David also created, where Jessica Yellin hologrammed in on election night to speak with Wolf Blitzer --
TETZELI: Right.
KAYE: -- which is one of the great things that David brought to us, along with the magic wall and so many others. He's our great innovator here at CNN.
TETZELI: Exactly. And I think you're going to see -- you're going to see so much more of this. It makes -- it makes enormous sense. He's just taking advantage of technology in a way that's very friendly to viewers. And that's the way it's supposed to work.
KAYE: All right. Well, you have a great list. I suggest everybody check it out. Rick, appreciate it. Thanks for coming on.
TETZELI: Thanks so much.
KAYE: For more about "Fast Company's" list of the most creative names in business, check out our blog at CNN.com/ali. You want to know what innovative idea we'll look at next? Well, you will need to tune in next week and see, as always, as we like to say, same "Big I" time, same "Big I" channel. And by the way, that is David Bohrman's son who wrote that.
President Obama may be on the brink of breaking the law, and many in Congress don't seem to care. Dana Bash will join us with the details next.
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KAYE: And we want to bring you this sound just recorded just moments ago from the Oval Office, President Obama meeting there with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: -- our two countries, as is the opportunity for the prime minister to address Congress during his visit here. I know that's an honor that's reserved for those who have always shown themselves to be a great friend of the United States and is indicative of the friendship between our countries.
We just completed a prolonged and extremely useful conversation touching on a wide range of issues. We discussed, first of all, the changes that are sweeping the region and what has been happening in places like Egypt and Syria and how they affect the interests and security of the United States and Israel, as well as the opportunity for prosperity, growth and development in the Arab world.
We agreed that there is a moment of opportunity that can be seized as a consequence of the Arab spring, but also acknowledge there are significant perils, as well, and that it's going to be important for the United States and Israel to consult closely as we see developments unfold.
I outlined for the prime minister some of the issues that I discussed in my speech yesterday, how important it was going to be for the United States to support a political reform, support human rights, support freedom of speech, religious tolerance, and economic development, particularly in Egypt as the largest Arab country, as well as Tunisia, the country that first started this revolutionary movement that's taking place throughout the Middle East and North Africa.
We also discussed the situation in Syria, which is obviously of acute concern to Israel, given its shared border. And I gave more details to the prime minister about the significant steps that we are taking to try to pressure Syria and the Assad regime to reform, including the sanctions that we've placed directly on President Assad.
We continue to share our deep concerns about Iran, not only the threat that it poses to Israel but also the threat that it poses to the region and the world if it were to develop a nuclear weapon. We updated our strategy to continue to apply pressure both through sanctions and our other diplomatic work, and I reiterated my belief it is unacceptable for Iran to possess a nuclear weapon.
We also discussed the hypocrisy of Iran suggesting that it somehow supports democratization in the Middle East when, in fact, they first showed the oppressive nature of that regime when they responded to the own (ph) peaceful protest that took place inside Iran almost two years ago.
Finally, we discussed the issue of a prospective peace between Israelis and Palestinians. And I reiterated that we discussed in depth the principles that I laid out yesterday, the belief that our ultimate goal has to be a secure Israeli state, a Jewish state, living side by side in peace and security, with a contiguous, functioning and effective Palestinian state.
Obviously, there are some differences between us in the precise formulations and language, and that's going to happen between friends. But what we are in complete accord about is that a true peace can only occur if the ultimate resolution allows Israel to defend itself against threats and that Israel's security will remain paramount in U.S. evaluations of any prospective peace deal.
I said that yesterday in the speech, and I continue to believe it. And I think that it is possible for us to shape a deal that allows Israel to secure itself, not to be vulnerable, but also allows it to resolve what has obviously been a wrenching issue for both peoples for decades now.
I also pointed out, as I said in the speech yesterday, that it is very difficult for Israel to be expected to negotiate in a serious way with a party that refuses to acknowledge its right to exist. And so for that reason, I think the Palestinians are going to have to answer some very difficult questions about this agreement that's been made between Fatah and Hamas.
Hamas has been and is an organization that has resorted to terror, that has refused to acknowledge Israel's rights to exist. It is not a partner for a significant realistic peace process. And so as I said yesterday during the speech, the Palestinians are going to have to explain how they can credibly engage in serious peace negotiations in the absence of observing the core principles that have been put forward previously.
So, overall, I thought this was an extremely constructive discussion. And coming out of this discussion, I once again can reaffirm that the extraordinarily close relationship between the United States and Israel is sound and will continue, and that, together, hopefully we are going to be able to work to usher in a new period of peace and prosperity in a region that is going to be going through some very profound transformations in the coming weeks, months and years.
So, Mr. Prime Minister, welcome. Great to see you. Thank you very much.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER: Thank you.
Mr. President, first, I want to thank you and the first lady for the gracious hospitality that you've shown me, my wife and our entire delegation. We have an enduring bond of friendship between our two countries, and I appreciate the opportunity to have this meeting with you after your important speech yesterday.
We share your hope and your vision for the spread of democracy in the Middle East. I appreciate the fact that, once again, you reaffirmed once again now, and in our conversation, and in actual deed the commitment to Israel's security.
We value your efforts to advance the peace process. This is something that we want to have accomplished.
Israel wants peace. I want peace. What we all want is a peace that will be genuine, that will hold, that will endure. And I think that the -- we both agree that a peace based on illusions will crash eventually on the rocks of Middle Eastern reality, and that the only peace that will endure is one that is based on reality, on unshakeable facts.
I think for there to be peace, the Palestinians will have to accept some basic realities. The first is that while Israel is prepared to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back to the 1967 lines, because these lines are indefensible, because they don't take into account certain changes that have taken place on the ground, demographic changes that have taken place over the last 44 years.
Remember that before 1967, Israel was all of nine miles wide. It's half the width of the Washington beltway. And these were not the boundaries of peace. They were the boundaries of repeated wars because the attack on Israel was so attractive for them.
So we can't go back to those indefensible lines, and we're going to have to have a long-term military presence along the Jordan -- I discussed this with the president. I think that we understand that Israel has certain security requirements that will have to come into place in any deal that we make.
The second echoes something the president just said, and that is that Israel cannot negotiate with a Palestinian government that is backed by Hamas. Hamas, as the president said, is a terrorist organization committed to Israel's destruction.
It's fired thousands of rockets on our cities, on our children. It's recently fired an anti-tank rocket at a yellow school bus killing a 16-year-old boy.
And Hamas has just attacked you, Mr. President, and the United States for ridding the world of bin Laden. So, Israel obviously cannot be asked to negotiate with a government that is backed by the Palestinian version of al Qaeda.
I think President Abbas has a simple choice. He has to decide if he negotiates or keeps his pact with Hamas or makes peace with Israel. And I can only express what I said to you just now, that I hope he makes the choice, the right choice of choosing peace with Israel.
The third reality is that the Palestinian refugee problem will have to be resolved in the context of a Palestinian state, but certainly not in the borders of Israel. The Arab attack in 1948 on Israel resulted in two refugee problems, the Palestinian refugee problem and Jewish refugees, roughly the same number, who were expelled from Arab lands.
Now, tiny Israel absorbed the Jewish refugees, but the vast Arab world refused to absorb the Palestinian refugees. Now, 63 years later, the Palestinians come to us and they say to Israel, accept the grandchildren, really, and the great-grandchildren of these refugees, thereby wiping out Israel's future as a Jewish state.
So it's not going to happen. Everybody knows it's not going to happen. And I think it's time to tell the Palestinians forthrightly it's not going to happen.
The Palestinian refugee problem has to be resolved. It can be resolved. And it will be resolved if the Palestinians choose to do so in a Palestinian state. So that's a real possibility. But it's not going to be resolved within the Jewish state.
The president and I discussed all these issues, and I think we may have differences here and there, but I think there's an overall direction that we wish to work together to pursue a real, genuine peace between Israel and its Palestinian neighbors, a peace that is defensible.
Mr. President, you are the leader of a great people, the American people. And I'm the leader of a much smaller people.
OBAMA: A great people.
NETANYAHU: It's a great people, too. It's the ancient nation of Israel.
And, you know, we've been around for almost 4,000 years. We've experienced struggle and suffering like no other people. We've gone through expulsions and massacres and the murder of millions. But I can say that even at the dearth of -- even at the nadir of the valley of death, we never lost hope and we never lost our dream of reestablishing a sovereign state in our ancient homeland, the land of Israel.
And now it falls on my shoulders, as the prime minister of Israel, at a time of extraordinary instability and uncertainty in the Middle East, to work with you to fashion a peace that will ensure Israel's security and will not jeopardize its survival. I take this responsibility with pride, but with great humility, because as I told you in our conversation, we don't have a lot of margin for error. And because, Mr. President, history will not give the Jewish people another chance.
So in the coming days and weeks and months, I intend to work with you to seek a peace that will address our security concerns, seek the genuine recognition that we wish from our Palestinian neighbors, and give a better future for Israel and for the entire region. And I thank you for the opportunity to exchange our views and to work together for this common end.
Thank you, Mr. President.
OBAMA: Thank you.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you very much, guys.
OBAMA: Thank you, guys.
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