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Heads Roll over News Corp Scandal; Casey Anthony is Free; Woman Lunges at Judge; Gunfire Rings out in Syria; Candidates Capitalize on Debt Debate
Aired July 17, 2011 - 18:58 ET
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DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: A stunning turn of events in the deepening and embarrassing hacking and bribery scandal infecting FOX News Channel's parent company News Corp. Today, the woman who edit Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers Rebekah Brooks, often referred to as his surrogate daughter is arrested. And hours later, another shocker. The head of the same department that arrested Brooks in London, Metropolitan Police Commissioner falls victim to the same widening scandal.
What brought Sir Paul Stevenson down? His dealings with a former police department media consultant Neil Wallis who had once been an executive editor of the "News of the World" paper.
But back to Rebekah Brooks now. She was at the top of the Murdoch food chain and possibly the lynchpin in an unfolding drama already ensnaring Britain's corridors of power.
As CNN's Atika Shubert is reporting tonight, Brooks is answering police questions.
Atika.
ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The crisis surrounding Rupert Murdoch's media empire here in Britain has claimed new victims as of Sunday. First, Rebekah Brooks. That, of course, is the former "News of the World" editor and chief executive at News International. Well, she had an appointment on Sunday to meet with police investigators. But, a spokesperson for her said that she did not expect to be arrested when she walked in to meet with them but that's exactly what happened and she was still in police custody late into Sunday night, being questioned not just on phone hacking allegations but also on allegations that "News of the World" reporters actually paid police for information.
Now, Rebekah Brooks is, of course, a very senior executive -- was a very senior executive at News International. She's very close to Rupert Murdoch. She's known as a top lieutenant and he has acted as a mentor for her throughout all this. But she is the 10th arrest in these ongoing investigations into phone hacking, and clearly, the most high profile. She really sits at the nexus of British political power and the British media. So that sent shockwaves throughout Britain.
And as if that wasn't enough, just hours later, Britain's top cop, Sir Paul Stephenson, the commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police, resigned also because of these ongoing investigations into the phone hacking. In his specific case, it was over allegations that the news -- former deputy editor of "News of the World" had been paid by the Metropolitan Police for nearly as a year as a communications consultant. That former deputy editor Neil Wallis has also been arrested earlier as part of the ongoing investigation into phone hacking.
So a lot of questions were being asked about what the relationship between the police and "News of the World" was there.
Now Sir Paul Stevenson has said he has done nothing wrong but he did resign he says in order to keep the Metropolitan Police from being distracted their work so that he could focus fully on the investigation.
Here's what he said in a brief statement earlier.
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SIR PAUL STEVENSON, LONDON METROPOLITAN POLICE: However, the issue of my integrity is different. Let me state clearly, I and the people who know me know that my integrity is completely intact. I may wish we had done something differently but I'll not lose any sleep over my personal integrity.
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SHUBERT: Now, both Stevenson and Brooks were actually due to be grilled by lawmakers on Tuesday in two separate committee hearings. Those are likely to go ahead but in Brooks' case she may not be able to answer all of lawmaker's questions because there is a danger that she may prejudice the ongoing police investigation or possibly even incriminate herself. So she may be very limited.
But, of course, most of the attention is probably going to be on James and Rupert Murdoch who are also going to be grilled by lawmakers in parliament on Tuesday. They will be answering questions on just how much they knew about these alleged phone hackings. When did they know it? And if they did know about it sooner, why didn't they put a stop to it then?
Atika Shubert, CNN, London.
DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: All right. Atika, you might argue that Rupert Murdoch is the last of the media barons but could this be the event that unravels his massive media empire? We'll talk about that with noted media critic Jeff Jarvis (ph) later on this hour.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I just can't even concept a mother that could do this to her children. It just -- it -- it tears me apart.
JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL, HLN HOST: Do they know what's --
(END VIDEO CLIP) LEMON: All right, so a jury said "not guilty" 12 days ago but that woman's judgment you just heard likely will follow Casey Anthony even as a free woman. After being under police and public scrutiny for nearly three years the mother acquitted of murdering her daughter is at an undisclosed location tonight.
Officers released her just after midnight from a jail in Orlando. And CNN's Martin Savidge was there for her release.
Hello to you Martin. She left by the front door. Was anything -- anyone expecting her to do that?
MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: No. No Don, I mean, this is -- this case has progressively been one surprise after another. For the most part today here's the surprise. Casey Anthony appears to be lying low on her first day of freedom. So that was in stark contrast to what we saw last night.
Of course it was on this speculation, all of this intrigue, how will she going to get out? There's a lot of thought that the authorities were going to sneak her out of that jail in some way that we would never see her which is why the media wanted to have a pool camera inside.
Well, after all that talk and all that planning how does it happen? She walks right out the front door of the facility with the -- in the arms actually of Jose Baez who was her defense attorney and much to the anger of some, delight of others of about 1,000 people that have gathered there in the blaring light of the television lights, the helicopters is hovering overhead and she steps into a motorcade and drives off into the darkness.
And essentially after that point disappears. We have no idea where she is at this particular time. We understand there's been no contact between her and her parents. And that is how it is likely to last perhaps for some time.
Meanwhile today, very different scene but in the neighborhood of the Anthony family; this was a walk for peace, essentially. This was about 150 people that silently walked from the site where Caylee Anthony's body had been discovered to the Anthony home, George and Cindy, and then they walked back to what has now become this makeshift memorial.
For many people they said it was just that they wanted the focus to be on Caylee not on Casey the day that she comes out of jail. And it was also for many of them a chance to say all right that's it I got to get on with the rest of my life.
Here's what they said.
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SAVIDGE: Is this a closure?
KAREN GILREATH, PEACE MARCH PARTICIPANT: This is a closure. This is a -- as we we're saying before starting today we're just -- it doesn't matter anymore. The verdict is read. It's over. What's done is done. Somebody else will take care of it in the end and we just needed to all say our good-byes.
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SAVIDGE: And that's the most interesting thing, Don. People have been obsessed with this case for like three years and, of course, it built to the crescendo of the verdict and now they are simply saying look we don't want to forget Caylee but it is time to just let it go -- Don.
LEMON: And we all just move on. Let's hope that happens. Thank you Martin Savidge, we appreciate it.
A Kentucky woman is in big trouble with the law after she attacked a judge in court. Here's her violent outburst.
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JUDGE JENNIFER UPCHURCH EDWARDS, WAYNE COUNTY FAMILY COURT: Melissa Harvick.
MELISSA HARVICK, ATTACKED JUDGE: Yes.
EDWARDS: You will be held in contempt of this court --
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HARVICK: I don't care. I haven't done anything to this court. I haven't done anything to him.
EDWARDS: Ok she'll be arrested for contempt of court.
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LEMON: Well, court security officer, Adam Dodson the man on the left of your screen was the first to reach the woman, Melissa Harvick, and take her down. I talked with him earlier and asked what the judge said to make Harvick go ballistic.
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ADAM DODSON, COURT SECURITY OFFICER (via telephone): The judge was basically just telling her to stop using foul language and if she kept using foul language in her court then she would be held in contempt and face more charges. And the lady was very upset already and she just basically disregarded anything the judge said and continued to talk.
LEMON: You've been doing this for a while now. Have you ever seen anyone react this way especially towards a judge?
DODSON: I have seen people react this way but only in training videos, and the training they send us to. But not actually in any courtroom I've worked in, in the three and a half years I've been there.
LEMON: Yes. When you grabbed her and you guys finally subdued her. What happened? Was she remorseful? Did you have to take her away? What happened?
DODSON: She was not remorseful at all, actually. I was a -- I had to administer the handcuffs there on the floor. And she was resisting arrest the entire time. She would fight with me and another bailiff tried to hold her feet while she was doing that. She was sort of fighting with him.
So we finally got her handcuffed. And picked her up off the floor and walked her out of the courtroom. And she was still using foul language and she actually made another threatening comment to the judge.
LEMON: Did you give her any sort of test afterwards? Do you know if she was under the influence at all? Did she smell of alcohol? Did she seem to be under the influence of something?
DODSON: She was not under the influence of anything that we could tell. She was just very angry. I think she has a history of these types of situations. And she just had it in her mind it didn't matter what we done or anything, actually. She was just showing disrespect for the court, for my position and she was just disregarding anything we were trying to do.
LEMON: Yes. She was there for a domestic violence charges against her husband and he watched the whole thing go down didn't he?
DODSON: Yes sir, he was actually not shown in the video but he was standing just to the left of the woman there. And he watched the whole thing. He actually was standing behind the podium and moved the podium out of the way so we could finish the handcuffing process.
LEMON: I can only imagine he was like, "See, I told you." All right. Thank you, Officer Dodson. And we really appreciate it. And we're glad that you are ok and the judge as well.
DODSON: Yes, sir. Thank you.
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LEMON: And in addition to the domestic violence and contempt of court charges, Harvick is also charged with terrorism, threatening and resisting arresting.
Some serious health concerns surrounding former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Doctors say he's been slipping in and out of coma just weeks before he's supposed to stand trial.
Plus for the second time in a week a key advisor to Afghan President Hamid Karzai is assassinated. This on the same day NATO begins handing over security to the Afghan forces. We'll have details for you. You can reach us on social media. You can check us out on Twitter, Facebook and CNN.com/don and on Four Square. Make sure you check out my book, "Transparent".
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LEMON: The sound of gunfire in the streets of Damascus, Syria. You can see armed men in civilian clothing firing weapons. It's not clear if they are security forces, but the violence against anti-government protesters that shows no sign of easing. Activists say Syrian troops fatally shot a demonstrator one day after 21 civilians died in protest all across the country.
The Taliban claim a new success in their attempts to weaken government of Afghanistan. A key advisor to President Hamid Karzai, a former provincial governor named Jan Mohammed Khan was killed today inside the home -- his home by three attackers. A member of parliament also died in the attack. President Karzai's half-brother, who was also a government official, was assassinated less than a week ago.
Also in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus will hand over command of NATO troops Monday to Marine Corps General John Allen. Petraeus is retiring from the Army. President Obama has chosen Petraeus to be the next director of the CIA.
Egypt's former President maybe in worse health than previously thought, Hosni Mubarak briefly slipped into a coma today before regaining consciousness. Hospital officials say his condition is now stable. Mubarak has been hospitalized since April.
CNN's Frederik Pleitgen says this isn't the only health concern for the former president.
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FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: All we have to know about the situation is that Hosni Mubarak's health since he's been ousted from power has been deteriorating. A couple of months ago he collapsed during an interrogation; he is of course being charged here in Egypt with crimes in (INAUDIBLE) to his rule of almost 30 years and of course also the cracking down on the uprising that started here on January 25th.
During an interrogation he apparently collapsed. He's also suffering from complications from stomach cancer; and quite frankly this is an 83-year-old man. And so we are going to monitor these reports very, very carefully.
He did suffer from some more complications just a couple of days ago. Apparently his heart stopped for about two minutes where he had a cardiac arrest; doctors there rushed him to the room and had to resuscitate him.
So there have been complications with Mubarak's health over the past couple of weeks. His trial here in Egypt is actually supposed to start on August 3rd. It's anybody's guess whether or not that is actually going to happen. Certainly health complications are things that have been slowing down that process recently.
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LEMON: And Fred mentioned that upcoming trial in August. Mubarak faces a death penalty if convicted of all charges.
Venezuela is left wondering when its president will return after Hugo Chavez traveled Saturday to Cuba for cancer treatment. He'll receive chemotherapy as part of the aggressive treatment but he hasn't revealed what kind of cancer he has. The Venezuelan president is resisting calls to relinquish power while he recovers.
The heat is on all across the country with the heat index in the triple digits in many places. How long will it last? We'll check in with meteorologist Jacqui Jeras next.
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JEFF MCQUEEN, NEBRASKA TRANSPORTATION DEPT: This will all have to be inspected. Our engineers will have to come down and everything is going to have to be possibly redone. But, I mean, this is way down the line in the future.
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LEMON: More flood trouble. This time it's Nebraska. The rising Missouri River is causing a lot more damage. South of Omaha parts of Interstate 29 are under water and all that water is washing away dirt that shores up some of the overpasses. State transportation officials say it could take months to fix.
In Oklahoma the heat is connected to a fatal crash on Highway 412. The searing temperatures caused a portion of the road buckled causing to it rise about two feet. State highway patrol says a 36-year-old man on a motorcycle hit the patch and went airborne for 150 feet and then skidded another 200 feet. Sadly he died at the hospital.
The searing temperatures continue. This time it is in the nation's mid-section. That's getting the brunt of it. Our meteorologist Jacqui Jeras joins us now from the CNN Severe Weather Center.
Boy, it's sad; that guy on the motorcycle.
JACQUI JERAS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: I know.
LEMON: And all of this heat related stuff. Heat kills more people annually than anything else, right?
JERAS: Yes. In fact, if you take like hurricanes and floods and tornadoes combined, you still have more deaths related to heat. So it is very significant and sadly we'll probably hear some more stories about people who have died because of the heat. It's really brutal. And it's going to last a long time.
And we're going to have really no breaks, not even overnight. You're not going to be able to open up your windows and get some cool air in there. We're talking about low temperatures in the upper 70s to low 80s.
This is about a third of the nation, the nation's heartland right here. Chicago, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Dallas, down to Houston; we're talking about heat indices between 100 and 115 at its worst. You know, they had to set up free water stations at the Minnesota Twins Game today because it was so hot. It was up to 110. That was the temperature that your body was feeling.
The coasts of the country are doing ok. We have kind of what we call this omega block pattern. And basically it means we're going to be stuck and this is likely going to stay here through Wednesday possibly a little bit longer and that is just really bad news, unfortunately for those folks in Oklahoma and into parts of Texas that have been dealing with 15 plus consecutive days where it's been feeling just that terrible.
Now, we have another big weather story we want to tell you about and that's in the tropics. We have a tropical depression. This is TD number 2. It just developed about 2 1/2 hours ago or so. It's right here and the best think I can tell you is right now, it's expected to make a turn like this.
At this time we're not expecting it to have a big impact on the U.S. It's something we'll have to watch and it will likely become a little bit stronger; could become tropical storm Bret before the day is done -- b-r-e-t, Bret.
LEMON: Oh, so we're in the B's now right?
JERAS: Yes.
LEMON: We're going fast. Are we going fast or is it about --
JERAS: You know, having two storms is pretty typical. Things don't get heated up typically in the tropics until say mid-August.
JERAS: I think there's a Don this year.
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JERAS: Is there a Don? I have to look at the list.
LEMON: Maybe, I'll check that out.
JERAS: Hold on. I might even have it as my next map. Two maps away. It will take a second before it comes. I'll look for you though.
LEMON: Check on that. Breaking news.
JERAS: Will do. There it is.
LEMON: There it is. I told you.
JERAS: Don -- it is Don.
LEMON: There it is. Look. I told you.
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LEMON: See, I watch. Hurricane Don. All right.
JERAS: Good for you.
LEMON: Or a tropical storm wherever it's going to be.
JERAS: Now, just don't be nasty.
LEMON: Some new voices are adding to the debate over the debt ceiling; GOP presidential candidates are now weighing in. Hear where they stand on the issue next.
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LEMON: All right. A TSA agent is once again in the headlines, this time not for groping but for being the one allegedly groped. 61-year- old woman Ukari Mahane (ph) is charged with felony sexual assault. Our affiliate KPHO reports a Colorado woman refused a screening from agents at the Phoenix Airport and then grabbed the breast of one of them. She spent the night in jail.
To Washington now; they have until august 2nd to reach a deal or risk default. But there's no progress this week to report between President Obama and congressional leaders. They have been meeting separately and passing proposals back and forth. Meantime the issue is turning into a popular topic for Republicans hoping to win the White House next year.
Our Jim Acosta has more now from Washington.
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JIM ACOSTA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Accused by Democrats and a few of his Republican rivals of taking a low profile on the debt talks in Washington, GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney has now hit the ceiling.
MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The President to agree to cut federal spending, to cap federal spending, and to put in place a balanced budget amendment. And that's the answer for the debt limit; it's the answer for the nation. That's the line in the sand.
ACOSTA: Nearly all of the declared and potential Republican candidates are ratcheting up the rhetoric on the issue with Sarah Palin returning to one of her controversial catch phrases.
SARAH PALIN, FORMER GOVERNOR OF ALASKA: We cannot default but we have -- we cannot afford to retreat right now either. Now is not the time to retreat. It's the time to reload. And we reload with reality.
ACOSTA: Michele Bachmann accused the President and even the Treasury Secretary of passing on what she called a misnomer.
MICHELE BACHMAN (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: That if Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling by $2.5 trillion that somehow the United States will go into default and we will lose the full faith and credit of the United States. That is simply not true.
ACOSTA: A few hours after Bachmann's comments the powerful Moody's Investor Service announced it was reviewing the AAA bond rating for the U.S. For voters, it's a question of who do you trust, Bachmann or Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve.
BEN BERNANKE, CHAIRMAN, FEDERAL RESERVE: I think it would be a calamitous outcome.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In the 80's they did it to Reagan.
ACOSTA: Ron Paul released a new movie trailer-like TV ad warning past budget compromises with Democrats have only led to higher taxes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The '90s brought more compromises, more broken promises and more new taxes.
CLINTON: The ad doesn't mention that during the 90's President Bill Clinton balanced the budget after raising taxes. A new Quinnipiac Poll finds just 25 percent of Americans want only spending cuts as part of a debt deal. 67 percent would increase taxes on the wealthy and corporations.
That won't fly with the current GOP candidates who have all signed pledges not to raise taxes, except for Jon Huntsman. Still, any Republican accused of playing politics can point to the President, who voted against hiking the debt ceiling in 2006.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: That was just an example of a new senator, you know, making what is a political vote as opposed to doing what was important for the country.
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ACOSTA: Besides Bachmann, Paul and (INAUDIBLE), the rest of the GOP candidates don't have to cast a vote on the debt ceiling. That's a luxury a lot of politicians in this city wish they had right now.
Jim Acosta, CNN, Washington.
LEMON: All right Jim. Thanks very much.
First a top executive was arrested in London then the police commissioner resigned. It looks like the dominos are falling in the hacking scandal surrounding the Rupert Murdoch empire. Coming up, a look at what may happen next.
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LEMON: Let's check your headlines right now. A violent new attack today against the government of Afghanistan; a former provincial governor named Jan Mohammed Khan was killed in his home by three attackers. He was a key advisor to President Hamid Karzai. A member of parliament also died in the attack. The Taliban are claiming responsibility.
Less than a week ago President Karzai's half-brother who was also a government official was assassinated.
The good news keeps coming out of Los Angeles. Interstate 405 opened up at noon, 17 hours ahead of schedule; this after the dreaded "Carmageddon" did not happen. That's what people were calling the expected gridlock after ten miles of Interstate 405 was shut down for repair.
But drivers listened and the mayor is hoping for the same result when another shutdown is planned in 11 months.
The "don't ask, don't tell" policy may still be back on the books after a recent court ruling but that's not keeping gay military members from showing their pride. For the first time, an organized group representing all the services walked in a gay pride parade in San Diego. They were not in uniform but wore t-shirts showing their military branch. About 200 active duty troops and veterans joined in.
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WHOOPI GOLDBERG, ACTRESS AND TALK SHOW HOST: Happy birthday. There's nothing more to say. In case I put on a little weight, Mande (ph) and you don't recognize me it's Whoopi.
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LEMON: Talk show host and Oscar winner Whoopi Goldberg is among the many celebrities wishing Nelson Mandela a happy birthday. One of the world's best known freedom fighters turns 93 on Monday. To honor its first black president South Africa is calling July 18th International Mandela Day. South Africans are asked to volunteer 67 minutes to service representing each year Mandela fought against segregationist policies of apartheid. I want you to watch this now.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Is that any idea how to run a newspaper?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't know how to run a newspaper. I just try everything I can think of.
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LEMON: Orson Wells in a scene from his 1941 masterpiece "Citizen Kane." Well, it's hard to avoid parallels between Wells' character, Charles Foster Kane and another real life modern day mogul, Rupert Murdoch, both men brilliant, tenacious, commanders of powerful media empires. From there the comparisons become less kind. Murdoch is arguably the last of the media barons a list that extends back in time to include men like William Randolph Hearst, the basis for the character Charles Foster Kane. He took "Citizen Kane" very personally, leading a campaign direct the movie at the box office. He even made an offer to the studio to destroy all prints of it and burn the negatives.
But it backfired. "Citizen Kane" became a classic and a dubious and lasting part of his legacy. But what about Murdoch's legacy? Is he about to have his own rose bud moment? Let's add media critic and blogger for buzzmachine.com, Jeff Jarvis. He joins us via Skype.
So Jeff, thank you so much. Is this the beginning of the end for Murdoch's News Corp? Is this about to be his rose bud moment?
JEFF JARVIS, BLOGGER, BUZZMACHINE.COM: I think it could be. I think that this becomes a legal story, a moral story that could become a financial story. The fact that in four days last week News Corp lost between five and seven billion dollars of market cap, means that I think that the Murdochs are not going to be in charge of this company much longer and professional management will look at this and say that newspapers are in many ways now a burden and I think they will try to get rid of these news properties.
LEMON: Here's my question. Is there someone waiting in the wings to succeed Murdoch, succeed him after he leaves because you said you think this is the end of the Murdochs heading the company. But who is waiting in the wings?
JARVIS: Well, I don't know who is waiting in the wings to run the company. News Corp is let's be honest, primarily an entertainment company. And no one expects that entertainment executives are anything other than rapacious. But in the news business they really can't stand the Murdoch name and the pressure that's on them. so the problem is how do they sell newspapers (INAUDIBLE). There's no market for them. But I think they will get rid of the news organizations in the UK first and then in the U.S., the "New York Post" loses tens of millions of dollars a year. I think it will go. Fox News, I don't know. I could imagine, a leveraged buyout between Roger Ailes and various Republicans. The "Wall Street Journal," Murdoch overpaid for that. So who knows what happens to it. At the end of the day I think that this becomes an entertainment company.
LEMON: Interesting. Who is the next to fall in the scandal?
JARVIS: Well, the sewage waters are lapping at the Guccis of James Murdoch right now. Now that Rebekah Brooks and Les Hinton, his trusted allies are gone. James Murdoch here, Rupert's son I think (INAUDIBLE) goes next because he was responsible for these properties in London at the time. So Rupert and James and Rebekah Brooks will all be testifying before Parliament this week in the UK. Someone asked me today from CNN how to describe that. I think it's more like an impeachment hearing for Murdoch who is really a quasi-government powerful official in the UK.
LEMON: Does this change anything? You said something about a leveraged buyout possibly of Fox News, talking about our competitor here. You think this is going change the way that news is done or that they handle news if what you say, indeed, comes to fruition.
JARVIS: Well, I can't imagine News Corp itself can afford to be in the news business anymore or can afford the Murdochs anymore. The next questions that come here are - in the UK I think we'll see a lot of efforts to regulate the news more and in the U.S. a lot of questions about gross holdings of a lot of media. And I think it would be a shame to see more regulation come in here as Alan Rusbridge, the editor of "The Guardian" said and they dogged this story better than anyone.
Last week was the worst of journalism in the form of Murdoch but also the best of journalism in the fact that "The Guardian" really brought this to fore and brought down Murdoch.
LEMON: Yes. I got to take a second here and I just have a very short time Jeff. You can tell us what's going to happen on Tuesday when he speaks and his son, James, speaks in front of parliament when they testify and do you think Rebekah is going to be there as well.
JARVIS: Well, Brooks might be there but he might take the British equivalent of the fifth because she's now under arrest but the Murdochs will find themselves very hot under the collar with a lot of very tough questioning and they should well expect that to be happening.
LEMON: OK. Great. Thank you very much.
Listen we have a bit of developing news here. We're hearing that now Rebekah Brooks now has been released. She has bailed out. Just getting the information now. Reuters is reporting it. But also we're hearing that the 43-year-old woman - police are confirming to us that a 43-year-old woman who the Metropolitan Police are not naming have been released on bail to return at a date in October. But again, Reuters is reporting that it is Rebekah Brooks. That she was arrested and has been released. We'll continue to follow this developing story and again my thanks to Jeff Jarvis.
An exciting final match at the women's World Cup soccer tournament. It was the U.S. versus Japan and we'll tell you who came out on top.
But first I want to tell you about this. You know, the Census Bureau, according to the Census Bureau, more than 10 million Americans are self-employed. Some even become business owners before graduating high school. CNN education contributor Steve Perry introduces to us a couple in tonight's "Perry's Principles."
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STEVE PERRY, CNN EDUCATION CONTRIBUTOR (voice-over): Nia Froome is not your typical 18-year-old. She has met the president. Rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange and started her own business, Mama Mia's Vegan Bakery. Her cookies were even served at the an event at the famed Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York.
(on camera): You started a vegan cookie business in high school. NIA FROOME, NFTE ALUMNA: Yes. The summer after 10th grade. My parents became vegan after my mom contracted breast cancer 11 years ago.
PERRY: As a 15 year old, what do you know about business?
FROOME: Just what I had learned in that month at NFTE.
PERRY (voice-over): NFTE stands for Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship. It's a non-profit inspiring low-income students to stay in school by tapping into the interest to create businesses. At NFTE's national competition last fall, Froome's bakery won the $10,000 grand prize.
Businessman turned teacher Steve Mariotti founded NFTE in 1987. He was inspired after being mugged by some kids in New York City.
STEVE MARIOTTI, FOUNDER, NFTE: If you can start teaching young people particularly those in poverty about basic income statements, record keeping, how to do a sales call, how to save your money, I think that will have a dramatic impact on any property.
BARBARA CAMPBELL, NFTE ALUMNAE: This is my logo.
PERRY: Barbara Campbell is a long term proof of NFTE's success. She grew up in a rough New York neighborhood and started designing handbags at 16. Today her business includes belts, jewelry, purses but the slow economy has been tough on her.
CAMPBELL: It affected the stores I was in. It affected my vendors. Once again being part of this great program, NFTE, teaching me how to write a business plan I was able to go back and really strategize a new approach.
PERRY: Steve Perry, New York.
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LEMON: That's our very own Susan Candiotti reacting with U.S. women's soccer fans in New York before the game was over. Man, she's having a good time. Women's soccer team knows all about thrill of victory. Today they learned about the agony of defeat. The U.S. loss today to Japan in an upset that kept fans on the edge of their seats until the very end. The game was decided in a shootout after ending regulation in a 2-2 tie. Darn.
Zain Verjee was at the game. She joins me now from Frankfurt, Germany. It was a real nail biter all the way to the very end. What was it like to be in the stadium?
ZAIN VERJEE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It was absolutely electric. It was a cliffhanger. I don't have any nails left because I was biting them all off. It was absolutely amazing. Best game I've ever watched live like that, Don. The U.S. came out of the gate really aggressive. They kept pounding the goal as hard as they could but they hit the posts about three times and they just weren't able to get in until the 68th minute and they managed to score a goal
But just a few minutes after that Japan came back and scored an equalizer. Then an extra time, the U.S. managed to get another goal and an amazing header in by Abbey Wambach, who is a big star of this match and of the whole tournament. And in the last few minutes of extra time Japan managed to put another one away making it 2-2 and Japan won in penalty shootouts. They didn't actually start off that strongly at the beginning. They seemed a little bit nervous, the passing wasn't all that great.
The U.S. did a great job in keeping possession of the ball. But after the Japanese scored the first goal they seemed to unlock something and then the game was really theirs. It was a match of comebacks. It could have gone either way. The U.S. was really unlucky losing though in those penalty shootouts.
LEMON: I guess it's kind of a David versus Goliath. I'm wondering though was the crowd torn in the stadium, like, you know, was it one side - was the crowd just for one side or was it torn?
VERJEE: No. It was pretty evenly divided, I thought. You know, the crowd was on one hand supportive of Japan. Because they were the sentimental favorites going in. They've endured so much as with the earthquake and the tsunami earlier this year. And even the U.S. players was saying that Japan is out there and it's not just about the game for them. They are out there to uplift their entire nation that has suffered, many of them had friends and family affected also by the tsunami. One of the players even worked at the Fukushima Daiichi plant and played on their soccer team. So they really did have a heart in this game.
LEMON: OK. So listen a little birdie told me, this is weird, that you should undo the jacket and I should see what you're wearing under there.
VERJEE: Don. Well, you know, everyone is asking me who I supported. You're saying a lot of people were torn. And yes they were. So was I. I'm really happy that Japan did it. Because they really did deserve it. The U.S. made quite a few mistakes in their defense line. But they played really well. But, yes, this was who I was rooting for.
LEMON: I see a big USA right there and proud it. All right. Zain Verjee, you're a good sport. Thank you. USA, USA!
All right. A workout, they train, they compete, but when it comes to cheerleading there's a controversial debate whether it's really a sport like football and basketball. We explain after the break.
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LEMON: Research out of North Carolina found more high school girls get hurt from cheerleading than any other team activity. Don't be fooled by the flips and tumbles. Technically cheering is not a sport. A federal judge made that call a year ago deeming cheerleaders are not valid "athletes under Title 9." That's a federal rule that requires schools to give equal sports to both genders. During the national cheers competition, participants explained how cheerleading may not be a sport now but moving to change that.
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LEMON (on camera): What do you make of the federal judge saying what you're doing here is not a sport?
SCOTT FOSTER, COACH & OWNER, ROCKSTAR CHEER: Well what we're doing here is a sport. I think he's confused. Cheerleading on the sideline is not a sport. But competitive cheerleading is most definitely a sport. We have an opponent. We're getting scored and they have rankings and placement. So I think we're definitely a sport.
JAMES SPEED, OWNER, GYMTIME ALL-STARS: There are lots of parts as far as cheerleading goes just like there are lots of parts with basketball. Just shooting a free-throw is not necessarily a sport. OK. Sideline cheerleading is not necessarily a sport. Setting up competition between teams then it becomes a sport. I see people running in this arena. This arena is filled just to see this.
It is very fun to watch. It's great for the fans. And it's something that as a sport once it gets that recognition is going to be even more popular.
LEMON: All right. These people are tumbling and flipping. That's not easy.
SPEED: Oh, absolutely not. They are athletes in the truest sense of the word.
LEMON: There's some controversy whether you're a competitive sport or not. Do you think you're a competitive sport?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We work just as hard if not harder than any other sport.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Our training and conditioning over the summer, I mean, basically we get two days over the summer. Just like a football team, we get our butts into shape. We work hard. Getting on the sport, it's like two and a half minutes of sprinting. (INAUDIBLE).
LEMON: Does that sort of take the wind out of these cheerleaders when they hear, oh you're not a sport. You're not a competitive sport.
FOSTER: I think it does but it is our job as coaches in the industry to teach then and educate them that, hey, cheerleading on the sideline is not a sport, competitive cheerleading is.
SPEED: They're in as good a shape as any other competitive athlete in their season.
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LEMON: Nice. Extreme cheerleading will be one of the topics in tonight's "CNN Presents" airing in just about 10 minutes here on CNN.
I want you to take a look at this now. Nails as long as - every time I see it. Look at that! 26 inch long nails. We'll talk to the woman behind them known as Mama Jazz. One said pork chop, one said big daddy. She'll show you how she functions with them. That's next.
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LEMON: OK. Everybody, welcome back. I want to introduce you now to Jazz Sinkfield, an Atlanta woman who has been growing her nails now for 22 years now. The longest which is 26 inches long, you heard me, 26 inches long. Which one is that one?
JAZZ ISON SINKFIELD, NAIL LADY: This one.
LEMON: That one. I don't want to get close. I don't want to break it. If I break it I'm in major trouble.
SINKFIELD: That's right.
LEMON: All right, Jazz. They call you Mama Jazz.
SINKFIELD: Yes.
LEMON: So first, before I ask you how you do stuff because you answered a lot. The big question is why.
SINKFIELD: Well, I always have been able to grow my nails. My father is a pastor. And I couldn't grow them when I was smaller because he told me that I had to find my identity and once I found my identity, I started growing my nails.
LEMON: OK. So you've been growing them now for 22 years.
SINKFIELD: Yes.
LEMON: When they break are you like, oh, no.
SINKFIELD: Yes.
LEMON: How often do they break?
SINKFIELD: Not too often. But if I break them I go back to my nail tech and she puts the acrylic back on them where they broke and mend it back together.
LEMON: So they never break at the base.
SINKFIELD: No.
LEMON: Never.
SINKFIELD: Never.
LEMON: Do you protect them with something?
SINKFIELD: I have acrylic. Yes.
LEMON: All right. So someone asked me on here, they said do you have - from your nails they said do you any joint problems because - are they heavy?
SINKFIELD: No, they are not heavy.
LEMON: Oh, my god, I got to tell you, that is weird. I mean you have to admit, when people see you, do they have a reaction like - I mean do you frighten children ever?
SINKFIELD: No. Children are my biggest loved ones to my nails. Actually.
LEMON: OK. Someone says, how do you wash your hair?
SINKFIELD: I have a utensil, hair utensil. And I just take and wash my hair with.
LEMON: OK. And this is from Twitter. Mystic Lady 366 (ph) says, OK, how does she sleep and how does she scratch the inside of her ear.
SINKFIELD: OK.
LEMON: Did you see that? That goes right in there no problem.
SINKFIELD: Right in there. Yes.
LEMON: Do you know, are there other people - are you the nail champion?
SINKFIELD: I'm not aware that I am, no.
LEMON: You're not aware. Yes. I remember that from years ago there was a fingernail champion. This was the woman who was a secretary. Her nails were that long.
SINKFIELD: OK.
LEMON: What do you do for a living, are you housewife or a housekeeper, whatever?
SINKFIELD: Yes.
LEMON: A homemaker, that's what I meant to say.
SINKFIELD: That's OK. Yes.
LEMON: And your kids?
SINKFIELD: Five kids.
LEMON: They're all over there taking pictures.
SINKFIELD: Yes. LEMON: They're cool with it.
SINKFIELD: They're cool with it.
LEMON: Do you ever - I have to go, but do you ever go, OK, enough already? I just want to - because you have to protect these all the time. Do you ever get tired of it?
SINKFIELD: No, I don't because they're just like my family. We have a bond.
LEMON: All right. Would you get mad if I break one and kept it?
SINKFIELD: Priceless.
LEMON: Mama Jazz, thank you very much.
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LEMON: Do you frighten children ever. I'm sorry, Mama Jazz. I don't know what I was thinking. Jacqui I'm sorry. Jacqui Jeras said, "Don!" OK.
Moving on, if you follow me on twitter you know I am a big foodie. I often tweet pictures of my meals and you guys tweet right back with yours. Well, the food, the folks at the CNN.com's food blog, it's called eatocracy. They took notice and this week they invited me to an exclusive dinner in Harlem at the famous Red Rooster Restaurant. It's owned by award-winning chef, Marcus Samuelson. It's called "Eatocracy's Secret Supper" with people from all walks of life discussing world issues over a gourmet dinner.
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KATE KINSMAN, MANAGING EDITOR, EATOCRACY: With this particular dinner, we thought where better than New York City to talk about foods role in cultural identity. And so we've invited a bunch of people here tonight who have absolutely no idea who is going to be here, didn't know until today where it's going to be happening. They just saw "CNN Eatocracy." They said yes, save the date. And we're going to get a drink in their hand and get them talking.
LEMON: I'm about to burst to have all of this great food that comes from everywhere. But to be having it here at this restaurant, this means so much to me. I mean this is amazing.
EDDIE HUANG, CHEF/AUTHOR: I just saw a few name cards when I got here like five minutes ago but you guys are pretty good about keeping secrets.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Nobody's here by accident. They don't know why we pick them but everybody has an interesting story to tell.
KINSMAN: I'm placing a little card in front of you. I identify myself as and I've been thinking to put on theirs. And I'm thinking what I'm going to write down on mine is, recovering Catholic school ex-suburban white girl mutt. Everyone at this table is going to share your story of who you think you are, who you want to be, what you ate, what you thought you were going to be and how food played into all of this.
HUANG: Growing up in America, you know, food for me was probably the easiest thing to understand about like Chinese culture, growing up, things like that.
TREN'NESS WOODS-BLACK, SPOKESPERSON, SYLVIA'S RESTAURANT: My cultural identity is grits. It is an acronym for girl raised in the south but I'm grits Harlem style.
I eat everything. I eat chitlins. I love beans of all time. I'm looking at the table, and I'm like boiled peanuts. And if you're from the south and you know that at the church everyone has boiled peanuts, it is like a delicacy.
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LEMON: Very nice. Food was yummy. How did you like that Jacqui, Carol?
JACQUI JERAS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Loved it. It's quirky.
LEMON: I looked like Mr. Furly from "Three's Company." No? OK.
My story on my dinner card is I'm a mysterious American gumbo of love. I know it's kind of world but that's what I said. I'm Don Lemon from the CNN World headquarters in Atlanta. Thank you so much for watching.
CNN presents "Ice Wars Stone Cold Killer" and "Extreme cheerleading" is next. I'll see you back here tonight at 10:00 p.m. Eastern.
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