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More Arrests in the News Corp Scandal; Stunning Attack in Courtroom; Obama to Nominate Consumer Watchdog; Casey Anthony Out of Jail; Busted after Recording Police; Accusations of Police Retaliation
Aired July 17, 2011 - 22:00 ET
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DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: Tonight:
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Shame on you!
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LEMON: Media madness. Is the head of one of the world's biggest companies going down now that Rupert Murdoch's inner circle crumples? We ask one former employee.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We were spending 4,000 pounds a week on, you know, private investigators doing these kind of practices.
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LEMON: Free at last, or is she?
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALES: Caylee! Caylee!
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LEMON: Out of jail, but will Casey Anthony ever have a moment of peace?
And what was she thinking? Attacking a judge? Security officers to the rescue.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She was not remorseful at all actually.
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LEMON: And what is she thinking with these nails?
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LEMON: Do you frighten children ever?
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LEMON: One-on-one with the nail lady. It's all right here, right now on CNN.
Good evening, everyone. I'm Don Lemon. We begin tonight with the stunning turn of events and the deepening and embarrassing hacking and bribery scandal infecting Fox News channel's parent company News Corp.
Tonight, Rebekah Brooks who headed up Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers who is often referred to as a surrogate daughter is out on bail after her arrest earlier in the day.
And another shocker, the head of the same department that arrested Brooks, London's Metropolitan police commissioner falls victim to the same widening scandal.
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COMM. PAUL STEPHENSON, LONDON METROPOLITAN POLICE: I have taken this decision as a consequence of the ongoing speculation and accusations relating to the Met's links with News International at a senior level, and in particular in relation to Mr. Neil Wallace, who as you know was arrested in connection with Operation Weeting last week.
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LEMON: What brought Sir Paul Stevenson in London's top cop down? His dealings with a former police department media consultant, Neil Wallace, who had once been an executive editor of a "News of the World" paper.
And that brings us to Rebekah Brooks, at the top of the Murdoch food chain, and possibly the linchpin in an unfolding drama already ensnaring Britain's corridors of power.
As CNN's Atika Shubert reports tonight, Brooks had a long way to fall.
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ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In the cozy world of British politics and media, Rebekah Brooks was at its very center. She wined and dined the rich and powerful on behalf of her boss and mentor, Rupert Murdoch.
Brooks first came to News International as a secretary at "News of the World." She quickly developed a reputation for her tenacity as a journalist, reportedly once disguising herself as a cleaning lady to scoop a competitor. Described as both ruthless and charming, she was soon the youngest editor of "The News of the World," and shortly after that, "The Sun" -- both owned by Murdoch's News International.
She spearheaded a controversial campaign to, quote, "name and shame" alleged pedophiles, publishing their names and addresses in the paper. As the editor of "The Sun," Brooks testified to parliament that her paper had paid police officers for information. And it was under her editorship that "The News of the World" allegedly paid a private investigator to hack into the voicemail messages of Milly Dowler, the 13-year-old girl murdered in Britain whose investigation and court case made front page headlines.
Those allegations did not come to light until almost a decade later, after Brooks had scaled the corporate ladder to become chief executive of News International, a position she resigned last week. Brooks has denied having any knowledge of any phone hacking by her staff.
It was Brooks who cemented a relationship with Prime Minister David Cameron, inviting him to lunches at her country home with the head of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch's son, James.
There have been several arrests in the phone hacking scandal so far, but Rebekah Brooks is the highest profile yet, and the one closest to Rupert Murdoch himself.
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LEMON: And in 2003 when Brooks was editor of "The Sun" newspaper, she admitted to paying police for information. I asked Atty. Lisa Bloom why this wasn't a bigger deal when Brooks caught doing it back then.
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LISA BLOOM, ATTORNEY, THE BLOOM FIRM: I think we got the answer to that today, Don, because it appears that law enforcement was intimately tied up with this hacking scandal and the corruption scandal at "News of the World" with Britain's top cop now stepping down, saying he should have handled things differently.
I think we're really going to see this thing start to unravel. I believe this is the beginning of the U.K.'s Watergate. There's just too much corruption at too high of a level.
I mean, as you say, here's a woman who's virtually admitting: sure, we paid police for information. Now, the police had four years' worth of files of at least 4,000 hacking victims, and they did nothing. They didn't even notify the victims of the hacking.
So, I think this is really just the beginning of an unfolding scandal that's going to get bigger and bigger as each day goes by.
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LEMON: I also had a chance to speak with media critic and blogger, Jeff Jarvis. He thinks the scandal is enough to force Rupert Murdoch out of the news business altogether.
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JEFF JARVIS, BLOGGER, BUZZMACHINE.COM: 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 now. So the problem is how do they sell newspapers in this state. 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.
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LEMON: Well, this scandal is now reaching deep into Rupert Murdoch's inner circle. And you can be sure that the man at the top is feeling the pressure.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Shame on you! Shame on you! Shame on you! Shame on you! Shame on you!
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LEMON: Murdoch has ads running in seven British papers through Monday saying, quote, "We are sorry for the phone hacking scandal at the 'News of the World" -- the popular tabloid he just shut down.
And here's what he said in his own words.
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RUPERT MURDOCH, CHAIRMAN & CEO, NEWS CORP.: I'm the founder of the company. I was appalled to find out what happened. I apologize. I have nothing more to say.
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LEMON: Well, the scandal is widening to another Murdoch paper, "The Sunday Times." And now, even the FBI is opening an investigation.
The allegations: hacking the personal phones of public figures, and the not-so public, from murder victims to dead war heroes.
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DAVID CAMERON, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: And there is a firestorm, if you like, that is engulfing parts of the media, parts of the police, and indeed political systems' ability to respond.
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LEMON: Murdoch's News Corp, the parent company of the FOX News Channel, also owns 20th Century Fox movie studies, the FX network, "The New York Post," "The Wall Street Journal," HarperCollins publishing, and probably your local FOX affiliate, among many others.
The charges against the company are criminal, and could have dire implications not only for Murdoch and the people under him but for the prime minister himself.
David Cameron's former communications director is none other than Andy Coulson, the former "News of the World" editor who is also been arrested in this scandal.
So, the question is, what did his former boss, David Cameron, know and when did he know it?
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CAMERON: Let me say once more, if I was lied to, if the police was lied to, if the select committee was lied to, it would be a matter of deep regret and a matter for a criminal prosecution.
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MR. SPEAKER: Order. Anybody might think that it an orchestrated noise is taking place.
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Order, order! The house will come to order. And this order -- and these exchanges will continue in an orderly way.
Mr. Ed Miliband.
EDWARD MILIBAND, LABOUR PARTY LEADER: Mr. Speaker, the prime minister has just made a very important admission. He has admitted that his chief of staff was given information before the general election that Andy Coulson had hired a man -- had hired a man jailed for seven years for a criminal conspiracy who made payments to the police on behalf of "The News of the World." This evidence casts serious doubt on Mr. Coulson's assurances that the phone hacking over which he resigned was an isolated example of illegal activity.
CAMERON: Do you know what, Mr. Speaker? Do you know what, Mr. Speaker? I think the public and the victims of this appalling scandal want us to rise above this and deal with the problems that this country faces.
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MR. SPEAKER: Ed Miliband.
MILIBAND: Mr. Speaker, he just doesn't get it. He just doesn't get it.
CAMERON: I'm afraid, Mr. Speaker, the person who is not getting it is now the leader of the opposition.
(END VIDEO CLI) LEMON: This unfolding firestorm was brought to light by Hollywood actor Hugh Grant, who secretly taped a former "News of the World" reporter talking about the unsavory practices that he says everyone in his organization condoned and encourage.
Here's Hugh Grant in a very awkward looking picture with that reporter, Paul McMullan.
I spoke with McMullan about just who knew what at News Corp organization.
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LEMON: Were people as high, possibly, as Rupert Murdoch, complicit in any of this? Would Rupert Murdoch know about these sorts of practices? Would people under him know about these sorts of practices?
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PAUL MCMULLAN, FMR. NEWS OF THE WORLD JOURNALIST (via telephone): Yes. Well, people under him certainly should have known. I mean, when Rebekah Brooks, who is his right-hand woman in Britain, were doing my job, she was features editor, and I became deputy features editor. So, I was looking at the same books. So, we both had.
And we were spending 4,000 pounds a week on, you know, private investigators doing these kind of practices. And it's just extraordinary, you know, if she was the department boss who then moved up to be editor -- I mean, how could you not notice the spend of over 100 grand a year on this kind of thing and not even ask what it's for.
So, I mean, her position is ludicrous.
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LEMON: Rupert Murdoch and his son, James Murdoch, have agreed to testify Tuesday at a parliamentary committee hearing on this scandal. Rebekah Brooks is supposed to testify as well, but her arrest may limit what she says.
Still ahead on CNN tonight.
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JUDGE: Ms. Hardwick, you will be held in contempt of this court if you're --
MELISSA HARDWICK, PLAINTIFF: I don't care. I haven't done anything to this court. I haven't done anything to him.
JUDGE: She will be arrested for contempt of this court. Go now --
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LEMON: What was she thinking? Attacking a judge? Security officers to the rescue, all caught on camera. We'll talk with the guy who took her down.
And it's a story that we have kept a close eye on. The Rochester woman arrested after recording police making a traffic stop. Now her arrest had set off a national debate. We'll show you how.
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JUDGE: Ms. Hardwick, you will be held in contempt of this court if you're --
MELISSA HARDWICK, PLAINTIFF: I don't care. I haven't done anything to this court. I haven't done anything to him.
JUDGE: She will be arrested for contempt of this court. Go now --
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LEMON: As you can probably imagine, a Kentucky woman is in big trouble with the law after she attacks a judge in court. Court security officer Adam Dodson, the man on the left of your screen, was the first to reach the woman, Melissa Hardwick and take her down.
I talked with him earlier and I asked him, what the judge said to make Hardwick go ballistic.
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ADAM DODSON, COURT SECURITY OFFICER (ON THE PHONE): 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 and 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 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 - had to administer the handcuffs there on the floor. She was resisting arrest the entire time. She was fighting 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, 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 type 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 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.
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LEMON: In addition to the domestic violence and contempt of court charges, Hardwick is now also charged with terroristic threatening and resisting arrest.
A crash involving a tour bus in Upstate, New York has left at least two people dead. Several others were injured in the accident which took place this afternoon on Interstate 390. A number of hospitals reportedly received patients from the crash. Those with more serious injuries were transported by helicopter.
Not only was there no carmageddon in Los Angeles, the highway project that was supposed to have caused it finished 17 hours ahead of schedule. Interstate 405 re-opened at noon local time today after crews finished demolishing a bridge earlier than expected.
The city was bracing itself this weekend when ten miles of Interstate 405 shut down. But traffic dropped by two-thirds averting the monster gridlock predicted.
The U.S. Women's soccer team's World Cup Quest has ended in heartbreak. The American team lost the final to Japan on penalty kicks after overtime, ended with a 2-2 tie. The loss ends dramatically as the U.S. team hoped to become the first Americans to win the cups since 1999. Japan was the underdog in this match but persevered to become the first Asian team to ever win the tournament.
Congratulations to them.
A key nomination from the White House is expected on Monday. President Obama has made the decision on the nominee for the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and it's not the woman many of his supporters wanted. A live report from Washington is next.
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ELIZABETH WARREN: We want to make prices clear and we want to make risks clear, and we want consumers to be able to compare two or three credit cards or two or three mortgages head to head.
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LEMON: It is a developing story out of Washington tonight where the White House says that woman you just saw, Elizabeth Warren, will not be heading up the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Instead, President Obama is going to nominate Richard Cordray to that post. He is the former Ohio attorney general.
So joining me by phone now is Jessica Yellin. She is CNN's chief White House correspondent.
Jessica, Elizabeth warren basically created this job. Why is the president giving it to someone else?
JESSICA YELLIN, CNN CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (via-telephone): Bottom line, Don, she can't get confirmed. They don't have the votes for her. And it would have been a peach battle both with the U.S. Senate and the business community.
And there are two concerns. A, you want that in an election year, and B, is that a good way to start a new bureau? No. So why not take the path of less resistance?
LEMON: OK, so why are folks in the financial services industry so opposed to Warren?
YELLIN: Well, from their perspective, they would say that she's predisposed to seeing bankers and mortgage lenders as the bad guys. Now she says she wants to protect consumers from what she calls tricks, and traps and predatory lenders. They say she's crushing innovation. It's been a peach battle between them. They just often say they just don't like her.
LEMON: All right. She has a very accomplished resume. What's in Elizabeth Warren's future, Jessica?
YELLIN: It's interesting. She's not saying, but there is wide speculation that she could go back to Massachusetts where she's been a professor at Harvard University, she has lived for years and run as a Democrat against Senator Scott Brown.
It's a blue state where Democrats feel like they have a chance of winning back that Senate seat from a Republican. They just need a candidate. She's raised her profile; she has been outspoken and she could be a candidate for U.S. Senate as a Democrat in the 2012 election. She's not saying, but don't be surprised if we see her in that race. LEMON: All right. CNN's chief White House correspondent Jessica Yellin. Thank you.
Now listen to this.
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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: If you're trying to get to $2.4 trillion without any revenue, then you are effectively gutting a whole bunch of domestic spending that is going to be too burdensome and is not going to be something that I would support.
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LEMON: President Barack Obama drawing a line between himself and Republicans in the debate over spending cuts and raising taxes.
The nation's debt ceiling has to be raised by August 2nd, as you know, or the government risks defaulting on its obligations. But the president may have an advantage here that a lot of people are overlooking.
Errol Louis joins me now. He's a CNN contributor and political anchor for New York One.
Errol, I know you think the president and Congress will cut a deal. Why do you say that?
ERROL LOUIS, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Well, you know, if you look at some of the numbers, we are going into the final round of negotiations. August 2nd is getting closer. And the polls suggest that most people believe the president. He's got a 47 percent approval rating. That's not great. But Congress has got a 26 percent approval rating.
The poll suggests that people trust this president rather than Congress on the economy. And then to boot, you've got a Republican leadership that's divided over their tactics. So they've got a weak hand going into this last round. And it looks like they are going to have to give up the fight at some point.
LEMON: All right, Errol, so if the president has won the battle for public opinion, how did he do it? Is it because Americans always want budget cuts as long as those cuts only affect someone else?
LOUIS: I mean, look, this is how politics works. The president has the bully pulpit, the famous bully pulpit and he has used it.
When he had a mid-day news conference, it was covered by everybody. They stopped the soap operas and the game shows so everybody can hear it. Republicans came on a couple of hours later and not even all the cable stations carried it. You know, it's just a very powerful position and he's a very persuasive guy. That's why he's president.
LEMON: All right. We talk about this a little bit last week, but let's talk about political pledges for a minute. We are hearing about a lot of Republicans who took pledges not to raise any taxes ever when they were candidates. And now their hands are tied, it seems.
Rick Santorum, running for president, writes in "USA Today" that "it's an honor to take these pledges because that is what a pledge is -- an oath to honor our word."
Is he right?
LOUIS: Not really. I mean, there is a superseding oath, and that is to protect and serve the people and follow the constitution and so forth. And the reality is if any of this stuff was easy, if you could just do it by feeding a bunch of checklists into a computer, that's the way we would run the democracy. It's not eerily that easy.
Well, for example, the famous tax loophole. The benefit for owners of private jets. If you close that tax loophole, are you raising taxes or not. That's the kind of thing that pledges don't let you figure out.
LEMON: Let's talk now about News Corps. Rupert Murdoch's empire appears to be teetering a little bit, maybe a lot, in some people's estimation. Can any good come of this, Errol?
LOUIS: Oh I think one good thing they came of it is that it shows them the need for a diverse press. It was "The Guardian," one of the rival newspapers to the Murdoch Empire that broke this whole story and set the avalanche in motion. And that's what you get. If you had only one news organization running the whole show this might never have come to light at all.
LEMON: Errol Louis, thanks as always.
LOUIS: Thank you.
LEMON: It is official. The woman acquitted of murdering her child, Casey Anthony, is now a free woman. That report is next. Plus, an in-depth report about the story behind this video.
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EMILY GOOD, COMMUNITY ORGANIZER: What in the world? I'm sorry I was standing my front yard, concerned about what was going on in my neighborhood, and you're arresting me. What the hell is going on right now?
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LEMON: Rochester police putting the cuffs on Emily Good and setting off a national debate.
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LEMON: After being under police and public scrutiny for more than three years, Casey Anthony is now free. But we don't know exactly where she is. Anthony walked out of an Orlando jail just after midnight. 12 days ago, a jury acquitted her of murdering her daughter. About 1,000 people were outside the jail in protest. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALES: Caley! Caley!
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LEMON: Well, security was high. Her attorneys say she had multiple death threats.
You just saw Casey Anthony's defense attorneys were by her side when she left jail, and they have been throughout her years locked up. But do they have doubts about what she did? A compelling interview by HLN's Joy Behar may answer that.
I spoke with criminal defense attorney Holly Hughes about it.
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JOY BEHAR, HOST, THE JOY BEHAR SHOW: Let me ask you something, do you have children?
DOROTHY CLAY SIMS, CASEY ANTHONY DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Yes.
BEHAR: Would you let Casey baby sit your kids? You say she's innocent.
SIMS: Well, you know, my kids are older.
BEHAR: Well, let say they were younger. Would you leave her with your children?
SIMS: I -- I -- I liked Casey Anthony. I came to trust her. And that's a really -- I felt the Casey Anthony that I knew, I felt very comfortable with her.
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LEMON: I watched that live. That was great TV. Right?
That was great TV. And that was a really great question. That was Casey Anthony's attorney seemingly at lost for words on "Joy Behar Show" on HLN. A revealing answer for sure.
Holly Hughes is here. She is a former prosecutor and a criminal defense attorney as well.
So, listen, as I said, that was a great question by Joy Behar.
You would think that she would dance around it better. What did you make of her answer?
HOLLY HUGHES, FORMER PROSECUTOR: Wow. She had to know it was coming, Don. And yet she's like a deer in the headlights.
LEMON: I think that that question, Joy Behar, and I have to say that comes from, that's like someone who will ask a political question who's outside of the beltway, where everyone thinks to ask questions in a certain way.
HUGHES: Right.
LEMON: Would you let her baby sit your kid? That's a simple human mother question. It's not a journalist question.
HUGHES: Right. That's to me -- that's the most obvious. I mean, people have got to be asking her that, because she spent all this time with her. She was the one -- remember Dorothy Clay Sims was the one who was mothering Casey through the entire trial. She didn't do a whole lot of lawyering, but she did a whole lot of mothering. Hugging on her in front of the jury, and petting on her hair and really treating her like a daughter.
LEMON: But then she doesn't know --
HUGHES: Exactly. When you're asked the question, I mean, you should have an answer prepared for that because everybody wants to know.
LEMON: What does that say about her? What does that say about her as an attorney, though? Did she believe her own client?
HUGHES: I don't think so, because here's the deal. The non-answer speaks a lot louder than if she had just flat out answered the question and said, you know, I'm not comfortable with it because she's a party girl. Leave it at that. You don't have to infer that she's a murderer.
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LEMON: Holly Hughes. And while we don't know where Casey is right now, her parents' attorney believes that Casey has left Orlando.
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GOOD: What in the world? I'm sorry I was standing my front yard, concerned about what was going on in my neighborhood, and you're arresting me. What the hell is going on right now?
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LEMON: Tonight, we go in depth about a story behind this video.
When Rochester, New York police put the cuffs on Emily Good, they also set off a national debate -- monitoring police versus public safety.
Good was arrested for obstructing governmental administration after she recorded police making a traffic stop. She was standing in her own front yard when Officer Mario Masic opted to arrest Good instead initially pulled over.
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MARIO MASIC, POLICE OFFICER: OK, listen, I'm not going to explain myself to you. What you're going to do is you're going to end up going to jail. I'm trying to give you a warning. OK? GOOD: I'm going to back up.
MASIC: You know what? You're going to go jail. This is not right. No, stay right here.
GOOD: I'm sorry.
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LEMON: Her charge was later dropped, but police say citizens now feel bolder to intervene which puts everyone at risk.
In the meantime, more complaints of unfair arrests are coming out. Here's CNN's Susan Candiotti.
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SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (via-telephone): On the same night Emily Good was cleared, a supporter of hers, Rochester resident Warren Barnes, recorded police officers stopping several men in his neighborhood.
WARREN BARNES, ROCHESTER RESIDENT: What are you being detained for?
CANDIOTTI: You can hear Barnes speaking out to the young men being questioned.
BARNES: What are you guys being detained for? What are they being detained for, officer?
CANDIOTTI: The men were released, and Barnes approached the police officers.
BARNES: Can I have your lieutenant's name? Can I have your lieutenant's name, sir? Can I have your business card so I know who interacted with you?
CANDIOTTI: Barnes says he did not record what happened next.
BARNES: I walked across the street like this gentleman's about to do. They sped across the street and said, "Jaywalking, jaywalking, we got you on camera jaywalking."
CANDIOTTI: Barnes was ticketed for not using a crosswalk. Later changed to disorderly conduct and obstructing traffic. Other charges followed, including weapons possession, what Barnes said was a utility knife, and marijuana possession.
Barnes pleaded not guilty to the charges, but says the jaywalking ticket was a way of punishing him for making the recording.
Police Chief James Sheppard says jaywalking is a violation of traffic law and led to other charges.
CHIEF JAMES SHEPPARD, ROCHESTER, NEW YORK POLICE: There were a number of other issues involved in that case. One was possession of a weapon. There was also contraband that was seized by the police department that also resulted in that arrest.
CANDIOTTI: On YouTube, video shows another incident that community activists call purely retaliatory.
While Emily Good's supporters were inside a meeting, police took out rulers and issued parking tickets to any car more than 12 inches from the curb. Rochester Police Chief James Sheppard says, in each of the cases, his officers were enforcing the law.
SHEPPARD: However, in the spirit of the law, maybe they take it a little bit too far. That's yet to be determined. We'll look at it in terms of our internal investigation.
CANDIOTTI: Rochester Mayor Thomas Richards is waiting for the results for all the internal investigations.
MAYOR THOMAS RICHARDS, ROCHESTER, NEW YORK: We're going to look at whether there's a pattern of arrests here. Whether there's a pattern of arrests here that would indicate that this kind of arrest is being somehow abused.
CANDIOTTI: Emily Good says she's been arrested several times over the last couple of years for civil disobedience, most recently at a local protest against foreclosure. And she's convinced that the law is on her side in terms of recording police activity. Good and her supporters vow to keep cameras rolling.
GOOD: It has a powerful role in, you know, telling the officers that not only are we watching this, but, you know, potentially the whole world is watching this.
CANDIOTTI: Susan Candiotti, CNN, New York.
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LEMON: And up next, we'll hear from a man who said he was harassed by Rochester police. He's also a city firefighter and a county legislator.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, really? You had civilian complaints? Regarding the parking being further than 12 inches from the curb?
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LEMON: Well, some say this is Rochester police acting in retaliation. Officers ticketed people gathered to support Emily Good, the woman arrested after filming the RPD.
Well, she wasn't the only one to catch them on camera. Willie Lightfoot, a county legislator in Rochester, is the short-haired African-American man in this video. Police charged him with several offences afterward. He said he stepped in because an officer was making a threat. In the end, Lightfoot cut a deal, he says to keep his job as a firefighter. He told me police relations have gotten worse since this controversy erupted.
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WILLIE LIGHTFOOT, MONROE COUNTY, N.Y. LEGISLATOR: Don, I'm getting numerous calls from people, constituents in my community, and people in the neighborhood, especially adjacent to that I represent. And many people are saying that they're constantly being harassed.
And when I say about harassed, I mean, I believe that the way the police department treats African-Americans especially in this community as opposed to Caucasians is a different approach. They're much more aggressive than they are when they're approaching a Caucasian resident as opposed to an African-American resident. And so, I'm hearing nothing but complaints from people in the city.
LEMON: OK. So, Mr. Lightfoot, that was the reason that Emily Good said she recorded that video in her front yard, because she was concerned about racial profiling and police harassment.
Do you believe that this is a systematic problem with Rochester police?
LIGHTFOOT: Absolutely. I believe that. I was a victim of that myself.
I was driven around for four hours. When asked to go to the bathroom, I was told to urinate on myself. I was never told why I was arrested.
I was treated like a common criminal and thug.
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LEMON: Thanks to Willie Lightfoot.
When we asked Rochester police about Lightfoot's arrest, they did not want to make any further comment about it. The police chief and Rochester's mayor both declined our interview requests.
The middle of the country is going to feel the heat in the coming days. And our meteorologist Jacqui Jeras joins us from the CNN severe weather center.
Jacqui, it's hot.
JACQUI JERAS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: It's really hot. It's dangerously hot, and you know, they've been feeling it all weekend and unfortunately this is going to carry well into your work week.
In fact, we are not talking about any relief until probably Thursday. This is -- including millions of people. Heat advisories in effect from Minnesota all the way down towards the south. And that bright pink, that is excessive heat warnings. And, unfortunately, we are going to see very little change in this and it's going to be feeling like 100 to 115 degrees in the peak of the heat in the afternoon. Now in addition to that for you, tomorrow morning we're expecting to see some showers and thundershowers. They will be more prevalent during the afternoon hours and some of this could be severe.
We are talking across the Great Lakes and then into the north-eastern quarter and we're also going to see some these pop-up thunderstorms across the southeast, particularly into Florida and then across the four corners region.
So for tomorrow's commute tonight we'll pick the top five cities where we're expecting to see problems. Number five, San Francisco, looking for morning fog and clouds. Number four, Chicago, expecting to see some thunderstorms. And a lot of haze around throughout the day.
Miami, you will see the thunderstorms just like you did today. Some really heavy downpours expected. New York City, all it takes is a couple of thunderstorms to cause delays because of volume there. And the number one city we are expecting to see a lot of heavy rain and storms, that would be in Boston, Massachusetts. So be prepared for that, especially for the commute home.
One other thing, Don, that we're going to be watching in the work week ahead is tropical storm, Bret. This thing popped up as a tropical depression late this afternoon and early this evening. It's intensified a little bit since then. Right now, the best estimated track brings it like this. Not close enough to the coast, we don't think, to cause any problems. But there is not a lot of steering so we're going to be watching this thing in the upcoming days.
LEMON: You know, I like it when you do tomorrow's commute tonight. I saw that from the first station I have ever worked at. We set a big announcer voice that would come on and go, "And now, tomorrow's commute, tonight."
JERAS: You do that very well.
LEMON: Pretty funny.
JERAS: Will you do that for me every Sunday at 10:00? Can you do it?
LEMON: I'll do it. All right, we'll get Jacqui a little announcer card.
JERAS: Yes. That would be good.
LEMON: Thank you, Jacqui. Have a great week.
JERAS: Thanks.
LEMON: Ahead, we're going to let you in on a little secret. It's a secret dinner party I was invited to. None of us knew who was going to be there or why. We'll tell you about what it's all about, coming up.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK) LEMON: In tonight's "What Matters," our partnership with "Essence" magazine, talking with our mouths full for a reason -- to celebrate cultural diversity while discussing world issues.
It is a magic that happens every day at dinner tables the world over, as I found out this week at the CNN "Eatocracy" secret supper at the famous Red Rooster Restaurant in Harlem.
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KAT KINSMAN, MANAGING EDITOR, EATOCRACY: With this particular dinner we thought we're better than New York City to talk about food's role in cultural identity. So we've invited a bunch of people here tonight who have absolutely no idea who's going to be here. They didn't know until today where it was going to be happening. They just saw CNN Eatocracy, they've said yes, saved 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 just means so much to me. I mean, this is amazing.
KINSMAN: What I'm hoping is that everybody here 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.
EDDIE HUANG, CHEF/AUTHOR: Growing up in America, you know, I mean, food for me was probably the easiest thing to understand about like Chinese culture, growing up, things like that.
TREN'NESS WOODS-BLACK, SPOKESPERSON, SYLVIAN RESTAURANT: My cultural identity is grits. It's an acronym for girl raised in the south but I'm grits Harlem style.
I eat everything. I eat chitlins. I love beans all the time, and 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 a boiled peanut on plate. It's like a delicacy.
Food, conversation, a round table, that's when you're able to just let your guard down and just commune, and our main ingredient is love.
LEMON: It shouldn't surprise us, but yet it does. Everything comes together around the dinner table. The kitchen is the heart of the home. If you ever go to a house party everyone ends up in the kitchen for a reason. You can solve the world's problems in the kitchen or around the dinner table.
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LEMON: Straight ahead here on CNN, all the big stories affecting your week ahead.
And you've got to see this. We call her Mama Jazz, the nail lady. You will meet her later on in the show. (COMMERCIAL BREAK)
LEMON: Now to the big stories in the week ahead. From Washington to Hollywood, our correspondents tell you what you need to know. We begin tonight at the Pentagon.
BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: I'm Barbara Starr at the Pentagon. The big news this week, General David Petraeus on Monday will leave Afghanistan as commander of that war, and be replaced by Marine General John Allen. Petraeus will retire from the Army after decades of service, come back to Washington, and head the Central Intelligence Agency.
PAUL STEINHAUSER, CNN DEPUTY POLITICAL DIRECTOR: I'm Paul Steinhauser at the CNN Political Desk.
Tomorrow, former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty begins a five-day swing through Iowa. Doing well in the state that holds the first contest in the White House is crucial for his hopes of winning the Republican presidential nomination. Wednesday, what's being billed as the first-ever Twitter presidential debate. Six candidates will take part in the event being put on by an online Tea Party group.
POPPY HARLOW, HOST, CNN MONEY: I'm Poppy Harlow in New York. A long awaited watch dog agency in Washington opens its doors on Thursday. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will inspect the books of the country's biggest banks to be sure they are abiding by current credit card laws and respond to consumer complaints. But the White House has yet to appoint the CFPB's director due to opposition in Congress.
We'll also get key reports this week on the housing market and also earnings from G.E., Coca-Cola, Wells Fargo and Caterpillar. We'll track it all for you on "CNN Money."
CARLOS DIAZ, HOST, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT: I'm "Showbiz Tonight's" Carlos Diaz. Here's what we're watching this week.
Casey Anthony aftermath. The frenzy following Casey Anthony's release from jail.
Plus, the end is here for "Entourage." We'll talk to all of the stars from the hit HBO show.
Catch "Showbiz Tonight" exclusively week nights at 11:00 p.m. eastern and pacific right here on HLN.
LEMON: A.J. looks a little different. I wonder what he did.
OK, from the week ahead to news of the weird.
Nails as long as 26 inches. You're looking at Mama Jazz. And she'll show you how she functions with them -- next.
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(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) JAZZ ISON SINKFIELD, NAIL LADY: My nails, they don't actually stop me from doing anything. The only thing that I have had problems doing is tying shoes and that's just about it. But everything else -- I cook and clean.
I have no problem with cutting up my vegetables. It's a must that I keep my hands clean because I do come in close contact with preparing my meal.
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LEMON: OK, everybody. Welcome back.
I want to introduce you now to Jazz Sinkfield, an Atlanta woman who's been growing her nails for over 22 years. Now the longest, which is 26 inches long. You heard me. 26 inches long. Which one is that one?
SINKFIELD: This one.
LEMON: That one. This one. OK, I don't want to get close because I don't want to break them. If I break them, I'm in major trouble.
SINKFIELD: That's right.
LEMON: All right, Jazz. They call you Mama Jazz.
SINKFIELD: Right.
LEMON: OK.
SINKFIELD: OK.
LEMON: All right, so first, before I ask you how you do stuff because you answered a lot.
SINKFIELD: OK.
LEMON: 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. 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 acrylic back on them where it broke and mend them back together.
LEMON: So they never break at the base.
SINKFIELD: No.
LEMON: Never.
SINKFIELD: Never.
LEMON: Do you have to protect them with something?
SINKFIELD: I have acrylic.
LEMON: OK.
SINKFIELD: Yes.
LEMON: All right. So someone asked me on here, they said, do you have, from your nails, they said do you have any joint problems because are they heavy?
SINKFIELD: No, they're not heavy.
LEMON: Oh my God. I got to tell you, that is weird. You have to admit it's weird when people see you. Do they have a reaction? I mean, do you frighten children ever?
SINKFIELD: No, children are my biggest love ones to my nails actually.
LEMON: OK. All right, someone says how do you wash your hair?
SINKFIELD: I have a utensil, hair utensil that I just take and wash my hair with.
LEMON: OK. And this is from Twitter. MystiqueLady63 says, "OK, how does she sleep and how does she scratch the inside of her ear?"
SINKFIELD: OK.
LEMON: Did you see that?
SINKFIELD: No problem.
LEMON: It goes right in there. It's no problem.
SINKFIELD: Just go right in there.
LEMON: Yes.
SINKFIELD: Yes.
LEMON: Do you know -- are there other people who -- are you the nail champion?
SINKFIELD: I'm not aware that I am, no. LEMON: You're not aware.
SINKFIELD: No.
LEMON: I remember from years ago, there was a fingernail champion. This is the woman who was a secretary and her nails were that long.
SINKFIELD: OK.
LEMON: What do you do for a living? Are you a housewife? Or a housekeeper? Whatever. Housewife?
SINKFIELD: Yes.
LEMON: A homemaker, because that's what I meant to say. Yes?
SINKFIELD: Yes, that's OK.
LEMON: Yes? And your kids?
SINKFIELD: Five kids.
LEMON: They're all over there taking pictures and whatever, and they're cool with it.
SINKFIELD: They're cool with it.
LEMON: Do you ever go -- OK, 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.
LEMON: Never.
SINKFIELD: Because they are just like my family. We have a bond.
LEMON: All right. Would you get mad if I break one and kept it for a souvenir? I'm kidding.
SINKFIELD: This is priceless.
LEMON: Mama Jazz, thank you very much.
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LEMON: Mama Jazz is a sweetie.
Listen, I have to tell you this before we get out of here. Celebrities and people the world over will honor a hero tomorrow.
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WHOOPI GOLDBERG, ACTRESS AND TALK SHOW HOST: Happy birthday. There is nothing more to say. And in case I have put on a little weight and you don't recognize me, it's Whoopi. (END VIDEO CLIP)
LEMON: Talk show host and actress 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. And 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 the segregation policies of apartheid.
Also we want to check some of our headlines before we get out of here.
A crash involving a tour bus in Upstate, New York has left at least two people dead. Several others were injured in the accident which took place this afternoon on Interstate 390. A number of hospitals reportedly received patients from the crash. Those with more serious injuries were transported by helicopter.
Not only was there no carmageddon in Los Angeles, the highway project that was supposed to have caused it finished 17 hours ahead of schedule. Interstate 405 re-opened at noon local time today after crews finished demolishing a bridge earlier than expected.
The city was bracing itself this weekend when ten miles of Interstate 405 shut down. But traffic dropped by two-thirds averting the monster gridlock predicted.
The U.S. Women's soccer team's World Cup Quest has ended in heartbreak. The American team lost the final to Japan on penalty kicks after overtime, and it ended with a 2-2 tie.
Congratulations to Japan.
I'm Don Lemon at the CNN World Headquarters in Atlanta. Thank you so much for watching. I'll see you back here next weekend. Good night.
