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The Presidential Medal Of Freedom; Murder Suspects Escape In Arkansas; "Flame" Burns Middle East Computers; Preparing For The Jubilee; A Princess Becomes A Queen; Romney To Clinch GOP Nomination; Interview with Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison

Aired May 29, 2012 - 14:00   ET

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BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, everyone, I'm Brooke Baldwin. Top of the hour, a lot bubbling at this moment. Let's get right to it.

First, some exciting pictures coming at us over the course of the next few hours. Live during the show, the president is going to be giving out 13 people, the highest award a civilian can receive, that being the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

And by the looks of some of these faces, I know you recognize a couple of them. You have legendary rocker, Bob Dylan. Former secretary of state, Madeleine Albright. Former astronaut and U.S. senator, John Glenn and Tennessee basketball star, Pat Summitt.

So we're going to bring all of that to you live. But first, just in to us here, as primary voters in Texas hit the booths, word of a shooting near a polling station. In fact, here's some video just back from the scene. This is San Juan, Texas.

Here's what we know. A campaign worker reportedly shot in the leg and the suspect is on the run. This is happening, as I mentioned, in San Juan, Texas. This is in south Texas. If you're familiar, this is very close to the border with Mexico.

Want to begin by bringing in Yvonne Ramon, the elections administrator in the county. And, Yvonne, so this happened near a polling station? Can you tell me how near? What happened?

YVONNE RAMON, ELECTIONS ADMINISTRATOR: Well, allegedly, Brooke, there was a shooting that took place. And some supporter of a candidate was standing in their sight and allegedly a vehicle drove by and the person was shot in the leg.

And I called the poll location immediately as soon as I found out and the judge of the poll location had no knowledge that this had taken place because, of course, it didn't happen in the poll location area. It was across the street And a ways away.

So there was no ruckus or anything like that, that the polls have remained open and the people have continued to vote. The only details that I have is that the person was taken for medical care.

BALDWIN: That was my next question, how is that person's injuries. Is this a he or a she?

RAMON: It was a man.

BALDWIN: This was a man. So the man was shot and he was taken to the hospital?

RAMON: Yes, he was. He was taken for medical care. And I just got off the phone with San Juan police department and they did say that they do have extra security there now, but that everything is calm and things have continued as they were before.

BALDWIN: OK. So really the obvious question is why. I know this happened too recently for anyone really to know. Just to be clear. And if you -- if we can help you, you said this person is now on the run. Do you have any kind of vehicle description? Description of what this individual, this shooter looked like?

RAMON: We don't have any information like that, because the officer that I spoke to at the San Juan police department says that no one heard the shot. And so that's why I think it maybe took a while for them to respond. And it wasn't until the alleged victim went ahead and notified that this had happened.

BALDWIN: I understand. Yvonne Ramon, thank you for calling in. If you do or the authorities in the area finally do find this individual, please let us know. We would love to update it.

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BALDWIN: Meantime, let's talk about Syria here. Syria has hit the point where it is spiraling out of control. They have fighting across the country. We're going to show you some of that here. But we're also getting some new details about that massacre that happened Friday night. We talked about this yesterday, just the sheer numbers, 49 children among the victims, total 108 victims.

Today, the United Nations is saying, yes, it is clear beyond a doubt that the Syrian government absolutely played a role here.

So let me show you this. Watch this with me. This is newly acquired video. This shows when and where it happened. You hear that? This is Friday evening. This is the Syrian city of Houla. You can hear and see this tank shell exploding, the smoke there filling the streets. But that is not the way most of the victims died. Listen to this, if you would.

RUPERT COLVILLE, SPOKESMAN, U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICE: A tiny small number appeared to be killed by shelling, artillery and tank fire, which took place over a period of more than 12 hours, but the majority appear to have been the result of house-to-house summary executions of armed men going into houses and killing men, women and children inside.

BALDWIN: Going into houses and killing these children inside of them. It's an astonishing charge by the United Nations, which now is saying the Syrian government massacred these women and these children. With me now from Turkey, Syria's neighbor to the north is CNN's Ivan Watson.

And, Ivan, the shocking charge, it's pretty shocking, is it not, coming from the U.N.?

IVAN WATSON, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Yes, Brooke, if you listen to more of that interview, he goes on to accuse the pro-government militia, who are known as shabiha, which roughly translates into ghosts, directly accuses them of killing these people, saying that they are probably the ones who killed most of the people who died, including some 49 children under the age of 10, some of them who appear to have been hit with axes.

And in my nearly 15 months of covering this crisis and this brutal crackdown on the Syrian opposition -- it began as a peaceful protest movement, calling for democracy -- I don't think we've ever seen atrocities to this scale. And this is in a country that has seen no shortage of bloodshed with thousands of people killed.

Even worse, is talking to eyewitnesses and survivors of of what happened in Houla on Friday night. We talked to a little boy, who's supposed to be around the age of 11, who witnessed shabiha, these pro- government militia, who sometimes wear jeans and sneakers, shoot his mother in front of his own eyes, and at least two of his siblings. They left him for dead, he says. He's now an orphan.

BALDWIN: In the 15 months you say you've been covering this, this is absolutely the worst of the worst. And we have reports, Ivan, of fighting from all around the country. We just want to show our viewers just some of that. Take a look.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (Speaking foreign language).

BALDWIN (voice-over): So Ivan, my next question, is this: is this beginning to resemble a Bosnia-like situation where it's not just rebels fighting the government, but something much worse, where you have ethnic group fighting and killing another ethnic group within the same country? It's basically everyone for themselves. Is that a proper way of characterizing this?

WATSON: Well, there's definitely a sectarian and a growing sectarian dimension to the violence. I think it's important to note that there's still a government in Syria that has more weapons than anybody else.

The Syrian government has tanks and helicopters and artillery as well as troops and has shown no hesitation about using them, even after signing on to a U.N.-brokered peace plan about two months ago that the U.N. special envoy to Syria is trying to revive today, if you can imagine.

Within 24 to 36 hours of this massacre taking place in Houla, we were getting reports that the Syrian artillery were shelling another city, Hama, and killing scores of people there. There's no sign the violence is going to stop.

The real reaction that we've seen since the Houla massacre, and these revelations have come out, is that the U.S. and about seven or eight other countries have expelled Syrian ambassadors and senior diplomats from their capitals.

BALDWIN: So let me jump in, Ivan, because --

WATSON: I don't think that's going to bring an end to -- yes, sure.

BALDWIN: That was my question, right? So you have all these countries. They're kicking out these Syrian diplomats, but the question really is, so by doing this, how does that really hurt the Assad regime?

WATSON: To be honest, is that going to stop the kind of massacre that we saw on Friday? No way. This government has been condemned repeatedly by the international community. It's been accused repeatedly by the United Nations of committing crimes against humanity for the better part of a year and three months. And it has not stopped carrying out this kind of violence.

Why would losing its ambassadors and charges d'affaire in a couple of western capitals stop it from continuing what it's doing?

And in the meantime, the rebels are arming themselves up dramatically. They're getting access to new weapons. They're not a cohesive armed unit and they're carrying out revenge attacks as we speak right now.

One rebel commander I talked to, Brooke, claimed responsibility for torching a police station in a town hall in a northern town just Monday. And these people are calling for the blood of the same sectarian group as the Syrian president, Bashar al Assad, that Alawite minority, which is disproportionately represented in the Syrian security forces and in the government.

BALDWIN: Ivan Watson, 15 months and counting. It is horrendous and it needs to stop. Ivan, thank you so much, reporting live (inaudible).

We have more news for you here unfolding right. "Rapid Fire," roll it.

Tonight the presumed Republican nominee for president will finally earn the numbers to back up that title, Mitt Romney expected to meet -- to reach that magic number, 1,144 delegates he needs to clinch the nomination with a win in today's Texas primary, and then he will become the official nominee at the Republican Convention in August.

And new numbers out today reveal the lowest average home prices since mid-2002, the lowest, major cities like Atlanta, Chicago, New York saw home prices hit new lows in March. Experts say affordable mortgages combined with much lower home prices should help to bolster the housing market now.

Leon Panetta, Secretary of Defense, delivering his very first commencement speech as the head of the Defense Department. He spoke to hundreds of graduates at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

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LEON PANETTA, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: Our nation now looks to you, the next generation of military leaders, to confront the challenges I just outlined, to protect our nation and to ensure that America always has the strongest military force in the world.

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BALDWIN: And a witness says a piece of that plane that fell from the sky yesterday was, quote, "so hot you couldn't touch it."

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BALDWIN (voice-over): Here are pictures of it. It's about the size of a BlackBerry. This happened in Toronto. Canada's Transportation Safety Board confirms pieces of an engine fell from an Air Canada 777 shortly after takeoff.

DON ENNS, TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD, CANADA: It did have a failure in the back end of that engine at the end that produces the power. And this is the debris that came out of a tail pipe of that. Exactly what happened with the initiating event was, as of yet, we haven't gotten into it enough so that we don't really know.

BALDWIN: Can you imagine having that falling on your car? The plane heading to Tokyo with 344 people onboard, the engine problems forced the plane to turn around. No one was hurt.

First lady Michelle Obama making the TV rounds today. She stopped by "Good Morning America," stopped by "The View." She's not talking any heavy politics, though. She's rather talking about growing gardens, raising healthier children. The ladies on "The View" asked she had ever thought about running for office.

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MICHELLE OBAMA, FIRST LADY: There are so many ways to serve, and being president is one of the hardest ways, and that's one of the reasons why I tell Barack I'm a little smarter than him. I've picked the easier job.

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OBAMA: But, no, I have no interest in politics. Never have, never will.

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BALDWIN: First lady there just this morning. Got a lot more for you. Watch this.

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BALDWIN (voice-over): It's known as the Flame, a powerful virus infecting computers and like James Bond, its expertise is spying.

Plus, if Donald Trump is still a birther, apparently Mitt Romney isn't bothered, because tonight in Vegas, they're meeting face to face.

Plus, radioactive debris (ph), radiation from Japan's nuclear crisis now found in fish off the coast of California.

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BALDWIN: Just into us here at CNN, a judge in the John Edwards corruption trial is telling the jurors not to talk in small groups or talk where others can overhear. Perhaps this is a problem in North Carolina.

Let's go to Joe Johns. He joins me live outside that courthouse for us in Greensboro, North Carolina. Joe, I know this is day seven now of deliberations. Tell me, why is the judge saying this? What's going on?

JOE JOHNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, you know, it's interesting, Brooke. She's been giving instructions along these lines the entire time, but what's a little bit different about this one that she gave just before lunch -- and actually she also gave it on Friday, right before they went out, is that she's sort of suggesting to them, don't form groups in and among yourselves.

Don't talk among yourselves when you're not all together. Don't, the suggestion is, form coalitions. So that sounds a little bit different. We don't know why she started changing the instructions slightly.

And the other big secret or the other big thing of interest right now is there have been two secret meetings, just the judge and the lawyers present, apparently not the jury, no public allowed in the courtroom, no media allowed in the courtroom. And they' been talking something over for about half an hour on Friday, again this morning around 9 o'clock before the jury came in.

We've really been trying to get some sense as to what the judge is talking about and whether it could affect the outcome of this trial. But, you know, nothing conclusive, because all of this, secret proceedings, right? When a jury goes in to start deliberating, really nobody knows what goes on back there.

BALDWIN: What about --

JOHNS: So, you know, anybody's guess. BALDWIN: Right. So no point in guessing right now. But what about the news apparently there's some scheduling conflicts with some of these jurors? Are they going to have to put off deliberations for this?

JOHNS: Right. Yes, well, that's interesting, some jurors apparently raising concerns about high school graduations coming up here.

BALDWIN: Oh, no.

JOHNS: You know, this is graduation time. Right, yes, and so what are you going to do? If you have people who really want to go out to these graduation ceremonies and they're not able to, is that going to affect their ability to deliberate?

So that's something else the judge said she had to take into consideration. Who knows? Is she going to cancel things for a little while or postpone or tell them just keep pushing on through? There are also four alternates. So perhaps they can be put in place, too, if time allows, if you will.

BALDWIN: Can you imagine not getting to see your child graduate high school because of this trial that is going on? I guess that's why they have alternates, we'll see. Joe Johns, appreciate it, playing the waiting game for us in Greensboro.

Meantime Chicago is on the world stage, just a week ago when President Obama hosted leaders to the NATO summit in town. But today, the city is making headlines because of a very long weekend of killings.

Police say 10 people are dead, more than 40 people were shot, just over this past Memorial Day holiday, including a 7-year-old girl. Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel talked about the violence in a press conference just a couple hours ago.

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RAHM EMANUEL, CHICAGO MAYOR: There's a set of economic issues we're not even talking about. There's a set of cultural issues we're not talking about that also feed into this. And when I say that, at a certain point, a community gets -- I don't want to say, is almost immune, where there should be more outrage by a community.

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BALDWIN: We are told most of the violence happened on the city's south side.

Two towns hit by earthquakes days apart here. Now people forced to live in tents, afraid of the aftershocks and wondering if they can ever rebuild.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) BALDWIN: Italians they are very much so on edge today, not sure if the sky will fall, the ground will give way, because for the second time here in nine days, they have suffered this deadly earthquake.

At least 15 people died when a 5.0 point magnitude quake hit northern Italy today, in the same area a 6.0 earthquake struck back on May 20th. Seven people died than. All the while, when you have an earthquake, you have aftershocks.

And some of them have been as strong as the initial quakes themselves. They keep coming and coming. Take a look at this. This is one aftershock caught on camera.

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VIOLETTA GALIA, WITNESS: I will never feel safe because we have -- we're still having quakes so every three or five minutes.

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BALDWIN: Every three or five minutes? CNN's Ayesha Durgahee is live for us in Cavezzo, Italy, and I just want to point out, Ayesha, these are the network's very first live pictures from this earthquake zone. Here's what I know, corroborate these numbers with me. Hundreds have been hurt. Now we're hearing 14,000 displaced. Do those numbers hold? And do me a favor and just show me some of the damage.

AYESHA DURGAHEE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Right. Well, Brooke, we've come to the -- one of the hardest-hit areas of the village of Cavezzo. And when we were approaching the village, all the roads were closed off.

And once we got beyond the red tape, then we started to see evidence of the impact of the earthquake, with great big cracks down the sides of the buildings and a bent stop sign. And it's only when you come to the center of Cavezzo, where you see the impact of the total destruction and the power of this earthquake --

BALDWIN: Wow.

DURGAHEE: -- which has completely floored this building. That used to be on the ground floor some shops and offices, and on the top floor, some residential flats.

And the areas that we're in at the moment, we're standing in the car park of the center of kavetzo. And there aren't that many residents that we've seen here. And a lot of people are actually huddled around their cars and sitting in the boots of their cars, talking to other residents of the village.

And we saw a lot of people in open spaces in between the houses, just sitting down on household furniture and chairs, looking understandably very shocked.

BALDWIN: Ayesha, can I ask you to -- let's just -- we'll just do this live. You tell me if you can do this. Step out of the picture and have whoever is behind the camera sort of push in on some of the destruction. And my question to you, if we can do this, is what we're seeing there, is that indicative of this entire town?

DURGAHEE: Well, there have been reports -- let me just step out of the shot so that we can get some close shots of the destruction. But there have been some reports that about 77 or 75 percent of this town, of this village has been destroyed. And speaking to some locals here, they say that about 30 percent of the really old buildings haven't been so lucky.

But driving through the village, we do see a lot of houses and restaurants and shops still intact. But there is a definite sense of sadness and a little bit of caution, which is understandable after an earthquake this morning and the recurrent aftershocks throughout the day.

BALDWIN: Absolutely understandably so. And hopefully they are prepared and have places to go for the night. Ayesha Durgahee with our very first live pictures here out of Cavezzo, Italy. Ayesha, we appreciate it.

Live during this show, President Obama is going to be awarding 13 Medals of Freedom. And you will definitely recognize some of the names. We're talking Toni Morrison, John Glenn, Madeleine Albright, Bob Dylan and several more. We're going to go live to the White House on why they were chosen.

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BALDWIN: In just about an hour from now, the president will bestow the nation's highest civilian honor on 13 people. The Presidential Medal of Freedom will go to civil rights activists, medical pioneers, musicians among others. White House correspondent Brianna Keilar joins us live from Washington with a preview.

And, Brianna, obviously, I've looked through this list. I know you have as well. Very excited to see the third American in space, first to orbit the earth, Mr. John Glenn honored today. Who else?

BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right. And I know you'll like this one. Among the 13, someone who will be honored, Brooke, for their contributions to music as well as civil rights. That is Bob Dylan. He's being honored in part because of the impact that all of his music -- or a lot of his music had on the Civil Rights Movement.

And also John Glenn, as you mentioned, probably most remembered -- not remembered, but sort of honored in our minds for the fact that he was the first American to orbit earth, but also that as a 77-year- old, he was the oldest person in space.

And then also Pat Summitt. This is one very dear I think to the hearts of a lot of female athletes, the former coach of the Tennessee Lady Vols. She recently stepped aside as she has a battle that she's fighting against Alzheimer's. But she is, remains the most winningest NCAA coach so some very important names.

BALDWIN: Yes, led her team to more, what is it, more NCAA final four appearances than any other team. You know, in basketball history, which is very impressive. But there are other names, some of these folks are no longer with us, but their story is equally impressive?

KEILAR: That's right. Some of the folks will be at the ceremony, but there are others who are receiving this award posthumously. One that sticks out to me is a former Girl Scout, Juliet Gordon Lowe, the founder of the Girl Scouts.

It is the 100th anniversary of the organization, so that's probably why she's being honored. And also Gordon Hirobayashi, this is one you may not know of his name, Brooke, but it's pretty interesting.

He's a Japanese-American who contested his evacuation order to an internment camp during World War II. Took his battle all the way up to the Supreme Court, lost, but ultimately come 1987, his criminal charges for violating that were taken back. So he had quite a battle.

BALDWIN: So in just about an hour from now, we will dip in live. Brianna Keilar, thank you so much. Again, that's happening at the White House next hour.

Meantime, we'll be hearing a lot about flame. This is a computer virus that can track network traffic, record conversations, and spy on other countries. We're going to tell you about the damage it's already causing and the speculation about who is behind it.

Also, a quick reminder if you're headed out the door, keep watching. Grab your mobile phone. If you're at work, hop on to your desk top, your laptop. Just go to cnn.com/tv.

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BALDWIN: Happening right now, this frantic manhunt is on for these two murder suspects in Arkansas. Police say these two men, get a good long look here. This is Quincy Stewart and Cortez Hooper, they broke out this jail, this Miller County Jail, early Monday morning.

Their escape tactics seemingly pulled right out of the movies. Authorities say they somehow had a hacksaw blade to then cut through the metal bars on their second floor cell window.

Used the bars to shatter the glass, push the mattress out of -- to cushion their fall from that second storey window. They then climbed over a 10 foot tall razor wire fence to freedom. How the suspects got the blade to manage to get away, authorities don't quite know.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) MARTY BRAZELL, WARDEN: In a normal security check, they discovered that we had had an escape. We're going to use every method at our disposal to try to find them and get them back in the jail as soon as possible.

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BALDWIN: Let's get a little bit more on this manhunt, shall we, from Duke Schofield, he is the chief deputy sheriff in Miller County, joins me by phone.

Sheriff, let's just begin with the latest. How is the search coming and really, how in the world do these guys get a hacksaw in jail?

CHIEF DEPUTY SHERIFF DUKE SCHOFIELD, MILLER COUNTY, ARKANSAS (via telephone): That's a secondary investigation we're conducting at this time. There should be a use press conference around 4:00 today. We plan on clearing that matter up, but I'm not at liberty to divulge much more on that.

BALDWIN: So on that if I can just jump in. So you have an answer to that, we just have to wait until 4:00 your time to find out?

SCHOFIELD: That's correct. We're working on that and I think we're going to sort it out by 4:00 this afternoon.

BALDWIN: You don't want to tell me on live TV, just break the news with us right here?

SCHOFIELD: No, ma'am, I cannot. It's still under investigation. We're at the point where we're getting some warrants issued. And not until a suspect in custody will I divulge this information.

BALDWIN: All right, can't blame a gal for asking. So back to the search, how is it going?

SCHOFIELD: And I'm sorry, I apologize, I cannot hear you.

BALDWIN: Let me try this again, Sheriff, can you hear me now?

SCHOFIELD: No, ma'am, I can't.

BALDWIN: OK, we're going to work on getting the sheriff back up for you. Duke Schofield there as they are trying to find these two guys, they escaped from this prison early Monday morning. We'll see where that obviously the search stands and what the deal is with the hacksaw.

Meantime, I'll move on. The second annual CNN I-Report awards are underway. You can participate. We hope you participate. We have scoured through these thousands of I-Reports submitted last year.

Select the most compelling examples. I was honored to be asked to be one of the seven judges here on this I-Report up panel. So now we're giving you the chance to choose the Community Choice Award nominee, the one you think best represents the I-Report in all of 2011.

So each and every Tuesday and Thursday, we're going to highlight top notch I-Reporters so take a look and then I want you go to cnnireportawards.com to vote cnnireportawards.com. Here are the nominees for personal interview.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We still want a dialogue, we still want the freedom. We still want reform.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I pour my vacuum cleaner out. I go through my house from ceiling down.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Several life crises. This is how we portrayed space clothes. No different from "Lost in Space."

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The idea is to save 30,000 lives to commemorate those lives that were lost on 9/11.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think the scandal boosted me to a whole new world that I was never involved with before, geez!

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I don't think the world really understands what collective bargaining means to a huge work force.

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BALDWIN: A spy has taken sensitive information from all across the Middle East breaking into computer networks and hitting Iran especially hard. But we are not talking about a human spy here. I'm talking about a sophisticated piece of malware being that's being called "The Flame."

That firm that discovered it is calling them one of the most complex threats ever discovered. Let me bring in Suzanne Kelly. She's all over this.

She's in CNN national security unit. So Suzanne, the biggest question is who created this flame malware, this virus. Might it be Israel? Might it be the U.S.?

SUZANNE KELLY, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY UNIT: Well, Brooke, the world would love to know the answer to that question. A Russian lab discovered it. As you said, saying that at first, it didn't even looked malware at all.

They decided, however, to dedicate resources to take a closer look at it. It took several days, but a picture started to take form because of the sophistication of the code. You think source, think sophistication.

Now, they believe this malware originated with a nation state, a country. Judging by the list of targets, one chief of security at an analysis said it's likely a western country behind it. Now, of course, we don't know because they don't make a habit of stepping up saying yes, with did it.

BALDWIN: So we don't know that. Do we know what exactly the flame does?

KELLY: We do. Now unlike the stock's (inaudible), which you might remember. We saw that used against an Iranian nuclear facility last year.

That actually wrote in a code that caused centrifuges that were used to enrich uranium, to spin to the point that it caused physical damage to themselves.

This is different. This is an intelligence gathering tool. Now it's something that can record conversations. It can record instant message chats. It can even delete data they say. It can create screen graphs.

So essentially it's putting that person on the other end in the same room with you.

BALDWIN: So as we're listening to this, it sounds pretty sophisticated for the takeaway for the viewer who has a computer and is thinking might this happen to my computer, is that possible or no?

KELLY: Well, you know, it's interesting to look at how sophisticated it is and then look at the target. The Russian lab tried to follow the command and control servers and the infrastructure, but it turned out to be more than a dozen different servers located in many different countries, geographically far from each other.

One of the reasons why there are no traces pointing to any particular country, it's a little tough. So far most of the countries that have been affected are mostly in the Middle East. So we are not looking at countries.

We don't have reports of anybody here in the U.S. being a target, but 189 incidents were detected in Iran. That was by far the biggest target. It's 98 in Israel or the Palestinian territories.

Thirty two incidents detected in Sudan, 30 in Syria, 18 in Lebanon. You're seeing a pattern develop here. U.S. Intelligence agencies have been unusually careful about what they say about this.

Now, a Department of Homeland Security official did tell me that DHS was notified of the malware and it's been working with our federal partners to determine and analyze its potential impact on the U.S.

But bottom line on this so far, Brooke, it doesn't look like the U.S. is a target of this virus. BALDWIN: Yes, key word there potential Suzanne Kelly, thank you, Suzanne. She's been on the throne for 60 years, married for 65. Queen Elizabeth is known for her walk abouts and her speeches. But her private life has remained just that, private, behind palace doors. We're going to crack the door open just a bit here as we get ready for the diamond jubilee.

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BALDWIN: So exciting. We are days away from the crown jewel event. It will be seen all around world. We'll be broadcasting live on CNN, of course.

Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee, celebrating her 60 years since ascension to the throne way back in 1952. This is going to be a huge four-day celebration in London. A million people that's what I'm reading.

A million people are expected for an event that really in pageantry alone is expected to dwarf Prince William's royal wedding. But for all of her decades on the throne, the queen has remained one very, very private woman.

Joining me live from London is Mark Saunders, royal biographer. Mark, I have to say I'm hopping a flight to London tomorrow after the show. I'm so excited to be covering this.

And in all my reading and I just finished reading the latest biography on the queen. I was most amazed that she has never done in her 60 years, never done a sit-down interview. Why?

MARK SAUNDERS, ROYAL BIOGRAPHER: I don't know the answer to that, to be honest with you. I think it's because anything the queen has to say is usually said through parliament or through her advisers.

There's a certain mystique to the royal family, which the queen has always wanted to keep. And the idea I think with sitting down face to face and being asked what is probably personal questions is abhorrent to her.

But let's not forget in 1969, the queen did allow BBC cameras to film the royal family. And even though the documentary was a major success and for the first time the British public saw the royal family in the comfort of their own home, the queen hated it.

She really did feel the cat was left out of the bag and what was to happen in later years pretty much proved her right.

BALDWIN: I know she writes in a diary every night. So perhaps one day someone will have access to that. We can only perhaps hope. But let me ask you this, it's very interesting to me that the difference between her public persona, so stoic, so regal.

She's criticized for not smiling enough or the private side of her, I was reading, former Prime Minister Tony Blair calling her very street wise. I know she loves to drive. She owns an iPod thanks to President Obama. Why is that that the public and the private is so different?

SAUNDERS: I think it's simply because the queen, the monarch has to be all powerful. And the private side of her, she's a person who loves to laugh. Everyone who has ever spent time with the queen in private says she does enjoy a very good laugh.

She also enjoys be being surrounded by her family, but I think the pressure of monarchy, which is intense to say the least. It must be one to be relieved to kick off their shoes the end of the day.

And Windsor Castle is actually her home. That's where she lives and she often just puts her feet up and indeed actually has a pizza.

BALDWIN: And she loves her corgis. You talk about the pressure of being queen. I listen to reports from Nairobi, there's the Queen Elizabeth suite to Three Tops hotel in Kenya. Tell me about the day she learned her father died and she became queen.

SAUNDERS: Well, I mean, remember King George VI had been ill for some time. It was quite a lingering illness. In fact, in October of '51, the queen who's at that conference -- attended a dinner at the White House in Washington, D.C. with President Truman.

They had a declaration ready to go if the king died that night. There probably would have been a certain amount of irony involved with the next queen of England being announced from Washington, D.C., from the White House.

But later on, they went unofficially to Australia, New Zealand. They had a holiday in Kenya and it was all they were there that they died. The duke of Edinborough was told. It is about who is now queen?

She was allowed sometimes to herself, to compose herself and they asked her which name she would like to be called. She said I would like to keep the name Elizabeth and she walked out. And now her aides were suddenly her subjects.

BALDWIN: Quickly, Mark, I'm going to be in London in 48 hours. What one thing in London can I not miss as I cover the jubilee?

SAUNDERS: You mustn't miss buying me a cup of coffee, obviously a major thing. But just enjoy it. You know, I always say to everybody here, everybody at CNN seems to be 30 years younger than me.

And I always say don't let it go over your head. You're watching history. This is 60 years of one monarch. Not since Queen Victoria has this happened. So just enjoy the time.

BALDWIN: Right, 1897, she's the only monarch to have this diamond jubilee. Mark Saunders, I cannot wait and I'll see you for coffee, sir. Thank you so much.

The big event, by the way, this coming weekend, we're going to bring you all the incredible, historic festivities live in London. I'll be there alongside Piers Morgan for the queen's diamond jubilee. It's a royal celebration. Our live coverage begins this Sunday morning at 11:00 Eastern. I will see you from London.

Mitt Romney unofficially clinches the nomination tonight. But in the spotlight here, his relationship with Donald Trump and Trump's fascination with the president's birth certificate, we'll stick live.

Why Kay Bailey Hutchinson wait so long to endorse Mitt Romney. Plus, the U.S. government kicks out the number two guy in the Syrian embassy and the developments they keep breaking after that horrendous massacre. Dozens of Syrian children killed this weekend.

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BALDWIN: It has been inevitable for weeks now and some would say a lot longer than that. Mitt Romney will likely hit the magic number in the Texas primaries tonight.

The magic number we've been talking about for months now that being 1,144, the number of delegates leaded to clinch the nomination. Now he's been doing the celebrating in Las Vegas.

This is where he's going to be tonight a fundraiser with Donald Trump along with Newt Gingrich. I want to bring in Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. She's a Romney supporter.

Senator, nice to see you. Talking Texas, how excited are you that he's going to clinch the party's nomination tonight in your state?

SEN. KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON (R), TEXAS: Well, we're very excited that Texas is going to put him over the top. We had hoped to be more of a player in the primary. Usually our primaries are March 3, early March.

And we wanted to really work for him and give him that boost that he certainly need we had a problem with re-districting. So they put the primary off until today. So now we'll put him over the top and hope that's a good thing that he'll recognize.

BALDWIN: Tonight is the night, but I do know it was just two weeks ago, you endorsed Mitt Romney. Why wait until just two weeks to go? Why was he not your first choice?

HUTCHISON: Actually, it was because they moved the primary. I wanted to make my endorsement during the Texas primary because I thought that that would make the most sense. I was prepared to go in March and it got put off, put off. Now obviously after he had the nomination, there was no reason to hold back until this primary because it was a done deal.

BALDWIN: Now, we mentioned tonight and we know Mitt Romney won't be in Texas. He's going to be in Vegas, this fundraiser with Donald Trump. He's still not letting this birther nonsense go. And this is what Romney said when asked if that worried him.

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ROMNEY: I don't agree with all the people who support me just as they don't agree with everything I believe in. But I need to get 51.1 percent and I appreciative the help of a lot of good people.

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BALDWIN: Now Romney says he believes President Obama was born here in the United States. Why can't he just answer the Trump question directly and say you know what, Donald Trump, you're wrong. Why can't he do that?

HUTCHISON: Well, I sort of thought he did say that. I think he has said it before. I think he said look, the people who have spoken on that issue, and it's not anything that's going to determine how people vote.

BALDWIN: Isn't it that just sort of nebulous and maybe dodging the direct, I don't agree with you, you're wrong. Why not go that far?

HUTCHISON: Well, I think because he dependent want to offend Donald Trump that maybe differ from his. Donald Trump has been a supporter of Mitt Romney, and why would he want to openly offend Donald Trump.

He doesn't need to do it. He's on the record. He has said he thinks this is not an issue that people ought to be talking about anymore. He says he thinks that president Obama was born in America. Let's let it all go. Let's stop nitpicking and talk about the issues people care about like jobs.

BALDWIN: Let's talk about this supposed war on women. I know you battled it out with Governor Rick Perry, the state of Texas. He defunded Planned Parenthood in your state. So I just want to play you something that Mitt Romney said about cutting the deficit. Take a listen.

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MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Is the program so critical, it's worth borrowing many from China to pay for it? And on that basis, of course, you get rid of Obamacare. That's the easy one. But there are others. Planned Parenthood, we're going to get rid of that.

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BALDWIN: Get rid of Planned Parenthood. So why is Rick Perry wrong for wanting to get rid of Planned Parenthood, but Mitt Romney isn't? Because if Romney becomes president, Perry is governor. I know that Planned Parenthood, reading it's funded by the government, a third of it is funded by the government. Where do they get that third of funding from?

HUTCHISON: Well, I think the point here is that Planned Parenthood does abortions.

And I think that Mitt Romney and Governor Perry and myself do not believe that government should in any way be funding abortions, because so many people don't believe that that's the right thing to do and their taxpayer dollars shouldn't be spent on doing abortions.

BALDWIN: But you disagreed with Rick Perry on the issue.

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HUTCHISON: ... on the other side of it -- what I disagreed is that they are not allowing the side of Planned Parenthood to give the services to women, the contraceptive services, the mammograms, the kind of health care that these women are not getting anywhere else.

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BALDWIN: So given that health care...

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BALDWIN: Forgive me for interrupting, but then would -- is Mitt Romney wrong for wanting to defund Planned Parenthood?

HUTCHISON: I think he's talking about the abortions that Planned Parenthood does, not the health care services.

We don't -- I mean, we, myself, Mitt Romney, no one believes that we should defund the health care services that are given to poor women. If they want to find an alternative place to do those, then I think that's the right way to go.

But to talk about defunding the only organization that does these contraceptive and health care services that protect women from cancer getting out of control before they catch it, then I think we're talking about having to give those services. So I think that was the dustup.

BALDWIN: Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, I appreciate you coming on. Thank you so much.

HUTCHISON: You bet.

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BALDWIN: And quick note to all of you. Quick note for "THE SITUATION ROOM." Donald Trump will join Wolf Blitzer live. Stay tuned of course for that interview.