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Aired June 05, 2012 - 15:00   ET

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KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR: It's something that has only succeeded twice in our nation's history, recalling a governor. Democrats are hoping Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker will be number three.

At this moment, voters are deciding whether to dump him or keep him quite simply. A recall effort began after Walker stripped away many collective bargain rights for public workers in a budget repair bill.

Walker is up against the Democratic mayor of Milwaukee, Tom Barrett, and this is actually a rematch for the two. Walker beat Barrett to win the governor's race back in 2010.

Let's bring in our own Jessica Yellin, who is on top of this.

Hey there, Jessica.

So why is Wisconsin -- you know, kind of taking from it a broader perspective, why is Wisconsin getting so much national attention?

JESSICA YELLIN, CNN CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Kate.

Well, it's because many people are looking at this as sort of a bellwether for the presidential election and for the November elections broadly, not necessarily legitimately because both leading Democrats and leading Republicans say Wisconsin is its own microcosm.

But the reason it is so relevant is because debt and spending have been major issues there. Those are major national issues. And many of the big-picture issues we have seen play out across the nation are playing out in Wisconsin right now, namely money and the influence of super PACs.

An independent nonpartisan group, Kate, estimates that $70 million to $80 million will be spent in the state of Wisconsin. That's mind-blowing in a state where airtime is so inexpensive. Governor Walker has outspent his Democrat 7-1. Governor Walker today has raised $30.5 million to the Democrat Barrett's $4 million.

That's not even taking into account how much the outside spending groups, labor unions and super PACs, are pouring in. And then there's the other big question -- I will leave it at this -- the big issue that both sides, Democrats and Republicans, are using this as an opportunity to organize the state for November -- Kate. BOLDUAN: Absolutely.

I mean, the numbers, the money numbers, it's just really astounding when you think about it.

But one question I had for you, Jessica, President Obama won Wisconsin in '08. There have been a lot of big-name surrogates that have been going in on both sides of this recall election.

YELLIN: Yes.

BOLDUAN: Should we read anything into the fact that President Obama himself has not made a stop in Wisconsin for Tom Barrett?

YELLIN: Well, you know, the Obama team here points out that they have both endorsed the president, endorsed Barrett. And he tweeted yesterday that he fully supports him and wants him to win. But that's not the same as an actual visit.

Here's what Barrett himself had to say when he was interviewed on CNN.

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TOM BARRETT (D), WISCONSIN GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE: I think that there are some that want to make it a national election. That's part of my gripe about this is I don't want Wisconsin to be the experimental dish for the right wing. I want Wisconsin to return to Wisconsin values.

So, there are some, particularly on the other side, who do want to nationalize this.

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YELLIN: So, in other words, there are downsides for Barrett for a presidential visit, just as there are downsides to the president visiting Barrett right before he might lose.

The bottom line is the Obama campaign emphasizes that they have dedicated much -- many resources to the state, plenty of their ground game. And I would point out, Kate, no Republican has won Wisconsin in a presidential election since 1984.

BOLDUAN: We are sure, if the Republican could win that, we will be hearing that a lot more as we approach November. Thank you so much, Jessica Yellin at the White House for us.

So, we thought this was interesting for you. Only two governors in the history of the country have been successfully recalled. A lot of you will probably remember one of them, Gray Davis, because of who replaced him.

In 2003, the Democrat lost a recall election to Arnold Schwarzenegger. Many California voters blame Davis at the time for skyrocketing energy costs. For the other example, you have to go all the way back to 1921 in North Dakota. Voters recalled Governor Lynn Frazier in the middle of a depression. But his political career wasn't quite over. He was elected to the Senate the very next year. I guess short memories.

We have got a lot more to cover this hour. Here's what's ahead.

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BOLDUAN (voice-over): The Mouse makes a bold new move.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The Walt Disney Company will be the first mayor media company to set standards for food advertising in marketing to kids.

BOLDUAN: How Disney plans to help kids kick the junk food habit.

And later, pomp, pageantry and national pride -- a jubilant Britain marks 60 years of its beloved queen.

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BOLDUAN: After nearly a year-and-a-half of death and violence in Syria, it's going to be strange to see this next video, dancing, you see right there. This YouTube video what are known as Shabiha, paramilitary, who support the regime celebrating in homes abandoned by Syrians running for their lives.

CNN cannot verify, we have to say, this video. But the U.S. State Department says Shabiha massacred 49 children on May 25. Now people in Houla, the site of the mass killing that we have reported so much, say government forces are cutting off their gas and medicine.

Local monitoring groups say 24 people were killed just today in Syria, and the government, it expelled diplomats from 11 countries. All the while, many question just what will be the tipping point for military intervention.

We're going to be bring in CNN's Fareed Zakaria. We're going to be checking in with Fareed Zakaria next. So, stand by for that.

We will be right back.

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BOLDUAN: I'm Kate Bolduan. If it's interesting and happen right now, you're about to see it. It's called "Rapid Fire." Here we go.

Persona non grata in Syria. Diplomats from 11 countries, including the United States, are being kicked out a week after those countries kicked out diplomats from Syria. In some cases, the envoys were long gone already, but it's a further show of Syrian's isolation as government troops and militias wage war on their own people. In Nigeria, the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice record have been recovered from the plane that crashed Sunday in Lagos. And rescue crews have recovered 153 bodies, including that of a woman clutching a baby.

And a possible worker strike at the Belmont racetrack could ruin one horse's shot at the Triple Crown. More than -- more than 80, rather, workers in charge of track maintenance are threatening to strike this week over a contract dispute with the New York Racing Association. The Belmont Stakes, the last leg of the Triple Crown, is set to run on Saturday. And I'll Have Another, the name of the horse that won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, is hoping to become the first Triple Crown winner since 1978.

So, just before the break, I was telling you about the latest in the violence in Syria, as we have been tracking it, honestly, obviously nonstop. And the question that lingers as we watch the violence continue in Syria is, is there -- when will there be the tipping point for military intervention.

I want to bring our own Fareed Zakaria, who is kind of enough to join me this afternoon to talk about this.

Fareed, you recently have said that you do not think in Syria that military action is the right path. Why so?

FAREED ZAKARIA, CNN WORLD AFFAIRS ANALYST: Well, Syria is very different from Libya, which I think a lot of people think about.

In Libya, the rebels had a lot of territory. They controlled almost a third of the country. They had one of the main cities. And the question was, could the West help them, could we resupply them, could we provide them with air cover?

In Syria, it's a country 10 percent the size of Libya, three times as many people. The rebels have had no place to hide, no place to -- no territory to secure. They control really almost no part of the country, no significant part of the country. So our outside intervention becomes much more complicated. It becomes much more difficult.

So there's a military complication, but perhaps the biggest reason is Syria would then become, if we were to intervene, an arena for a huge kind of global civil war. The Russians, the Iranians would fund the Syrian government, the Saudis and we and the Turks perhaps funding the -- what would essentially be a Sunni insurgency.

If you can think back to Lebanon, the civil war of the 1970s and '80s there killed almost 150,000, 200,000 people, displaced a million people. It's not farfetched to suggest that something like that could happen in Syria.

BOLDUAN: And so, quickly on this topic, and, of course, then I want to switch gears, what is the right path? It's hard to stand by and watch this violence and the killing continue, Fareed.

ZAKARIA: Absolutely. This is -- it's horrific violence and we should have as our goal a transition, the ouster of this regime.

There are two or three ways it can happen. The Russians could help us essentially force the Assad family out of power. The military there might do some kind of a coup. If they feel there's enough pressure on them -- and that's why it's important to keep the pressure -- that might work.

We could also try to starve the regime. This is not a rich country. This is not an oil-rich country. They don't have cash. And, at some point, they will run out of money.

BOLDUAN: Fareed, switching gears, because we must, because I want to get to this next very interesting topic -- you have been working on a special called "Global Lessons: The GPS Road Map to Making Immigration Work."

Talk about taking up a topic that has no easy answer. I was really intrigued that you didn't just look at immigration policy in the United States. You went and looked at immigration policy in different countries, like Japan, Germany and Canada.

So, did you find anything that worked or is working?

ZAKARIA: Well, you know, we did find some things that were working. A lot of what we do works.

Let's be clear. America is an immigrant society. What I was struck by, though, was a lot of other countries have learned our tricks and bettered them. So, did you know, for example, that Canada has more foreign-born nationals than we do?

Australia has more immigrants than we do. Those societies have become in 10 or 15 years genuinely pluralistic, diverse immigrant societies. And here's the killer. They have figured out a way to do immigration right, where they take smart, hardworking, talented people whom their economy needs.

So those immigrants are always contributing mightily to the economic growth of country. We here have not been able to separate between family unification and skill-based immigration enough. We still do mostly family unification.

So, what I was struck by was we do pretty well. But there are a lot of countries that are learning from us and have actually started to move faster and further than we have.

BOLDUAN: It looks like maybe we could then in turn learn from them going forward, a very important conversation to be having. And you will have much more on that coming up.

Fareed Zakaria, anchor of "FAREED ZAKARIA GPS," thank you so much.

And I want to make sure I tell our viewers to watch Fareed's special, "The GPS Road Map for Making Immigration Work." Sunday night, it debuts at 8:00 p.m. Eastern on CNN. You do not want to miss it, again, a very important conversation to be having.

Making a turn here, he is wanted for murder and dismemberment of a body in Canada, but arrested in Germany -- just ahead, getting Luka Rocco Magnotta from one country to another. We will have the latest.

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BOLDUAN: There are new turns today in a case that's drawn international attention for its sheer gruesomeness.

Berlin police say Luka Rocco Magnotta, the Canadian man suspect of murdering a Montreal college student from China and mailing his body parts to Canadian politicians, will not fight extradition to Canada.

Peter Akman joins me now from our affiliate CBC in Montreal.

Good afternoon, Peter. Thank you for joining me.

So what is the latest? We have been following this day to day because it's really hard not to. What's the latest in this case now?

PETER AKMAN, CBC REPORTER: Well, what we're hearing right now in Berlin, that Luka Magnotta has actually been transferred to a state prison where he will be waiting for the extradition process to begin.

He had met with a judge. The judge actually went to him to speak with him. He had made it known that he would not fight extradition back here to Canada. Now, Montreal police, where the murder allegedly took place, they came out and had a press conference today and released new information on the murder itself.

They say that they have video surveillance of Magnotta at his apartment carrying the two parcels that ended up going to Canadian politicians. Now, we just found out, actually, one of those parcels that was sent to the Conservative Party headquarters in Ottawa was actually addressed to the prime minister as one of the first recipients.

And then there was a second name on that, that was also addressed to on that human remain that was sent there. Now, we're also finding out that during their 18-hour search of the back alley behind the apartment complex that Magnotta was living in, they found other body parts, human remains there as well. Previously reported, only just the torso was found in a suitcase, a rolling suitcase.

So they're saying other body parts were found, but they're still looking for other human remains -- Kate.

BOLDUAN: Is it surprising that Magnotta has not -- has decided he's not going to be fighting extradition? What are authorities in Montreal saying about this process going forward?

AKMAN: Well, they're looking at his online profile. And he seems to be one that loves the spotlight. In blog posts, in picture updates, in video updates that he has put there himself, he seems to be very much looking for that spotlight.

So authorities aren't really surprised that he would be looking to continue the spotlight. If he were to fight it, he could fight it for upwards of two months to a year, we're told by extradition experts. Be they're saying that he is not fighting it. He said that right away and so that the extradition process can begin.

He could be back here in Montreal within the week, we're told. And at that point, he could be doing a perp walk in front of the media. And then he will have his first day in court.

BOLDUAN: Obviously, he was found in Europe, but this all happened in Canada. What are people on the street, if you had an opportunity to speak with people about this just absolutely bizarre and troubling case...

AKMAN: Well, there's a lot of relief. When people found out that he was actually captured in Berlin, we spoke with exchange students who had come here to go to university, and they say that their parents were very nervous that they were staying here in Canada and in Montreal.

In fact, the Chinese government put a warning out about traveling here. And so, with his apprehension, it was quite a relief. Now, for people who live in that neighborhood, also, it's a very -- there's a lot of apartment buildings, low-rise apartment buildings, families who live in that area.

They were -- they too, were relieved that this arrest was finally done. And everyone is very quick to point out that this is a one-off. That said, Montreal police came out and said that they are looking at other open files and cold cases to see if Magnotta, who went by several other names, could be tied to those open files. So, they're looking to see if he has any links there, here in Montreal, or in the surrounding areas -- Kate.

BOLDUAN: Well, very interesting. This story is clearly far from over.

Thank you so much, Peter Akman from our affiliate CBC in Montreal. Thank you.

Now to some business news.

Mortgage rates are at an all-time low. So you might think now is the time to buy a home.

Poppy Harlow has today's "Help Desk."

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POPPY HARLOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hey, there. Thanks so much for joining us. Today on "The Help Desk," we're talking about mortgages.

And joining me to help do that, Lynnette Khalfani-Cox is a personal finance author and founder of the financial advice blog AskTheMoneyCoach.com, and David Novick is a certified financial planner and adjunct professor of finance at NYU.

Lynnette, this first question, for you. Take a listen.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If I'm interested in buying a home, should I lever up while rates are low?

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HARLOW: What do you think?

LYNNETTE KHALFANI-COX, FOUNDER, ASKTHEMONEYCOACH.COM: Well, I don't like the word lever up. I mean that sounds like taking on a lot of debt. No, no, no. Don't go back to the old days.

HARLOW: Sounds like 2007. KHALFANI-COX: But it is a great time to get a mortgage if you qualify. You know, rates for the 30-year fixed rate mortgage actually recently hit a record low, 3. 75 percent.

HARLOW: Yes.

KHALFANI-COX: The lowest ever since 1950, since a 30-year has been offered. So definitely that's the case.

If you have good credit, a 700-plus FICO score, and you can afford it, you've had the savings and you've done the discipline work to be able to afford the home, then I think it is a great time. But don't overextend yourself.

HARLOW: What do you think, David, always a 30-year fixed safest in this environment or is it really case by case still?

DAVID NOVICK, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER, PROMETHEUS CAPITAL MANAGEMENT: It depends on the current situation.

HARLOW: Yes.

NOVICK: If you're going to be in the house long term, a 30-year fixed is a great deal right now because of how low the historic interest rates are. But you also have to look at how long you're going to be there. For example, let's say you're an executive, you're going to be there for three to five years. Doesn't really make sense to get a 30-year mortgage. You may be able to get an adjustable mortgage that locks in the rate for a short period of time.

HARLOW: Yes.

NOVICK: Maybe you're going to be retiring in 10 or 15 years and you want to have the house paid off when you retire. So, generally, a 30-year mortgage is a good deal, but you want to tailor it to your situation.

HARLOW: Absolutely. Guys, thank you very much. Appreciate it.

If you've got a question you want our financial experts to tackle, just upload a 30-second video with your question to iReport.com.

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BOLDUAN: Poppy, thank you so much.

Kids love playing with bracelets and necklaces, of course, but did you know it can have you taking them to the E.R.? Our Elizabeth Cohen is joining me next with more on that.

And a rare sighting this afternoon: Venus moves in front of the sun. See that little dot? That's it.

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BOLDUAN: The U.S. takes out al Qaeda's number two, a possible danger your child's toy box and Venus like you'll never see it again. Time to play "Reporter Roulette."

We first begin with Barbara Starr at the Pentagon. Barbara, I want to play something from the White House briefing that happened just moments ago. This is about the death of al Qaeda's second in command. Take a listen.

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JAY CARNEY, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: His death is part of the degradation that's been taking place to core al Qaeda during the past several years. And that degradation has depleted the ranks to such an extent that there's now no clear successor to take on the breadth of his responsibilities.

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BOLDUAN: So, Barbara, the White House confirming there that this man is dead. So who is he and how did the U.S. get him?

BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Kate, this is a man named Abu Yahya al-Libi, who is well known to the United States, believed to be al Qaeda's number two in Pakistan, killed by a CIA drone strike in that border region of Pakistan yesterday along with several others.

U.S. officials are saying that they now have information that he, in fact, was killed, is dead from this drone strike. They're not saying exactly how they know.

He was an Islamic scholar in the jihadist tradition, had made a lot of videos, was a very strong recruiting voice for al Qaeda. The question now is, if he was the number two, in fact, where does that organization go from here? What capabilities does it still have?

Kate?

BOLDUAN: That was going to be my follow-up. What does this death mean for al Qaeda kind of in the immediate -- well, at all, I guess? STARR: Yeah, I think that is exactly the right question. What U.S. officials are going to be looking at now, they know that al Qaeda can regenerate.

They can always find a new leader, slap a title on somebody out there and call them number two, number three, number four. That really isn't the issue.

The issue is al Qaeda's ability to raise money, recruit, organize, train, equip and launch strikes against the west. Will they be able to do that? Can they still do that?

Those are the key indicators that the U.S. will still be looking at in the future. Kate?

BOLDUAN: Very interesting. Barbara Starr at the Pentagon. Thanks so much, Barbara.

Next on "Reporter Roulette," we're talking about these, can you see them? They're sold as desk toys, puzzles and jewelry, but they can lead very easily to excruciating pain or even death for children.

Our senior medical correspondent, Elizabeth Cohen, is here with more on this. What are we talking about?

ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: We're both sitting here, playing with them.

BOLDUAN: They're definitely toys. I've been playing with them.

COHEN: They're toys, but they're meant for adults.

BOLDUAN: Right.

COHEN: And the reason why is that these magnets are strong. To pull them apart actually takes some force.

BOLDUAN: Stronger than, I would say, these are not your grandmother's magnets.

COHEN: Right. Exactly. These are called rare-earth magnets. They're very, very strong and so what happens is that kids sometimes see these and they will swallow them because they look a little bit like candy. And so some kids put everything in their mouth.

I will show you an animation from the Consumer Products Safety Commission that shows you what can happen. A child swallows two of these and here we're seeing the second one come down, meets up with the first one, they attract and they make a hole in the intestines. This can be devastating.

I was talking to the mom of a kid who is now in his second month in the hospital, a tear in his intestines. Most of his intestines have died. He needs an intestinal transplant.

BOLDUAN: And he's just 13 months old, right? COHEN: That child was 2 years old, but let me tell you about the 13-month-old child because we have a picture of what happened with her.

Her mother made a bracelet out of these and she swallowed her mother's bracelet, probably a couple of balls at a time, and you can actually see in the X-ray that we're going to show you that there it was, sitting in her stomach.

Now, luckily, her parents got to it in time so that -- the doctor got to it in time. There it is. You can see the bracelet right there. It was in her stomach and, when it's in the stomach, it's relatively easily to get. Well, easy? But I mean, you stick a tube down the kid's throat and get it out.

But when it travels from the stomach into the intestines, you're doing major surgery on a child and that child can get very sick.

BOLDUAN: Obviously, I have a ton of questions. I know we never have time, but does this cause permanent damage if these are swallowed?

COHEN: Yes, it can cause permanent damage. There's been at least one death and, if you really damage a child's intestines, they will live with a damaged gastro-intestinal system for the rest of their life.

Now, these there's a warning. These are Buckyballs which is the major brand. There's a warning here, saying, keep out of reach of children. There's another warning on the back that says the same thing. There are more warnings inside. There's the warning right there on the top.

Buckyballs says treat it like a prescription drug. Keep it out of the reach of children, but there's hundreds of balls and you can see how easily it can roll away. You wouldn't even notice if you're missing a few, but your child might find them.

BOLDUAN: Bottom line, if you have young children, be aware. Keep them out of the house.

COHEN: That might be the best solution.

BOLDUAN: Not the first story we've heard about this, but it's definitely been more and more.

COHEN: But the reason that we're hearing about it now is that the nation's gastroenterologists met this afternoon with the Consumer Products Safety Commission and some of those doctors want them off the market.

BOLDUAN: Very interesting. We'll get an update on that and we'll follow that very closely. Elizabeth Cohen, thank you.

Next on "Reporter Roulette," something is happening in the skies in just a few hours and virtually no one alive at this moment can ever see it again. Chad Myers is once again taking us to space.

What are we looking at, Chad?

CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: It just really depends on how good medicine is in the next 50 or 60 year, right?

BOLDUAN: I would have to live a pretty long time.

MYERS: Exactly. This again will happen in the year 2117, so 105 years from now.

BOLDUAN: No problem.

MYERS: If you're five years old, you'd have to be 110 to see it again.

Now, it did happen in 2004. It kind of happens in pairs, eight years apart. It happens in pairs and then it takes another 105 years for that pair to happen again.

But there it is, there's the little silhouette of Venus. Now, this is 1,000 times smaller than the sun. I get it. I get that this isn't a big, giant, beautiful eclipse.

But what we're going to do with this and what the scientists are going to do with this is they're going to find out how much sun is blocked out by this. They're going to take their Kepler telescope and they're going to see this planet go across.

And then they're going to look at other stars and wait for other planets to go across other stars. That's how we can count other planets in other solar systems. Even without seeing them, we'll be able to see them because of the dimming of those stars.

It takes about six-and-a-half to seven hours. You can start seeing it at 6:09. You just can't see it with your naked eye. You can't see it with a couple of pairs of sun glasses. You need to protect your eyes.

Remember now, OK, even if the sun is this big, this thing is 1,000 times smaller than the sun. You don't really want to look at it anyway because you're never going to see anything except hurt your eyes. Look at it on a television set near you.

BOLDUAN: Just stay tuned to CNN. We'll bring it to you.

Chad, thanks so much, Chad. We'll talk to you soon.

That is today's "Reporter Roulette."

The pomp, the pageantry, the flags, the flotilla, the royalty and the rehearsals, it's all fit for a Queen's Jubilee.

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BOLDUAN: It's been quite a week in London as Queen Elizabeth marks 60 years on the throne. The Diamond Jubilee has been full of the pomp and circumstance and pageantry that the Brits are famous for.

Our very own Brooke Baldwin and Piers Morgan were in the middle of it all.

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BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, everyone. I'm Brooke here in London, sitting beside this British man, my new "besty," Piers Morgan, and we have had the best time here, covering the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

` How are you, sir? How are you feeling?

PIERS MORGAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You know what? It's been four fantastic days to come back to London, to Britain and to take part in this incredible celebration and to see how overexcited you got.

BALDWIN: I have never seen anything like this. Truly. To see the millions of people in the horrible, horrible rain for the flotilla on Sunday, the 1,000 boats and then coming back out to see the Queen.

Thank goodness the weather held so we could finally see him in that 1902 State Landau carriage that we haven't seen since the royal wedding.

MORGAN: We saw 1,000 boats go down the Thames in horrible conditions. We saw the Epsom Derby, the greatest horserace in the world. We saw the pop concert to end all pop concerts.

And today, we saw all the pomp and ceremony and you put it all together and you just have four glorious days.

BALDWIN: What people didn't see on television was, once we took the shot live of the Queen flanked by Prince Charles and William, everyone stood up on this panel. Everyone stood up for the Queen, hearing the national anthem, very much so in reverence to her and her 60 years. And I definitely got goose bumps.

MORGAN: When you have old Spitfire and Hurricane flames from the second world war, flying over Buckingham Palace ...

BALDWIN: The red, white and blue.

MOLRGAN: You see the amazing flag, the standard, flying, and you know the Queen's in residence and out they come, these people who are by far the biggest stars in the world, the Queen, Prince Charles, Camilla Parker Bowles, Princes William and Harry and, of course, the Duchess of Cambridge, the new rock star of the royals. It was a magical few hours.

BALDWIN: I couldn't help wondering what they were wondering, what they were thinking. And it was certainly the fly-past with the red, white and blue smoke that had the Queen grinning from ear to ear.

It has been amazing being in London. I'm going on, as you would say, holiday for a few days. MORGAN: Vacay.

BALDWIN: Vacay, as we say in the States, but it's been a pleasure sitting next to you.

MORGAN: It's been a pleasure for you to sit next to me. I know it's been a great honor for you. And it's been actually a real delight. It's been real fun. We've had a blast, haven't we?

BALDWIN: Yes, we have. So, see you later.

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BOLDUAN: It looks like they're having a great time. Brooke Baldwin and Piers, thank you so much.

Coming up, Janet Jackson decides to go behind the camera. Details about her new documentary, next.

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BOLDUAN: She was married to the mob, befuddled batman as cat woman and was married to David e. Kelly. Michele Pfeiffer has managed to stay the course.

The Academy Award-nominated actress sat down for a rare interview with Sanjay Gupta, guest host on "Piers Morgan Tonight," to talk about how she managed fame, fortune and matrimony.

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MICHELLE PFEIFFER, ACTRESS: I've seen a lot of relationships in the past kind of be -- people have been together for years and they work together and then it's over. You're like what happened?

I feel like, it's like church and state for me. I don't want to mix the two. I don't want to jinx it.

DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Is the double standard you hear about, is it real?

PFEIFFER: Women have it harder for sure, but increasingly men are because we're a youth obsessed society. In terms of the work place and we're living longer. You still have a lot to contribute, you know? It's -- there's somebody younger and newest and fresher.

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BOLDUAN: You can catch Michelle Pfeiffer's entire interview tonight as Sanjay Gupta guest hosts on "Piers Morgan Tonight" at 9:00 p.m. Eastern.

So the daughter of two movie stars does some acting herself and gets arrested for it, as well as Janet Jackson, going behind the scenes.

"Showbiz Tonight's" Nischelle Turner joins me with these headlines.

Let's talk about Janet Jackson, she's doing a documentary.

NISCHELLE TURNER, SHOWBIZ CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, she is. Janet Jackson just announced she's the executive producer on a documentary about transgender people around the globe. This movie is called "Truth." It's expected to begin production this summer.

Janet released a statement about the project and said, "I've been fortunate to make friends and learn about very different lives. 'Truth' is our small chance to ask that you try and understand someone who lives their life in a way that's a little bit different from yours, even though all of our hearts are the same. We want to stop the hate and find understanding."

Now, this movie is being produced by Brainchild Films and what they say is they promise to show the transgender's communities epic struggle for equality. So that should be a really interesting project coming out, Kate.

BOLDUAN: Very interesting. Another headline that is also interesting, some trouble for some one of the daughters of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis. What do you know about this one?

TURNER: You can't like to be Bruce Willis and Demi Moore and get that phone call that your daughter has been arrested. The New York City police department has confirmed that Scout Willis, the daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, was arrested yesterday evening in the vicinity of Union Square in New York City.

Now, the 20-year-old is a student at Brown University. She was allegedly caught drinking a beer on the street, which you know, is officially a no-no in New York City.

She was arrested for having an open container of alcohol. She was taken briefly into custody. She was given a drug and alcohol test and then she was released early today without bail.

Now, according to a report in "The New York Daily News," when police approached her, she showed the officer of a fake i.d. with the name Katherine Kelly on it, but when the cop didn't buy it, then she admitted her real name and she produced her real i.d.

She's supposed to be back in court to deal with the charges on July 31st. Even though it's probably going to be a misdemeanor blip on her radar, you know, her mom is dealing with a lot right now, so they can't be happy about this.

BOLDUAN: That was what I was going to ask you. Is there any -- I haven't seen it in the headlines recently, but what is the latest with Demi? She was really suffering recently.

TURNER: Yes. Well, you know, the news was that she and Ashton Kutcher broke up and she was dealing with a lot. She had gone to rehab for a stint to kind of get her life back in order. They never really said why she went to rehab, what she was dealing with, but we had seen pictures for her where she was looking very thin, gaunt and just looked like she was having a hard time dealing with all of the things that were going on in her life.

She is out now, she signed on to do a new movie. She seems to be getting her life back in order. There were reports that maybe her and Ashton could be getting back together, but it looks like what they're doing is just trying to talk, move forward with their lives and, you know, deal with all of the press and things that comes around a public breakup of two Hollywood stars.

BOLDUAN: All right, Nischelle Turner, thank you so much for those headlines.

We are just a few minutes away from the top of the hour and that means Wolf Blitzer and "The Situation Room" is coming up. Wolf is here with a preview.

First, I need to clarify something. We were just talking about the Michelle Pfeiffer interview on "Piers Morgan Tonight." That was last night. Wolf, you are hosting "Piers Morgan Tonight," double duty on top of "Sit Room," eh?

WOLF BLITZER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: "Sit Room" coming up in the next two hours. Piers is, obviously, still in London. He'll do all the Jubilee, the Queen's Jubilee material from London. I'm going to do the political stuff.

At 9:00 p.m. Eastern later tonight, as you know, Kate, the polls will close in Wisconsin, 8:00 p.m. Central time and we'll see if we can make a projection on this recall election. That's going to dominate the political news tonight.

In "The Situation Room" that's coming up, we'll take a look at the former president of the United States Bill Clinton said last night. He did three fundraisers in New York with President Obama. Remember last week on "Piers Morgan Tonight" when he was interviewed by Harvey Weinstein he had made the point that Mitt Romney had a sterling reputation as a business leader at Bain Capital.

Last night a very different tune or tone coming from the former president. At one point saying it would be calamitous for our country and the world if Mitt Romney were elected and President Obama were defeated. We'll get into that. I'm going to play some of the clips of what the former president had to say last night.

Also, David Sanger, "The New York Times'" excellent correspondent, has a brand new book out entitled "Confront and Conceal -- Obama's Secret Wars and the Surprising Use of American Power." David Sanger live here in "The Situation Room," as well.

Kate, you're looking good down there in Atlanta.

BOLDUAN: You are so sweet, Wolf. Well, I'm sure I will be back in D.C. soon. All right, Wolf Blitzer, thank you very much. Wolf's coming up at the top of the hour. You do not want to miss it. I never do. Thanks so much.

There is a mouse in the kitchen. How Disney plans to help kids kick the junk-food habit, coming up next.

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BOLDUAN: The Walt Disney Company banning junk-food advertising on its networks aimed at children. It's launched a new logo called "Mickey Check" -- I think we might have a picture of it for you -- making it easier to identify nutrition foods in store, online and on vacation. You see it right there.

Lauren Salkeld is senior editor at Epicurious, a very popular food website that recently launched a healthy-eating initiative with the White House and the "Let's Move" program, this thing really pushed by the first lady.

Lauren, thanks for coming in. First lady Michelle Obama is getting behind today's announcement. What do you think of the announcement coming from Disney? Is Disney ahead of the curve here?

LAREN SALKELD, SENIOR EDITOR, EPICURIOUS.COM: At Epicurious, we're incredibly passionate about healthy eating, especially healthy eating for kids, so we feel really good about it.

We're excited that such a large and influential company would take a stand and change their nutrition standards. It's incredible.

BOLDUAN: Under these guidelines, cereals must contain less than 10 grams of sugar. When I heard that, it got me thinking. Don't most kids' cereals have a lot more than that? Do you think the guidelines from Disney go far enough?

SALKELD: I think it's a start and really at this point we need to make a start. We need to get the dialogue going and we need to bring down those numbers and start think about how much sugar we're consuming and how much sugar our children are consuming.

BOLDUAN: Parents, as I'm sure you well know, are just bombarded with guidelines and often conflicting dos and don'ts, what's good, what's bad for your children. Does this step by Disney add to the confusion for parents just trying to get it right and get their kids to eat something or do you think this will help them?

BOLDUAN: Well, I hope that it helps. I completely sympathize with parents. There is so much noise around this topic, but getting the information out there and educating parents and kids is really important, so we kind of need to pay attention to that noise.

BOLDUAN: And according to "The New York Times," advertisers spend some $950 million a year -- I was just astounded by that number -- on TV targeted to kids under the age of 12. That's big money. So when you think that's big money on one side, is this move by Disney, is it good business?

SALKELD: Well, I think it probably is in the long-run good business. They're investing in the people that they work with. Children are their audience and they're investing in that.

And, for us, we'd like to see other companies follow suit. Disney is incredibly influential. They're so large. They're in stores and they have their parks and they're on TV and they have their websites. I think that other companies are kind of -- this will force them to really step up and take action.

BOLDUAN: This will be my next question. Do you think Disney is really out in front on this or do you think this is the beginning of a trend where companies are realizing that it may be good business to be more aware, to offer more healthy options and to think about their audience and what they're putting on -- especially when it comes to channels?

SALKELD: I'm happy to say that I think it's part of a trend. I know that other large companies like Walmart are taking similar action and I'm really happy to see that they're taking it upon themselves to make these changes.

BOLDUAN: Very interesting. Well, Lauren Salkeld, thank you so much, with Epicurious. We'll be logging on to check out what you guys have. Thank you.

SALKELD: Thank you.

BOLDUAN: We want to update you on some stories that we've been following.

First, a legal blow to people who oppose same-sex marriage in California. We were following that the past two hours. Within the last two hours, a federal appeals court has refused to rehear the case of Proposition 8, the referendum Californians approved to ban same-sex marriage in 2008.

I'm sure you remember all of this. While voters wanted that ban, a lower court ruled in February that Prop 8 was unconstitutional and that's the decision that stands, at least for now.

And in Nigeria, the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder have been recovered from the plane that crashed Sunday in Lagos and rescue crews have recovered 153 bodies, including that of a woman clutching a baby. The U.S. State Department today said seven people on the flight were American citizens.

And three jurors in the box so far in the first day of the jury selection in the Jerry Sandusky trial. The former Penn State assistant coach faces 68 charges of child rape including ten boys. So far, two females and one male have been selected.

The judge has ruled the jury will not be sequestered for the trial. That was one big question in the case. And a possible workers' strike at the Belmont racetrack to tell you about, folks. It could ruin one horse's shot at the Triple Crown. More than 80 workers in charge of track maintenance are threatening to strike this week over a contract dispute with the New York Racing Association.

The Belmont Stakes, the last leg of the Triple Crown -- I doubt I need to remind you of this -- is set to run on Saturday and "I'll Have Another," the horse -- that's the name of the horse that won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness -- is hoping to become the first Triple Crown winner since, can you guess it? 1978.

That is all for me. Thank you for joining me in the past two hours. A lot going on today. I'll be back tomorrow, so I hope you can join us again.

Until then, I'll toss it off to "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer.