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Aired June 07, 2012 - 13:00   ET

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DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: Top of the hour. I'm Don Lemon. Happening now live in Washington. You see lawmakers, they are trying to figure out who is apparently leaking classified information from Washington, they're saying from the White House. Let's listen now to senator Dianne Feinstein.

(BEGIN LIVE FEED)

SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN (D), CHAIRMAN, INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE: -- in the Senate authorization bill which has not been completed. The house has completed their bill, but we have not. And so we will work with the house membership on language that can be acceptable to both sides to codify a certain process which we hope will be more efficient in retarding leaking and also being able to stop it and also being able to evolve more tools to control it and where it cannot be controlled to be able to take additional actions. This, obviously because of the timing, will have to be done in the next month or so I would think. And so we will be working together in that direction. So, I now would like to ask senator Chambliss, my distinguished vice chairman, to make some comments.

SAXBY CHAMBLISS, VICE CHAIRMAN, INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE: Well thanks, chairman Feinstein. Let me just say that -- thanks to the leadership of chairman Feinstein as well as chairman Rogers, ranking member Ruppersberger, the four of us have worked closely on any number of issues. There is no more important issue that we have to work on than this issue. I think it goes, without saying, that all of us are extremely upset about the fact that not only have leaks occurred, but there's been just a cascade of leaks coming out of the intelligence community over the last several weeks and months, and it's our clear intention to put a stop to this in the best way that we can. Leaks are part of the nature of this town. We understand that, but the fact of the matter is when you have the kind of leaks that have been coming out in the last few weeks, it put lives in danger, and it infringes upon the ability of the intelligence community to do their job.

Suffice it to say that in our meeting with general Clapper, we knew before we engaged him this morning that he was extremely upset about this issue. He is, as well as every member of the leadership team in the intelligence community, and we have a pledge from them to continue to work with them on all of our issues, but particularly on this issue as we move forward to try to make sure that they have all the tools to work with internally on the issue of trying to make sure that we put a stop to this kind of leakage. Now, I would like to call on chairman Rogers.

SEN. MIKE ROGERS (R), CHAIRMAN, INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE: Well, thank you very much. Well, thank you very much, senators. We have worked on some things in bipartisan ways and I want to thank senator Feinstein and Saxby Chambliss. Through that process, we think we have done a lot of important things through our security, and thus Ruppersberger working in a spirit of bipartisanship. To have all four of us come forward today and talk about the severity of these leaks I hope sends a very clear message about how dangerous this has become. And it's not just an isolated incident, and that's what has brought us together. It seems to be a pattern that is growing worse and more frequent, and the severity of the leaks are serious.

I had a meeting just yesterday with a series of officers from the agency and other agencies who do important work around the world on very difficult assignments, and to the person, and these are the line officers, these are the folks who we ask to leave their families and go to dangerous places to do really hard things, the frustration and their inability to get a handle on this, their inability to keep a secret not just in this town and what it means here, but what it means for their ability to conduct their work overseas is incredibly damaging. This has been as serious a problem as I have seen. I, just a few weeks ago, launched an independent review of a very specific leak that turned into something a little bigger. And I just want to tell, you through reviews with I.C. officers, review of materials, public sources, there is a clear need for a formal investigation. The committee has material suggesting that the agencies were directed to expand the scope of classified information they gave to the press. We know in some cases, someone from a segment of the media was present in a classified setting.

Recently, a group of intelligence officers, I said before, has disclosed directly how many of the leaks over a period of years have made their jobs more difficult in their liaison relationships and their ability to interact with sources and assets around the world who are doing great things for their own countries and the United States as well.

Just today, the CIA informed the HIP (ph) that it cannot respond to our requests for information regarding leaks, a very troubling event, indeed. The DOJ's national security division has recused itself from at least one element of the investigation, suggesting some of these leaks could have come from the sources within the DOJ or the FBI. And from publicly available comments, it appears the sources of these leaks could be in a position to influence the investigations.

So, the investigation must do this, and we agree on this, we're still trying to work out where this may be the best place for this to happen, it must be complete. It must be empowered to examine any office or department of the United States government. It must be free of influence from those who conducted or reviewed the programs at issue, and it must be fair and it must be nonpartisan.

Two problems here, one is that we get to the bottom of what is a growing and serious problem and the nature of these leaks, and, second, that we put together legislation quickly that moves to put -- give the tools to the intelligence community to prevent this from happening in the future. And I look forward to the community to work with all of the members here to make sure that that happens. Now, I turn it over to the ranking member, Mr. Rupert Berger.

REP. C.A. RUPPERSBERGER (D), RANKING MEMBER, INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE: Well ,good afternoon, and first thing I do want to acknowledge, the relationship that has developed between senator Feinstein and senator Chambliss and Congressman Mike Rogers and myself. The stakes we deal with and the issues we deal with in the intelligence community are so important, we have to work together as a team bipartisan so we can come together, go to the administration and get issues resolved that are important to our national security.

I've been on this committee close to 10 years. This is one of the most serious of breaches in the last couple articles that have come out that I have seen. It puts us at risk. It puts lives at risk. It hurts our ability with our allies to have get -- have them work with us and get information. And it hurts us in recruiting assets that give us intelligence information that will allow us to protect our citizens, to work through issues that are so important to the whole issue of peace throughout the world, and how we protect our citizens throughout the world.

Now, we know how serious this is, and we have to deal with it, and we will deal with it. And we started today coming together both the house and the Senate intelligence committees deciding where we're going to go. But the issue has to be solutions. What are those solutions? The first thing we have to do is we have to change the culture of anybody who works in the intelligence community to educate them and let them know how serious these leaks are and the ramifications, which then means that we need to put together a policy that we -- people know what the policy is. If you violate that policy, you're going to be held accountable. That's important.

Sure, we would love to find out who did the leak here and how it occurred and how important and how dangerous it is. Whether that happens or not, those are tough cases. But we need to use this as an example to change those policies, and that's where we are right now. But it's got to be a partnership between the administration and between our -- the Senate and the house. We are going to work forward and move forward on this case -- this leak case, and we feel very strongly that we will -- we have to do this to protect our national security.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Would you address your questions to a specific person, Dana?

DANA BASH, CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This is for you and the Congressman Ruppersberger. Obviously, this is an extraordinary show of bipartisanship here, but we are also five months before a presidential election. And do you have any concern that by making such a big deal out of leaks in the Obama administration, maybe not the White House, but the Obama administration that this is going to be finger pointing politically at the White House?

FEINSTEIN: This is not finger pointing at anybody. What we're trying to do is say we have a problem, and we want to stop that problem. We're not finger pointing, and the House will do its own investigation. We're doing a bill. We're going to put changes in the bill. But Dana, this has to stop. When people say they don't want to work with the United States, because they can't trust us to keep a secret, that's serious. When allies become concerned, when an asset's life is in jeopardy or the asset's family's life is in jeopardy, that's a problem.

The point of intelligence is to be able to know what might happen to protect this country. And we can't do that if the intelligence is no longer kept with strict scrutiny within the number of people that need to have it. And one of the problems is -- that we're learning is so many people know that it becomes very hard to make a prosecution. So, what Representative Ruppersberger was saying about changing the culture really is correct, about limiting the numbers of people that know given things is correct. So, we have some ideas, well, we've discussed them somewhat today, and, you know, you will certainly know where we have points of agreement.

BASH: May I just quickly follow up with the chairman Rogers and with senator Chambliss?

FEINSTEIN: Yes.

BASH: Do you believe, knowing what you know about the leaks, that they are politically motivated to try to help President Obama?

RUPPERSBERGER: Well, I'm not going to prejudge what the FBI is charged with the responsibility of doing, and we're going to meet with director Muller this afternoon. We know that an investigation has already begun and it's going to be done very thoroughly. And you know, we have been through this before in the Bush administration. Wherever the responsibility falls out, that's where it's going to be and if it's in the administration, fine. If it's not in the administration, fine. This is not meant to be a political exercise. This is too critical to the future of the intelligence community in the United States, and it's our intention just to get to the bottom of the issue of these leaks. And as we move forward to try to make sure that we put measures in place that not only make it more difficult for future leaks to occur, but the consequences of those future leaks be dealt with immediately and strongly.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Senator Feinstein, obviously because you are discussing legislation, you have come to the decision that current legislation or current statutes aren't strong enough. Already, divulging classified information is a crime, there are investigations going on. What is it that you're looking to do legislatively to change this (INAUDIBLE)?

FEINSTEIN: I just can't go into it right now. This morning was actually the first time that I had a chance to outline some of my thoughts to the committee, and we need to discuss it. It's important that the House and the Senate work closely together because we'll never get it done if we don't. And so, the first people that will know are the three people here, and we need to go through that process. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Senator Feinstein --

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LEMON: OK. You're looking at a press briefing. Let me give our viewers some background. This is all over a supposedly leaked information about a program that targets computers in Iran, and it was featured in the "New York Times" last week. And this is a bipartisan commission here, and you can see senator Feinstein there. These four people met with the head of national intelligence, James Clapper, earlier, and they're coming out now to talk about what they found and what they talked about. You heard the senator when asked, what do you want from this? She said, it's too soon to tell. They're going to give recommendations.

I want to bring in Suzanne Kelly who is our Senior National Producer. Suzanne, I heard two interesting things here, one from senator Rogers. He said, there's a clear need for some type of formal investigation. And then the other one from Ruppersberger. He said, one of the most serious breaches of intelligence that he has seen.

SUZANNE KELLY, CNN SENIOR NATIONAL PRODUCER: It's pretty astounding, isn't it? And also, senator Saxby Chambliss, there is no more important issue for them right now than getting to the bottom of these leaks. And the problem is it's not one leak. It's a series of leaks that have been happening really since April. We had April, May, we talked about drone programs, about a cyber program aimed at Iran, all sorts of information. The Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leak that came out in May that actually jeopardized lives, which we heard some of the senators talk about a few moments ago.

Getting to the bottom of the leaks is critical. How they're going to do it not so easy. Now, we do have a little bit of information about some of the DNI's thoughts on that, James Clapper, who did meet with this committee just moments ago and this briefing is following that. But we do know that he is looking to push something forward with polygraphs to try to get employees to submit to maybe more expanded polygraphs with different questioning and things like that. That could be a crucial way to really find out and narrow down the question of who gave information to journalists or anyone else who wasn't authorized to get it. And let me just for one second so that you understand why that might be a good way forward, you heard them also say too many people know things. That's why it's so hard when you launch these investigations. However, remember 911 and the big criticism being that agencies weren't sharing enough --

LEMON: Yes.

KELLY: -- information with each other, and you realize really you have your hands tied on this if you don't have tools that worked.

LEMON: Yes, they were talking about -- he had mentioned limiting the number of people who know this intelligence. Thank you, Suzanne.

I want to bring in Dana Bash now. Dana, I want to read this to you and I want to make sure I get it properly. Good job, by the way, of asking those questions and holding her feet to the fire. Here is what James Carney said yesterday, that the administration takes all appropriate and necessary steps to prevent leaks of classified information or sensitive information that could risk ongoing counterterrorism or intelligence operations. Any suggestion that this administration has authorized intentional leaks of classified information for political gain is grossly irresponsible."

And I said that because you brought up the political question here. It's going to be hard -- isn't it hard to say that this is politically motivated when you have a bipartisan commission and someone like Dianne Feinstein saying, hey, listen, we want to get to the bottom of this because lives are in jeopardy. This has nothing to do with who's in the White House right now.

BASH: Certainly, and that was the point that the chairman, Dianne Feinstein, was trying to make. But the interesting answer that Saxby Chambliss, the Republican, gave was that we don't know the answer. There's a bipartisan investigation. What will come out of the investigation is an open question. They don't know what the motivation was. At least they say at this point they don't.

One thing I want to just give you a little bit of an update on what I thought was actually one of the most stunning things that was said in this press conference, which I know we took live, which is when the House Intelligence chairman, Mike Rogers, talked about the fact that agencies were directed to expand, giving access to classified information to the press and that media even sat in on classified briefings. I just talked to a source here to try to get a sense of what he was talking about. And the answer was apparently all about this documentary or film actually that is being done on the capture of Osama bin Laden, which, of course, has been quite controversial.

LEMON: Yes.

BASH: Apparently that is what he is talking about. That in order to help make that film, that apparently, according to the chairman, members of the press or the media or maybe even filmmakers, it's probably the better way to put it, were included, which is quite extraordinary and that is clearly what is angering them in a bipartisan way.

LEMON: Yes. This is only the beginning, folks. This is only the beginning. This is going to grow. Thank you, Dana Bash. We appreciate it. Our senior congressional correspondent. And also our Suzanne Kelly reporting, both from Washington.

Here's what else we're working on this hour.

Spain makes a move that's boosting U.S. stocks. We'll explain why your money is looking so much better today.

If you're on LinkedIn or eHarmony, better change your password. Six million passwords were hacked today.

And a frightening new strain of gonorrhea that's resistant to antibiotics is spreading around the world. We'll tell you what you can do it protect yourself.

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LEMON: The government of Spain tried to raise a little cash today and unload some of the debt that is hammering its economy. A bond auction today found some buyers, but Spanish officials still say they can't solve their economic problems all by themselves. Richard Quest live in London.

Hello, Richard.

So, listen, all of Europe is watching Spain, hoping it doesn't become another Greece. Will this bond auction be enough to prevent a bailout or does it just buy some time here?

RICHARD QUEST, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Oh, well, first of all, there is almost no danger that Spain becomes another Greece. The economics are totally different. The size of the country is totally different. Spain is by no means in any way like that (ph) situation.

However, that said, what today's bond auction did was it only raised 2 billion euros. So it was hardly a lot of money. But it showed the appetite for the market to eat Spanish debt. And 10-year bonds, 600 million of it, at a higher interest rate. It's a bit like your credit card company, Don, saying, Mr. Lemon, we will lend you or raise your credit limit, we will increase your interest rate for now. In other words, be warned, Lemon, spend much more and you could find that we will cut you off.

LEMON: Cut it off immediately. We're going to do it for now just to see how -- what happens and how you handle it, but fair warning. All good things must come to an end.

QUEST: Right. Basically.

LEMON: Yes, so --

QUEST: Basically.

LEMON: So who's coming to the Eurozone's rescue? I mean I mean can the stronger economies pull everything up? What about Britain?

QUEST: Well, Britain, of course, has basically said, ain't, won't, can't, shalln't, won't, not, forget it.

LEMON: Not going to happen.

QUEST: No, because Britain, as a non-Eurozone country is basically saying any money it does come will go by the IMF. Instead, it is our old friend, Angela Merkel, in Germany, it is the big northern countries, like Austria, the wealthier countries, that are going to have to pull the train. And what they have singularly failed to do so far is say that they are prepared to give an open-ended check to countries like Greece, Italy, and Spain.

Ultimately, it will be Europe's equivalent of the Fed. The ECB, the European Central Bank. It will be up to the ECB to have to do most of the heavy lifting. The only question a bit -- say with Ben Bernanke on The Hill today, is when and by how much.

LEMON: Yes, you brought it back to the U.S. So I have to ask you, Richard, any bump -- any bump in U.S. markets after this bond auction?

QUEST: I mean, the bond auction, again, if there was a bump, yes, it's because things are bad, they couldn't be -- they could be worse. But it's volatility. Thin markets. Summertime. I will discount the market on the way down and I will discount the market on the way up because all bets are off until the Greek election in the middle of June and we have a European Summit at the end of June.

LEMON: Appreciate your expertise. Richard Quest, thank you. Always a pleasure, sir.

QUEST: Thank you.

LEMON: All right. Other news to cover here.

A new strain -- look at that -- oh, gonorrhea scaring health professionals because it's resistant to antibiotics. We'll look at what's being done to stop it.

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LEMON: Can you believe this? A presidential election less than five months away and once again a handful of states are shaping up to be make or break battleground states come November. Joining us now to talk about these stories and more, everything on the political radar, is our Bryan Monroe. He's editor of the cnn.com politics page. That's a long title you have there.

BRYAN MONROE, EDITOR, CNNPOLITICS.COM: Yes, that works.

LEMON: All right, so what states are you talking about? Which ones are in play here?

MONROE: Well, you know, we've just put up on cnn.com our electoral map, which will map through the states that are in play. You know, this is going to be a nationwide election, but particularly the yellow states -- Florida, Ohio, Iowa, Nevada, Colorado -- are where the vote is going to come down to it. It may be decided late election night on that Tuesday night.

But even with those states in play, you know, you can see that everyone's trying to get to 270, both candidates. If, for instance, Obama takes Ohio but Romney takes Florida, it makes them close. And you can play along with this online. But even in the states where they may be solid Romney states or solid Obama states, there's still going to be a lot at play when it comes to the congressional races and the Senate races where turnout is a must.

LEMON: And we're looking at this map up on the screen now and you have it here on your iPad. This is an interactive feature that you have on CNN Politic that lets people create their own electoral maps. How does this work?

MONROE: Well, you go there to cnnpolitics.com/electoralmap and you can go and play -- and game each scenario. You can start with the 2008 results, for instance, which shows which states Obama won and which states John McCain won. Or you can look at what CNN projects right now through the CNN electoral map and the yellow states. So, try it out.

LEMON: Let's like -- just let me show that real quick. And then here -- there it is right here on this camera, you got it, and then you can click -- here's what it did. Here is one thing and then it changes and then you go to something else and you can decide -- pick out whichever ones you want, last time, this time. And you can do -- can you do your own scenario?

MONROE: You can do your own scenarios. You'll have the ability to save these and share them with friends. And you can also see some of our CNN contributors, Alex Castellanos, Carville, will all -- will do their picks and go back and back. And each time news happens, the Wisconsin vote or what's happening in Virginia or Florida, we may update this. And we'll see -- you'll see John King talk this through every night.

LEMON: How do you like this term, when we talk about the vpstakes (ph)? We say that ever time. It's kind of -- it kind of gets a little stale. But listen, let's talk about the number two spot, and we're talking about the vice presidential spot. Because former Florida governor, Jeb Bush, he tried to put this VP speculation behind him for good. Let's listen to what he said to CBS.

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JEB BUSH, FORMER FLORIDA GOVERNOR: I'm not going to do it and I'm not going to be asked and it's not going to happen. That doesn't mean I don't have a voice. It doesn't mean I don't want to enthusiastically support Mitt Romney. I intend to do that. I'm doing it. But I'm not going to be a candidate with him.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Under no circumstances?

BUSH: Under no circumstances.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LEMON: Sounds like -- under no circumstances, that sounds pretty definitive to me. He's out. So who do you think is on Mitt Romney's short list?

MONROE: You know, they're starting the vetting process right now. When Romney goes to the candidates to say --

LEMON: It seems like your auditioning. Are you --

MONROE: Yes. Oh, big time. They're out there playing the attack dog.

LEMON: I'm like, why is this person on this show talking foreign policy? Hmm. MONROE: Yes, we did a piece on cnn.com about the auditioning process, the attack dogs that are happening. You've got, of course, Marco Rubio, who you talked about in Florida.

LEMON: Marco Rubio.

MONROE: Whether or not he's even able to bring, not only the Florida vote -- remember that map, Florida is one of those swing states -- but also the Latino vote. Then you've got, you know, Rob Portman from another swing state of Ohio. He has solid credentials. Is thought to be a leading candidate. There are other Latinos that they're looking at. Brian Sandoval, Susana Martinez (ph).

LEMON: Is that the long list or short list?

MONROE: I think you're still in long list. This is June. This will get serious in July and august when they get it down.

LEMON: Mitt Romney just really captured the nomination officially last week.

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When he gets to the convention, it will be official. And then we're talking about V.P. a little early. Stand by. Hold your horses. We'll get that.

MONROE: We have a long race coming.

LEMON: I like the interactive map. CNNpolitics?

MONROE: CNN.com/electoralmap.

LEMON: Electoral map.

Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. Brian Monroe.

Former defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, calls President Obama weak on foreign affairs. Hear exactly what he told Piers Morgan last night.

You just saw a part of it there. He had an interactive map up. But you can watch CNN live, watch from your computer, on your PDA, phone, whatever. Watch it at work. Head to CNN.com/tv.

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LEMON: Donald Rumsfeld has no love for the current administration. The former secretary of defense compares the leadership of President Obama to that of President Jimmy Carter and, trust me, he does not mean that as a compliment.

Rumsfeld appeared yesterday on CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight."

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) PIERS MORGAN, HOST, PIERS MORGAN TONIGHT: You said that President Obama's one of the weakest if not the weakest president of your lifetime. Do you actually mean that?

DONALD RUMSFELD, FORMER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: I was asked by somebody if I thought that the current president was the weakest president, and I said I thought the competition probably was President Carter, that the two presidencies did not have the energy or the leadership. I mean, I think of President Obama on many pieces of legislation. Instead of fashioning a piece of legislation, taking it to the Congress, recommending it, urging it, working it through, he kind of left it to the Congress to figure out what those pieces of legislation that he considered his major priorities ought to be. He didn't fashion them. He didn't take the leadership. And that I found kind of unusual for a president to do.

I think the other big example was his decision to, quote, "lead from behind in Libya" where the argument was made that it was a humanitarian effort. And, of course, it lasted much longer than it would have lasted had they said at the outset that Gadhafi would be gone when it's over.

MORGAN: So how weak can a president be when he ordered the hit on Osama bin Laden and he took him out? Only today we saw another senior al Qaeda member, Abu Yahya al Libi, yesterday got taken out.

RUMSFELD: Yes.

MORGAN: This is a series of victories President Obama has had using, predominantly, in this case, drone attacks where there is no loss of life to American troops. It's a very different way of going about taking out the bad guys. There are lots of people who say this is not a sign of weakness by President Obama, it is a more sophisticated and smarter way of deploying the American military than the one that you and George Bush deployed.

RUMSFELD: Well, you keep saying I said he's the weakest, and I have said once and I'll say one more time, only that I was asked a question. In my adult life, if you look at the presidents, how would you rank them on that subject? And I said I would rank this president as a general leader up with President Carter. Now, you can phrase it any way you want, but the way you're phrasing it is twisting it in an inaccurate way. I did not volunteer this. I responded to a question and answered to the best of my ability.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LEMON: He calls himself the million-dollar scholar because he was able to get lots of scholarship money for college. Now he's helping others find the money they need for school. And former president, Bill Clinton, is helping, too.

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LEMON: Former President Bill Clinton is focusing on jobs today. He's hosting the Clinton Global Initiative in Chicago. One key to getting a job is education, of course, and a participant in the Clinton conference today knows a lot about how to pay for that education.

Derrius Quarles is the author of "Million Dollar Scholar." It's based on his experience of being able, against the odds, to tap into more than $1 million in scholarships and aide. Now he's sharing his expertise with others.

There he is. He joins us from Chicago.

Derrius, welcome.

How were you able to tap into so much money for college?

DERRIUS QUARLES, AUTHOR: First of all, thanks for having me on again, Don. It's a pleasure.

And tapping into that million dollars, really the biggest thing was starting early in my high school career. I had the opportunity win my first scholarship my junior year, and just thinking about the whole process a little bit differently. I really thought about how I was going to pay for it before, you know, I thought about going to college itself. And I know that's kind of weird, but the economic situation I was in here on the south side of Chicago, the first thing that came to my mind was, if I want to go to college, like how exactly am I going to pay for it? And so that really kind of fueled me going forward.

LEMON: How many students do you hope, Derrius, to help through your foundation?

QUARLES: I really -- right now, I really can't put a number to it. In my mind right now as many as possible. But really with the resources that we have and the infrastructure we have, really at the local level we've really been able to kind of make an impact and get into the high schools. But I think as we become a little bit more known, I think this is something that could potentially go national.

LEMON: Yes. So you came up with this system, the first time we had you on, you came up with this system to get scholarship money and you got all that scholarship money despite the odds. People who even had better GPAs than you and so forth. How does your foundation work?

QUARLES: Well, it's a social business, so we are a for-profit entity, and really that was the best way I thought about really creating a sustainable solution to the problems we're seeing with finance and higher education right now. So we offer products and services at a -- on a fee -- per fee basis, but really, in the future, what we're trying to do is use that generation of revenue to create more scholarships. We're not only trying to help students tap into the great deal of money out there through educating them, but through providing that education and creating revenue through that. We want to also increase the number and amount of money that's out there, which is also extremely important.

LEMON: You are ahead of a lot of people in college, a lot of people who are my age, double your age. Derrius, what's ahead for you? You're a junior.

QUARLES: Actually, I'm a senior now.

(LAUGHTER)

A senior now. Just finished up at Morehouse. I will be entering the school of medicine. That's what's up next with me. Just continuing to push million-dollar scholar. And this is a weekend for it, with the Clinton Foundation hosting CGI America here in Chicago, so that's a really huge thing.

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LEMON: Talk to me more about that. Don't just breeze by that. Your participation in the Clinton Global Initiative -- we said you were going to be there as I led into you. That's a pretty big deal.

QUARLES: Right.

LEMON: You are a senior, as you said, and you're going on to medical school, which is great. But you're getting to work with a former president. That's a big deal for anybody.

QUARLES: That is a big deal, and especially -- the first time I got to interact with these forms he's created to basically catalog dialogue between leaders, young and old, was actually my sophomore year of college. So it's a really big thing. It's funny how at that stage "Million-Dollar Scholar" was just an idea, nothing really tangible yet. Creating a book was just an idea. And that was the first time that I was able to go to a conference down in Miami with the Clinton Global Initiative University and so, the next year, I was invited out after that, and then it was no longer just an idea, but it was a plan, and things were in motion and the book was being written.

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QUARLES: And now, you know, being invited here in my hometown, everything is to fruition.

LEMON: Say hi to all my friends back in Chicago and don't forget about us when you're running the world.

Thank you, Derrius Quarles. Good luck to you.

QUARLES: Again, I appreciate it, Don. Thanks a lot.

LEMON: Thank you very much.

Later this afternoon, Bill Clinton joins Wolf Blitzer in "The Situation Room." The former president will share his opinions -- you saw that screen coming up for that. He'll share his opinions on the Wisconsin recall election, Mitt Romney, and his relationship with President Obama. You don't want to miss it. 4:00 p.m. eastern right here on CNN.

We have a serious warning for parents of kids getting too many CAT scans. Stay tuned.

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LEMON: A warning to tell you about today. It's about C.T. scans. A new study shows scans expose children to radiation that could give them cancer. Data published in the British journal, "Lancet," indicates children who are given several scans have a higher chance of getting brain cancer and leukemia later in life. They are used to evaluate head, neck, or spine injuries or neurological disorders in children. The advice for parents is this, before you agree to a C.T. scan for your child, you should ask for the lowest dose of radiation possible. Also avoid multiple scans.

U.S. stocks are on a roll, extending gains from yesterday. We have been watching to see if Fed Chair Ben Bernanke would inspire investors even more. Instead, his testimony today on Capitol Hill has been a bit of a buzz kill, we should tell you. He gave no hint of a stimulus strategy and he told a Congressional committee that lawmakers need to take action before Bush-era tax cuts and other tax breaks expire.

A new strain of gonorrhea is scaring health professionals because it's resistant to antibiotics. We'll take a look at what's being done to stop it.

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LEMON: Cases of a sexually transmitted disease resistant to antibiotics are showing up in Europe, Asia and Australia. Let's see about here in the United States.

Our senior medical correspondent, Elizabeth Cohen, joins us with the details.

How dangerous is this new strain? And we're talking about --

ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Gonorrhea.

LEMON: -- gonorrhea.

COHEN: Right. At the moment, it is not a huge danger, and I will tell you why. In these countries you mentioned and parts of Europe, Australia, Japan, they're finding these cases, where when they try the drug on it, it doesn't work as well as it should. That's what they're finding. Still, the drug works most of the time but in these cases it doesn't work and they have to use high doses or in combination with other drugs. But it is not good that gonorrhea is beginning to out-smart our drugs. Gonorrhea has out-smarted four other classes of drugs over the year. It is a nasty bug that apparently is very intelligent. And so it is not good that these drugs are starting not to work.

LEMON: Europe, Asia, Australia, all places that we visit on vacation, many Americans.

COHEN: And have sex maybe, right. Yes. LEMON: It is the truth. It is what it is.

COHEN: Right. Right.

LEMON: Any cases of super bug here in the U.S.?

COHEN: We spoke to folks at the CDC and they have not seen cases here in the u. s. But what they have seen is when they put the bug under a microscope they have seen cases where they can tell that it is getting smarter. They can tell it is changing. They can tell it is not the same bug. This drug has only been around since about the 1990s or so, so it quickly figured out how to do a work around.

LEMON: Besides abstinence, right?

COHEN: Condoms, yes.

LEMON: What's the solution?

COHEN: The solution is to find another drug. As I said, this bacteria out-smarted four classes of drugs and we need to come up, I guess, with the fifth. So far they haven't, and it is part of what the WHO is trying to do, is say we need to get things moving and find a new drug.

LEMON: Any time you have a warning from the World Health Organization, that's pretty serious stuff.

COHEN: It is serious. You need to listen to it. I don't want anyone to freak out and think, oh, my gosh -- because in this country, the drugs still work. It's more of a warning to scientists, we need to step it up.

LEMON: And watch yourself.

COHEN: Always was yourself, absolutely. I said wash yourself. I meant watch yourself. That, too.

LEMON: You should do that, too.

COHEN: Exactly.

LEMON: Especially considering the next story that I'm going to talk about.

COHEN: I can't wait to hear it.

LEMON: It's about you.

COHEN: Oh, no.

LEMON: Yes, because I have a programming note that involves Elizabeth Cohen.

COHEN: Great. LEMON: It involves Doctors with dirty hands. Thousands die every year because of fixable blunders doctors made. CNN's senior medical correspondent, Elizabeth Cohen, counts down her list of "25 Shocking Medical Mistakes" and how you can keep them from happening to you. It is as simple sometimes and someone not washing their hands. It is right here Saturday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern. Tune in.

When was the last time that you logged into your LinkedIn or eHarmony account? More than six million passwords have been hacked. We'll show you what happened.

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LEMON: I am sure you get the LinkedIn alerts and you joined and so on. At first, it was LinkedIn and now it is eHarmony. The accounts have been breached. That's millions of passwords compromised.

And Felicia Taylor is at the New York Stock Exchange.

Let's focus on LinkedIn first. Felicia, what do we know about the investigation? There is an investigation going on, right?

FELICIA TAYLOR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Absolutely. They take this seriously naturally, because it is sensitive information that's at risk. Evidently, Russian hackers released a big list of passwords this week, more than 6.5 million came from LinkedIn, and a small portion came from eHarmony. Nobody knows how they were stolen. That's the problem. Experts say that LinkedIn in particular used an out-dated form of encrypting. And people need to understand that this is very serious. We don't really know what these web sites are using. The site does say that it recently put in enhanced secure measures. And the good news is no user names were not at risk. Without those, the passwords don't really mean anything because they're just sort of aimless passwords without a user name associated with it.

Nevertheless, people should change the password nevertheless and be safe on the safe site. don't make it so easy. People pick simple words like "hiring" or "LinkedIn" itself as a password. That is not so difficult to crack, right?

LEMON: They did get in. That's the start. That's a start. It is not the first security issue LinkedIn has had recently.

TAYLOR: No, not at all. Earlier this week, it came out that LinkedIn's mobile app was collecting data from user's calendars, including meeting notes, participant contact information, things like that. Users had to opt in to use the calendar feature but didn't know the info was going back to LinkedIn. And you don't want that to happen. LinkedIn does say it was trying to match profile information so you could know more about people before you met them, but people aren't happy about that. That's sort of a business-linked site. And going forward they say it will stop gathering notes and get more clarity to people before they opt in. Regardless, privacy is a big issue.

LEMON: Quickly, before the top of the hour, you're at the stock exchange. What's going on with stocks?

TAYLOR: We're seeing a rally yet again. Stocks up about 100 points on Dow. And that follows the testimony from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Capitol Hill -- Don?

LEMON: Appreciate it, Felicia Taylor at the New York Stock Exchange. Always a pleasure.

Change your LinkedIn password. You could change passwords frequently on all of your accounts, as I know CNN NEWSROOM's Kate Bolduan knows. She is a smart cookie and here she is right now.

KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR: Thank you, Don. I am a smart cookie and you are, too.