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Prosecutors Release Zimmerman Tapes; Sandusky Defense Begins Today; Hopes Surge, Fizzle over Greek Vote; Autopsy Due On Rodney King, Dead At 47; 1700 Crews Battling Huge Colorado Fire; "Family Guy" Creator Gets Serious; G-20 Summit Tackles Global Recovery; Hockey Mom to Ref: Do Your Job; Facebook Settles $10 Million Lawsuit

Aired June 18, 2012 - 10:00   ET

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ASHLEIGH BANFIELD, HOST, CNN NEWSROOM: And good morning, everyone. I'm Ashleigh Banfield sitting in for Carol Costello. Just ahead in the NEWSROOM. More evidence in the Zimmerman case. There's a big release coming this hour.

We have audiotapes of conversations between not only George Zimmerman, but his wife speaking in code when he was locked up in jail plotting how to hide their money from the courts or so goes the allegations. We're digging into that one.

Plus, heat emergency, record breaking temperatures moving across the country, nearly 100 degrees in Colorado and the poor firefighters working that fire not only battling the heat, but battling what that heat is doing to the state. It's the worst in the state's history.

Stanley guys creator, Seth MacFarlane firing back and it isn't funny, folks. They are saying that the family guy joke that was sent to the academy voters is anti-Semetic. We've got his reaction. You got to hear this one too.

Good morning, everyone. Again, I'm Ashleigh Banfield sitting in for Carol. She's got the day off today. So we begin with this, new developments in the Trayvon Martin case.

At any moment, we're expecting some pretty interesting stuff. Prosecutors about to release tapes of the jailhouse call made between the accused shooter, George Zimmerman case and his wife.

Those recordings allegedly show that the couple was trying to speak in code about concealed finances, an issue that landed both of them in jail.

George Howell is following the case, joins us with the very latest. So what do we expect to hear in the calls that are going to be released, George?

GEORGE HOWELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Ashleigh, keep in mind that prosecutors point out that George Zimmerman had a lot of money, at least $135,000 in an account that he raised through supporters online.

Prosecutors alleged that he deceived the judge in order to get bond, and now we're seeing the prosecution's motion to revoke bond. We're getting some of the discovery from that.

Part of it includes lists of witnesses that will be part of this case and also these phone conversations between George Zimmerman and his wife, Shelly.

We're expecting to get the audio here within the hour. But we know during these phone conversations, the two were speaking in code according to prosecutors. George Zimmerman was telling Shelly what to do with the money.

BANFIELD: So, George, do you know exactly what kind of conversation -- if they're speaking in code do we know what exactly was being said? Are they still trying to make this out and in the meantime, they were able to get a charge against her?

HOWELL: Well, you know, we have the transcriptions, and I want to show you just what we have. We're waiting to get the audio, but let's take a look at a sample of these conversations.

Shelly Zimmerman saying, yes, I think I'm going to the bank today to get more cash. George Zimmerman, OK. And then I might take out what I put in the box also. George Zimmerman, OK. Well, Shelly asked or do you want me to leave it there, George.

Shelly says, it's up to you. Ken was just saying I should probably have as much cash as possible. George Zimmerman says that's true, but I feel safer with the gift cards. I don't want you having too much on you, Shelly saying. And George, it's a safety issue you know.

HOWELL: So you can tell that the two were talking about what to do with the money that they had. And again they told the judge they didn't have any money. And that's how George initially got bond.

BANFIELD: Well, that doesn't look good, does it? So we can only assume that his defense attorney is going to have to try to make some kind of hay of that.

In the meantime, I think there are more discovery too. So I'll let you get back to that because you're going to do a lot of reading today, George Howell.

It's always a bummer, but it always provides very interesting insight into a case. George Howell for us live in Atlanta this morning, thank you.

HOWELL: Thank you.

BANFIELD: Today is going to be a turning point from one case to another here, the child rape trial of Jerry Sandusky. We had a real emotional week of testimony last week, very graphic testimony from his accusers.

And the prosecution is expected to rest its case. Defense lawyers should begin presented their case right afterwards. One expected witness may be an expert who will testify that Jerry Sandusky may have had a personality disorder or still suffers from it. We'll continue to watch that for you.

And now we want to turn to your attention towards what better, your wallet and the reason why stock markets around the world are bouncing around this morning giving everybody agita.

It's because the voters in Greece are supporting the nation's controversial bailout there, bold move, way to go, reducing the risk of bristling bankrupt and worse, depicting from the eurozone.

It could have given real problems, but it didn't. On the street, on Wall Street, the sense of relief is a bit tempered. Just 30 minutes or so after the opening bell, markets are mostly down and investors a bit skittish.

So what's the story? I keep hearing we were up. We are a little bit down and then down --

CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: The election is over, but the uncertainty isn't. Now the focus, quite frankly is on what Greece has to do going forward. It has to form a coalition government.

It has to figure out how to quality for more bailout loan in the next few weeks and then it runs out of money sometime in July. The country is basically paying its bills on money that is coming its bailout from its neighbors.

This all is not about Greece. Greece is the weakest link in the chain, and Europe is the biggest destination for American exports. The euro zone is a big trading partner of ours. So this is why Ken Rogoff famed students of 3,000 different financial crises. This is why he says Greece and Europe more Broadway matters.

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KEN ROGOFF, FORMER CHIEF ECONOMIST, IMF: We're still fairly weak from the deep financial crisis recession we had, which unfortunately it's typical and now, we might be hit by another hammer blow coming from Europe, coming from China, and already, from Europe, there is a lot of uncertainty. So even if you don't know that the meteor will hit, you're hiding and worrying about it.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

ROMANS: Yes, a meteor and that's what it is, a meteor. You know, this is what investors in the U.S. are so worried about. Europe is a very, very concerning situation. Watching Spain, watching Italy, it's not just Greece. Greece is an economy that is smaller than New Jersey, but it means so much to what happens.

BANFIELD: Here is what I don't understand. We have been talking about this story for a long time. Greece has been the word over and over again, almost like a broken record.

But then often times you will say to me, you financial experts that traders are trading on headlines as they change day to day. So today, we have a great headline.

I get it three days they have to form a coalition. It could be ugly headline in three days, but why are they not capitalizing the good news today.

ROMANS: We call that headline risk. We had a pretty good week in stocks last week. So markets, stock markets also are predictors. They're leading indicators not lagging indicators.

That means the stock market was telling us last week that they thought the pro-bailout conservatives were going to be able to get a little more traction and they did.

So the market was anticipating this kind of an outcome. They got it, and now immediately start looking forward to the next meteor.

BANFIELD: You know, let's hope they can get their stuff together, another word for it.

ROMANS: That's right if you start to see things really falling in line in Europe that would be a good thing for the United States and our market.

BANFIELD: It's hard for Americans to understand that everything has to get along, so do we, just a different way of doing it. Have you slept at all?

It's a busier time for you, my friend. Thank you, Christine Romans. All right, so the sputtering international economy is focused on President Obama and other world leaders today.

They're in Mexico for the G-20 Summit of the world's largest economies. Greece is a big deal for them. They're looking ways to ramp up the sluggish economy, the economic recovery all around the world.

But here is the bad news. It's unlikely the leaders will be able to agree on any kind of a commitment to a single coordinated plan of attack.

A power struggle and more bloodshed as the Muslim Brotherhood claiming victory in Egypt's historic presidential elections. State media count shows that the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, Mohammed Morsi is leading, but hold your horses, a lot of votes yet to be counted. That is not a final story as of yet.

A autopsy is expected soon on Rodney King. His fiancee found him at the bottom of their swimming pool. It was King's beating in 1991 and the subsequent acquittal of the officers afterward that sparked this deadly riot 20 years ago. The pictures were unbelievable. People saying they're saddened by Rodney King's death.

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BOB CARLBERG, RODNEY KING'S NEIGHBOR: I was shocked because of who it was. I thought, you know, he was one of those persons that you know, would always be around. He is one of the icons you look up to because with the L.A. riots. He's the one that stopped them I think by telling everybody can we just get along and everybody started getting along.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BANFIELD: Miguel Marquez is live in Los Angeles with the latest on the investigation into Rodney King's death and his tumultuous life. So that was a neighbor named Bob Carlberg speaking to us and another neighbor has made reports about noises in the neighborhood the night before Rodney was found dead. Can you enlighten us?

MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, it seems that Mr. King and his fiancee were up for most of the night and perhaps somebody else was at that house as well.

Authorities say they do not suspect foul play at the moment, but they will run a toxicology to see if drugs or alcohol played any part at how he ended up at the bottom of the pool. Mr. King was an admitted user of alcohol and drugs.

And he called himself a recovering addict even though he continued to drink he said. At this point, authorities want to get those toxicology reports back. You typically take a matter of weeks to get those to see if there is any issue with that.

His fiancee heard a noise around 5:30 in the morning, walked outside, saw him at the bottom of the pool, said that she was not very good swimmer.

Called 911, the police then jumped into the pool, deep end, pulled him out, started resuscitation, but he was pronounced dead at 6:11. A very sad end to an ordinary man who lived in extraordinary life -- Ashleigh.

BANFIELD: You know, Miguel, our colleague Don Lemon did such a great interview with Rodney King really leading up to the 20th anniversary of those riots.

Rodney King really seemed like he had it together. He seemed like a very good guy for all intents and purposes. So yesterday, as Candy Crowley was breaking the news that this have had happened. It seemed early on there was no outward appearance of foul play. Are they still on that tact, investigators?

MARQUEZ: Yes, they still are on that fact. They're saying there is no indication of foul play. There were no drugs or alcohol in the immediate area, but they do want to conduct that toxicology before they make a final ruling on this.

It does sound like there was apparently an emotional conversation around 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning, and then around 5:30 his fiancee heard a splash in the pool, even though he had his life together, he had a legion of problems.

He had substance problems, financial problems, and legal problems. This is a guy who found himself in an extraordinary situation and he was a very ordinary guy.

BANFIELD: Yes, an average guy that never wanted that spotlight to begin with. This is heartbreaking for his fiancee. They have been together a long time. She was one of the jurors in the civil case that awarded him all that money.

MARQUEZ: She was one of the jurors in the civil case, but amazing history.

BANFIELD: Miguel Marquesz, thank you. Appreciate it. So here is a computer with no monitor, no keyboard, no power supply, what a piece of junk, right? Apparently not so much, when it's auctioned off, someone decided it was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Find out why in just a moment.

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BANFIELD: Checking the top stories now. Wall Street reacting to news from Europe this morning with a quick look at the Dow, there you go. Dow is down 3489. It was down a lot more. It's kind of dancing around somewhat.

There was optimism over a pro-bailout party victory in the Greek elections, but that seems to be outweighed by concerned about Spain's economy, and Greece may have elected a party they need to find a coalition and fast. They have three days to do it.

Also in money news, an anonymous bidder has purchased a 1976 Apple One computer and paid $375,000 for it. That winning bid at Sotheby Auction was more than twice the original estimate for that artefact.

There are only about six working Apple One in the entire world. If you're wondering if thing works, well, I guess, it's doesn't have a monitor, and it's a thousand times slower than an iPhone.

Ever heard of Webb Simpson? You will now. He is the winner of the U.S. Open. He finished with a final round 68 in the tournament at one over par.

There is real parity in gold right now, 15 different players have won the last different majors. Overall, the day went well for him. Nothing is like the sound of that. He is a happy guy.

A Chinese spacecraft that launched on sand has docked with a space lab. China is now the third nation to complete a manned space docking, the three person crew, including china's first female astronaut. Congratulations, going to do a lot of scientific experiments in the space lab.

A critical fire risk is in place in six western states this morning, but in Colorado, it is real bad. A huge wildfire has now burned 5,600 acres, 181 homes are gone.

Seventeen hundred firefighters are trying to battle this and it's getting hotter and windier, and that is a bad cocktail. CNN meteorologist Rob Marciano has been watching pretty carefully. I always I was say there anything better than hot weather and wind out there?

ROB MARCIANO, AMS METEOROLOGIST: It's not really the season for rain out there. We're starting to get in the season for monsoon thunderstorm, which don't always bring rain, but they typically bring gusty winds and lightning, which doesn't necessarily help.

This is now the largest fire in Colorado history with 88 square miles burned. Here is the city of Fort Collins, and that's how much of this fire has been engulfed by flames, 45 percent containment at the moment.

It is already costing almost $11 million in damage. Look at the weather pattern setting up. South California and parts of Eastern Wyoming we have critical fire danger. Not only today, but tomorrow, and you couple in what is building and that is heat.

Yesterday in Denver we had we had temperatures in the upper 90s, we may hit 100 in Denver today, that's in the fire zone, and lower relative humidity levels into the single digits. We cool it down a little bit into Thursday, but not a lot of rain with this.

We have severe weather yesterday that will be heading into the plains through parts of Wisconsin. I want to show you some of this weather. This is a thunderstorm that developed and storm chasers followed it. This was on the border.

They got this amazing picture of a super cell from start to finish, a rain, a little hail in there. Isn't that gorgeous? A funnel there that eventually touched down.

We had two reports of tornadoes right on the South Dakota and Minnesota border. It didn't do much damage, but incredible Cloud formations. That's what's going on in the northern plains and moving to the upper great lakes.

BANFIELD: Twin funnel formations, I could not figure out if they touched down, but if you're driving and you see that, what do you do?

MARCIANO: It's depends on what side of the storm you are, it's all relative, Ashleigh, but the safest bet is typically to stay in your car if one is heading your way. But if that doesn't look to be a safe spot, get low, unlike a ditch.

BANFIELD: There is never a shortage of people that say no, do something else, but there's no way to survive those things, but just try to get out of the way.

MARCIANO: Stay in your car, keep your head down and buckle up.

BANFIELD: I like the pictures, but I want them to get a move on. Rob, thank you. Appreciate it.

So "Family Guy" one of my favorite shows, or at least one of them, some off color humor. The show's creator wants to be taken seriously for a minute. He is being criticized for some tough thoughts. You will hear his thoughts on politics in Hollywood in just a moment.

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O'BRIEN: I can't sleep unless I watch "Family Guy." That's my secret. That and "The Daily Show," but the creator is getting serious. Something you don't often see unless he's singing.

Seth Macfarlane expecting a squeaker in November, Nischelle Turner joining me live from Los Angeles to talk about that and something else too that's been all controversial.

Let's start with presidential politics because he is stepping into it.

NISCHELLE TURNER, SHOWBIZ CORRESPONDENT: Yes, definitely. We got lots to talk about on the Seth Macfarlane tip. We sat down with him to talk about the movie "Ted."

He also said President Obama should be less concerned about what Republicans think about and operate more like President George W. Bush in that way.

He did say though, Ashleigh, that Hollywood is still behind the president and that they do have high hopes for his term in office.

BANFIELD: Sorry, I thought there was a sound bite coming on. All right, so let me ask you this. Was he dead serious or was he laughing his way through this stuff?

TURNER: You know what? He was pretty serious on the political. He's such a funny -- his comedy is very dry sometimes, so you just don't know, but he is serious on these fronts.

He also talked about this issue of the Emmy controversy that he is in the midst of right now. You know, "Family Guy" has never won and Emmy. It's only been nominated for best comedy once.

And just a lot of fans just like yourself, Ashleigh. Many think it's an injustice, but the show has been cam pawning for the Emmy in an unusual way. Here is what it said, come on bloated under privileged Brentwood Jews, let us in into your little club.

Well, a lot of people didn't think that was too funny, but MacFarland is not apologizing for it. Here's what he told us.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SETH MACFARLANE: It's making fun of rich guys with nice houses and beautiful cars. Really, like -- it kind of drove me crazy a few weeks ago when Ricky Jervais hosted the Golden Globes, they have everything going for them, and nobody could take a joke at their own expense.

(END VIDEO CLIP) TURNER: You now, this is not the first time he has been outrageous with this sort of campaign. A couple of years ago, he sent out a mailer with the slogan, vote for us or you're racists. He is probably right, peter griffin probably would say that, but people don't think Seth Macfarlane should say that voters.

BANFIELD: PETA is such an equal opportunity offender, very funny stuff in not serious as well. Michelle Turner, thank you.

TURNER: No problem.

BANFIELD: By the way, if necessary wants information on everything breaking in the world of entertainment, there is your man. A.J. Hammer and the "Showbiz Tonight" team. They got you covered, 11 p.m. Eastern on HLN.

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BANFIELD: Good morning, everyone, I'm Ashleigh Banfield sitting in for Carol Costello today. And here are some of the stories that we're following in the NEWSROOM.

At this hour the defense beginning in earnest today to present its case in the Jerry Sandusky child rape trial. Yesterday Sandusky underwent psychological testing. His lawyers have a plan to argue that he suffers from a personality disorder.

Fears of a power struggle and more bloodshed as the Muslim Brotherhood claims victory in Egypt's historic presidential election. A state media accounts shows that the Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi is leading but wait because there are still a lot of votes yet to be counted.

An autopsy planned for Rodney King after Los Angeles say they're treating his death as a drowning. 47 year-old King was found at the bottom of his pool at his backyard early yesterday morning. It was his 1991 beating by Los Angeles police officers that was caught on videotape that spawned riots. They broke out after four officers were acquitted in the criminal portion of his case.

"Political Buzz" is your rapid fire look at the best political topics of the day. Three questions, smart answers, smart people. And playing today Maria Cardona, she's in Washington and Will Cain, my pal right here in New York. Hello you two let's get right to it shall we?

MARIA CARDONA, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Ok Ashleigh.

WILL CAIN, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Do it.

BANFIELD: President Obama senior advisor -- wow everyone is ready to go. That was a good thing. So President Obama's senior advisor David Plouffe sticking with the program saying on Sunday that the White House is making a decision on Friday to stop deporting young illegal immigrants was in no way supposed to be political. It wasn't suppose to curry favor with the Latino community months ahead of the November general election. Have a listen. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DAVID PLOUFFE, SENIOR WHITE HOUSE ADVISOR: Now this is not a political move. This builds on a lot of steps that we've already taken.

CANDY CROWLEY, CNN HOST, "STATE OF THE UNION": You could have done it last year, you could have done it the year before, you could have done the year before that as an executive decision.

PLOUFFE: We have been trying to get -- we've been trying to get the Dream Act done, we've been trying to pass immigration reform. This builds on a series of states, the Homeland Security Department has already taken. And again, this is -- gives our law enforcement personnel they voted out more discretion and to focus to resources where they should be focused which is on criminals --

(CROSSTALK)

CROWLEY: Got it.

PLOUFFE: -- which by the way our deportation numbers amongst criminals --

(CROSSTALK)

CROWLEY: But you can't say it isn't -- it's not -- it was not done with some political consideration.

PLOUFFE: It was not.

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BANFIELD: Oh he said it flat out, it was not, so if it wasn't done for political consideration, Candy was hitting up on it big time. Why not the year before? Why not the year before that? Maria, defend this one.

CARDONA: Well look, the reason why he couldn't get it done last year or the year before is because there were absolutely zero Republicans in Congress to help him with the permanent solution which would have been either comprehensive immigration reform or in this case to this policy the Dream Act. Let's not forget in 2010 he tried to pass the Dream Act even calling several Republican senators to help him do it.

Guess how many voted for it? Only three, Ashleigh, so he tried but it's never the wrong time to do the right thing. If Congress is going to be obstructionist on this, on a piece of legislation that a he majority of Americans agree with. Then he's going to do what is at his disposal which is prosecutorial discretion.

BANFIELD: All right.

CARDONA: And taking this into his own hands. BANFIELD: And ruling by fiat. So Mr. Cain, what the heck? You know if a politician or a president actually legislates during his term and it happens to be an election year, he is damned if he does and he's damned if he doesn't.

CAIN: Well right, so damned if he does, damned if he does not. Ashleigh look, is this a political calculation? 100 percent the answer to that is yes. It's part of an election year strategy where the economy is the number issue for most voters. He doesn't have a strong footing to stand there to divide and inflame the passage of various electorates. The war on women, then the gay marriage issue and now the Latino vote issue.

Now listen that doesn't mean that he's wrong on the merits, you know you can support the Dream Act and still look at this and go what? The democratic process wasn't working to your satisfaction. You don't like how the Dream Act was -- was working in Congress or not working.

So you rule as you just put it by fiat, by executive decision that you're not going to enforce a certain aspect of the law that should give anybody pause when a President picks and chooses what laws he will enforce and starts to set a precedent that I think we're all are going to look back on.

BANFIELD: Well, we could go on and on about that but there's so much more to cover.

Let's go to Chris Christie. This is a good one, he loves to flirt with the vice presidential nomination thing telling "Newsweek" are you ready for this, he wasn't pining to be president. He might accept an offer for VP if it comes. And he said quote this, "I don't know how I'll react if the call comes, I suspect I'll say I'd rather stay here. But it depends on what Mitt Romney says to me."

All right, so the question is, a lot of people asking, "Has Chris Christie actually missed his moment?" Will I'll start with you.

CAIN: I guess if we're -- are we talking about his moment to be vice president? Because I don't think there was ever really a moment for that? I don't think he was ever a serious consideration.

BANFIELD: Really.

CAIN: Yes I mean, I think what? Another -- another guy from the northeast first of all two governors from the northeast. I think Mitt Romney --

BANFIELD: No a big, big, big personality.

CAIN: That's the problem. That's actually a negative on his -- on his ledger. I think Mitt Romney's criteria on that is boring. I don't need somebody to outshine me. That's what Mitt Romney has got to be thinking. I don't need number two to be getting all the attention. Go safe, go boring, go someone and hope that they can deliver a state that I need. These are the calculations I think Mitt Romney is making. I don't think Chris Christie fits any of those. BANFIELD: And what do you think Maria? Does he even need to do the VP thing or has he got a shot at the presidency one day on his own?

CARDONA: Yes you know what I'm actually going to agree with Will on this. I don't know if Chris Christie actually ever was going to have a moment. Because look you have Mitt Romney who is a perceived liberal to moderate governor from the northeast, the last thing you need on a ticket is another perceived liberal to moderate governor from the northeast on your ticket.

So unlike my friend Will who bet a year ago that Rick Perry was going to be the next president of the United States.

CAIN: Why can't I live that down?

CARDONA: I am not going to bet that Chris Christie is going to be the next VP of the United States. I'm going to suspect that he's probably not.

(CROSSTALK)

BANFIELD: Let's move on to issue number three. Yesterday was Father's Day, so we'll let you begin on this one Will Cain being a daddy yourself.

President Obama celebrated it by playing the 100th round of golf as President. And of course Republicans are very quick to pounce on this thing. Mitt Romney saying that this was insensitive to the plight of unemployed Americans. You might remember that President Bush actually stopped playing golf in deference to soldiers and Mitt Romney suggesting that Obama do the same. Is this just nasty? Or is it fair? Will?

CAIN: It's stupid. That's what it is.

CARDONA: Yes.

CAIN: I mean it's bickering over who plays golf at what time is just -- it's stupid. I'm not -- no, there is nothing more to see here. That's what you say, right? Move along here. The President can play golf when he wants.

BANFIELD: Do you know what? Do you know what I love about it? We're in the afterglow of Father's Day because I have a feeling that Maria is going to agree with you for a second time.

(CROSSTALK)

CARDONA: And you would be right, yes, no.

CAIN: Let's go back to that executive decisions stuff, with fiat we'll disagree there.

CARDONA: You would -- yes we should go back to that one. You would right on that Ashleigh and also it's ridiculous for Mitt Romney to talk about being insensitive to the plight of the unemployed when you have him building a -- 11,000 square foot addition to his second, third, or fourth home, I don't know I've lost track. One that has a car elevator in it.

BANFIELD: And a car sauna.

CARDONA: So when he stops building that then I will call on the President to stop playing golf.

CAIN: We had to go there right? But the guy can build the home --

BANFIELD: You know what I was about to say -- I was about to sing kumbaya.

CARDONA: Hey, I had -- I had 20 -- I had 20 seconds to fill.

BANFIELD: I knew it, that Father's Day glow is gone. I was about to sing kumbaya, you ruined it.

CAIN: Right.

BANFIELD: Maria Cardona, Will Cain, I just love seeing you. Thanks guys I appreciate it.

CARDONA: Thank you Ashleigh it's good to be with you.

BANFIELD: Good (inaudible) to you two.

Greek election results may be reassuring to world leaders at the G-20 summit, but what can those leaders really do about the Eurozone crisis, honestly? How can they all get together if itty bitty countries can't even get together? I'm going take you live to Mexico for a report from the summit, next.

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BANFIELD: Leaders of the G-20 nations are meeting in Mexico, and hoping to find ways to boost the sluggish economic recovery all around the world. They may be waving flags but it's a bit of a mess out there, folks. And one of the leader's greater fears averted at least for now, the election results from Greece.

The winning party appears committed to have Greece stay in the Eurozone, but there are still other weaknesses in Europe and they're all coming down the pipe.

CNN's Brianna Keilar, covering the G-20 summit, she's in Los Cabos, Mexico. So, all right, while things are still in crisis somewhat in the Eurozone, is there a key issue that they think they can make progress on down there?

BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Well, I think what they're looking for are some sort of signals from Eurozone countries. And the White House, they'll tell you actually, they're kind of downplaying really concrete solutions that will come out of this saying instead that the four of the 17 Eurozone nations that are going to be here at the this summit -- that really they want them to know that they need to get something done, but this is really more of a prelude to the EU summit that we'll see later this month in Brussels.

Now, that said, face to face time is very important and of those four nations you have some very key ones. Germany is here, France is here, and we just learned a short time ago that President Obama will be meeting shortly here in the next couple of hours with Angela Merkel, of Germany who is key to finding a solution to the Eurozone crisis.

BANFIELD: And you know what, Brianna; we were just showing some video of Vladimir Putin. I'm not sure if it was video of him having arrived there already. I know our President arrived there, and I hear that they're going to have some face to face time and this is extraordinarily serious. Not just financially serious but with the issues in Syria and the weapons crisis, and the problems with the rhetoric going back and forth having to do with the attack helicopters, et cetera; do we know what's on the agenda between these two men?

KEILAR: Well, they will be talking about Iran. Actually we know that according to White House officials, but the big thing they'll be talking about is Syria. And this is a huge sticking point because the U.S. and Russia are not on the same page here.

The U.S. wants to see Bashar al-Assad go. Russia is overall suspicious of the U.S. Russia has financial interests in Syria as well as military interest. They have a naval bases, the only one that they operate on the Mediterranean Sea in Syria, and there are two warships, Russian warships, headed to the area now.

This kind of comes obviously -- the time of a lot of tension between the U.S. and Russia. There has been a bit of a snub-o-rama -- I guess you could say between President Obama and Vladimir Putin. Putin didn't come to the G-8 summit at Camp David last month. He sent Dmitry Medvedev instead. President Obama waited for days to congratulate President Putin on his victory. And then you saw as well that President Obama won't be going to the Asia-Pacific summit in Russia in September.

So it's going to be tense I would say. Certainly we'll be watching for signs of what will no doubt be some awkwardness in this meeting.

BANFIELD: One thing -- I'll just go on the record predicting this, there will not be a Medvedev open mic moment between these two leaders this time around. Brianna Keilar --

KEILAR: You never know, but I doubt it.

BANFIELD: -- thank you my friend.

How did you score that assignment, by the way? Going down to Mexico? KEILAR: You know, I wish that I could say I lobbied for it, but I just got it, and I'm all right with it. I will tell you that.

BANFIELD: Luck of the draw, sister. All right. Thanks very much Brianna.

So a Colorado wildfire leaving a bigger trail of destruction and many people are now calling this situation not only dire but downright frightening. More in a moment.

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BANFIELD: Colorado wild fire has now engulfed more than 56,000 acres of land, and has destroyed 181 homes. More than 1,700 firefighters are battling the flames that are being fuelled by really hot temperatures and gusty winds as well.

In money news, an anonymous bidder had purchased a 1976 Apple One computer for $375,000. That winning bid at the Sotheby's auction was more than twice the original estimate. There are only about six working Apple One computers left in the entire world. The Apple One has no monitor or keyboard and it's believed to be a thousand times slower than an iPhone, but it's nice to look at.

A Boston area hockey mom took matters into her own hands -- I love this story. She walked down onto the ice, just out there with a purse and bag and hold (ph) it -- saying the ref was just not doing enough to stop a fight involving her son.

So there's a picture. Here she is -- she's yelling "do your job". Can you believe it? Yes, that's what happens in an arena.

The video has been making rounds on YouTube since it was posted a couple of weeks ago. Her name is Gina O'Toole. She just, you know, walked right out there holding her purse. And said that's enough, do your job.

And earlier today she explained what compelled her to do this when she appeared on ABC's "Good Morning America".

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GINA O'TOOLE, MOTHER WHO BROKE UP HOCKEY FIGHT: Concussions are a very, you know, prevalent thing in youth hockey. And when I went on the ice, a lot of other parents were screaming "Stop it, stop the fight." People were banging on the glass. "What are you doing? When are you going to break this up?" And I just found myself opening the gate, walking on to the ice, and saying "Hey, you need to get control of this game. What are you doing?" And he turned around and he yelled at me and he told me to get off the ice. I said "You need to do your job."

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BANFIELD: Well, good for you, Gina O'Toole because it worked. Finger pointing and all. As soon as she got out there, both of these youth hockey teams stopped throwing punches. We make a lot of jokes in hockey about going to a fight and a hockey game breaks out. Maybe in the pros, that's ok, but in the youth hockey, maybe not so much. So go for it Gina. Nice work.

Facebook made billions of dollars in its initial public offering, but now that company is paying out millions to some of its users. Find out why.

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BANFIELD: There hasn't been a whole lot lately to "like" about Facebook, technically speaking. There were some serious glitches that botched the IPO and then the shares really took a tank. Now Facebook is shelling out some serious money to settle a user lawsuit.

Felicia Taylor is at the New York Stock Exchange. So what's the story behind this lawsuit and what does it mean for the company?

FELICIA TAYLOR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Ashleigh, have you ever clicked "like" on a company's brand page? A lot of people have.

BANFIELD: No. No, I haven't.

TAYLOR: Neither have I.

BANFIELD: I don't have time.

TAYLOR: Millions of people have, though. But just because you like something does not mean you actually want to be a pitchman for the company, and that's kind of what's happening with Facebook reposting your like along with your profile picture on friend's pages as what they call a sponsored story. Five users got really upset about it, sued under California law saying that they were not paid to do this and didn't have a chance to opt out.

Facebook agreed to settle. It's going to pay $10 million to a charity, not to the individuals. What's still isn't clear though is whether or not Facebook is actually going to change those sponsored ad policy everywhere, or just possibly in California where this suit actually happened -- Ashleigh.

BANFIELD: All right. Felicia, if I'm going to like anything, I'm going to like you on Facebook.

Thank you my dear, appreciate it.

TAYLOR: Likewise.

BANFIELD: Thanks a lot, Felicia Taylor.

In today's "Daily Dose" a new FDA report says that America's children are taking fewer antibiotics than they were ten years ago. Antibiotics is still the most prescribed medicine for young people but the prescriptions declined by 14 percent.

Doctors say that's actually pretty good news because overusing antibiotics makes infections more resistant to treatment.

I'm Ashleigh Banfield. Thanks so much for joining us today. In for Carol Costello.

And CNN NEWSROOM continues after a quick break. Take care.