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"Historic" Iran Nuke Deal Questioned; Report: Bon Jovi may Buy NFL Team; Remembering J.D. Tippit

Aired November 25, 2013 - 10:30   ET

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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Around the clock talks in Geneva ending with what is being called a historic deal. Iran agreeing to limit its nuclear program in exchange for lighter economic sanctions from key western Nations. The six-month deal, seen as a critical first step toward a permanent guarantee that Iran will not develop nukes.

Here is Secretary of State John Kerry.

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JOHN KERRY, SECRETARY OF STATE: Let me be clear, we do that with eyes absolutely wide open. We have no illusions. You don't -- you don't do this on the basis of somebody's statements to you. You do it on the basis of actions that can be verified. We are convinced that over the next few months we will really be able to put to the test what Iran's intentions are.

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PHILLIPS: Well we've got our eyes wide open that's for sure. Joining me now on the left are democratic strategist Donna Brazile on the right a Republican consultant Alex Castellanos. Alex how do we know that this isn't just an Iranian ploy to lift sanctions while Iran maintains capability of enriching uranium?

ALEX CASTELLANOS, REPUBLICAN CONSULTANT: Well, that's the question of the day isn't it? In the past that's what they've demonstrated. That even Rouhani has -- has admitted that's been his negotiating strategy. He's been a nuclear negotiator before. Maybe Secretary Kerry was actually telling the truth there when he said, 'Look, it is now incumbent upon Iran to prove it's not proceeding with the development of nuclear weapons.'

Well, that's a tough call. Because I can prove to you that I'm not robbing banks. How do I do that? Well there's a bank I haven't robbed and there's one I haven't robbed. But I don't show you the ones I have. Well, Iran have for the past 15 years has always have something in secret that we have later found out about. Those things right now, we just have to assume they're still proceeding with them. That's the scary part about this alleged deal.

PHILLIPS: So Donna, wouldn't it have been truly historic to just have written in that deal, dismantle the centrifuges? That's it.

DONNA BRAZILE, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Look there's no question that after 34 years of detente where we haven't had much of a relationship with Iran. The approach is a cautious approach. Six months to come up with a final agreement that will, I'm sure, have some strong language in there for Iran to halt its entire program.

But for now, this is an opportunity for Iran to show and demonstrate to the world that they will not, you know, put together the -- all what I call the necessary material to build a nuclear bomb. They will be daily, not weekly, but daily inspections to make sure that this doesn't happen. This has to be verified. And if it doesn't work, you know what? The United States still has all of its options on the table. And the most --

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PHILLIPS: What would those options be? Would it be military option or hand ringing at the U.N.

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CASTELLANOS: Well, Donna just said something.

BRAZILE: Well, there's no questions, we have tough sanctions because this president is committed to that. And we've been able to get China and Russia on board. Which is -- which crucial so I thing going forward we've got to keep the coalition together. And if Iran goes back to the same old strategy, then those options are still on the table. The president has not ruled out any option.

But what he's doing, I think, is giving diplomacy a chance and we should give it a chance. But guess what? We have eyes that will be there every day in Iran and ensure that they comply with this agreement.

PHILLIPS: I see Alex smiling.

CASTELLANOS: Well we hope.

PHILLIPS: John Kerry's deal to get an agreement you know did he get hood winked? Real quickly because I've got to ask you about Obama's approval ratings.

CASTELLANOS: Well, we're going to find out. But Donna just said something terribly important. That is in six months she expects to -- a deal that's going to dismantle things. Right now, not just Democrats, not just Republicans in Congress who are going to push through tougher sanctions because they are so concerned but Secretary Kerry has been hood wink here.

If the administration wants to avoid that, they need to listen to Donna. They need to put out now, what do we expect in six months? What does this administration want that deal in six months to look like? Is it going to have a rollback of the centrifuges? Are they actually going -- they have to give up more of the uranium that they've enriched? What is it that we want to -- are they going to stop building that heavy water nuclear reactor which can produce plutonium. And that by the way is how India got its nuclear weapons so I think Donna is exactly right. What does this administration want? That's what the news media wants to be pushing this --

PHILLIPS: Wow, this is on record. Donna and Alex coming together agreeing on something.

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CASTELLANOS: We love everybody, bipartisanship here.

BRAZILE: Yes at the end of the day we want to -- yes at the end of the day we want a strong final deal but I do believe that this is a smart way of approaching it because the alternative right now is something that no American wants. We don't want a war. But you know what the President said all options remain on the table. Stop sanctions let's enforce now

PEREIRA: Let me get you to the President. OK, Donna I've got to ask you guys about Obama's approval ratings brutal. Worst yet for managing our country to not being decisive. To not inspiring confidence.

You know more Americans, apparently losing faith. What's going on? I mean, Rob Ford has a higher approval rating right now, the crack- smoking Mayor of Toronto versus our President of the United States? Alex.

CASTELLANOS: Apparently -- apparently you can -- apparently --

BRAZILE: I don't compare him to Ford. That is insulting.

PHILLIPS: All right now Donna you're -- hold on hold on go ahead, go ahead, Alex.

BRAZILE: I'm sorry that is so insulting to compare him. He has taken a dip. October was horrible. It's been a tough year. But to compare him to some crack pot, come on.

PHILLIPS: Alex.

CASTELLANOS: Let me take a crack at that one.

BRAZILE: Oh.

PHILLIPS: Wow. That was cheeky.

CASTELLANOS: Eventually look this President personally has always been highly regards as a person but his policies have not had that popularity. And you know, he spends too much. He taxes too much. He's grown government. You know, Clinton said the era of big government is over. This president brought the era of big government back.

But he's -- people thought he was going to be trust worthy. They saw a good family man he'd go home and do homework with his kids. A guy with a good smile and good singing voice. But eventually in politics you become what you do especially if you try to do big things. Frank Sinatra saying doobeedoobeedo. That's true in politics. He has now become Obamacare. And the defining achievement, if that's what you think it is of his administration. And so he has inherited his policy's ratings.

PHILLIPS: Quick final thought there Donna.

BRAZILE: He ended the recession, brought our troops home from Iraq. We are about to end the war in Afghanistan. He stopped the bleeding from the recession. This has been a great president. And let me just say that the last couple of months this year has been a very challenging year. But the President will come back, his numbers will rise again. And people still have a lot of hope in this president.

PHILLIPS: Donna, Alex, thanks guys. We'll be right back.

CASTELLANOS: He's like Lazarus.

PHILLIPS: Arising from the dead.

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PHILLIPS: Well, the legendary Jon Bon Jovi just might be putting a bid in to buy the Buffalo Bills.

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PHILLIPS: Well, according to CBS Sports, Bon Jovi has been positioning himself with a number of power brokers around town to become the team's principal owner. Well in the past he's been part owner of the Atlanta Falcons as well as an arena football team.

On American Music Awards last night well, when we were talking about it our morning meting we said, you know there's two ways that we can approach this story. We can tell you who won or what they wore or we could do what we really wanted to do and talk about all the crazy stuff we saw.

Exhibit A, Lady Gaga up to her usual antics you know strolling the red carpet in and of course a huge white mechanical horse. Do we expect anything else?

OK, Exhibit B. Taylor Swift -- who always seems so surprised, yet again, that she won an award. And finally, Exhibit C. for Cyrus -- Miley Cyrus and a lip-synching furry cat. Roll the tape, Scotty.

PHILLIPS: Your eyes do not deceive you. She is performing with a cat singing backup.

From the switch from the (inaudible) HLN "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT" anchor A.J. Hammer live in New York. Oh A.J. did we have a field day today looking at clips?

A.J. HAMMER, HLN HOST "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT": Yes. Well mark my words Kyra, a lip-synching kitten that cries diamonds, it's going to be the must have item everybody's holiday wish list this year I mean come on everybody was wondering what Miley had in store for her performance at the AMAs. But she did leave the joint and twerking and phone finger at home and she brought out the kitty.

As you see, she performed wrecking ball wearing a two-piece outfit decked with kittens. So it all came together. I thought that the big kitten was rather hypnotic personally. But what does it all mean? And that's what every is pondering today I think maybe she's getting ready to launch into another one of her lives. How do you like that theory?

PHILLIPS: That's pretty good. How many lives has she had now? Not nine, not ten, not eleven.

HAMMER: Well plenty. Let me move on to Katy Perry now. She opened the show with her single "Unconditionally" now it seemed harmless enough when we saw it. But it was these Japanese influenced back drop that really sparked some pretty mixed reviews. Perry came on stage wearing a kimono flanked by giant fans and floating lanterns in this Geisha-inspired performance. And this apparently did not fare well with some viewers of hypnotic cries of racism from some people on Twitter. A lot of people wondering was this all necessary.

But of course, Lady Gaga, big headline today. She and Art Kelly gave such an electric performance, Art Kelly as the president. Lady Gaga channeling as you see a Marilyn Monroe love interest. She gets tossed aside by the president. She gave this performance, Kyra, against the backdrop of headlines reading, "Lady Gaga is fat. Lady Gaga is over." And that, of course, couldn't be further from the truth in both cases.

PHILLIPS: A.J. what happened to a simple guitar and a cowboy hat and just, you know, working the stage?

Well, that's more what Dick Clark had in mind when he started the American Music Awards decades ago because it always been the more family friendly, less controversial show. That sort of took a turn last night. This was a different AMS that we've see before for sure.

PHILLIPS: I guess Lawrence Welk and the bubbles, I guess that's all gone right A. J.

HAMMER: Gone, gone.

PHILLIPS: I'm sorry I'm really aging out. A.J., thanks.

Right now, the latest, of course, on that severe weather that's crossing the country right after the break.

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PHILLIPS: Checking top stories. Nasty winter storm disrupting holiday travel for millions of you this week -- snow, ice, sleet moving across the southeast and heading towards the East Coast just in time for Thanksgiving. Freezing rain heading to parts of Texas and Arkansas and by tomorrow, snow is going to start up in Kentucky, Ohio, and western Pennsylvania. A quarter million dollar award is being offered for helping tracking down those responsible for the murder of a postman. Tyson Barnett was shot and killed while he was making his rounds in Landover, Maryland this weekend. Because Barnett was a federal employee, the person or persons convicted in this case could face the death penalty.

And Mark Zuckerberg taking on politics and civil rights. Speaking to ABC News, the Facebook CEO spoke out against those who say undocumented immigrants are here illegally and don't have a right to citizenship.

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MARK ZUCKERBERG, CEO, FACEBOOK: When you meet these children who are really talented and, you know, they've grown up in America and they really don't know any other country besides that, but they don't have the opportunities that, you know, that we all enjoy, it's really heartbreaking. It seems like it's one of the biggest civil rights issues of our time.

Well, later today in San Francisco, President Obama is also putting immigration back in the spotlight. He's expected to call on the house to pass new immigration reform.

Well, this is probably the best piece of video we saw all morning. More than half a million Christmas lights on one house and it was good enough to land homeowner David Richard into the Guinness Book of World Records for a second time. But Richard says, it isn't just about the show and all the magic. He's also using the display to raise $100,000 for charity.

And just minutes ago, live pictures here actually, not just minutes ago. It's happening right now. The Capitol Christmas tree arrived in Washington, 88 feet. It's the Engelmann Spruce from Colville National of Washington State. It took a 5,000 mile journey and it's going to have 10,000 lights -- once it fires up. That tradition by the way going on since 1964.

As we mark the 50th anniversary of the death of JFK, the focus was on the slain president. But there was another killing in Dallas on that horrible day. A 39-year-old Dallas police officer named J.D. Tippit, killed by the man who shot John F. Kennedy.

Officer Tippit died in the line of duty and became part of history. Anderson Cooper remembers him in our American journey.

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ANDERSON COOPER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): As the bells rang out in Dealey Plaza to commemorate John Kennedy, an 85-year-old great grandmother watched and listened and more than anyone in that audience she must have felt a double heartache. The nation had lost a president, she had lost a husband.

WALTER CRONKITE, FORMER CBS NEWS ANCHOR: A Dallas policeman a short while ago was shot and killed while chasing a suspect. COOPER: Marie Tippit was at home that day. She remembers her husband coming home for a quick lunch before heading back to his patrol car. As she told NBC News it was suddenly a very hectic day.

MARIE TIPPIT, J.D. TIPPIT'S WIDOW: They had called him and told him a description of the person that they was looking for.

COOPER: That person was Lee Harvey Oswald. J.D. Tippit drove to the Oak Cliff neighborhood in Dallas. He pulled over the intersection of 10th and Paton and stopped a man walking along the street, but as Tippit got out of his patrol car, Lee Harvey Oswald fire three times from a .38- caliber revolver. He shot Tippit a fourth time as the officer lay on the ground. J.D. Tippit died instantly.

TIPPIT: I just couldn't believe it. It was just unreal.

COOPER: Marie Tippit was in agony as they buried her husband. She had three children to raise and a pension of $232 a month from the Dallas police. Donations from a grateful public ultimately added up to almost $650,000.

Today there is a memorial plaque at the corner of 10th and Paton in honor of J.D. Tippit, but it took almost half a century to make that happen. It was dedicated only last year .

She told the "Dallas Morning News" quote, "I'm proud we have it. It will be a good thing for history to remember what happened here."

Anderson Cooper, CNN.

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PHILLIPS: Well, police say a marine vet's quick thinking may have saved a woman's life. The woman jumped off the third level of the Oakland Coliseum after the Raiders/Tennessee Titans game. The vet was on the second deck. He first started pleading with the woman not to jump, but when she did he shielded her fall with his body. The woman was taken to the hospital with a wound her head. As for the vet, well he was also hurt but he is expected to be OK.

And in a separate incident during the Baltimore Ravens/New York Jets game, a man suffered severe head injuries after falling down some steps.

Well instant classic in Foxboro, Tom Brady led the New England Patriots to their biggest comeback ever. The Patriots trailed Peyton Manning and the Denver Bronco's 24-0 at half time but went on to win in the overtime.

CNN's Rachel Nichols was actually at the game. And Rachel it kind of looks like it hasn't warmed up much since last night.

RACHEL NICHOLS, CNN SPORTS: Absolutely. You had temperatures last night in the single digits. Winds gusting up to 40 miles an hour. That's why I have this snappy hat here going on. And players, the ball got so cold and slippery players just had a hard time hanging on to it.

But the most compelling moment, Kyra, probably came at the beginning of overtime. The Patriots won the coin toss and Coach (inaudible) elected to give the Broncos and Peyton Manning the ball. All Peyton had to do arguably the best quarterback in NFL history, all he had to do is march down and score a touchdown. The Broncos would have won without the Patriots even getting a hand on the ball.

There was a time in Peyton Manning's career that doing this would have been a considered a heresy -- a fool's move. But Bill Belichick gambled last night after two neck surgeries Peyton Manning would not be able to lead that touchdown drive into the teeth of the wind. And in this case, he turned out to be right. Now the game was eventually decided on a special teams play.

But this conversation about how good is Peyton Manning in the cold, can he play in the cold? That's been going on for a long time. Manning is now 3-8 when the temperature drops below 32 degrees because remember, there are times the Broncos and Manning have looked unstoppable this season. But the Super Bowl is in February in New York, outdoors. And I've heard it gets cold around there that time.

OK, let's talk about Green Bay, haven't these boys played Lambeau Field when it's like 152 below?

NICHOLS: I know you got a history there. I do want to point out that for last night's game, I was wearing ice fishing overalls that I purchased at the fleet farm in Green Bay, Wisconsin, for the 2000 NFC championship game, the wind chill was minus 40 degrees between the Giants and Packers. A lot of fans remember that game and I will say in defense of your Green Bay time, that there is no question it was not that cold last night.

So the ice fishing overalls served me well. And I can give you an on the scene report. Green Bay in 2007 colder than Foxboro last night. But still it was a pretty rough ride there.

PHILLIPS: There it is. There it is. I knew it. And just on the record, I got a chance to cover the second coldest game in Green Bay History, next to the ice bowl. You know that was darn cold -- Rachel Nichols.

NICHOLS: There you go.

PHILLIPS: Thank you so much. And thanks to all of you for joining us today. "LEGAL VIEW" with Ashleigh Banfield starts right now.

ASHLEIGH BANFIELD, CNN HOST: Ohio's attorney general making a big announcement any moment now in the Steubenville rape case; this, after disturbing video and conviction of two football players. But just how much worse can this get? You might be surprised.

Also the sad and shocking details of the Sandy Hook elementary shooting revealed today -- the report that took nearly a year to put together.

And skier Bode Miller's coast-to-coast child custody fight playing out right now in real time in a New York courtroom. And butting all single mothers and their rights on a slippery slope.

Hello, everyone. I'm Ashleigh Banfield. It's Monday, November 25th. Welcome to "LEGAL VIEW" And first up, what's on everyone's mind this Thanksgiving week. That -- rain, sleet, snow already ruing a lot of travel plans for millions of us folks.

Sorry to bring you the bad news. But if you're hitting the highway, you could be heading right into the thick of it. Watch what happens when you get real unlucky. This is Oklahoma City -- an SUV rolling right over as cameras behind them roll. Similar scene in Lubbock, Texas. Of all places, the icy road caused another SUV to flip on its side as well.

Our Nick Valencia is live in Dallas. Not a place where we usually talk about that kind of weather but this is really a bummer for those flying. Already 400 flights are being canceled. And I also want to just let everyone know nick as we're going to talking to you. Our meteorologist, Chad Myers, is working hard, gathering the last of all the most recent weather