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Donald Trump to Officially File in New Hampshire; GOP Celebrates Big Wins in the South; Illinois Officer's Death Likely a Suicide?; Search Area Expands for Russian Plane Wreckage; 9-year-old Boy Shot and Killed in Chicago; Aired 10-10:30a ET

Aired November 04, 2015 - 10:00   ET

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VANESSA YURKEVICH, CNNMONEY CORRESPONDENET (voice-over): After a proper hat is secured, it's time to bet. This year's Breeders' Cup had a betting pool of $150 million. That's $50 million more than the Super Bowl.

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(on camera): How do you bet smart?

PETER ROTONDO, HANDICAPPER: Money management is the key. I know I put a lot of work into my handicapping. And you just feel good about it, you know, because you've done your homework. It's like being, you know, in school. You've got the final exam, and this is the final exam, the Breeders' Cup Race, and now you've got to produce. This is like the Super Bowl of horse racing.

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Happening now in the NEWSROOM, a rich Republican with outsider cred. No, not Donald Trump. Kentucky's governor-elect.

GOV. MATT BEVIN (R), KENTUCKY GOVERNOR-ELECT: This offers us an opportunity to change the tenor of what has become expected in the world of politics.

COSTELLO: Is his win signaling anything about 2016?

Also, his shooting death spurred a massive manhunt and now a shocking turn. Who investigators think pulled the trigger?

Plus, new clues emerging over what brought down a Russian passenger jet. The search zone now expanding as the mystery deepens.

Let's talk. Live in the CNN NEWSROOM.

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COSTELLO: And good morning. I'm Carol Costello. Thank you so much for joining me. We begin in New Hampshire. Any minute now, we're expecting

presidential hopeful Donald Trump to officially file in order to get on the ballot for the country's first primary. All of this as a new national poll shows Trump and rival Ben Carson in a dead heat, oh, but Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are gaining momentum.

Trump wasting no time unleashing a new wave of attacks against his rivals.

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DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Ben will not be able to deal with China. He will not be able to deal with Iran. He will not be able to deal with any of the countries that are really abusing our country.

CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: But what is the proof --

TRUMP: And they are abusing it.

CUOMO: But what is the proof that you could?

TRUMP: He will not be able to deal with Japan.

CUOMO: What is the proof that you could?

TRUMP: Because that's not his thing. And frankly when you talk about energy he's got lower energy than Jeb Bush.

CUOMO: But what does that mean?

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COSTELLO: CNN's chief political correspondent Dana Bash is in New Hampshire. She's on the campaign trail. Good morning.

DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol. This is the place to be right now because this is the first day, the first morning, that people who are running for president need to win this first-in-the-nation primary, can actually register for that primary and the first official Republican who's going to do that is going to be Donald Trump. He's supposed to be here any minute.

It doesn't take very much. You mentioned just 1,000 bucks to get on. You have to just sign something saying that you meet the requirements for president of the United States. And it is going to be something that we are going to see Donald Trump do today, tomorrow Marco Rubio who is doing much better here and nationally, and so on and so forth. So this is certainly a chance for Donald Trump to have another kind of image-making moment.

He's got a lot of supporters here lined up, and he's going to make a point of greeting them probably before and after he goes in to do this official, official moment. COSTELLO: All right. We'll let you get back to it. Dana Bash

reporting live from New Hampshire this morning.

The so-called Donald Trump of Kentucky wins big after a stunning political comeback as Republicans sweep elections in the south. The big question, what does it mean for 2016? Take a look at the map. All of that red, those are the southern states with Republican governors. Kentucky now on that list after Tea Party favorite and political outsider Matt Bevin muscled his way to the top, despite weeks of trailing behind in the polls.

Bevin, who made his mark on the campaign trail by driving around in a gold Escalade, challenged his supporters to unite, insisting that Kentucky will set the scene for 2016.

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BEVIN: My challenge to you is do not fail to take the high road as we have done to this point. Continue to take the high road because this is the opportunity for Kentucky to be a beacon to the nation. The values that we hold. The principles that we hold. The work ethic that we hold. The high road that we will take. This will change the tenor of what happens in the 2016 race.

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COSTELLO: So will it? Joining me now to talk about this and more, staff writer for "The Weekly Standard," Michael Warren.

Hi, Michael. Thanks for being here.

MICHAEL WARREN, STAFF WRITER, THE WEEKLY STANDARD: Hi, Carol.

COSTELLO: So does Kentucky set the stage for 2016?

WARREN: Well, it certainly set the stage for a potential for Republicans to do really well. I don't really know if I agree that Matt Bevin is Kentucky's Donald Trump. I mean, he's run for office before, Bevin did. He tried to knock off Mitch McConnell in 2014 in the Republican primary. And he's got a lot of Tea Parties aboard. Donald Trump's support is much broader within the Republican Party. A lot of moderates and even liberals within the Republican Party supporting Trump.

[10:05:00] But it does suggest that the south is becoming solid again. I mean, Kentucky was really one of the last holdouts where Democrats really competed statewide in the south. And now it seems Republicans, not just in that governor's race, but almost across the board did really, really well yesterday in Kentucky.

COSTELLO: OK. I want to -- I want to allow our viewers to take another look at this Quinnipiac poll that just came out because there's some interesting poll numbers included in this. So we'll put the graphic up here. You see Trump is, what, now at 24 percent. Ben Carson's at 23 percent. That's a virtual tie, right? But look at Marco Rubio rising to 14 percent. And look at Jeb Bush. He comes in with just 4 percent. Thoughts?

WARREN: I think this poll is devastating for Jeb Bush. I mean, he's had a lot of difficulties in the polls. But, you know, he's had the money, the establishment support. This is really bad. That 4 percent nationally, it's not just that. You look beneath those top-line numbers, and you see he has, among all voters polled in this Quinnipiac poll, he has the highest unfavorability rating and the worst sort of net favorability rating.

I mean, he's doing worse than Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and voters overall, and he's in the bottom, really, among Republican voters. It's just harder and harder to see where Jeb Bush's path is here. And again, you see those top two, Carson and Trump, and then the next two underneath, Rubio and Cruz, that's starting to look more like a sort of winnowing field of potential Republican candidates.

I don't really see where Jeb Bush has any sort of hope in this poll. But I guess things can always turn around.

COSTELLO: You never know. OK. Let's talk about Marco Rubio because Trump came out swinging. He called Marco Rubio a lightweight. And then he went on to malign his credit card debt. Marco Rubio appeared earlier on "Good Morning America." I don't know if we have his sound right now. Do we have his sound? If not I can -- OK, I'll just read what he said on "GMA."

This is what Marco Rubio said about his credit card debt. "I only have one debt in the world which is my mortgage on the home that me and my family live in, in Miami. I obviously don't come from a wealthy family."

To me that was a pretty good answer. Will it resonate?

WARREN: Yes, I think so. Look, I mean, I saw Marco Rubio last week in Iowa after the debate. He's very good at connecting with voters on the sort of middle-class issues. You know, he talks about issues in terms that aren't necessarily, you know, Washington terms but terms that people who live paycheck to paycheck, to use a phrase he uses a lot, actually think about. And so the fact that, you know, he had some credit card problems actually kind of resonates with people.

But, you know, I think this is something that in terms of his financial problems could come back to bite him if they seem to be more extravagant than, you know, simply credit card debt and maybe, you know, he bought a house as he did that didn't do very well.

Look, the fact that he -- Rubio didn't do very well in a lot of these financial sort of exercises that he was trying to do sort of speaks that he wasn't really corrupt or doing anything wrong. He just struggled like anybody else. It's not a bad thing for him.

COSTELLO: All right. Michael Warren, thanks for your insight.

A stunning twist in the investigation into the shooting death of a beloved Illinois police officer that sparked one massive manhunt. In just about an hour, officials are expected to announce that Lieutenant Joe Gliniewicz died of a self-inflicted gunshot and not in the line of duty.

Deborah Feyerick is following this story for us.

DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes, and the rumors that it could be a potential suicide started really soon after his death but his wife really tamped down on them, saying that no, he had everything to live for, he was retiring out, applying for chief jobs in other towns, the couple was planning vacations, and she discounted those rumors about a possible suicide.

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MELODIE GLINIEWICZ, LT. JOE GLINIEWICZ'S WIDOW: I wholeheartedly believe he was murdered.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: And to say otherwise?

GLINIEWICZ: Is disrespectful. Hurtful. Irresponsible.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: The coroner said maybe it's a suicide. How did you take that?

GLINIEWICZ: There was a lot of anger.

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FEYERICK: And the coroner would not confirm initially whether, in fact, or how, in fact, Lieutenant Joe Gliniewicz was killed. Gliniewicz had responded to a call apparently at a warehouse, calling dispatch, saying that he was pursuing three individuals. Initially he rejected backup and then accepted backup. Those other officers arrived just in time to hear a shot. Lieutenant Gliniewicz was wearing a bulletproof vest. He was shot twice. Once in the side and then once over the top of the collar of that vest. That was the fatal shot.

The shots were from his own gun and there was no sign of an apparent struggle. And one of the complicating things, Carol, was that they found DNA at the crime scene and they didn't know who it belonged to. And so that extended the search, even though a number of people were pulling back, the DNA did not match Lieutenant Gliniewicz, did not match anybody in a criminal database. And so they were actually swabbing officers who had responded, thinking perhaps they had contaminated the crime scene.

[10:10:03] Plus, within the context of everything that was going on, there was a massive investigation of the Fox Lake Police Department. They had just replaced their top leadership. The police chief actually being put on paid leave. And then being effectively just leaving, just retiring.

COSTELLO: Well, the strangest part to me is he had on that bulletproof vest. So if you're going to kill yourself, why shoot yourself in -- I don't understand that.

FEYERICK: You know, it's very interesting because I've done some stories on suicide. And the prevailing theory is that you never succeed the first time. And I know this sounds crazy. The first shot was in the side of the vest, the side of his body. So --

COSTELLO: But he knew the bulletproof vest would protect him. He was an expert sniper.

FEYERICK: Well, that's exactly right. The second shot was the shot that did him in, and it was right above the collar of that vest. And it was the coroner who actually released that information because there were reports that maybe he was shot in the arm or the leg. And so the coroner said no, he was shot here. And so that was one of the things they were looking at as part of the investigation. And they're expected to come back with some pretty definitive views on how he died and that, as you know, is coming up in about an hour.

COSTELLO: OK. We'll check back. Deborah Feyerick, many thanks.

Still to come in the NEWSROOM, new information into the murder of a 9- year-old boy in Chicago. Now his mother is pleading for her son's killer to come forward.

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KARLA LEE, TAYSHAWN LEE'S MOTHER: Please come forth and find whoever did this to my baby. Oh, my god. I love my son. Oh, my god.

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[10:16:07] COSTELLO: Investigators expanding the search area in that deadly commercial jetliner crash in Egypt. This comes after of course the plane's tail was found three miles from the rest of the wreckage. That same tail was repaired following a 2001 accident, prompting speculation it could have played a role in bringing the plane down. In the meantime, forensic experts tell Russian newspapers that they've discovered two forms of injuries to the victims' bodies.

CNN's Ian Lee joins us live from Cairo to tell us more. Hi, Ian.

IAN LEE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Carol. And yes, those two forms of injuries to the body include trauma and burns. Now they think that is from when the plane hit the ground, causing the explosion. But the other injury is interesting. This is from pieces of metal found in the body, potentially shrapnel from an explosion. Now the theory is right now that an explosion may have taken place on this plane.

Now they don't know whether it was from an engine or from a bomb exploding. But they're also looking at the tail that they found three miles away. The tail itself had no indications that there was an explosion. They had no scorch marks. So that is also helping investigators. But it's really right now -- Egyptian officials are still downplaying and Russian officials downplaying a terrorist threat. That being said, Russian Red Wings Airlines has said that they're going to put security personnel and reinforced cabin doors on all flights to Egyptian resorts.

COSTELLO: All right. Ian Lee reporting live from Egypt this morning. Thank you.

Checking some other top stories for you at 17 minutes past. An investigation now under way in south Sudan after a Russian cargo plane crashes after takeoff. The charred wreckage seen here now littering the banks of the Nile. Fifteen people died in this crash, three passengers did survive. One of the survivors, a baby.

Protests erupting in Taiwan this morning just ahead of an historic meeting. Chinese and Taiwanese leaders are planning to meet Saturday in Singapore for the first time in 66 years. The demonstrators you see here gathered outside Taiwan's parliament. Many protesters are worried about Beijing's growing influence on the island, and many oppose a trade deal with China.

New findings this morning into the investigation of this dramatic runway fire in Fort Lauderdale last week. The NTSB says the part that connects the main fuel supply line to the engine disconnected behind the left engine. Of the 101 on board, one person was seriously injured. Another 21 suffered minor injuries. The onsite investigation expected to wrap up today.

Honda is dumping longtime supplier Takata over its faulty airbags. The automaker now announcing that none of its new car models under development will use Takata's airbag inflators. The defective airbags which can explode when activated have been linked to at least seven deaths in the United States.

Still to come in the NEWSROOM, investigators say it's likely this police officer took his own life, but why?

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[10:23:28] COSTELLO: In Chicago, a heart-wrenching plea from a mother whose 9-year-old son was gunned down in an alley. Police say they'll work around the clock to find the killer of Tayshawn Lee. His mother is begging anyone with information to come forward.

CNN's Jason Carroll is here.

You talked with authorities. What are they saying?

JASON CARROLL, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes, you know, it's a shame when you think about the history of what's been going on. Once again gun violence has claimed another one of Chicago's children. This time Tayshawn Lee. He was 9 years old. He was heading out through an alley on Monday at about 4:00. Apparently he got involved in something. That's what police are trying to determine at this point.

They're working on two possible theories. First, that the 9-year-old was walking through that alley on Monday, came across some sort of a conflict or argument involving a different group of people and was simply in the wrong place at the right time, Carol. Or that he was the intended target. And police tell me that they're not ruling out the possibility that he was targeted due to some sort of alleged gang activity involving someone in his family.

As you can imagine, his mother, whatever the reason, absolutely devastated by the loss. She has been urging an end to the gun violence there in Chicago and urging anyone who knows anything that happened to speak out about it.

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K. LEE: Please come forth and find whoever did this to my baby. Oh, my god, I love my son. Oh, my god. I'm going to miss him to death.

[10:25:03] He was supposed to play ball. That's all he'd do. That's all he liked to do, was play ball and play his video games. He wouldn't hurt nobody. I don't know why this had to happen to him.

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CARROLL: So painful to watch that. And you know, Carol, what's particular sad about this is that the folks there in Chicago have seen mothers like this standing in front of cameras time and time again.

You just do some of the research here. A couple other names I want to mention to you. Amari Brown, 7 years old, from northwest Chicago on the Fourth of July. A bullet meant for his father got him instead. Shot and killed. Melanie Irving, September 2015, shot in the neck. She survived. But also a name you'll probably remember, Hadiya Pendleton. Remember that case from 2013? The 15-year-old as she had just performed for the president. One week later, shot in the back.

There's a cycle of violence that seems to keep continuing in Chicago, and no one seems to know how to break that cycle.

COSTELLO: All right. Jason Carroll, thanks so much.

So Jason's asking that question. What do you do about this terrible violence? What could be worse than a 9-year-old shot multiple times?

With me now, Andrew Holmes, a community activist in Chicago. He himself was shot in the crossfire when he was a teenager. And his daughter, Tamara, was fatally shot at an Indianapolis club.

Welcome, sir.

ANDREW HOLMES, CHICAGO COMMUNITY ACTIVIST: Good morning, ma'am. How are you?

COSTELLO: Oh, my goodness. You know, police suspect this little boy may have been targeted. What kind of monster shoots a 9-year-old?

HOLMES: Well, this individual has no value of life. And I'm quite sure something went wrong with his upbringing, either something was wrong with him itself. But me as a crisis responder with Chicago survivors, we are going to help to try to increase and enhance the family's life situation and get them back on track and help them. COSTELLO: Does it surprise you that a 9-year-old might have been the

target of gang violence?

HOLMES: Yes, it is surprising and absolutely is disrespectful because as I stated, this young man should have been hearing school bells this morning instead of taking a ride to the medical examiner's office to be identified.

COSTELLO: You know, we talk about violence in Chicago endlessly, and nothing seems to change. Why?

HOLMES: Well, in so many ways -- not everyone, but certain individuals want to stay quiet and not speak out when they should stand up and speak out. We can't continue to point the finger at the Chicago Police Department when it's in our community, and all we have to do is pick up that phone and call someone and give up this information and let these individuals know we're fighting back, but we're fighting back through our mouth. We're talking. We're speaking out. And we're going to put your face out there because you are a person of interest to the community.

COSTELLO: I can sort of understand why people wouldn't call police and give them information because they probably are in fear for their own lives. But at some point when a little boy is gunned down, doesn't it take a whole community standing together to give these people up, these murdering people up?

HOLMES: It takes a whole village and a whole community. And at the same time, someone in this community knows who this individual is. And on another note, if we come out in mass numbers and put those elected officials in office and take the ones that are out of office that are not helping fund the community around here to bring some economic development around here, that would help, too. But the community needs to be outraged and these perpetrators should have been incarcerated two days ago.

COSTELLO: You know, some people, and I'm speaking specifically about your mayor, he blames too many guns on the streets for violence. Do you agree with him?

HOLMES: We have a lot of guns that are out on the streets. I'm not going to point the finger at the mayor. I have children myself. Gun violence has struck my home. He has a heart and feelings for kids in the city of Chicago just as any individual throughout the United States. It's the individual that purchased this gun, either stole this gun, discharged this weapon and took this young man's life or any young man or woman in the city of Chicago throughout the United States. Those are the perpetrators that needs to be brought to justice.

COSTELLO: Andrew Holmes, thanks for joining me this morning.

And good morning. I'm Carol Costello. Thank you so much for joining me. In just about 30 minutes, officials in Fox Lake, Illinois, will hold a news conference where they're expected to announce Lieutenant Joe Gliniewicz whose death earlier this year triggered a massive manhunt actually committed suicide and was not killed in the line of duty. That's the conclusion that Gliniewicz's wife said earlier she doesn't believe.

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MELODIE GLINIEWICZ, LT. JOE GLINIEWICZ'S WIDOW: I wholeheartedly believe he was murdered.

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