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13 Detained In Turkey Terror Raids; Turkish Airport Attack Death Toll Rises; Trump Slams U.S. Chamber For Not Backing "A Better Deal" On Trade; Fox Polls: Clinton Expands Lead Over Trump; Brexit Causes Big Swings For The Dow; Key To Getting Hired: College Experience. Aired 5:30-6a ET

Aired June 30, 2016 - 05:30   ET

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[05:32:00] CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR: Breaking news this morning. Thirteen people now in police custody, 16 overnight raids, all linked to the Istanbul terror attack. We are live with brand new information this morning.

MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome back to EARLY START, I'm Miguel Marquez.

ROMANS: Nice to see you this morning, Miguel.

MARQUEZ: Good to be here.

ROMANS: I'm Christine Romans. It's 32 minutes past the hour. Let's begin right now with this breaking news. Police raiding 16 homes in Turkey. Thirteen people are in police custody at this hour in connection with the Istanbul airport terror attack. Now, that's according to Turkish state media.

This, as the death toll rises. Officials now say 42 people are dead after one woman taken to an Istanbul hospital later died. More than 230 people injured in that attack -- 230. An attack that world leaders believe was carried out by ISIS. None of the terrorists have been identified but senior Turkish officials tell CNN they believe the attackers were foreign. And, in fact, among the 13 people detained in this morning's raids, three foreign nationals.

For the latest on the attack and the investigation, I want to turn it right over to CNN's Alexandra Field. She is live for us in Istanbul. Bring us up to speed with these raids, these arrests, and where we stand in this investigation and what we know about those attackers and what they did in that airport.

ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Right, these are counterterrorism operations triggered by the attack at this airport. They were carried out in the suburbs of Istanbul. They are targeting ISIS, according to a state-run news agency. That's why police visited 16 different locations, sweeping up 13 people.

The question, however, remains. Who are the three people who unleashed that deadly, horrific attack on this airport behind me? We're learning more about the strategy and the tactics that they employed. Officials in Turkey believe that this was an attack that was carried out by ISIS, although ISIS has not claimed responsibility, something that they have historically not done here in Turkey.

However, police have now taken the taxi driver who delivered the attackers to the airport into custody. They questioned this person. They released him quickly but he did provide a statement. Unclear how helpful that statement has been to police in identifying who the attackers were here or any other suspects that they could be connected to in any additional cells.

What we now know about the attack that they unleashed at this airport is this. It was a coordinated attack that targeted both the outside of the building, the departure hall, and the arrival hall. You had one attacker armed with an AK-47 who went into the departure hall, but the security mechanisms in place kicked into gear, namely, a security officer who spotted the suspect wielding an AK-47. He shot the man, but as the man fell to the ground he detonated the bomb.

The second attacker approached the arrivals hall. He never went through the security gate that was in place at the arrivals hall. Instead, he fired his AK-47 at the crowd from outside and then detonated his vest.

[05:35:00] Finally, a third attacker who also blew himself up outside of this building. Officials were able to reopen the airport just five hours after the attack, saying that they believe the place was safe and secure. It met the standards of security forces. And people at the airport, the officials who run it, and also officials here in Turkey have continued to maintain their contention that this is an airport that surpasses the international standards for airport safety and security -- Christine.

ROMANS: All right, Alexandra, thank you so much for that.

MARQUEZ: Many wondering this morning why ISIS would attack Turkey, a Muslim country that, for years, the terror group has relied on as a vital transit hub and supply line. CIA director, John Brennan, says he believes Turkey may now be paying the price for helping the U.S.- led coalition fight ISIS in the region.

Within the past year Turkey started sealing its borders, arresting and deporting suspected militants. The country has taken in millions of refugees from Syria, a main ISIS battlefront. And last summer Turkey let the U.S. fly airstrikes against ISIS out of Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey. But, the CIA chief says he's not surprised ISIS did not formally claim responsibility for the airport attack.

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JOHN BRENNAN, CIA DIRECTOR: In most instances, if not all, ISIS has not claimed credit or responsibility for attacks that are perpetrated inside of Turkey. I think what they do is they carry out these attacks to gain the benefits from it, in terms of sending a signal to our Turkish partners but, at the same time, not wanting to potentially maybe alienating some of those individuals inside of Turkey that they may still be trying to gain the support of.

The United States, as we well know, is leading the coalition to try to destroy as much of this poison inside of Syria and Iraq as possible. So, it would be surprising to me that ISIL is not trying to hit us, both in the region as well as in our homeland. If anybody here believes that the U.S. homeland is hermetically sealed and that Daesh or ISIL would not consider that, I think I would go out against them.

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ROMANS: Turkish media now reporting 13 people have been detained in 16 raids in connection with that airport attack. We want to break down all of the new information in this investigation with CNN military analyst, Col. Cedric Leighton, former member of the Joints Chiefs of Staff. Good morning, sir.

Let's talk, first, about these raids. I think it's no surprise that they are probably shaking every tree in Turkey right now around Istanbul trying to find any kind of financing, operational -- any kind of ties to this attack.

COL. CEDRIC LEIGHTON (RET.), CNN MILITARY ANALYST: Good morning, Christine, that's absolutely right. The Turkish intelligence service is very, very good at not only quelling internal dissent, but they also are very good from an anti-terrorism standpoint. So you can bet that between the intelligence authorities, as well as law enforcement authorities, they are, like you said, shaking every tree.

They are really hunting down every lead and the financing part is a critical element to this because this attack, as simple as it was in some aspects, was actually very sophisticated and it required a trail of things to happen in order for it to be executed the way it was.

ROMANS: Well, three high-powered weapons and bombs, you know -- three bombs. So, you've got bomb maker leads here, who supplied the weapons, where did the weapons come from, et cetera.

MARQUEZ: Yes, the attackers, themselves, may not have been the frontline of defenses for whoever was carrying it out because they didn't seem to get very far into the airport. But there must have been a lot of support that went into this, yes?

LEIGHTON: That's right, Miguel, and one of the big things about this is that anytime an attack like this is conducted there is a trail, as we saw with Brussels, as an example -- the Brussels airport attack and also the Paris attacks. There was an extensive network that was set up out there that supported the actual perpetrators.

They had explosives, they had a lab, basically, in which they made those explosives. They manufactured the suicide vests and, of course, they had access to the Kalashnikov rifles, so these people know what they're doing. They have spent a lot of time preparing. And, in essence, what they were doing was they cased out the joint. In this case, the joint was Ataturk airport.

But they did a very thorough job of that but the security system worked in the sense that they weren't able to penetrate the buildings that they were attacking.

ROMANS: As we have seen, ISIS squeezed on the battlefield in Iraq losing ground, in Syria losing ground. By some estimates, up to 40 percent of this territory lost just in the past year. We see these attacks elsewhere for maximum impact. We heard the CIA chief say, Colonel, that he's not surprised ISIS or Daesh is -- or ISIL, as he calls it -- is not taking credit for this or responsibility for this inside Turkey. Explain to us why they might not advertise their culpability here.

[05:40:00] LEIGHTON: Well, as Director Brennan said, the way in which, Christine, ISIS operates in Turkey is they want to, in essence, have maximum effect on the target that they're going after but they also want to keep the door open for sympathizers to their cause.

And when they come into a situation, an Islamic country like Turkey, they want to hedge their bets. They want to make sure that they attract some degree of support because they want to have the networks there. They want to be able to maintain the travel capability that they have through Turkey, and one of the ways to do that, of course, is to keep a few doors open, and that's precisely what they're doing in this case.

MARQUEZ: All right, Col. Cedric Leighton, thank you very much for your assistance today. Thank you.

LEIGHTON: You bet, Miguel. You bet, Christine. Thank you.

ROMANS: Thank you, sir. Forty-one minutes past the hour. President Obama taking on Donald Trump on his idea of populism right after the break.

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[05:45:20] ROMANS: All right, 45 minutes past the hour. Donald Trump turning his back on decades of conservative free trade orthodoxy. At a rally in Maine the presumptive Republican nominee pushing a more protectionist trade agenda, slamming the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for backing trade deals he called "sinister". Trump also speaking out on the airport attack in Turkey, preaching the need for a tougher stance against terror and a stronger U.S. military.

CNN's Jim Acosta has more from Maine for us.

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JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Christine and Miguel, Donald Trump continued to ramp up his rhetoric on national security following the terror attack in Turkey at a rally here in Maine. Trump talked about the appeal of ISIS, saying the terror group is "looking strong and signing up people over the internet."

Near the end of his remarks, Trump lamented the current state of the nation's military and made the false claim that the U.S. hasn't won a war since Vietnam. Here's what he had to say.

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DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESUMPTIVE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE: When I was young, we won everything. We always won. They used to brag America's never lost a war. Then we had Vietnam, we lost it. You know, we lost -- since then, I think we lose -- we only lose. We're going to start winning again. Our military is depleted. It's going to be rebuilt. We have old, obsolete equipment in our military. Our jet fighters -- we get our parts from the plane graveyard and from museums. That's how bad it is.

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ACOSTA: And Trump returned to his tough message on trade, accusing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce of being controlled by special interest groups, a startling attack coming from a Republican presidential candidate. Trump is set to deliver another speech on trade in Manchester, New Hampshire later on today -- Christine and Miguel.

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MARQUEZ: Thank you, Jim Acosta. President Obama disputing the idea Donald Trump is spearheading a campaign seeking to represent interests of ordinary people. During a news conference in Canada the president went on a tear about populism. Without mentioning Trump by name, he said, in part, that anyone who's never shown regard for workers or fought on behalf of social justice issues is not for the American people.

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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: They don't suddenly become a populist because they say something controversial in order to win votes. That's not the measure of populism, that's nativism, or xenophobia, or worse -- or, it's just cynicism.

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ROMANS: All right, a new poll out finds that Hillary Clinton is widening her lead over her rival. The latest "FOX NEWS" poll of registered voters finds Clinton leading Trump by six points now, 44 percent to 38 percent. That doubles Clinton's three-point advantage over Trump from three weeks ago in the same poll.

This, as a longtime Clinton aide testifies that the Clinton private email server may have interfered with Clinton's ability to do her job. Huma Abedin saying in a newly-released deposition that Clinton missed a call from a foreign minister because aides didn't receive her emails. Abedin also repeatedly explaining that Clinton used a personal server to prevent her private emails from being read, not to hide government communications.

MARQUEZ: All right, let's take a look at what's coming up on "NEW DAY". Alisyn Camerota -- she joins us live.

ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR, "NEW DAY": Good morning.

MARQUEZ: Hello, there, looking lovely.

CAMEROTA: Thank you very much, as you, as well -- both of you. Let me tell you what's happening. Of course, we are following the breaking news out of Turkey. Terror raids are underway in that country right now in connection to the deadly attack at the Istanbul airport, so we'll get the latest from the U.S. State Department as the fight against ISIS intensifies.

Plus, Donald Trump talking trade, of course, and taking on his former Republican primary rivals. Why he says some of them should never run for office again.

We have those stories coming up for you in just a few moments.

ROMANS: All right, Alisyn, thank you so much for that.

CAMEROTA: See you then.

MARQUEZ: We'll tune in.

ROMANS: OK, college graduates and parents of college graduates listen up. I have one stat that's going to make you feel a whole lot better about your job prospects. We're going to get an early start on your money. You too, Miguel.

MARQUEZ: I'm listening.

ROMANS: You, too.

MARQUEZ: I'm on it.

ROMANS: Good for you.

MARQUEZ: So, thank God.

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[05:53:40] MARQUEZ: New details from the black box aboard EgyptAir Flight 804. Egyptian officials confirming the flight data recorder shows smoke onboard the doomed aircraft and investigators say wreckage from the front section of the plane shows signs of high-temperature damage and soot.

The black box data is consistent with automatic electronic messages sent by the plane, showing smoke detectors went off in a bathroom and the area below the cockpit. It's still unclear what caused the smoke. The plane crashed enroute from Paris to Cairo last month killing all 66 people on board.

ROMANS: A disturbing find in Rio de Janeiro. Police say a foot and other body parts have washed ashore on a beach where the Olympic beach volleyball games are set to take place. That's just the latest incident in the crime-battered city. At least 10 people have been killed and 50 schools shut over the past nine days because of shootings triggered by police searches for a drug trafficker.

MARQUEZ: And, Michael Phelps is going for the gold again. The 22- time Olympic medalist who came out of retirement and a stint in rehab is now is the first American male swimmer to make five Olympic teams when he competes at the summer games in Rio. Phelps came in first in the men's 200-meter butterfly at last night's Olympic trials in Nebraska. Phelps flashed a high-five for his number five to the crowd after he qualified and to show appreciation for his fifth opportunity -- amazing.

ROMANS: Twenty-two medals.

[05:55:00] MARQUEZ: Wow.

ROMANS: Millions of people facing the threat of severe storms today. Let's check in right now with meteorologist Pedram Javaheri -- Pedram.

PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Good morning, Christine. Welcome back, Miguel. Good seeing you. You know, you talk about what's been happening here in the past couple of days. The Plains really have been hit very hard with storms. In fact, in the past 24 hours over 120 severe weather reports, largely related to damaging winds across the area.

And when you take a look where the front is setting up over the next 24 hours, it's right there. Similar spot, similar region for thunderstorm activity. Damaging winds, again, and hail going to be a concern really from Nebraska all the way out there towards the Great Lakes.

Speaking of the Great Lakes, see the green contours there? That's the coolest air in the country happening right there across the Great Lakes the next couple of days. In fact, places like Chicago, nice day today, 82 degrees. Just shy of an average temperature for this time of year, but 73 degrees on Friday. That, in fact, is comparable to what you would see in late May and it continues to remain on the cool side there. On the cool side for the Midwest over the next couple of days.

Now, the Southwest, it's a different story. A lot of monsoonal moisture beginning to surge in. In fact, look what happened in Phoenix. A high temperature of only 93 after flirting with the 120's a couple of days ago. So certainly a big-time cooling trend across that region.

But here's what it looks like for highs around Nashville today. It should be around 90, and Washington, around 85 today, guys.

ROMANS: All right, a nice summer day. Thank you so much for that, Pedram.

Let's get an EARLY START on your money this morning. Dow futures pointing just slightly higher. Stock markets in Europe are mixed. We got a thumbs up over here from Miguel. He likes to see that. Shares in Asia finishing mostly higher overnight. Oil is down.

All right, a big rally yesterday. In fact, two of the best days of the year after two of the very worst. A week ago the average of the Dow popped on hopes the U.K. would stay, then plunged when the U.K. voted to leave, fearing harsh economic consequences. Those worries still in Monday's session, look at that. But, then two straight days of solid gains erasing much of the losses.

Here's where the three major averages stand for the year. The Dow is now positive again, up 1.5 percent. The Nasdaq down more than four percent, and the S&P 500 is just slightly higher.

OK, here's that good college graduate job I was telling you about. College graduates are filling almost all of the open jobs in the U.S. labor market. Of the 11.6 million jobs created since the recession, 73 percent went to those with at least a bachelor's degree. This is according to a new report from Georgetown University. They really have the gold standard in this analysis.

Another 26 percent went to people with associate's degrees or some college education. That leaves just one percent -- one percent of the jobs for everybody else. Employers want workers with at least some higher education experience or a trade certificate from a technical or community college.

But grads in the most competitive industries are looking for dream jobs right way. Look at this other survey we've got for you. It reveals the top five companies that business and engineering majors want to work for. They are Google and Apple, then Ernst & Young, Goldman Sachs, and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

I just think it's so interesting that 73 percent of the jobs since the great recession have gone to college grads. I think it underscores the anxiety, though, in the voter base. People feel like they've been left behind by the economy because they don't have the education or skills.

MARQUEZ: I'm going back to college.

ROMANS: I'd love to see you at the frat party.

MARQUEZ: Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking. Terror raids in Turkey in connection to the Istanbul airport attack. "NEW DAY" starts right now.

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MARQUEZ: New information in the Turkey airport massacre.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There was a gun and there was bullets coming from it.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I told him we're going to die right here.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: U.S. airports have ramped up security.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I would be surprised that ISIL is not considering carrying out these attacks in the United States.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What we need to do is destroy them. They will not self-destruct.

TRUMP: I know every form of trade. Fair trade, good trade, bad trade.

OBAMA: The prescription of withdrawing from trade deals, that's the wrong medicine.

TRUMP: We're already losing the trade war, folks.

OBAMA: They don't suddenly become a populous because they say something controversial in order to win votes.

ROMANS: The daring rollercoaster rescue in Oklahoma City.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're not exactly sure how they're going to get everybody down.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We were going up the hill and suddenly it just stopped.

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ANNOUNCER: This is NEW DAY with Chris Cuomo and Alisyn Camerota.

CAMEROTA: That looks scary. We'll get to that momentarily. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to your NEW DAY. It is Thursday, June 30th, 6:00 in the east, and Victor Blackwell joins us again this morning.

VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN ANCHOR: Good to be back.

CAMEROTA: Great to have you here. We do start with breaking news, though. We do have breaking news on the Istanbul terror attack investigation.

CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: Turkish police have been conducting anti- terror raids in multiple locations in connections with Tuesday's deadly bombings. We just got some new information about them. Let's get right to Brooke Baldwin. She's live at the Istanbul airport with those details. Brooke, what do you know now?

BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR, "NEWSROOM": Yes, Chris and Alisyn, good morning. We know a lot. Significant developments here on this early Thursday morning.