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LYNDA KINKADE, CNN HOST: Welcome to the INTERNATIONAL DESK. I'm Lynda Kinkade.
A deal has been done and it comes with a lot of conditions and opens the way for a third bailout for Greece. Eurozone leaders announced the
breakthrough early today after marathon talks in Brussels. The deal still must be approved by the Greek parliament; after that negotiators will
hammer out the finer points.
But the net result: Greece will remain in the Eurozone.
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JEAN-CLAUDE JUNCKER, PRESIDENT, EUROPEAN COMMISSION (through translator): From the beginning of the so-called Greek case, the commission has repeated
again and again that we would not accept any form of Grexit. There is no Grexit and on form and substance we are satisfied with the result that we
have found.
ALEXIS TSIPRAS, GREEK PRIME MINISTER (through translator): The great majority of Greek people will support this effort to return to growth and
they will recognize that we fought a righteous battle to the end. We negotiated throughout the night.
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KINKADE: And we're covering every angle of this story.
Senior international correspondent Frederik Pleitgen is in Berlin and Isa Soares has the Greek view from Athens.
Let's start with Isa. This deal is far worse than what was offered a couple of weeks ago which was voted down by the people of Greece.
What are they saying about it?
ISA SOARES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, good morning to you, Lynda. It is far worse, much, much harsher measures. And people are still pretty much in a
state of shock and confusion. We are starting to get a sense of how Athenians, at least, are reacting, many people saying it is humiliating,
some saying that the way -- really angry at the way the German government as well as the Nordic countries how have they -- that the way they have
treated Greece, many people pretty angry at the fact that they have to push for more austerity measures, austerity measures they say that clearly
hasn't worked for the last five years.
But I have heard from many people basically saying this is the best of two bad deals to be completely honest and we will push through these measures;
we'll work hard, as we have. We don't want pity. But it will be tough. And I think people probably will -- the most worried about (INAUDIBLE) to
be completely honest with you is the question of the banks because this is what affects them the most. When will they be open? When will those
capital controls be lifted? When will they return to a sense of normality -- Lynda.
KINKADE: Absolutely.
And of course this deal isn't finalized until Alexis Tsipras sells it in parliament. Now he only has until Wednesday to do that. And at this
stage, there are no provisions in it for debt relief.
How is that going to play out?
SOARES: Well, I think as you noted -- and you and I have spoken about this at great length -- we know there is a sense within the Syriza ranks, you
remember when he put the proposal through, before he went to Europe, you know there were 15 Syriza members who were just rebelling against those
measures, who pretty much did not back him.
But he did get the support, though, from many opposition parties. So the feeling is that he will have probably around 30 or so (INAUDIBLE) from
Syriza who will not support him because overnight we also heard around 70 - - another 15 -- pardon me -- MEPs (ph) basically wrote a letter saying they will not push through austerity; that is something they did not come to
power promising the people.
So those -- there will be dissent. Will we have to -- will he have to reshuffle his own party? That is one opportunity offered up from the table
we have for you, asking hi to step down or force him to step down.
Another option, Lynda, is to try and get the support of a broader coalition in place. So there is -- there are options there but their consensus is,
from what I'm hearing from politicians, MEPs, is really that he has enough support to push the measures through. Remember that he got 251 votes last
week. So many believing that he can do so.
But it won't be done without a bit of an uproar, let's just put it that way.
KINKADE: And of course many economists thought this must have -- this would have been much worse if there was an exit, that proposal for a
temporary exit was taken off the table. So surely there must be some relief about that.
SOARES: Oh, huge relief. And you know what, if this news were coming out yesterday, we'd been hearing about option 2, exactly that temporary Grexit
you're talking about, Lynda, you know, I came across so many people who were just so angry and pretty much spitting feathers at the fact that this
was even -- Schauble could even consider this.
I mean, this is something they did not want; 75 percent of Greeks want to stay in Europe. They don't want more austerity but they also didn't lead
to -- want to leave the currency union.
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SOARES: So many people very angry at the fact that that was there, that that was even circulated. But glad this morning that that is no longer on
the table. Nevertheless, the measures are very harsh. More austerity, pretty much more cuts coming through, crossing all those red lines Alexis
Tsipras said he did not want to cross. And it's a very, very tight cross that will make, the Greek economy very hard to brief in the next coming
weeks, indeed years.
KINKADE: Let's go now to Fred Pleitgen in Berlin.
And, Fred, as these talks went on, there was a lot of talk about trust, Chancellor Merkel said, and I quote, "The most important currency was lost
and that is trust."
Greece will enter the $55 billion of assets.
Was that needed to restore that trust?
FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, it certainly is something that the Germans were very much calling for, to try
and restore some of that trust. And I think that a lot of people tend to underestimate the amount of trust that was destroyed within these
negotiations.
And if you look back at the negotiations that happened over the course of the weekend and the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schauble, said at the
very outset on Friday, that it was amazing to him to what extent the trust between these two partners had been destroyed, or between Greece and other
Eurozone partners as well.
So certainly the final agreement, if you look at the amount of reforms that are demanded of Greece, also that fund that Greece has to create that you
were just talking about with $55 billion of worth of assets in it, that are sort of a collateral, if you will, that certainly does reflect the fact
that the Germans say that at this point in time, there really isn't very much trust between themselves and the Greeks.
And obviously the same would be true with other Eurozone countries as well. If you took a look at the Baltic States, you took a look at the Eastern
European states, very much are skeptical of whether or not the Greeks are going to push all these reforms through. And you can really tell how the
relations between Greece and other Eurozone partners have really deteriorated over the course of all this, especially between the former
Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, and Wolfgang Schauble, where you could see the relations between these two getting worse and worse.
So the agreement that is now on the table -- and Angela Merkel did say this -- is one that trust can be built upon. But certainly does not reflect the
fact that trust is currently there -- Lynda.
KINKADE: So with that in mind, obviously the Germans got probably a better deal than what they thought they would.
Will they find it easy to sell this back home?
PLEITGEN: Well, I'm not sure they got a better deal than what they thought they would. But I think that they did remain very, very tough on most of
the issues. And if you look at what they set out to do, then they really only budged on very few of the measures that they wanted.
And what they want in place now is they want assurances that reforms are actually going to happen in Greece. And it seems as though the final
document gives them that. And that certainly is going to make it easier for Angela Merkel to sell all of this back home.
What's going to happen here is that after the Greek parliament approves these new measures, which most likely will be on Wednesday if the Greek
parliament does approve it, the German parliament's going to have to do the same thing on Thursday or Friday, most probably, of this week. And it's
going to definitely help Angela Merkel get it through parliament and not only get it through parliament with the majority, because the opposition is
actually on her side. The big thing is getting her own parliamentary faction to get behind it, the majority of the conservative members of
German parliament. A lot of them are very skeptical and a lot of them are saying, quite frankly, it's very difficult for us to sell additional aid to
Greece to our constituencies back home.
So that certainly is a tall task for Angela Merkel but the agreement in its current shape is definitely something that will help her get it through
parliament and then obviously get it enacted within the entire Eurozone -- Lynda.
KINKADE: We'll have to see how it all plays out.
Fred Pleitgen in Berlin and Isa Soares in Athens, thank you very much.
Now let's take a look at how this is playing out on Wall Street. The Dow Jones us up 182 points and European markets have just left the trading day.
And investors have -- they responded pretty positive to the Greek deal. You see the FTSE's up 0.73 percent. The Xetra DAX is up 1.25 percent.
Let's also have a look at how the Asian markets closed out the day. Most of the markets are in positive territory. The Chinese Shanghai Composite
is continuing to claw back ground after several losses of recent weeks. Many companies resumed trading Monday after suspending it as the markets
went into freefall.
The Beijing government has since stepped in to reinstate its stability.
Hopes are growing that an announcement on a deal to curb Iran's nuclear program could come today although diplomats on both sides say there are
still issues to overcome. Nic Robertson is outside the negotiations happening right now and joins me from Vienna, Austria.
Nic, these talks have been going on since 2013.
Is it looking likely that there will be a deal today?
NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: I think it's looking very likely that all sides agree that today is the deadline.
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ROBERTSON: We've heard that from the Iranian foreign minister and we've certainly been getting that impression from Western diplomats here as well.
There's a sense in the last couple of days that it's just -- that it is really, really close, that it is just a couple of issues away, that we've
heard from the Iranian side today, saying it's a matter of political will on the U.S. side.
The language is sort of moderated over the weekend, much tempered down, if you will, than what we were hearing a week or so ago. The reality of the
situation today is this, however: there is an expectation something will be agreed. But it is clear that bargaining is still going on, Secretary
Kerry met with the Iranian foreign minister here and the E.U. foreign policy chief for about an hour this afternoon. Meetings are still going
on. But the bargaining now is, if you will, as at the pitch that it's been through all of these weeks and all of the months and years to get to this
point.
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ROBERTSON (voice-over): Twenty-one months, a roller coaster, disagreements flared, deadlines come and gone. It began in Geneva late 2013, signing an
agreement to reach an agreement.
April this year, the Swiss Alps, first outlines appear. The Lausanne statement, Iran agrees: cut centrifuges, reduce nuclear stockpiles and
reach a full deal June 30th.
But a week before, a curve ball. Iran issues red lines. Their Supreme Leader demands limits on inspections, full sanctions relief.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flies to Vienna June 26th. Talks begin. Almost immediately alter. Kerry's counterpart, the Iranian Foreign
Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif flies back to Tehran, returns on the eve of the deadline.
Clear all is not well. Talks extended a week to July 7th.
JOHN KERRY, SECRETARY OF STATE: We believe we're making progress and we're going to continue to work because of that.
ROBERTSON (voice-over): But the night before the new deadline tempers flare.
FEDERICA MOGHERINI, E.U. HIGH REPRESENTATIVE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS: We've got the difficult things that it sometimes faces.
LAURENT FABIUS, FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER (through translator): The Iranian nuclear talks are, as we have predicted, not easy. There have been periods
of tensions but the negotiations continue.
ROBERTSON (voice-over): Storm clouds gathered, another deadline come and gone.
KERRY: We can't forever for the decision to be made. We know that. If the tough decisions don't get made, we are absolutely prepared to call an
end to this process.
ROBERTSON (voice-over): Rain lashed Vienna, talks resumed slowly.
KERRY: We still have a couple of very difficult issues and we'll be sitting down to discuss those in the very near term.
ROBERTSON (voice-over): Saturday, the next day, Kerry in seven meetings, two with the Iranian foreign minister. Then Sunday, hints of success:
Kerry on his way to church. The secretary of state's 17th day at the talks, the longest he has been in one place on any foreign policy
deployment. He shouts to reporters, "We're getting to some real decisions."
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ROBERTSON: Well, it's now day 18 for U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and it looks like it may well slip into day 19 before he gets that deal.
Certainly that's what I'm hearing from Iranian diplomats here, that this still requires a little more time, not before late tonight is what I've
been hearing.
KINKADE: We will come back to you if there are any changes. Nic Robertson, thank you very much.
Still to come, the race for the U.S. presidency just got a little more crowded. Coming up, how Scott Walker plans to separate himself from the 14
other major Republican candidates.
Plus Mexican relief, time for a ruthless drug lord who's busted out of prison for the second time. The latest on the search for El Chapo.
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KINKADE: Welcome back.
Mexico's president is calling the prison escape of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman an affront to the nation. Police are trying to track down the
infamous drug kingpin. Guzman slipped out of the prison over the weekend using a tunnel built right under the shower cell in his cell. This is the
second time he's broken out. And if his 2001 escape is any indication, it could be a long time before he's found.
Our Polo Sandoval joins us now for more on this. He says he's where the prison is located.
What an incredibly well planned escape, using a tunnel with ventilation and electricity. Take us through what happened.
POLO SANDOVAL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It's clearly fairly well planned here, which seems to indicate to authorities that El Chapo Guzman clearly had
help from the outside. And now there is this possibility that somebody from the inside may have helped him. We know of at least 18 guards at this
prison on the outskirts of Toluca (ph), Mexico, there currently in Mexico City, just about an hour's drive east of here, federal prosecutors speaking
to them to see if there's a potential tie there.
But in the meantime, as for the search, Lynda, I can tell you that there is a partial perimeter has been set up around the prison complex here and
around some of the neighboring towns. But so far, over a day into the search and no sign of this cartel kingpin.
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SANDOVAL (voice-over): This morning a massive international manhunt for one of the world's most powerful and deadly drug trafficking kingpins is
underway, Joaquin Guzman, known as "El Chapo," and a major supplier of heroin, cocaine and marijuana in the United States, staged a brazen escape
from this Mexican prison.
It's his second escape and this time he busted out of a maximum security federal prison just west of Mexico City.
Prison officials said guards at Altiplano federal prison performed a routine check of camera feeds and noticed Guzman was missing on Saturday
evening. At 5'6", Mexican authorities believe El Chapo -- Spanish for "Shorty" -- fit through a carved 20" by 20" hole located near the shower of
his cell. Beyond that, a vertical passage with stairs leading to a tunnel stretching nearly a mile.
The escape infuriated U.S. law enforcement officials, who pushed for Chapo's extradition to the United States at the time of his recapture last
year. They cited fears of corruption and questioned the ability of Mexican officials to keep him behind bars.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's estimated that he may have murdered or ordered the murders of more than 10,000 people. So this is not somebody that's playing
around with prison officials. He pretty much controls what he wants to do and they go along with it. They look the other way to keep their families
alive.
SANDOVAL (voice-over): Guzman got out by way of an elaborate underground escape route, complete with electricity, lighting and tracks for a
motorcycle and even ventilation. Investigators swarmed a half-built house at the other end, but Guzman was nowhere in sight.
The now two-time escapee broke out of prison in a laundry cart back in 2001 on the lam then for more than a decade. A break in that case came in 2013,
when investigators discovered seven houses in Mexico that were connected by an intricate web of secret passageways. Guzman evading authorities through
a hidden hatch under a bathtub.
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SANDOVAL: I can tell you that, at this hour, criticism does continue to mount against the administration of Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.
In fact, shortly after Guzman was captured last February, back in 2014 --
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SANDOVAL: -- the president was asked how likely it was that this very ruthless cartel leader would be able to spring out of this prison.
Well, he said it would be very unlikely. But now his administration faced with the reality that perhaps one of their most high profile captures is
now on the run. And of course the pressure is mounting for him to try to keep up with him, at least track him down as of course life continues and
life gets back to normal in and around the prison area here -- Lynda.
KINKADE: So much for maximum security. Polo Sandoval, thank you very much.
Still to come, Nintendo's president has passed away. We'll look at what allowed Satoru Iwata to understand gamers so well in his 13 years at the
helm.
Plus Russian media says a building collapse has killed dozens of soldiers. We'll take you to Russia for a live report.
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KINKADE: Russian state media reported at least 23 soldiers are dead after a building collapse. It happened at a military base in Siberia not far
from the border of Kazakhstan.
Let's go live to our Kellie Morgan now, who's following the latest developments from Moscow.
And, Kellie, it happened while these young men were sleeping.
What can you tell us about it?
KELLIE MORGAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, that's right, Lynda. There were 337 service men inside this barracks. It's a training facility for
paratroopers here in Russia and as you say they were in their beds when the roof fell in on them just after 10:30 last night, that being Sunday evening
here in Russia.
Now the building came down. There's some pretty dramatic pictures, actually. You can see the gaping hole in the side of that concrete
building. Twenty-three people, yes, were killed; a further 19 were injured and 10 of the most seriously injured were flown here to Moscow for
treatment.
Now the president, Vladimir Putin, has offered his condolences to the families of the victims and indeed to the wider Russian military. As for
the investigation, it did take investigators a little while to get into the site because of the rubble. It wasn't safe.
But once they got in, they've now declared that they will be launching a criminal investigation under building regulations law. There are reports
that this building was underway to a huge overhaul of renovations back in 2013 and there are some concern there that it was poor workmanship. So the
investigation is ongoing and but the investigators say they will prosecute and punish anyone, no matter what rank, if they find any kind of violation
in those building regulations -- Lynda.
KINKADE: And no doubt there's a huge task, just trying to find survivors. I understand rescuers were digging through with their hands.
MORGAN: That's right. Throughout the morning we've seen rescue workers and military personnel pulling out that rubble stone by stone, looking for
survivors. But as we also say, making that site safe so that investigators could go in and establish the cause of that collapse.
We're hearing local reports that many of the young men who were involved or who were at the barracks at the time had only just arrived at that training
facility and they came from across Russia.
So the tragedy will be felt right across the country -- Lynda.
KINKADE: No doubt. And the investigation will continue. Kellie Morgan, thank you very much for that update.
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KINKADE: Mourning the loss of Nintendo's president, Satoru Iwata passed away on Saturday after a long illness. The 55-year old is credited with a
bold decision that ended up bringing video games to new audiences. Here's Andrew Stevens.
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SATORU IWATA, PRESIDENT, NINTENDO: Hello, everyone. I'm Satoru Iwata of Nintendo.
ANDREW STEVENS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A CEO with a difference, Satoru Iwata was known for his YouTube broadcasts like this, delivering the
news about Nintendo's latest games directly to its fans.
Iwata spoke to gamers because he was a gamer.
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STEVENS (voice-over): He started as a programmer at HAL Laboratory, working on the Kirby series and other popular titles for Nintendo. That's
where he caught the eye of Nintendo's long-time leader, Hiroshi Yamauchi, who chose him as his successor in 2002.
Iwata took over a Nintendo in decline, struggling to compete against giants like Sony and Microsoft. But within five years, he'd turned the company
around. His plan was to let his rivals fight for hardcore gamers. Instead, he created the DS and Wii, two consoles designed to attract people
who don't play games. It worked.
Scenes like this became common, senior citizens bowling on the Wii, proof that Nintendo and Iwata had expanded the definition of gamer. But that
success would not continue. Nintendo's next console, the Wii U, flopped and many wondered just how long Nintendo's handhelds could hold out against
smartphone gaming.
These troubled times for Nintendo came at a tough time for Iwata. He didn't attend E3 in June, gaming's biggest annual show. But Iwata had a
typically quirky solution.
IWATA: We're ready to start filming the Nintendo digital event for E3 2015. OK. Thank you.
STEVENS (voice-over): Iwata gave his presentation on YouTube as a Muppet.
Speaking to gamers one last time as only he could.
Satoru Iwata was 55 -- Andrew Stevens, CNN, Hong Kong.
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KINKADE: And we'll be right back in just a short break.
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KINKADE: Welcome to the INTERNATIONAL DESK. I'm Lynda Kinkade. Here are the headlines.
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KINKADE (voice-over): Eurozone leaders agreed in principle to give Greece a third bailout. They announced the breakthrough after marathon talks in
Brussels. Greece's ballot must pass the plan which includes deep austerity reforms. Greek banks meanwhile remain closed for now.
A manhunt is underway for the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo. Joaquin Guzman broke out of a prison for the second time over the weekend. A
tunnel more than a kilometer long was built under his cell. Guzman is the leader of the Sinaloa cartel, one of the world's biggest drug syndicates.
French police are looking for three gunmen who escaped a department store after a reported botched robbery. It happened early this morning at a
shopping center in the northern suburbs of Paris. Police say 18 people were safely evacuated from that store.
The United Arab Emirates executed a woman convicted of murdering an American teacher. Dalal al Hashemi fatally stabbed the woman last year in
an Abu Dhabi shopping center bathroom. She also planted a bomb outside the home of an Egyptian American doctor. It did not detonate. Police say she
became radicalized over the Internet.
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KINKADE: After weeks of controversy stirred up by pageant co-owner Donald Trump, the U.S. has crowned a new Miss USA. Trump caused an uproar with
comments about Mexican immigrants. He was absent from the event but the issues immigration and racism were front and center. Athena Jones reports.
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ATHENA JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Miss Oklahoma, 26-year-old Olivia Jordan, was crowned Miss USA here in Baton Rouge. Jordan put herself at the front
of the pack with a strong performance in the interview portion of the competition. She said that race relations are the next big issue America
has to address. I asked her if the controversy surrounding Donald Trump's racially charged remarks overshadowed the event. Take a listen to what she
had to say.
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OLIVIA JORDAN, MISS USA: I think that this has been an incredible year in that we were able to come together. It was probably difficult, certainly
more difficult circumstances than we've had in the past. But the Miss Universe organization came together and they put on an amazing show.
Reelz Channel really swept in and saved the sash as they were saying. And I'm very grateful for all the women that came together. And we stood
strong and we all made sure to share our own beliefs and be strong in what we believed and be ourselves on stage.
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JONES: Now Trump, who partly owns the pageant, was a no-show at the event. He had said on the campaign trail in recent weeks that he planned to come
to the pageant, but then he bowed out, saying on Twitter a day before the event that he was missing it because he was campaigning in Phoenix.
But Trump's campaign told us he had no official events on Sunday.
Now the pageant aired on the cable channel Reelz after Univision and NBC canceled their plans to broadcast it in response to Trump's new
inflammatory remarks about Mexican immigrants.
I should mention that Miss Texas, 22-year-old Yliana Guerra, a Mexican American who grew up on the Texas-Mexico border, came in second place.
Back to you.
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KINKADE: Thanks to Athena Jones for that recap.
Well, Donald Trump has yet more competition in his bid for the U.S. presidency. Scott Walker has added his name to the ever-growing list of
Republican party candidates. The Wisconsin governor announced his decision to run on Twitter.
Our Dana Bash has (INAUDIBLE) to get a better idea of what Walker's all about.
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DANA BASH, SR. U.S. CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Scott Walker's sons are a staple of his stump speech.
GOV. SCOTT WALKER (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: My sons Matt and Alex --
Our sons Matt and Alex --
My reasons are Matt and Alex.
BASH (voice-over): So much that we were told someone in Wisconsin made up a Matt and Alex drinking game.
BASH (on camera): Every time he says Matt and Alex, you take a drink.
MATT WALKER, SON OF SCOTT WALKER: I didn't know that. That's pretty funny.
BASH (voice-over): Now it's the 21- and almost 20-year olds' turn to talk about their dad on the eve of his presidential announcement.
A. WALKER: We've seen his leadership. We've seen that he can get things done.
BASH (voice-over): What Walker did as governor in 2011 shot him to national prominence, trying to cut state spending by curving collective
bargaining and breaking state unions. It made him a hero to the Right and a devil to the Left.
Passions ran so high through a failed attempt to recall Walker, his then high school-aged sons say they faced death threats.
M. WALKER: And we got a lot of those threats. We were able to just keep calm, work through them. In the end, we got closer.
BASH (voice-over): But their mother, Tonette, also gave her husband tough love, telling him he wasn't communicating well.
A. WALKER: She tried to ask our dad to explain to people more what the reforms did and what he was doing.
BASH: Walker's wife is 12 years his senior. How they met, at this bar, says a lot about his personality, self-assured and at times a bit awkward.
A. WALKER: He wrote on a napkin, "Forgive me for being rude, but I've got to work early in the morning. If you'd like to go out sometime, give me a
call."
And he put his number down and his name and he slipped her the napkin on the way out.
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BASH: The Walkers are close but even they disagree on some politics. Matt and Alex support same-sex marriage and complained to their mother when
their dad called last month's Supreme Court decision legalizing it a grave mistake.
BASH (on camera): She said to you all when you complained, go talk to your father about it.
Did you?
M. WALKER: Yes, we talked to him. Like any family, we had disagreements. He just explained his position and that was it.
A. WALKER: Matt and I aren't necessarily changing his stances on any issues.
BASH: Do you try?
A. WALKER: No, we respect -- we respect his opinion on things.
BASH (voice-over): Walker's intense political ambition began as a teenager. He lost a bid to be student body president at Marquette
University and dropped out before graduating.
M. WALKER: He was getting offered a job before he even left, so why would he not take it?
BASH (on camera): What would he say if either of you said, you know what, Dad, I'm done. I'm not going to finish college?
A. WALKER: He might be all right with it if we told him we had a good reason. Our mom, on the other hand, would not allow that.
BASH (voice-over): Walker was elected to the state assembly at age 25. He's been a career politician since, but not always a political star.
CHARLIE SYKES, HOST, 620 WTMJ: Scott is one of those guys that does not fill up the room. He's not going to blow you away. He comes off as very
intense, very, you know, very, very thoughtful.
BASH (voice-over): Charlie Sykes is a Wisconsin conservative radio host, where Walker was a regular guest as he moved up through elected office.
SYKES: He is his own number one strategist. He is his own number one spokesman. He is his own media person.
BASH (on camera): Some would say that's micromanaging.
SYKES: Oh, I -- I think -- everybody would say that it's micromanaging.
BASH (voice-over): And he's even-keeled, apparently no temper.
Rebecca Kleefisch is Walker's lieutenant governor.
BASH (on camera): Have you ever seen that at all?
LT. GOV. REBECCA KLEEFISCH (R), WISCONSIN: Nope.
BASH: Not even during those intense recall moments?
KLEEFISCH: I was floored by his calm. You know that he's a man of deep faith.
BASH (voice-over): Walker is a preacher's son. Faith guides him spiritually and helps politically with Christian conservative voters he
needs, especially in Iowa.
KLEEFISCH: We don't go into meetings and quote scripture, as a lot of people assume of evangelicals, right, but you can see how he cares deeply.
BASH (voice-over): Before Kleefisch ran for office, she was a reporter who covered Walker.
KLEEFISCH: When we're in a public meeting versus when the door is closed, same guy. And I know that's weird.
BASH (voice-over): For his sons, that typical guy also means dorky dad.
A. WALKER: A little embarrassing sometimes. He likes to sing.
M. WALKER: Yes.
A. WALKER: He likes to sing karaoke, definitely, and embarrass Matt and I.
BASH (voice-over): They're not the only ones.
KLEEFISCH: He has a tendency to sing.
BASH (on camera): What does he sing?
KLEEFISCH: He sang "Happy."
BASH: How did that go?
KLEEFISCH: Politics is really good for him.
BASH (voice-over): But worse for his sons are his clothes.
M. WALKER: The big one is that he -- he wears jean shorts sometimes and that's a little rough, so --
BASH (on camera): Really?
M. WALKER: Fashion choices need to be updated.
BASH (voice-over): But dressing like a pirate when they were kids, not so bad.
A. WALKER: That's just how he's always been and he's shown the example for us.
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KINKADE: That was Dana Bash with that report.
Now still to come, he's the man who would be king but that is not stopping Britain's Prince William from earning an honest living. We'll bring you
all those details on his highflying new job -- next.
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KINKADE (voice-over): This is some of the most reckless driving Californian police say they have ever seen. That car is driving backwards
through parts of Los Angeles even maneuvering through a busy intersection and changing lanes for more than three kilometers.
The man who shot the video says he saw two people inside the car, a female passenger and a male passenger.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I just think that they may have had an argument or a fight or something or possibly just want to be a cool guy.
KINKADE (voice-over): Police say that driver could face numerous challenges if they can find him.
Now he's got the perfect wife, two adorable kids and he's heir to the throne of the United Kingdom. But Prince William's keen to show that he's
really just one of us as he begins a new day job. Max Foster has the details.
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MAX FOSTER, CNN HOST (voice-over): He's a working dad whose career is flying. Prince William is taking to the air as a newly qualified air
ambulance pilot, while trying to keep his feet firmly on the ground.
PRINCE WILLIAM: For me it's also a really important point to be grounded. I feel doing a job like this really helps with grounding the core of what I
am trying to become.
FOSTER (voice-over): And what he wants to become is -- in his words -- "a good guy," "a decent individual."
He wants to balance his career with his royal duties, which, at some point, will inevitably take over. The Prince also has a young family to worry
about, the newest member of which is Princess Charlotte, seen here on the day of her christening.
PRINCE WILLIAM: She's been a little joy of heaven but, at the same time, it is more responsibility looking after two little ones, especially when
George is around. So he's a little monkey. But no doubt, it's fantastic having a little family. And I'm so thrilled. And Catherine has been doing
an amazing job as a mother and I'm very proud of her.
FOSTER (voice-over): William won't get special treatment in his job, except being released for official duties. He'll be paid a regular wage
that he's donating to charity -- Max Foster, CNN.
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KINKADE: He's got a lot on his plate.
Well, that does it for us here at the INTERNATIONAL DESK. I'm Lynda Kinkade. But don't go anywhere. "WORLD SPORT" with Patrick Snell is up
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