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American Morning

'Morning Buzz'

Aired January 08, 2002 - 07:25   ET

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PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: We're going to take just a few minutes now to go over some of the stories catching our eye this morning.

Jack and Anderson, let's move on to the morning buzz.

JACK CAFFERTY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Very troubling story in the "Washington Post," very troubling story. Shortly after September 11, there were 6,000 Middle Eastern males targeted for deportation by the Justice Department. Nobody knows where they are. They've disappeared. Apparently this is an exclusive to the "Washington Post" but they're saying now they're going to make it a priority to track them down.

This is the middle of January. They don't know where these people are. They were...

ZAHN: And of course the fear is...

CAFFERTY: Right.

ZAHN: ... that as they track these young men down, that they leave themselves open to charges of racial profiling.

CAFFERTY: Racial profiling. Well, but first things first. I mean if there was some reason to believe that they were some sort of a threat and the Justice Department wanted them deported for whatever reason...

ZAHN: And they've disappeared...

CAFFERTY: They're gone.

ZAHN: Right.

CAFFERTY: You know, I mean we'll get to the other stuff later, I suppose. But where are these people? Why did they want them thrown out of the country and where are they now and what are they going to do about it?

ZAHN: And we have precious little information this morning on what sort of specific charges we're talking about.

CAFFERTY: Yes. No, not very much at all on that subject. ANDERSON COOPER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The big story in all the New York papers this morning, "Jury Was Rigged," says the "New York Post." This obviously going back to the Crown Heights incident back in the early 1990s in New York. A court has found that the original judge was jury tamp -- basically jury mandering, trying to have an equal amount of Jewish people and black people on the jury. And he's ruled that, the new court has ruled that was unfair.

ZAHN: Also, a lot of attention being paid in the sports pages to the alleged break-up of Michael Jordan's marriage of some dozen years or so. I guess that should come as no surprise to people who have followed the ups and downs of this relationship over the years.

CAFFERTY: Yes, it's got to be, what, next to impossible. How can you be Michael Jordan with all that that entails and be a happily married husband, father, you know, domestic engineer and run a house? I mean it's got to be extremely difficult.

ZAHN: How can you not, Jack?

CAFFERTY: Well, I just, I, you know, I think it would be very hard.

ZAHN: What, because of the temptations?

CAFFERTY: Just because of the celebrity that is attached to this man. I mean I, you know, he's on the road, he's never home, he's, you know -- I don't know. It's like that old, what's that joke, the new divorce Barbie, the doll? It comes with everything Ken had.

ZAHN: Yes, this could get...

CAFFERTY: Cost him some money.

ZAHN: ... really ugly, cost him some big dough.

CAFFERTY: Yes.

ZAHN: We welcome your input for the morning buzz, as well. You can e-mail all of us at am@cnn.com. Stay tuned. We're going to answer some of your e-mails in the next hour of AMERICAN MORNING. We got hundreds of responses yesterday.

CAFFERTY: We did.

ZAHN: And we're going to share some of those with you. And hopefully you'll be just peppering us right now with new ones so we can use those, as well.

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