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Aired September 07, 2015 - 06:30   ET

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LAWRENCE LESSIG (D), 2016 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Well, no, what I've said is the leading candidates. I mean, I need all of them -- I need to know that the Democratic...

CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: I got you.

LESSIG: ... nominee will make this issue day one.

[06:30:04] CUOMO: All right. Professor Lessig, thank you very much. It is certainly an important issue. Now, it will be getting more attention with your candidacy and quick ability to raise money online.

Thank you very much, Professor.

Mick?

MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR: More on Lessig, I like that. Very nice, Chris.

CUOMO: You can have it.

PEREIRA: All right. Thanks.

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady opening up about Deflategate. You'll hear what he had to say about winning the appeal of the suspension.

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ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: Time for CNN Money now, your money. Chief business correspondent Christine Romans is here.

What are you seeing today?

CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: Well, U.S. markets are closed, but Beijing says, hey, the Chinese bubble is over and then the market disagrees. It's the first day of trading in China after a four-day break and the Shanghai composite dropped 2.5 percent. The Chinese central bank said the process is nearly complete.

[06:35:04] Investors said, not so much. Here in the U.S., investors are obsessed with when the Fed will raise interest rates, a move that will raise borrowing cost for credit cards, auto loans and mortgages. Until then, folks, rates are still rock bottom, 30-year fixed rate mortgages, averaging 3.89 percent. Look at that, a 15-year fix. That's a lot of people use for a refinancing tool. You can see why that is there, 3.9 percent. Procrastinating your refi, don't you got to act now. Now is the time to act.

If you are hitting the road, this should make the drive easier. This is the cheapest Labor Day gas price in 11 years, 11 years. The nationwide average for a gallon of regular $2.40, $2.05 in my neighborhood yesterday. That's more than a dollar cheaper than a year ago.

CUOMO: I don't know. You keep saying this.

ROMANS: Higher in Chicago and California --

CUOMO: Yes, you say refinery issues or sticking it to us in the big cities?

ROMANS: I don't know. Your price is a dollar cheaper this year, Chris. I'll tell you.

PEREIRA: I'll take it, I'll take it.

CAMEROTA: I see it.

CUOMO: You don't see it.

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PEREIRA: Christine, thank you so much.

Let's take a look at a few more headlines here. Hillary Clinton is now the underdog in New Hampshire. A new NBC News/Marist poll shows Democratic rival Bernie Sanders leading by nine points in New Hampshire. He is also dramatically getting ground on Clinton in Iowa, cutting her lead, in fact, by more than half since July. Meanwhile, on the Republican side, show Donald Trump maintaining his lead in Iowa and New Hampshire.

CUOMO: Breaking this morning, France announcing it will take in 24,000 new refugees to help ease the crisis gripping Europe. This, as thousands of migrants made their way to Germany this weekend, after boarding trains in Austria.

Now, at the same time, Austrian officials are saying they are going to tighten emergency measures for migrants. But what does that mean? They are going to do it in a humane way that complies with the law. This is a wait and see situation.

CAMEROTA: An investigation under way this morning into an ambush- style shooting on police officers in Las Vegas. Police say a man with a semiautomatic weapon approached two officers in their patrol car at a traffic light. One officer was shot in the hand. He is recovering. The suspect, we're happy to say, is in custody. This is the second Las Vegas police officer shot in just the past few days.

PEREIRA: this Labor Day, President Obama is expected to roll out a new executive order in Boston. The order requires federal contractors to offer employees up to seven paid sick days per year. The White House says this could help more than 300,000 workers. The president is also expected to talk about new rules to help federal contract employees negotiate equal pay.

CUOMO: Two Texas high school football players have been suspended from their team and their school after being captured in video apparently tackling an official on purpose during a game.

Coy Wire has more on this morning's bleacher report.

I don't think I've ever seen this before. Maybe it was kind of like the scene in "The Longest Yard." What about you, Coy, you were a pro?

COY WIRE, CNN SPORTS: Chris, never seen anything like this in my career. Both of these students were defensive players on the John Jay High School team in San Antonio. "The Associated Press" reported that two players reported that two players from the same team were ejected earlier in the game. And there was also a controversial call by the official, too.

Here is the video. You'll see a player come out from nowhere from the top of the screen. He blindsides the official, violently knocking him down. His teammate dives in while he's lying on the ground. Here is another angle.

The school district says they are investigating the incident. There's no word, Chris, on whether or not the official suffered injuries.

All right. For the first time since his four-game Deflategate suspension was overturned, Tom Brady spoke publicly. He seems to be happy as many football fans are. But for now, there will be less Deflategate and more football.

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TOM BRADY, NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS: You know, obviously, I have a lot of personal feelings. And -- but, I really don't care to share many of those. I have had so much support with my family through all this. And for the last 20 years, I have been playing football this time of year and it feels good to be able to do that again.

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WIRE: Look out, Serena Williams moved a step closer to the calendar grand slam with the win over fellow American Madison Keys on Sunday. It's the best she's played thus far at the U.S. Open. She will now face her sister, Venus, Tuesday night in the quarterfinals. Her excellence is unfathomable. Her passion is palpable, Chris. Serena is now just three wins away from being the first to win all four grand slam events in the same year since Steffi Graf did in 1988. CUOMO: Coy Wire, you sounded like Clyde Frazier there for a second, unfathomable and palpable. Well done, my friend. Well done.

WIRE: Thanks, Chris.

CUOMO: Just quick button on it. Is there a question in your mind, looking at the videotape, Coy, that those guys did that on purpose?

WIRE: No doubt about it. It will be interesting to see how that -- what was the impetus? Were there coaches involved? Did they know about it before? We'll see, Chris, I'm sure in the coming days.

CUOMO: Could be an assault charge also because it's outside the rules of the game. Thank you very much, Coy. Great to see you as always. Happy Labor Day.

All right. So, presidential candidates long complained about gotcha questions, right? Fair or unfair, they complain.

[06:40:00] The latest complainer: Donald Trump, tripped up when asked about foreign policy last week, calls it a gotcha.

Gotcha or gaffe? These things should matter, right? And does it matter to you if you are a trump supporter? We discuss.

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HUGH HEWITT, CONSERVATIVE RADIO HOST: These are tough, focused questions. This week, I have had on Rubio, Christie, Walker, Carly twice, I talked to Lindsey Graham at length, Mike Huckabee. I ask even straight, hard hitting questions. I have no favorites or disfavorites.

Now, I may put some people at a disadvantage.

[06:45:02] It's my life to be prepared in foreign policy. This is what we do. And so, I spent two hours talking to Stanley McChrystal about his book "Team of Teams", in which Soleimani is a central character. And I spent two hours with Mike --

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CAMEROTA: All right. That was conservative radio host, Hugh Hewitt, and you see -- you will see him asking questions at the CNN Republican debate next week. But last week, Donald Trump claimed that Hewitt was playing gotcha when he asked Trump things like the difference between Hamas and Hezbollah.

Now, the acquisitions of gotcha questions has a long history in presidential politics. So, let's look at some of the most famous.

We want to bring in Errol Louis. He's a CNN political commentator and a political anchor at New York 1.

Hi, Errol. Great to see you. Happy Labor Day.

ERROL LOUIS, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Yes, you, too. Good morning.

CAMEROTA: OK, let's look at some of the most famous gotcha questions. I want to start with George W. Bush, because this was during the 2000 election. And he was asked questions very similar to what Hugh Hewitt asked Donald Trump. This was from a political reporter in Boston Andy Hillard about world leaders. Watch this.

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REPORTER: Can you name the president of Chechnya?

GEORGE W. BUSH: No, can you.

REPORTER: Can you name the president of Taiwan?

BUSH: Yes, Lee.

The new Pakistani general just been elected, he's -- not elected, this guy took over office. He appears he's going to bring stability to the country. And I think that's good news for the subcontinent.

REPORTER: Can you name him?

BUSH: General. I can name the general.

REPORTER: And it's?

BUSH: General.

REPORTER: And the prime minister of India?

BUSH: The new prime minister of India is -- no.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CAMEROTA: OK, Errol. Same thing, right, that tripped up Donald Trump.

LOUIS: Yes. Well, you know what? A brilliant response from George Bush, to tell you the truth. The camera doesn't lie. You are going to get caught out there, if you try to fake it. If you don't know, say you don't know.

I think most people, most reasonable voters and other viewers would perfectly understand that. I'm not sure why it didn't work for Donald Trump.

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LOUIS: I don't have that.

CAMEROTA: But I mean, didn't Donald Trump actually go a step further? I don't know today, but trust me, when I get in there, I'm going to get a guy who knows how to do this and I'm going to know more than you?

LOUIS: Yes, that's a Trumpian response to what would -- maybe it'd been better if he just said, I don't know today, check in with me tomorrow. It's not a big deal. Nobody expects you to know everything, and certainly not at this early stage of the game. But please give us a sense that it at least matters. Don't just disparage the question.

CAMEROTA: Yes. OK, here was an iconic moment from the election with John McCain and Sarah Palin where Katie Couric asked Sarah Palin what newspapers and magazines she read. You would think it's a softball question, but turned out not to be.

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SARAH PALIN (R), FORMER ALASKA GOVERNOR: All of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years. I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news. Alaska isn't a foreign country where it's kind of suggested, it seems like, wow, how could you keep in touch with the rest of Washington, D.C., may be thinking and doing.

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CAMEROTA: Basically, what she said is she found that question demeaning, like what newspapers do you read? But that was -- was that a gotcha question?

LOUIS: No, of course not. In fact, she could have responded with something closer to the truth, which is that I read summaries that my staff gives me. She was a governor at the time. Maybe she doesn't have time to sit around and read the newspaper. Maybe she's five zones behind, time zones behind, and she doesn't get the newspaper in time. Maybe she likes to the radio, maybe she likes to look online. There are a lot of different truthful answers that one could give.

If she understood the question, I think she would have realized, the issue was, give us a sense of how you take in information. However it is, just tell the truth. I don't know why so many politicians have such a hard time with that one. But it would have really worked out better if she would have simply done that.

CAMEROTA: OK. Well, here is a question from this current election that was posted to Hillary Clinton, it was from Terry Gross. Hillary Clinton sounds like she thinks this is a gotcha question. But it was about why she appears to have flip-flopped her stance on gay marriage.

Watch this.

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HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: You could not be having this sweep of marriage equality across the country if nobody changed their mind. And thank goodness so many of us have.

TERRY GROSS: So, that's one for you changed your mind? CLINTON: You know, I really -- I have to say, I think you are being

very persistent, but playing with my words and playing with what is such an important issue.

GROSS: I'm just trying to clarify so I can understand.

CLINTON: No, I don't think you are trying to clarify. I think you're trying to say that, you know, I used to be opposed, and now, I'm in favor and I did it for political reasons and that's just flat wrong.

(END AUDIO CLIP)

CAMEROTA: Why is that not fair of a question, Errol?

LOUIS: You know, I mean, her very words you just played. You know, many of us change our minds, you know? And so, you go in for a follow-up -- well, when did that happen?

[06:50:01] How did you do it? You know?

Hillary Clinton, I think, was probably accurately realizing that her political opponents might take whatever she was to say and to say she's a flip-flopper, she's changed her mind.

You know, some of this we have to put back on the voters. There's something about voters where they just don't want to see anybody change their mind. They expect candidates in many cases to simply have understood all kinds of conflict issues and they never change their minds over 20 years of public service. That's not reasonable.

CAMEROTA: All right. Errol, we will leave it there for today. I predict we will have more fodder as the campaign continues. Great to see you this morning.

Mick?

LOUIS: You too.

PEREIRA: All right. Thanks so much.

For the first time since his suspension, rather, was overturned, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is talking about Deflategate. You will hear his reaction to his legal win, ahead.

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[06:55:04] BRADY: I'll be excited to run out there Thursday night. It's obviously been a long seven months for everybody. But, I think now the goal is to focus on what my job is and what I need to go out there and do to help our team win.

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PEREIRA: That's New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady speaking out for the first time after that judge threw out the four-game suspension for Deflategate. His team is getting ready to play in this Thursday's season opener.

Let's bring in CNN's sports analyst and sports columnist for "USA Today", the one and only Christine Brennan.

Always a pleasure to have you. But I love seeing you in person.

So, the big game after the suspension is overturned. How do you think it is going to be perceived? Him showing up on the field, team ready to go for the season opener?

CHRISTINE BRENNAN, CNN SPORTS ANALYST: Whatever the decimal level is, for the highest --

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BRENNAN: Yes, because that was Patriots fans. That is the home game, of course, for Tom Brady. Everyone else has been concerned, is he cheating, is he not? In this case, they have been on his side and to see him out on the field, oh, my gosh, Michaela --

PEREIRA: Eyes will be on them.

BRENNAN: -- it is going to register probably on the Richter scale.

PEREIRA: Legacy questions come up, right? So, how will this chapter be seen and how will its effect be felt for the coming time? Do you think there's going to be little, as Chris would say, little stink on the Patriots organization or in the NFL?

BRENNAN: Oh, I think around the league, yes. And he'll be booed on the other stadiums he goes and plays. And, you know, the Patriots have a history with spygate and now this.

Even the judge ruled in favor of Tom Brady, he did not say he was innocent. Somehow, those footballs ended up being deflated. There are two men, of course, the employees who are no longer working with the Patriots.

PEREIRA: Right.

BRENNAN: So, something happened. And I think, around the country, there are a lot of people are wondering if Brady still isn't a cheater even though he got off on a technicality.

PEREIRA: Let's play a little more sound, because he actually referenced that. Here's him speaking of the two other Patriots employees you spoke about.

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BRADY: It's been a very tough situation for everybody and it's put a lot of stress on everybody's families. And I feel bad that if anybody is in the position we have been put in. And, you know, hopefully, we can, you know, just keep learning from life experiences. And, you know, I certainly feel terrible for, you know, them, if they're not able to be with us right now.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

PEREIRA: I mean, the fact, it has affected more than just him. Did it feel sincere to you, his apology?

BRENNAN: Oh, you know, Tom Brady is the boy next door. He's Mr. Clean. He is still Mr. Clean, it seems like.

But, you hope someone is helping those people who are obviously no longer working. Maybe Brady is doing something to help them financially, who knows?

PERIERA: It will be interesting to hear.

So, then the question is Goodell, right?

BRENNAN: Right.

PEREIRA: So, the suspension is not upheld. What does this mean to him? Does he lose his sort of standing, his bravado in all of this? Does it affect his legacy going forward?

BRENNAN: The only thing that matters to Roger Goodell are the owners, and they have always been on his side. Roger Goodell is not going rogue here. He is not doing it on his own.

That said, they are, what, now 0 for 5 on these legal battles. But the nation has spoken out wanting tougher penalties.

PEREIRA: Yes.

BRENNAN: So, the league is doing that. Roger Goodell is kind of reflecting that. We're literally, 52 weeks to the day since the Ray Rice video. That happened on September 8th. So, 52 weeks ago today.

So, the nation wanted tougher penalties. But now, there's the rebukes in the courts. On and on it goes. It's not over. Of course, the NFL has appealed to the Second Circuit. We'll see what happens there.

But Goodell is not acting on his own. And as long as the owners want him to be doing what he is doing, he will keep doing it.

PEREIRA: Christine Brennan, always great to have you here. Thanks for joining us this morning.

BRENNAN: Thank you.

PEREIRA: So early. Certainly following a whole lot of news this morning. So, let's get right to it.

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CLINTON: I always thought this was going to be a competitive primary and I welcome that.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Bernie Sanders surging past Hillary Clinton.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Voters are beginning to look for alternatives.

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT), DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Don't tell anybody. I think they're getting nervous.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: More momentum for Donald Trump and big trouble for Jeb Bush.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is going to be a close, general election.

CAMEROTA: Kim Davis is appealing the contempt of court ruling.

MIKE HUCKABEE (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Marriage is not defined in the federal constitution.

GOV. JOHN KASICH (R-OH), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: She's not running a church. But I think she should follow the law.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She may be jailed behind bars, but her conscience remains free.

PEREIRA: The mounting migrant crisis that is currently gripping Europe.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The silhouettes of more than 20 people stranded in a rubber boat. They are desperate, frightened.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's an accident waiting to happen.

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

CAMEROTA: Good morning, everyone. Welcome back to your NEW DAY. Happy Labor Day. Thanks for spending it with us.

We begin this hour with Hillary Clinton now struggling in New Hampshire. A new NBC News/Marist poll shows Democratic rival Bernie Sanders overtaking her and her lead in Iowa also slipping.

CUOMO: Some big developments in the GOP as well. Yes, Trump has a lead and that's growing. But there's a new name in play as well.

So, let's get the developments for you. Let's begin with senior Washington correspondent Jeff Zeleny on the hustings in Davenport, Iowa.

Tell us about the poll?

JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: Hey, good morning, Chris.

I mean, Hillary Clinton is starting this Labor Day in a far different place than she, and many Democrats expected that she would be.