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Powell Received Classified Emails on Personal Account; Sanders Attacks Clinton on Wall Street Ties; What to Expect from Super Bowl 50. Aired 6:30-7a ET
Aired February 05, 2016 - 06:30 ET
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[06:32:54] MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR: Well, Hillary Clinton is apparently not the first secretary of state to receive classified e-mails on a personal account. The State Department inspector general now says Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice's staffers also received classified information on email private accounts.
CNN justice reporter Evan Perez live in Washington with more on this.
Interesting, Evan.
EVAN PEREZ, CNN JUSTICE REPORTER: Good morning, Michaela.
We're talking about two e-mails that Colin Powell received on his private e-mail account that are now deemed classified. And 10 classified e-mails by close aides to Condoleezza Rice when she was secretary of state. Powell and Rice dispute these findings by the State Department's internal watchdog.
Powell issued this statement saying, quote, "I have reviewed the messages and I do not see what makes them classified. If the department wishes to say a dozen years later that they should have been classified, that is an open that I do not share." Rice's office in Stanford University says she never used e-mail at all and the messages in question didn't include intelligence information when they were sent to her aides.
Clinton says that the report supports exactly what she's been talking about, this email controversy. Take a listen.
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HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Now, you have these people in the government doing the same thing to Secretary Powell and Rice's aides, which is I never sent or received any classified material. They are retroactively classifying it. I agree completely with Secretary Powell who said today this is an absurdity.
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PEREZ: And, Alisyn, it bears reminding everyone here that unlike her predecessors, Clinton set up a private server that handled all of her government e-mails.
ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: Yes, that is an important distinction. Thanks so much, Evan.
Well, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders sparring over Wall Street during last night's debate. Sanders attacking Clinton's financial ties, Clinton accusing him of, quote, "an artful smear". How damaging are these Wall Street attacks? We'll explore that.
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[06:38:27] SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The business model of Wall Street is fraud. It's fraud.
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CAMEROTA: All right. No holds barred for the Democrats during last night's debate. One of the big topics, Wall Street and its affect on the middle class.
Let's bring in Rana Foroohar to cut through the spin. She is CNN's global economic analyst and assistant managing editor at "Time Magazine".
I hope you brought your scissors.
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CAMEROTA: You're going to do a lot of cutting right now.
RANA FOROOHAR, CNN GLOBAL ECONOMIC ANALYST: Absolutely. I'm ready to snip.
CAMEROTA: So ties to Wall Street. That is being bandied about as a very bad term right now during this election. In fact, let me play for you Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders back and forth about this last night. Listen to this.
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SANDERS: While being part of the establishment is in the last quarter having a super PAC that raised $15 million from Wall Street, that throughout one's life raised a whole lot of money from the drug companies and other special interests.
CLINTON: And I just absolutely reject that, Senator. And I really don't think these kinds of attacks by insinuation are worthy of you. And enough is enough. If you've got something to say, say it directly. But you will not find that I ever changed a view or a vote because of any donation that I ever received.
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CAMEROTA: OK. So as a financial analyst, who wins at this point?
FOROOHAR: Well, you know, I think that Sanders supporters think that he won. I think Clinton supporters think that she won.
Traditionally, Sanders has put forward a much more strong view, look, Wall Street is bad, we've got to fix the big banks.
[06:40:00] Hillary's view has been a little more nuanced. And I think that most people and I agree with this, think that she has a more sophisticated view with the financial system.
Bernie Sanders talks a lot about breaking up the big banks. And, you know, it's possible that we need to do some of that. Hillary goes farther. She says we need to get in to shadow banks, we need to deal with monopoly power. All those things are true as well.
In some ways, this comes down to a trust issue. Do progressives in particular think that Hillary is really going to push on banks when she does get Wall Street money and donations politically?
CAMEROTA: And the reason they think she wouldn't is just because she's gotten speaking fees. Or does it have something else to do with the Clinton administration?
FOROOHAR: Well, you know, there is a historic break in the Democratic Party going way back to her husband's administration in the 1990s. The Clinton arm of the Democratic Party was much more sort of open to Wall Street, open to deregulation. There is a legacy of that under her husband. And I think some progressives feel concerned about how she is going to approach Wall Street going forward because of that.
CAMEROTA: But Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, basically expressed some concerns of his own about Bernie Sanders. So, let's listen to this.
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LLOYD BLANKFEIN, GOLDMAN SACHS CHAIRMAN & CEO: It has the potential to be a dangerous moment not just for Wall Street, not just for the people who are particularly targeted but for anybody who is a little bit out of line. You know, we had a moment in time where people are -- you know, it's a liability to say I'm going to compromise.
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CAMEROTA: What's he saying there?
FOROOHAR: I think he is saying please don't break up the big banks.
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CAMEROTA: I knew there was a subtext.
I mean, basically, it sounds like he is saying that Bernie Sanders he thinks is too far to the left.
FOROOHAR: Yes. Well, the thing about Sanders message is very cut and dry, you know? He is saying they have more power than they did before the financial crisis, and that's true actually, and that's something that a lot of people are worried about. But it is also true that just breaking up big banks is not the way to address the sort of larger, systemic problems we have in the financial system. That's the result of 40 years of small changes in a lot of different areas. Not just deregulation of banking, but tax codes, corporate compensation.
And that's something that I think Hillary is addressing. She does have a pretty comprehensive plan around many of these things.
CAMEROTA: At the end of the day, are Bernie Sanders and Hillary that far off in terms of their future financial economic policy?
FOROOHAR: Well, one of the things is we don't know so many of the specifics of what he is proposing. He is saying break up the big banks, he's saying bring back Glass-Steagall, which is the Depression era banking regulation. You hear a lot about that. That's the regulation that would have separated commercial banking, the kind of -- you know, it's a wonderful life, simple banking, from risky trading.
That's something that have the final nail in the coffin under Bill Clinton, Hillary's husband, and that's something that a lot of people would like to see brought back in some modern form. So, that's basically his plan.
She is saying, no, we need to go much further and regulate hedge funds in a different way. We need to talk about monopoly powering other big industries. We need to talk about share buybacks and things like that. So, the truth is both of them have a point.
CAMEROTA: Great to have you here, Rana, and make us all smarter.
FOROOHAR: Thank you.
CAMEROTA: Thanks so much for being here on NEW DAY.
Michaela?
PEREIRA: You're like a genius. It's amazing she has that affect on all of us.
Remember the notorious pharmaceutical executive who jacked up the price of an AIDS drug by some 5,000 percent? Well, he didn't have is a whole lot to say on a Capitol Hill hearing. But he certainly could not resist leashing on Twitter. What did he have to say about House leaders? You'll hear about it, ahead.
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[06:46:52] PEREIRA: Good to have you back with us here on NEW DAY.
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders upping the ante in their first and final debate one-on-one debate before the New Hampshire primary. Clinton taking Sanders to task, accusing him of artfully smearing her campaign by suggesting that she's controlled by political donations. Sanders meanwhile refusing to back down from his assertion that Clinton is part of a political establishment that must be challenge.
CAMEROTA: Growing concerns this morning about the presence of ISIS in Libya. U.S. intelligence officials now believe there are 6,500 ISIS fighters operating in Libya as it becomes harder for the terrorists to enter Syria. Libya is very viable to ISIS, giving them access to billions of dollars in oil and shipping in the Mediterranean. The Pentagon pushing to increase aerial surveillance over Libya.
PEREIRA: The embattled drug executive Martin Shkreli smirking, grinning, and pleading the Fifth at a fiery hearing on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers demanding to know why he raised the price of that life- saving drug from $13.50 to $750. Shkreli refusing to answer on the advice of his lawyers. But, oh, he had plenty to say on Twitter when the hearing was over, tweeting, quote, "Hard to accept these imbeciles represent the people in our government."
CAMEROTA: Now, something to make you smile. Michaela's favorite story of the day, Bei Bei.
That's your musical sting for Bei Bei.
PEREIRA: (INAUDIBLE)
CAMEROTA: I love it. Playing outside for the first time at the Smithsonian National Zoo. You can see, America, look at that, beloved, thank for the dialogue, for what's going on in Bei Bei's mind.
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CAMEROTA: Yes, you're right. The 5 1/2 old cub fascinated with this tree. He attempts to climb bit. He attempts to use his teeth. But his little paws can't get enough grip.
PEREIRA: I want you to know, America, we ran this when Chris was not here, because he thinks these beautiful peaceful animals are actually --
CAMEROTA: Wild animals.
PEREIRA: Yes.
All right. Do you know there is a winter storm warning? It is apparently snowing outside right now. There's winter storm warning for parts of the northeast. An intense snowstorm is moving through.
Chad Myers, I thought you were going to flip that switch for us.
CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Yes.
PEREIRA: What happened?
MYERS: Cuomo told me to push some buttons. I told to my wife, hey, he's always pushing my buttons. What am I supposed to do about all of this?
I can't a push a button to make this better, but, Boston, you're getting five to nine inches of snow today, although it's 33 and snowing now, same in New York City. It is warm enough to be melting on the way down.
Here is your winter storm warning for Boston, for Hartford, for Providence, for Narragansett and the like. Here's what it looks like now right outside our studios here in New York City. It does look like the snow is coming down and sticking to the grass only. You can see Columbus Circle. It is just wet.
So, if you're walking around on the grass, so is your dog, you'll enjoy the snow, if you're just out there, maybe driving around. At least for now, it will just be wet. By 4:00, 5:00 tonight, all the big cities, as the sunsets will be cold enough to refreeze some of that water.
Here comes your snow for the next couple of hours. Really, it is all gone by 6:00 tonight. So, we're going to pile up around five inches in Boston, less in New York City, probably three to five there, and less even in D.C., further to the south.
[06:50:04] Pretty decent weekend, but a cold next week is coming up. A bitterly cold week is coming up as well.
PEREIRA: You know, the fact is, Chad, it is still winter as much as we thought it was spring. We're hoping it was spring. It is still the middle of winter.
CAMEROTA: Yes, particularly in New Hampshire where a lot will be happening over the weekend in Monday and Tuesday.
Let us head out to sunny San Francisco, which is a funny thing to say because you're probably under a blanket of fog, right?
CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: In the middle of the night. But let me ask you two a question. Who is your favorite? Am I your favorite?
PEREIRA: Favorite what?
CUOMO: Just say yes. I have a gift for you.
CAMEROTA: Yes. You are our favorite. We love you.
CUOMO: Look who I have? Look who I have for you. Coy Wire is here. He's even bigger and more beautiful in person. He is like Granite.
We're going to talk about who the favorites are in Super Bowl, Broncos/Panthers, Manning versus Newton, old versus young. He's got it all for you.
Look at that smile.
COY WIRE, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT: Yes.
CUOMO: I'm blinded.
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[06:56:02] CUOMO: History, history, history. This Sunday, the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers face off at Super Bowl 50.
Look who I have, CNN's Coy Wire is with me to go over what to watch for in the big game. History on both sides. Peyton Manning, 39. He will be the oldest quarterback in a game. Panthers, second Super Bowl since 2003.
WIRE: Right.
CUOMO: We got Superman behind center. What do you see?
WIRE: It's -- well, first of all, let's talk about Superman. It is easy to see why they call this guy Superman. He's just been incredible. You have a guy who seemingly gets better and stronger with each and every single game. No quarterback or any player for that matter in the history of the game has thrown for 30 touchdowns and rushed for 10 touchdowns in a season.
You're talking about 45 combined touchdowns for Cam Newton this season. This guy is seemingly unstoppable right now. You mentioned it before, Chris. You talked about the old and the new. Cam Newton again seemingly gets better each game against Peyton Manning, a living legend, whose body seems to be deteriorating.
CUOMO: Statistically, the worst season of his career.
WIRE: His worst season --
CUOMO: Still gotten to the Super Bowl, though.
WIRE: Yes, still gotten to the Super Bowl. His mind is still dynamic. He can crush you with his decision making skills on the field.
But that is what the dichotomy we are seeing there is what -- is the talk of the town this week here in the Super Bowl. And, you know, a lot of people are favoring, Vegas included, the Carolina Panthers. They came out and they crushed the Seattle Seahawks, they crashed the Arizona Cardinals.
And the thing, though, is you have to look at this and smell upset. Two of the last eight Super Bowls --
CUOMO: Two?
WIRE: Only two of the last eight Super Bowls have been won by the favorite team.
So, this is an incredible situation here, history in the making. And I love what we're working with.
CUOMO: So, who do you got, Mr. Perfect?
WIRE: I'm going with the underdog, a life-long underdog myself. I'm going with the Broncos, they're the number one ranked defense in the NFL this season. And if you look at the last eight Super Bowls, six of them have been won by the top ranked defense.
So, I watched that game in person, the conference championship game. And I hadn't yet Denver on film, but watching them in person, they are playing at different level. I fully expect them to go out led by Von Miller and DeMarcus Wear to surprise some folks and contain Cam Newton.
CUOMO: To remember Coy's bona fides, not just this gorgeous face. He is a head crusher, safety linebacker.
Which one of these two quarterbacks would you prefer to play against?
WIRE: I would prefer to play against Peyton Manning because he is an empty shell of what he used to be, right?
CUOMO: And he can't beat you with his feet.
WIRE: And he can't beat you with his feet. A running quarterback is any defender's worst nightmare.
CUOMO: Especially when he's size of a refrigerator.
WIRE: That's right.
Now, we have the Super Bowl special coming up. I'm so pumped. You're going to be with Dan Marino. We have a lot of good stuff for everybody and we actually special message from Mr. Marino for Mr. Cuomo.
CUOMO: What?
WIRE: Let's check it out.
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DAN MARINO, HALL OF FAMER: Hey, Chris. Glad you arrived here in San Francisco. Looking forward to the show. Jets fan? Serious? You're a Jets fan?
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WIRE: He's calling you out.
CUOMO: What is that about?
WIRE: You're wearing your Jets green today. Marino, you're talking about AFC East.
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CUOMO: One of the dirtiest plays in history. Fake spike. Where is the sportsmanship? He does look like my brother, though.
WIRE: That's right. That's right.
CUOMO: It's just going to be great. I mean, that's why we came out there, to do this with Coy Wire. Dan Marino. We are doing this bleacher report special with the hall of fame quarterback and a bunch of other stars. So awesome.
"Kickoff by the Bay", it's going to bring you an all-access coverage to Super Bowl 50 from Levi's Stadium, starting at 2:30 Eastern and Pacific, right here on CNN.
We have a lot of big news for you this morning. Changing the state of the play of the election. Let's get right to it.
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CLINTON: Before it was e-mails, it was Benghazi. You have these people in the government who are doing the same thing to Secretary Powell and Secretary Rice's aides, they've been doing to me.
