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Warriors Headed Back to NBA Finals; Trump, Clinton Shortlist for VP; Series of Setbacks Threaten Rio Olympics. Aired 6:30-7a ET
Aired May 31, 2016 - 06:30 ET
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[06:32:34] CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: The Golden State Warriors beat the odds and the Thunder and are heading back to the NBA Finals.
Coy Wire has more in this morning's "Bleacher Report."
Came from behind, true champions.
COY WIRE, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT: They did it, Cuomo. Yes, they are showing why they are the defending champs. Down three games to one at one point in the series, only two teams had ever come back from that great a deficit in conference final history, make it three.
Here they go. Warriors, you're down at halftime, you're down three games to one, who do you lean on? Steph Curry.
Dominant players delivered decisive plays in the game, Curry made it rain. That trey right there tied it up in the third. He'd have five three pointers in the second half, Cuomo, including this one right here, the nail in the coffin after Thunder were making a push in the game. Thirty seconds left, Drano. Thirty-six points in all.
Golden State wins game seven of the western conference finals 96-88, and now, they move on to face LeBron James and the Cavs. Rematch, last year's finals. Cavs are healthy now. Look out.
Game one Thursday night at 9:00 Eastern.
NHL Stanley Cup final. Because it's the cup, game one. They were partying hard in Pittsburgh. The Penguins take game one from the San Jose Sharks.
It wasn't easy. Penguins had a two-goal lead, let it slip away before Nick Bonino saves the day with a game-winner 2:33 remaining. Game two tomorrow night in Pittsburgh, it's going to be a hot one -- Alisyn.
ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: All right, Coy. Thanks so much for that.
WIRE: You're welcome.
CAMEROTA: All right. So, who will be Donald Trump's V.P. pick? Word is, there's a very short list and we'll examine it, next. CUOMO: He says it's actually long.
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[06:38:30] CUOMO: So, Donald Trump has clinched the Republican nomination. Hillary Clinton is closing in on the Democratic side. So, now, there's a lot of talk about who will the running mates be. Who is likely to be at least on the short list.
So, let's bring back our panel, David Gregory, Jackie Kucinich, and Sara Murray, and go through this.
Let's put up Trump's picks, OK? Let's put them up there on the screen and then we can discuss. All right?
Corker, Gingrich, Fallin, Sessions and Ernst.
Jackie, who pops up to you on that list as more and less likely?
JACKIE KUCINICH, THE DAILY BEAST: It's hard to say, because we don't know Donald Trump's thinking. However --
CUOMO: You have to say, Jackie. It's the whole point of the segment.
KUCINICH: I think Bob Corker is someone he's met with recently. He brings foreign policy experience, he brings experience in Washington. That could be good for the Trump ticket.
Also, someone like a Joni Ernst would be a very interesting pick for Trump. Not only from Iowa, which is a swing state, she's also the first female combat veteran to serve in the Senate, and I believe she's still active duty. So that would also be someone who would add diversity and some other interesting attributes to that ticket.
CAMEROA: David, I'd like to add a name to that list from my well- placed D.C. insider sources who say that the Trump camp is putting the full-court press on Condoleezza Rice and they would really like her to consider it as well. Obviously, that's complicated. She's friends with the Bush family.
So, what do you think of that list, plus the addendum?
DAVID GREGORY, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: I would be shocked if Condoleezza Rice would put herself on that list, let me just say.
[06:40:05] But I do think a conservative woman would be a very smart pick for Donald Trump. We have to remember, when any presidential candidate is making a choice for a running mate, they are thinking, about, OK, what is it that I don't have? What am I lacking that I want to make up for that this person can complement me with?
So, you can look at it in terms of swing states. You can look at in terms of demographics. I think if you're Donald Trump, you want to reach that Paul Ryan conservative out there who is wavering about your candidacy and show a little more conventionality, a little bit more conservative credentials, and I think having a conservative woman makes sense.
Certainly having some kind of Washington insider does make sense, what you don't need, if you're Donald Trump is somebody who's going to go on the attack. You probably got that covered. I think he's looking at some of these other characters.
CUOMO: All right. Let's take a look at the Hillary Clinton names. Let's put them all up there. Now, again, she's not the nominee yet, but here are names that are being floated.
Sara, give me a little more and less likely when you look at these faces.
SARA MURRAY, CNN POLITICAL REPORTER: Well, I think Senator Elizabeth Warren could also fall into both of those. I think she's less likely because she and Clinton have had sort of this prickly relationship, but she's more likely in the sense that she could bring a lot of these former Bernie folks onboard. She's really been seen as a middle-class champion and not afraid to go on the attack against Donald Trump and could be a real asset to the ticket in those ways.
But like I said, you know, a lot of this is personal chemistry. You have to be really comfortable with someone and really convinced someone is on your side if running together on a ticket and I don't think the Clinton camp is totally sold on that when it comes to Elizabeth Warren.
CUOMO: Two women. Nobody is saying it, but, you know, let me just put it out there. Do you think the country is ready for two women?
CAMEROTA: I'm glad you're bringing that up, because, Jackie --
CUOMO: Because I get all the heat?
CAMEROTA: No. Because I think that's the female elephant in the room. I do think that if people are struggling with whether or not the first female president can be elected, then an all-female ticket, Jackie?
KUCINICH: That could be a factor here, but I think it's more likely what Sara was talking about. About personal chemistry, about whether these two could, you know, work together in a way that would win the presidency. I think that's more likely than a gender consideration at this point.
GREGORY: But I don't think personal chemistry is always the most important thing. I mean, there has to be some fit. There's no question, but, again, you're thinking about, what are your needs? If you're Hillary Clinton, you have a demographic and electoral map firewall in the industrial Midwest. You think about a Sherrod Brown from that point of view, a swing state like Ohio and trying to button up that area, or you think about, well, if you're Hillary Clinton she's not a very dynamic campaigner. Does she need somebody like Cory Booker to mix it up a little bit?
So, I think those are considerations. I think a guy like Tim Kaine makes a lot sense as well. Virginia is not as much of a swing state. It tends to trend blue a little bit more, but outreach to Hispanic community, somebody with a lot of qualifications reaching out to white men in various elections, all of which he's won, also somebody very strong in the --
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CUOMO: Kaine is also the only person on that list that offers her a different perspective on Democratic politics. You know, Kaine when it comes to even like abortion, he's a big Catholic. You know, he moves the needle a little bit.
CAMEROTA: Right. But does she need somebody more in the center? Which some people -- I mean --
CUOMO: Or to the left.
CAMEROTA: She needs somebody more to the left.
GREGORY: More to the left, I think that's a good point. Yes.
CAMEROTA: Sara, what do you think about that?
MURRAY: I mean, yes. I think that she -- certainly, if she's looking to pick up Bernie Sanders supporters it helps to have someone a little more to the left. I'm a little weary of the idea picking any one of these people helps you win a state.
KUCINICH: I would agree.
MURRAY: I think that we give that a lot of play when we talk about the states, a lot of these different V.P. picks come from, but unless you're picking John Kasich who seems to have Ohio on lockdown to run alongside you, I don't think that anyone of these guys or women on the ticket is all of a sudden going to win you an Iowa or an Ohio or a Virginia.
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CAMEROTA: Go ahead, Jackie.
KUCINICH: Oh, no, if I could add, I think another thing when you're talking particularly about Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, you can't -- trust is important. This candidate is going to have to trust this person who's going to be in the inner circle. So, I don't think that can be disregarded as well.
CAMEROTA: OK, panel. Thank you very much. Great to get your insights into all of this.
Maybe Bernie Sanders?
CUOMO: Right. We don't even know who are his picks.
CAMEROTA: Right.
CUOMO: We should make a call today.
CAMEROTA: That's right. We need to find out.
CUOMO: We will.
What do you think about this? Any names that Warren said that you think should? You have an inside tips for us? Tweet us @NewDay, or post your comment on Facebook.com/NewDay.
CAMEROTA: OK. Former Attorney General Eric Holder now praising Edward Snowden, saying the ex-NSA contractor performed a valuable public service by leaking government documents. So what does he want Snowden? Does he -- to do now? Does he want him to be tried in a U.S. court? We look at that, next.
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[06:48:52] CAMEROTA: One of the FBI's top ten most wanted was caught at the Mexican border. Los Angeles police say Philip Patrick Policarpio was already on parole when he beat and shot his pregnant girlfriend to death last month. The FBI made him a top 10 fugitive less than two weeks ago, offering a $100,000 reward. Border Patrol picked him up on Sunday trying to cross back into the U.S. from Tijuana.
CUOMO: Praise for Edward Snowden from the former U.S. attorney general, but qualified praise. Eric Holder telling David Axelrod on his podcast, the ex-NSA contractor performed, quote, "a public service", unquote, by starting a national debate over government surveillance operations, but Holder does still take issue with the way Snowden illegally leaked classified documents and insists he must be held accountable standing trial in the U.S.
CAMEROTA: It's back to business at the White House this morning after it was briefly on lockdown after someone threw a container over the north lawn fence on Monday afternoon. An explosive ordnance team was calmed in to investigate. It turned out the object posed no threat.
[06:50:00] The president was inside the White House at the time. An unidentified woman was detained.
CUOMO: Here's not the kind of holiday travel problem that we usually think we're going to deal with. Watch this. This taxi is going to come out of nowhere, and just hops the curb and slams into the main doors in the terminal at Chicago O'Hare's international airport last night. Nobody got hurt.
Authorities say they don't know why it jumped the curb yet. They're still interviewing the driver, but it obviously went through the hall and caused a heck of a lot of damage.
CAMEROTA: And I'm sure fear.
CUOMO: Yes, it did. But nobody was hurt. We can kind of save this with a little upturned corner of the mouth.
CAMEROTA: All right. Very good.
So, we're just a couple months out from the Summer Olympics in Brazil, but a host of doctors do not want the games held there. They went them cancelled or moved. We'll dig deeper on why, next.
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CAMEROTA: From a distance, Rio de Janeiro seems like a picture- perfect place to hold the Summer Olympics, but look a little closer, it is anything but at the moment.
CNN senior international correspondent Ivan Watson goes there and shows us what's wrong at the worst possible time.
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IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's hard not to be seduced by Rio de Janeiro. This spectacular city soon to be the host of the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Two months before the start of the games, construction crews are putting in the final touches at the Olympic venues.
GUSTAVO NASCIMENTO, HEAD OF OLYMPIC VENUE MANAGEMENT: Everything's going to be ready on time.
[06:55:01] We're going to deliver the park fully commissioned the 24th of July.
WATSON (on camera): But despite Rio's beauty, the city as a whole is facing some pretty daunting challenges. A whole series of unexpected setbacks leading some to wonder, are Rio's Olympics somehow cursed?
(voice-over): Just days ago, a warning from more than 100 international doctors, calling for the games to be postponed or moved, because the mosquito-born Zika virus could threaten an expected half a million foreign visitors.
That view rejected by the World Health Organization, which does advise pregnant women to avoid the Olympics entirely, because of the risk of severe deformities to unborn children.
And then there's the political and economic crisis.
Turmoil after Congress suspended Brazil's elected president in an impeachment process last month, and high-level corruption scandals. During the worst economic recession in generations, which has left more than 10 million Brazilians unemployed.
The economic hardship aggravating Rio's endemic problems with violent crime.
Daily gun battles between police and drug gangs in the city's impoverished favelas as well as a surge in robberies. This week the sailing team mugged at gunpoint.
FERNANDO ECHEVARRI, SPANISH OLYMPIC SAILOR: We just turn around to see what was happening and we saw the pistols, like this.
WATSON: Olympic sailors also worried about Rio's notoriously polluted bay, a dumping ground for much of the city's raw sewage.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We don't want to swim in it.
WATSON: Rio's mayor warns this isn't a first world city.
MAYOR EDUARDO PAES, RIO DE JANEIRO: Don't come here expecting that everything will be, you know, perfect. We live in a country that has an economic crisis, a country with lots of inequality. With all the problems we have seen concerning corruption, briberies. But the city will be much better than it was when we got the games.
WATSON: But even one of the mayor's new infrastructure projects is now a deadly failure.
(on camera): This brand-new spectacular cliff side bike path was supposed to be a showcase project for the Olympics. Instead, it became a tragic setback when the waves took out part of the trail, killing two people last month.
(voice-over): In the turbulent run up to the Olympics, a virtual storm of bad new that leads you wondering, what could possibly happen next?
Ivan Watson, CNN, Rio de Janeiro.
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CAMEROTA: Wow. That really spells it out. Never seen it before.
All right. We're following a lot of news for you this morning, including the latest on the gorilla tragedy at the Cincinnati Zoo. So let's get right to it.
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SECRET SERVICE AGENT: Step away.
CAMEROTA: Big security scare when protestors rushed the stage.
SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT), DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We don't get intimidated easily.
DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We just raised almost $6 million for the vets. The groups that have gotten the money will be announced.
SANDERS: Our message is the message for the future.
HILLARY CINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: When you think about the future, you don't see Donald Trump's face.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Looking back, we would make the same decision.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Engine 32, the gorilla has a child.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's hard to get in the mind of this incredible primate.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You have human life. You have animal life. They made the right decision.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I was looking at the finish line. I was look in my mirror, finish line mirror. It was an unbelievable experience.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You just won the Indy 500, baby!
ANNOUNCER: This is NEW DAY with Chris Cuomo and Alisyn Camerota.
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CUOMO: Good morning. Welcome back to your NEW DAY.
We begin with Bernie Sanders who was grabbed at the podium by Secret Service agents at rally in Oakland. They had to shield him, the senator, because protestors were rushing the stage. The protestors were arrested, but who were they and why did they do it? We have answers ahead.
CAMEROTA: Also, it is disclosure day for Donald Trump on two fronts. A judge ordering internal records from Trump University to be unsealed today, and also, Trump's campaign promises to release all of the info on that veterans fund-raisers. Which groups were the beneficiaries of money? You'll remember, Trump claimed he raised $6 million.
So, we have this race covered for you the way only CNN can.
We want to begin with our senior Washington correspondent Joe Johns.
Good morning, Joe.
JOE JOHNS, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Alisyn.
A huge crowd in California getting to see how quickly the Secret Service protection detail can spring into action after a few protestors from an animal rights group seeking to put a spotlight on its stance against agra business tried to rush the stage, all over in a matter of moments, but it will be remembered as one more event in a strange and unpredictable presidential primary season.
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SECRET SERVICE AGENT: Step away. Right there. Right there.
JOHNS (voice-over): Dramatic moments at a Bernie Sanders rally in downtown Oakland, California.
