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[05:58:11] CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning, welcome to your NEW DAY. It's Wednesday, July 6, 6 a.m. in the east, and we are going to be talking this morning about these protests that are erupting in Baton Rouge after a black man is shot repeatedly by police, killed during an altercation. The deadly encounter captured on cell-phone video.

ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: So police say they were trying to restrain the man they believed to have had a gun. And the chilling video is now going viral. The community is outraged; and his family, of course, is demanding answers.

So let's begin our coverage with Polo Sandoval. He's live with all of the breaking details. What have you learned, Polo?

POLO SANDOVAL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Alisyn, first I do want to set the stage a bit here and offer a bit more context on this video that you're about to see, which by the way, is considered graphic by many. So now would be a good time to have your children leave the room if they are present.

This video that you're about to see was actually shot by an individual who was sitting in a parked vehicle in the parking lot of a convenience store early Tuesday morning. And now, it's fairly short, but it is prompting some serious questions here on the ground in Baton Rouge.

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SANDOVAL (voice-over): Hundreds of protesters taking to the streets in Baton Rouge after this graphic video circulated on social media of a deadly encounter between police and a man at a convenience store.

According to police, two officers responded to an anonymous call just after midnight on Tuesday. The caller said a man selling CDs outside of the store threatened him with a gun. The officer attempted to subdue 37-year-old Alton Sterling.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get on the ground! Get on the ground!

SANDOVAL: The store owner says that one officer used a Taser, but Sterling remained on his feet. Sterling is then tackled by an officer over the hood of a car. As officers wrestled to restrain Sterling, someone yelled...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's got a gun.

SANDOVAL: Sterling was then shot several times at point blank range.

ABDUL MUFLAHI, STORE OWNER WHO KNEW STERLING: I was actually maybe two, three feet away when that happened.

SANDOVAL: Muflahi says while Sterling lay in the parking lot, he saw officers pull a gun from his pocket. Sterling's family now demanding answers.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I really want to know more about what happened about the whole situation, because my brother didn't deserve it. He didn't deserve it at all.

SANDOVAL: CNN affiliate WAFB reports that the officers in question were wearing body cameras, but they apparently fell off at the alteration. Baton Rouge Police have placed the officers on administrative leave.

CORPORAL L'JEAN MCKNEELY, SPOKESMAN, BATON ROUGE POLICE DEPARTMENT: We've got to review the video; we're going to review the audio. We have witnesses, non-biased witnesses here. We're going to bring them down to our station and interview them.

SANDOVAL: The coroner ruling that Sterling died of multiple gunshot wounds to the chest and back.

MUFLAHI: God bless his soul. It could have been handled much differently. On both sides, it could have been handled differently.

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SANDOVAL: A local congressman now calling for the Justice Department to initiate their own investigation into Sterling's death.

Meanwhile, that local affiliate that we just mentioned in the piece has reported that this is now the third officer-involved shooting that happened there in the east Baton Rouge parish.

Chris, we are told that we are we expected to hear from the man's family later today as they are expected to speak to reporters in only a couple of hours.

All right, Polo, thank you very much. Let's bring in some people to discuss what happened here. CNN political commentator Marc Lamont Hill, host of "VH-1 Live"; and CNN law enforcement analyst Cedric Alexander. He's the director of policy -- of public safety for the DeKalb County Police Department in Georgia. Gentlemen, thank you. Sorry this is for another one of these occasions.

This is all going to be about the video tape, the cell phone video that was made. We have a portion of it that will end right when the gunfire starts, because from then on, it's not relevant for the analysis; and it's disturbing. So let's watch it here unedited, and then we'll discuss.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (EXPLETIVE DELETED)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (EXPLETIVE DELETED)

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CUOMO: Cedric, all the years on the job, understanding these incidents, understanding, more importantly, what the progression of the analysis will be in figuring this out. Help us understand what you see on this.

CEDRIC ALEXANDER, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST: You know, here's what's very key to this whole piece that we have here. It is certainly a pretty graphic video, as what we can see.

But in all fairness, I think, to the community and to officers who respond to the call, this is still very early in the investigation.

And I think what's going to be critically important is not just the video itself but other forensic evidence that is going to suggest how and why that shooting took place the way that it did. This is still very early, Chris. But to the average viewer that's out there in that community and the environment we're in today between police and community, it certainly does raise a lot of questions.

Let me say one thing here real quick. One thing that's going to be very important, and you heard that from Baton Rouge Police Department, is that they're going to have to be very transparent in keeping that community in contact with them and sharing information as it becomes relevant to this investigation. That's going to be critically important, based on the video that we just saw.

CUOMO: All right. Obviously the protests, the outrage are, for obvious reasons, you've got a guy on his back with some cops on top of him, and they still wind up shooting him multiple times.

MARC LAMONT HILL, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: And that's the problem. And I agree with this. We need to look at as much evidence as possible. We need to look at forensics, and we need to talk to witnesses. But sometimes we can look at so much stuff that we forget what happened in front of our own eyes, which is a shooting of not an unarmed man but a man who was clearly subdued and was not accessing his weapon, according to witnesses and according to police as of yet.

Of course, we still do more investigation to find out more information. But let's not confuse this. Because this is a very common ritual to have in an instance like this. We begin to dig into the person's background. What kind of person were they? We'll dig into their criminal record. You know, what did they do when they were 18 years old or 15 years old or 12 years old. We begin to then raise all these other questions that have nothing to do with what happened in that incident.

There's a long pattern of black men in particular but also black women being killed by law enforcement. And in Baton Rouge in particular, we're getting -- we're seeing evidence that this is a pattern. We need to investigate this, but we also did not deny what's in front of our own eyes.

CUOMO: Let's look a little bit of a shorter version here. First, we should remind Polo Sandoval, in his reporting, said that this is the third officer shooting in a relatively small amount of time. So that's one of the factors for this community. This is how they got him on the ground, OK?

So, obviously, he wasn't -- the officers felt he wasn't responding to those commands, and they wind up getting into a tussle with him, putting him down. Now Cedric, this is where the analysis gets tricky for the layman, you know, for someone who, you know, doesn't have the forensic experience, because it's -- once he's on the ground, isn't it over? What is the standard for an officer? And what are the different variables for an officer, even when it seems like someone is subdued?

[06:05:18] ALEXANDER: Well, you know, here again, this is what we see on the video from the angle that is being shot. We don't know from the other side of that car, which we cannot clearly see, and what was taking place, what was in officer's mind when he yelled, "Gun, gun, gun."

It's our understanding, from the initial reports, that he did have a gun in his possession. And here's where I have to be very careful, and I think it's important that the community and the country at large be very careful, is that we will know more as more information is revealed; but we have a few seconds of a video that is very graphic to the average person that's watching it.

But I think what's going to be very important here, Chris -- and I will reemphasize it again -- is the fact that, in this particular shooting, it appears that he was down. We don't know where his hands were. We don't know why that officer shot. But he's going to have to articulate and clearly articulate the reason why he took the shot.

CUOMO: Well, it's going to have to come down -- it's going to have to come down to where his hands were. The...

ALEXANDER: And it will.

CUOMO: Because the eyewitness testimony afterwards is that they saw the officers taking the weapon out of his pocket, right? That raised an interesting point.

HILL: And that his hands were never near his pocket. Abdul Muflafi said that his hands were never at his pocket. CUOMO: But you have eyewitness testimony. You have two things

here that are going to be impressive to people on both sides of the equation. This is my guess. And you guys say what you want about it.

One is good thing you got videotape. We don't know if the body cams were working properly. The cell-phone video may be the only record of this. Without it, it's an entirely different analysis, certainly for the public.

And on the other side it's going to be why did he resist? When they were telling them to get on the ground, why did he create a situation? You know everything goes against you once that happens. Hold on, Cedric. Let me hear from Marc, and I'll come right back.

HILL: One, of course, yes, videotape is always great. If there's not a videotape, there's not a chance that we even have this conversation right now. Because the assumption is that police don't anything wrong unless we have video of it.

It also helps the cops. Helpful for them to see it took two of them to put on the ground.

All these prosecutions of police officers or attempted prosecutions of police officers only happen when we have videotape. So that...

CUOMO: But I think it also helps the cops. And it's helpful for them to see that they're dealing with a big guy who didn't want to listen. Two of them who put him on the ground.

HILL: Perhaps. And resistance, let's talk about that, because resistance is something that is not a lethal offense or shouldn't be a lethal offense. It's not a capital offense, right?

Eric Garner has his hands up in the air. He still dies. Freddie Gray runs. He dies. Mike Brown approaches. He dies. You know, we could go down the list. Walter Scott runs away and gets shot in the back and he dies. And magically, these -- these body cameras don't seem to work when the cases seem to stack against the police with regard to culpability.

So that also raises skepticism. So to Cedric's point, yes, we should look at the investigation; we should wait for the investigation. But the public has to have some sense of trust in the investigators. And for a long time we've had no reason to have that. In this case, there's nothing to inspire confidence.

CUOMO: But Cedric, you made the most important point right out of the box, which is it's early. And I know it seems obvious from looking at the videotape, but things rarely are. Because obviously, these officers wound up doing something that they know was going to change their lives. You know, even if it's justifiable shooting, their lives were changed by the -- obviously, this man's life was ended by this.

So as the facts come in, we'll do more analysis. But for now, as you said, it's early out of the box. We're going to have the attorney for the family on after this.

Mark, thank you very much.

Cedric, as always.

Alisyn.

CAMEROTA: OK, Chris.

Turning now to our other top story. Donald Trump accusing Hillary Clinton of bribing Attorney General Loretta Lynch after the FBI recommended not charging Clinton over her email practices while secretary of state.

So we have the 2016 race covered the way only CNN can. Let's begin with Sara Murray. She is live in North Carolina. Sara, give us all of the latest.

SARA MURRAY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, good morning, Alisyn.

Donald Trump was trying to stay on message last night. He was trying to hammer Hillary Clinton, drive home the message that, in the wake of not -- of the FBI not recommending any charges, that the system was rigged in the favor of people like the Clintons, but he just couldn't quite stay all the way on message after making a passing reference and complimenting Saddam Hussein.

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DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESUMPTIVE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: She lied.

MURRAY (voice-over): Donald Trump touching down in the stormy Tar Heel State to land a searing attack against Hillary Clinton.

TRUMP: Stupidity is not a reason that you're going to be innocent, OK? It's not a reason. Today is the best evidence ever that we've seen that our system is absolutely, totally rigged.

MURRAY: Trump attempting to cast Clinton as a corrupt politician, all after FBI Director James Comey said he won't recommend charges against Clinton for using private e-mail servers, while offering pointed criticism.

[06:10:05] JAMES COMEY, FBI DIRECTOR: There is evidence that they were extremely careless.

MURRAY: Trump leapt at the chance to pile on.

TRUMP: She sent vast amounts of classified information, including information classified as top secret. She was extremely careless and frankly, I say, grossly incompetent. She will be such a lousy president.

MURRAY: Trump even suggesting Clinton may have bribed her way to this outcome.

TRUMP: She said today that we may consider the attorney general to go forward. That's like a bribe, isn't it sort of a bribe?

MURRAY: That's after a "New York Times" story, not Clinton herself, cited unnamed Democrats, saying Clinton may decide to keep Loretta Lynch as attorney general. But Trump didn't stop with Clinton. As she campaigned alongside President Obama, Trump took aim at Obama's penchant for golf.

TRUMP: Golf, golf. More, more. Learning how to chip, learning how to hit the drive.

MURRAY: The acronym he uses to describe ISIS.

TRUMP: He says ISIL. He says ISIL, and you know, it's almost like he does it to make people upset.

MURRAY: And his demeanor in the White House.

TRUMP: We've got a person in the White House that's having a lot of fun. A lot of fun. I watched him today. It's like a carnival act.

MURRAY: But even as Trump tried to stay on the offensive, he again set off controversy by offering his accolades to former Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, a man who maintained a vise grip on power, in part by financing terrorism, torturing opponents, and targeting minorities.

TRUMP: We shouldn't have destabilized. Saddam Hussein was a bad guy, right? He was a bad guy, really bad guy. But you know why he did well? He killed terrorists. He did that so good.

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MURRAY: Now Trump's comments about Saddam Hussein were made all the more awkward, since he was campaigning alongside Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker. This is one of the folks he's auditioning for a potential V.P. spot.

But overnight, Trump tried to turn the focus back to Hillary Clinton. Of course, he took to Twitter to do it. He said, "I don't think the voters will forget the rigged system that allowed Crooked Hillary to get away with," quote, "murder." Come November 8, she's out -- Chris.

CUOMO: All right, Sara. Thank you very much.

No mention of emails as President Obama took the stage with Hillary Clinton at a campaign rally just hours after the FBI announcement. We have CNN's Michelle Kosinski, live at the White House with more.

Michelle, good morning.

MICHELLE KOSINSKI, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Chris.

Right, the White House completely punted on this. They would not respond to the FBI's announcement, even though they weighed in before. So, why not say anything, of all day, yesterday?

I mean, this good news for Hillary Clinton is hardly all good, but somebody had to say something about it. I mean, this happened. So, it was the campaign that did it as cleanly as possible. They put out this paper statement and then, boom, nobody needed to say anything else. Not wanting a shadow over this big day on the campaign trail.

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KOSINSKI (voice-over): These are the pictures Hillary Clinton's campaign has been waiting for, arrival with the president on Air Force One. Then...

(MUSIC: "FIGHT SONG")

KOSINSKI: ... side by side on the stage.

BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Hillary! Hillary! Hillary!

CLINTON: This, my friends, is a president who knows how to keep us safe and strong. Compare that to Donald Trump.

KOSINSKI: This is President Obama returning the favor after the rivals back in 2008, then united in New Hampshire.

CLINTON: We stand shoulder to shoulder.

OBAMA: With this.

BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I believe in Hillary Clinton.

KOSINSKI: Came after a surreal day in politics. You'd never know here that Hillary Clinton was now not facing criminal charges. Not a word mentioned of it, as if it hadn't been the story of the day or that the FBI announcement hadn't happened, coincidentally two hours before the two took off together.

OBAMA: I'm with her.

KOSINSKI: This appearance pure cheerleading.

CLINTON: He's made difficult, even unpopular decisions for the good of our country.

OBAMA: There has never been any man or woman more qualified for this office than Hillary Clinton. Never. And that's the truth.

I'm here today because I believe in Hillary Clinton. I want you to help elect her to be the next president of the United States of America.

KOSINSKI: A chance, too, to hit Republicans plenty of times and once again, even now the president would not say Donald Trump's name. OBAMA: Even the Republicans on the other side don't really know

what the guy's talking about. You ask them, they're all like, "I don't know."

KOSINSKI: President Obama now out on the trail showing the energy he's known for.

OBAMA: I'm ready to pass the baton. And I know Hillary Clinton is going to take it, and I know she can run that race.

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[06:15:08] KOSINSKI: At times he was shouting in a hoarse voice, and he got everything in that speech. I mean, climate, energy, immigration, guns. It's just the beginning. He's expected to be very busy on the campaign trail from now on -- Alisyn.

CAMEROTA: OK, Michelle, thank you for all that reporting. You've given us a lot to talk about, which we will do coming up, as well. Donald Trump blasting the FBI, accusing Hillary Clinton of bribery, and singing the praises of Saddam Hussein. So, we will discuss all of it next.

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TRUMP: Based on what was being said, she was guilty. She was guilty. And it turned out that we're not going to press charges.

Today is the best evidence ever that we've seen that our system is absolutely, totally rigged. It's rigged.

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[06:20:06] CAMEROTA: All right, that was Donald Trump responding to the FBI's decision on Hillary Clinton's email, and he said it proves the system is rigged. He's also accusing her of bribing the attorney general to influence the investigation. The political battle over Clinton's e-mails is far from over.

So let's discuss it with our panel. We have CNN's Sara Murray; CNN political commentator and political anchor of Time Warner Cable News, Errol Louis; and CNN's new political analyst, national political reporter of "The New York Times," Alex Burns. It's great to have you here.

Errol, I want to start with you. So the FBI director, Comey, did not recommend charges, but he also did not say that Hillary Clinton was not culpable of a series of problems. Let me play the most damning part of Comey's statement for you.

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COMEY: Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information. There is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly- classified information.

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CAMEROTA: Political fallout.

ERROL LOUIS, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Well, political fallout based on what he said, I think even within minutes I remember just hearing yesterday, people converted that into she lied. People converted that into the partisans have taken what Director Comey said and said that this was intentional and that she did this and that and she did that, and they start piling on reasons why and so forth.

What it suggests to me is that people who don't want to be convinced, cannot be convinced, are going to take what they want from Director Comey's statement and sort of run with it.

CAMEROTA: Wasn't she dishonest about some of the things? I mean, he went through the points where she said one thing publicly and they found something else privately?

LOUIS: Well, that's right. I mean, look, there's a difference between what she said and what he said. When she said, "I never sent or received anything that was previously marked as secret or top secret," well, he said yesterday that's not true. And so you have to make a decision.

And here again, the partisans and the not partisans will arrive at different conclusions. Was she being inaccurate? Was she being knowingly deceptive? And it's not even close with Trump. I mean, Trump has said, "She lied. It's rigged. It's a set-up, a bribe. It's all of this kind of stuff. But the objective facts that the director laid out don't really suggest.

Well, they don't suggest, Alex, a crime. Right? I mean, you know, the fallout's going to be bad for this. Because everybody thinks that she committed a crime. Now she can say, "Well, look at what the FBI said."

And he's going to say, "Well, there were things that were done wrong." Why didn't Comey say that? Why didn't he just stick to making the case? Because I think this is very frustrating for him. She didn't ask for permission. She said she did ask for permission. There was a whole list of things. Do you think this winds up going into the bucket of "This is what they do," that baseline criticism of how the Clintons take care of themselves first.

ALEX BURNS, NATIONAL POLITICAL REPORTER, "THE NEW YORK TIMES": I think that's the biggest piece of fallout for this for Hillary Clinton's campaign. I think over the last couple of weeks, she's been trying really, really hard to win a second look from voters who are just fundamentally distrustful of her, distrustful of her husband and just the culture that surrounds them. And this is a giant just wild card that kind of blows up that effort, at least for the foreseeable future. CUOMO: Was it over as soon as Bill Clinton entered that plane

with the attorney general?

BURNS: It doesn't help. But look, I think even if you take the meeting with Loretta Lynch totally out of the picture, to have the FBI director who's -- has above politics as anybody in public, from the country, are calling a major presidential candidate, extremely careless and saying they have a culture of this kind of extreme carelessness around them, that's pretty damming in any political context.

CAMEROTA: And Sara, it's those words, "extreme carelessness," the Republicans have fastened on, saying why doesn't that rise to the level of charges and having broke the law? And in fact, they now want to interview Director Comey, to ask him, extreme carelessness, that sure sounds like a violation.

MURRAY: Well, that's right. And I think that we should not be surprised to see the Republicans want to push this one step further, especially in light of those extremely careless comments. And I also think that you're going to see Republicans -- and you saw this from Donald Trump last night -- latch onto the question of judgment. Did Hillary Clinton display good judgment in making these decisions, and is that the type of person you want in the White House.

So, you know, she may not have committed a crime. There may not be charges going forward, but what does this say about a person who's obviously going to be handling top-secret classified material and intellect. And is this the kind of person that we want in charge of all of our state secrets, in light of how she handled them last time?

And so really, it's on Republicans to try to prosecute that case. We saw Donald Trump begin to do it last night, but as Donald Trump had wanted to do, he set off a couple of other controversies along the way.

CUOMO: Well, Comey, I'm not worried about him. It's not the standard for him, Errol. Carelessness is not a criminal standard at all, let alone applicable to the statutes in this case. So they'll play politics with him.

CAMEROTA: Yes, but they're saying -- they're saying what the difference is, define the difference between extreme carelessness and negligence.

[06:25:00] CUOMO: He will. And negligence isn't the standard either. He's looking for criminality here. He's going to have to find a level of negligence that rises to criminal responsibility and proof of it that he can make the case and win. That's not as easy. And that's the easy part of the analysis.

The hard part of the analysis is how do I feel about your carelessness? That's what we're seeing with Trump, who doubles down and says it's bribery, and he plays hyperbole with it. That's his -- that's his prerogative to do.

But did he do her a favor by pushing it too far?

LOUIS: Well, as always. This is always the trap that Clinton's opponents fall into, is that they sort of overstate it. It's not as if she got a clean bill of health yesterday.

Director Comey, who himself used to be a prosecutor, is a pretty serious guy. He's pretty -- he's tough as nails. He was appointed by the Bush administration. He is not a partisan in any way, shape or form. He has a 10-year appointment specifically so that his FBI director, he survives any given administration. So he, I think, fate was pretty rough on her, and instead of taking it as it is and then moving on to some other issue, you have people saying, "Well, now we're going to -- now we're going to turn on the FBI director."

CUOMO: If he wanted to be really tough, he could have charged her. We all know the ham sandwich line.

LOUIS: Frankly, I was going to say, I was a little surprised at this. This is what prosecutors do. This is a lifelong prosecutor, not just an FBI director. And so, you know, it's the hammer that they usually like to pound people with.

On the other hand, as he said, if you can't -- if you can't make it stick, there's no point in doing it. And, you know, it's a bitter pill to swallow, I think, politically for a lot of the Republicans. I think they are making a huge mistake, a Benghazi-like mistake by seizing on this and trying to make this the issue of the fall campaign. Every poll that we've seen suggests that it is not going to be the issue of the fall campaign.

CAMEROTA: Let's look into the moment where Donald Trump went beyond what he usually says, saying that the system is rigged, and accused Loretta Lynch of having been bribed. Listen to this.

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TRUMP: The attorney general is sitting there saying, "You know, if I get Hillary off the hook, I'm going to have four more years or eight more years. And if she loses, I'm out of a job." It's a bribe. It's a disgrace. It's a disgrace.

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CAMEROTA: ... he's referring to is that there had been suggestions that Hillary Clinton's campaign had said she'd be interested in retaining Loretta Lynch.

LOUIS: Yes, and look, the whole -- all the optics of Clinton's relationship with Loretta Lynch, particularly the Bill Clinton meeting last week. It doesn't look good coming into an announcement like this, but I think most conventional Republican candidates would have taken the announcement yesterday as an invitation for just open season on Hillary Clinton and her individual character on this really narrow issue. As opposed to making this campaign a debate and a referendum on the Justice Department. And the FBI, which you know, for all their faults, has remained two of the more trusted institutions in American life.

CUOMO: Sara, give us the quick take on the impact of having the president out on the hustings with Hillary Clinton. And what is she hoping to get out of it and how real a boost do you think there is there?

MURRAY: Well, I think it's certainly helpful to her because, of course, you know, President Obama has a higher approval rating than Hillary Clinton does at this point. But it also lends an air of authority to her campaign to arrive on Air Force 1, to be behind the presidential seal, makes her look presidential at a time where, you know, Republicans are calling those credentials into question.

The risk to that is that you look presumptuous, and that's one of the things that Donald Trump pointed out last night is that, you know, she's arriving with President Obama on Air Force One. Essentially, the fix is already in. The system is rigged. Everything's already working to her benefit. Don't mind the issue of the e-mails.

Everything's set up for her to head to the White House anyway. That's one of the criticisms that she's going to have to combat. But mostly, I think it's positive for her.

CAMEROTA: OK, panel. Thank you very much. Great to get all of your perspective today.

CUOMO: Another big story with legal impact today out of South Africa. Disgraced Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius sentenced for shooting his girlfriend to death. What the judge had to say and the punishment next.

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