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Sen. Cory Booker Unveils Affordable Housing Plan; Midweek Grades with Chris Cillizza; Trump Speaks at D-Day Ceremony; D-Day Ceremony in England. Aired 6:30-7a ET
Aired June 05, 2019 - 06:30 ET
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[06:33:16] ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: New this morning, Democratic Presidential Candidate Cory Booker has just unveiled a plan that would affect millions of people if he were elected. It's for affordable housing for all Americans.
CNN's Rebecca Buck is live in Washington with details.
How does it look, Rebecca?
REBECCA BUCK, CNN POLITICAL REPORTER: Good morning, Alisyn.
Well, Booker says this policy rollout is personal for him. He, of course, as you know, moved into low income housing when he first moved to Newark, he started as a tenant advocate there, taking on slum lords. And as we hear from him on the campaign trail, this goes back to when he was a baby. His parents were the first to integrate a suburban affluent community in New Jersey using the Fair Housing Act to do so. And so Booker says with this policy rollout, he wants to recreate the same opportunities for other families that he had growing up and that he has had, of course, as an adult as well.
So I'll walk you through some of the proposals we're hearing from Cory Booker on housing policy.
First, it starts with a renter's credit. So if someone's income -- if someone's rent, rather, is more than 30 percent of their income, they would get a credit under this plan to sort of make up the difference. But it doesn't stop there. Booker goes farther. He also proposes pushing for more affordable housing. It's sort of a carrot and stick approach that would tie federal funding to progress being made on the city and state level with affordable housing. He would also tackle some restrictive zoning laws that prevent more affordable housing from being built in cities like Los Angeles. This is a big problem currently.
And another big part of this plan is, Booker's "Baby Bonds" proposal. This is one of his signature proposals in this campaign. It's something he said could help people save for college, help eliminate the wealth gap in America by creating savings accounts for babies when they are born and growing over time, that they could use that for a down payment on housing as well. [06:35:05] So, Booker -- this is a discussion we're hearing from a few
candidates right now on housing policy, affordable housing in America. But Booker saying he's bringing a very personal perspective to this issue.
Alisyn.
JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: All right, Rebecca. Rebecca Buck, thank you very much.
Climate change, one of the top issues for Democratic voters. Former Vice President Joe Biden just released a new plan to address it that goes far beyond the Obama years. But there was a glitch in the roll- out. We'll tell you what it was, next.
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CAMEROTA: Oh, (INAUDIBLE).
BERMAN: All right, you may have noticed -- right.
CAMEROTA: I like that.
BERMAN: Democrats have been laying out a lot of new policies lately. How will they affect their midweek grades?
CNN politics reporter and editor-at-large Chris Cillizza here with that.
Good morning.
CAMEROTA: Good morning, professor.
CHRIS CILLIZZA, CNN POLITICS REPORTER: Hello. I love that pencil scratching on paper graphic sound.
CAMEROTA: And that notebook, the old school notebook, it's so cool.
CILLIZZA: Oh, yes. I take notes in those.
CAMEROTA: OK. There you go.
CILLIZZA: All right, you ready?
CAMEROTA: Yes.
BERMAN: Do it.
CAMEROTA: Buttigieg.
CILLIZZA: All right, let's do it.
OK, Pete Buttigieg and Kamala Harris, I put them together because they've got the same reason for getting an A, which is, if you look at our CNN poll that came out two days ago, the obvious thing that will jump out as well, Joe Biden's in first place and Bernie Sanders is in second. But here's what should be really important to you, Kamala Harris is at 8 percent support, Pete Buttigieg is at 5. Not great. Though, Pete Buttigieg, 40 percent of people in our poll didn't know enough about him or had never heard of him, OK, 29 percent said the same thing about Harris.
[06:40:10] Why does that get them an A? Because it shows that they have huge potential for growth. They're already doing OK. They're going to have the money, they're going to have the organization to meet voters and they have lots and lots of room to grow.
CAMEROTA: Right.
CILLIZZA: That's a good thing that get an A in my book.
BERMAN: High upside, as Mel Kiper (ph) would say.
CILLIZZA: It's so true. It's NBA draft. The very high ceiling.
CAMEROTA: Basketball? I got that. I got that.
CILLIZZA: Well, he did football. I did basketball.
CAMEROTA: Oh, OK.
Let's move on to Kirsten Gillibrand. What does she get?
CILLIZZA: Yes, so Kirsten Gillibrand, New York senator, we've talked about this before in past weeks that she has struggled to find sort of a moment, including in town halls. Well, there was a town hall on Fox News. And, by the way, I'm giving her a B, as that graphic nicely represents. There was a moment in a town hall on Fox News where Gillibrand sort of tells Fox News what it's doing wrong, in her perspective, and Chris Wallace, one of the moderators, said she was not being very polite.
Well, Gillibrand seized on that not very polite moment. She's changed her Twitter bio. She's raising money off of it. She's trying to be -- that's going to be a moment for her. And I actually think it's not a bad message for her, which is, look, I'm not going to play nice. Remember that she was the voice pushing for Al Franken -- was sort of the piece that pushed Al Franken out in terms of resignation after a series of allegations.
So, actually, that's a good message for her. In a week in which she has found some message that broke through in a campaign like this is good for her.
BERMAN: All right. Now, Joe Biden had been on a -- on a kind of a streak with you of A, A, A.
CILLIZZA: Yes. Yes.
BERMAN: That has changed this week.
CILLIZZA: Yes. And you mentioned it in the lead-in to the segment, John, which is that, look, Joe Biden got a C minus this week. I might have gone lower, but we're waiting to see -- I'm kind of waiting to see how this plays out. And by this I mean the fact that Joe Biden's campaign has acknowledged that they pulled pieces of other established sort of information on climate word for word as part of his big climate change proposal.
Now, you say, oh, what's the big deal? Yes, of course everyone borrows ideas from other people. But you have to be very careful about borrowing exact language, number one, for any candidate, but especially when in 1987 Joe Biden was driven from his first presidential race because of allegations of plagiarism with a British politician named Neil Kinnock. So I think that is not good for Joe Biden, even in a week in which our poll suggests he is, yet again, right where he wants to be, which is clearly in first place in national polling.
CAMEROTA: I feel the next grade is a little self-serving, Chris Cillizza.
CILLIZZA: Well, I mean, yes, it is. Debate watchers, A plus plus plus, which is the grade I always wanted. And why is that? Because, at the end of this month, we are in the month of a debate. We're going to have two debates in Miami and then next month, July, we're going to have two debates, we think, in Detroit that CNN is sponsoring. Cannot wait. I love debate season.
BERMAN: He just gave himself an A plus plus plus.
CAMEROTA: A triple plus.
BERMAN: Yes, A triple plus.
CAMEROTA: OK. Yes.
BERMAN: I like that.
CILLIZZA: Plus, plus, plus. That extra plus is for savings.
CAMEROTA: We're feeling the enthusiasm.
Chris Cillizza, thank you very much.
CILLIZZA: Thank you all.
CAMEROTA: OK, so in just minutes, President Trump will deliver a speech to remember the sacrifices of those lost on D-Day. It -- we're watching a very emotional commemoration and bringing it to you, next.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And banish the scourge and terror of war.
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[06:47:15] BERMAN: We're just moments away from President Trump addressing the ceremony commemorating the 75th anniversary of the D- Day landings in southern England. Obviously, today is obviously June 5th. The landings were on June 6th. But it was June 5th when so many of the troops, the American, British, Canadian, so many other countries, they departed from Portsmouth, England, which is where you're watching right now and where these ceremonies are taking place. And just a few minutes ago, we actually saw some veterans of the D-Day landing on stage.
CAMEROTA: That was so -- that was so poignant watching them.
BERMAN: (INAUDIBLE).
CAMEROTA: I mean at 93 years old.
BERMAN: At least, yes.
CAMEROTA: And just, I don't know, something about seeing their faces and how brave they were and how somber they are today, it was just very moving, actually.
So CNN's Abby Phillip is live at the British naval base in Portsmouth with more.
So tell us what we're seeing and expecting, Abby.
ABBY PHILLIP, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Well, President Trump will be speaking here very shortly. He's going to be reading an excerpt from the prayer that was read by Franklin Delano Roosevelt on June 6, 1944, the first time he spoke to the American public about the invasion. And here's President Trump coming out now.
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Our (INAUDIBLE), our (INAUDIBLE) administration, this day (INAUDIBLE) Almighty God, our sons, the pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our republic, our religion and our civilization and to set free a suffering humanity. They will need thy blessings for the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces, but we shall return again and again. And we know that by thy grace and by the righteous of their cause, our sons will triumph. Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, the heroic servants into thy kingdom. And, o Lord, give us faith, give us faith in thee, faith in our sons, faith in each other and faith in our united crusade. Thy will be done, Almighty God. Amen.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A letter home from Private Arthur Trainer (ph), 6th, May, 1944.
Dear mom, well, here I am somewhere in England. We're putting pride in homes in this town. The people will do anything to help you and make you comfortable. They won't have us clean up the room in the morning. They clean it for us.
[06:50:16] They sure go for tea in a big way. Every time I turn around, someone's always trying to shove a cup of tea in my fist. People even stop us on the street and invite us for tea and cake. The kids are always asking for chewing gum and candy. Everything is
rationed. There's hardly any automobiles. And everybody rides a bicycle.
They told us all about the bombings. And this place has been hit quite a few times. There haven't been any bombings for quite a while.
They watch the movies all Americans watch. And they like Bing Crosby, too. They hardly have any heat or hot water and it sure gets cold here. They sure are surprised when they hear everything we get in the states.
Well, that's all for now. But I'll write again soon.
Your son, Private Arthur Pranger (ph), 86th Chemical Mortar Battalion.
BERMAN: And Private Arthur Pranger was one of some 160,000 international troops that landed on the Normandy beaches, supported by 5,000 vessels, some 13,000 aircraft. One of the most amazing feats of human endeavor.
CAMEROTA: It does give you goose bumps to think back to that time, Abby, I mean that they were waiting for a full moon. That this was a surprise attack. That Adolph Hitler was sleeping. That they pulled it off so remarkably. And, of course, how many people lost their lives in the service of trying to free the world from Nazi Germany and Europe.
Abby.
PHILLIP: It's incredible the amount of sacrifice. And I think even Americans have a difficult time understanding the scale of this. Some 10,000 allied troops died that day. More than 6,000 were Americans. And so for President Trump to be here, it is extraordinarily meaningful because America sacrificed so much on that day.
And in that prayer that he read today from President Roosevelt, there was a line noting that many of the people that they would send that day would never return. And many of them did not. And for President Trump to read that prayer, I think it's just a reminder of the kind of sacrifice that thousands gave all those years ago and -- and also the kind of sacrifice that many Americans are giving right at this moment for people who live far, far away so that we can all stand here in freedom essentially.
I think as we take into -- you know, take in all of what we've seen this week, this week has been about the place that the United States has around -- in the world, on the world stage, the reason why the United States is part of this global community. And I think this really brings it home. It's that sacrifice, the fact that American soldiers, more of them died that day than any others. And I think that that is why President Trump is here today.
And for President Trump, who has also been somewhat critical of these institutions, it's a moment for him as well to really reflect on that kind of sacrifice. BERMAN: And you could see that he was taking in the moment. And,
again, this is just part of it. Tomorrow will be on the beaches of Normandy itself.
Abby Phillip in Portsmouth, we will come back to you as these ceremonies continue.
We'll be right back.
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[06:57:57] CAMEROTA: Comics taking aim at President Trump's reaction to protests in Britain. Here are your "Late Night Laughs."
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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Even coming over today there were thousands of people cheering. And then I heard that there were protests. I said, where are the protests? I don't see any protests. I did see a small protest today when I came. Very small. So a lot of it is fake news.
TREVOR NOAH, HOST, "THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH": Oh, man. Oh, man. Trump is adorable, man. Come on. Huh. Because, like, he doesn't go with one excuse. He gives you (INAUDIBLE) them and you can pick which one you like best. Huh. He's like, the people were cheering. I see no protests. I saw a small protest, but it was a fake protest and I didn't see it. I didn't see it.
STEPHEN COLBERT, HOST, "THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT": If these tariffs become permanent, Chipotle could raise burrito prices by 5 cents. It's an outrage. Now we're going to have to start putting cheaper things in our Mexican food. Get ready for taco bell pigeons and lint crunch supreme.
TRUMP: Were going to put tariffs on. And every month those tariffs go from 5 percent to 10 percent to 15 percent to 20 and then to 25 percent.
COLBERT: We're going to jack up everything Mexico. Cinco de Mayo is going to be teno (ph) de mayo, then fifteeno de mayo and -- you get the idea, but --
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BERMAN: I'm still (INAUDIBLE) over the pigeon and lint taco.
CAMEROTA: Yes. That was not an appetizing breakfast suggestion.
BERMAN: All right, President Trump commemorating the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in southern England, but as he's doing that, he's facing a rebellion from Republicans here at home. NEW DAY continues right now.
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CAMEROTA: President Trump speaking at the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: One of the messages coming from Downing Street is that they're talking about this declaration they're going to get all of the leaders to sign reminding the world of the horrors of D-Day, committing never to allow an event like that ever to happen again.
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We are going to see if we can do that (ph). It's likely that the tariffs go on.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A growing number of Republicans (INAUDIBLE) against his plan.
TRUMP: I don't think they will do that. If they do, it's foolish. There's nothing more important than borders.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The senators have their own well-being at stake here. This is one the president could lose outright.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: As we move forward, we'll see some results. Perhaps some of my colleagues will move towards protecting America.
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