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Man Admits to Killing Teen with Car; Jonathan Greenberg is Interviewed about Trump's Lawsuit; Judge's Quest for 61st Homer Falls; Saturday Night Live Cast Exodus. Aired 6:30-7a ET
Aired September 23, 2022 - 06:30 ET
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JESSICA DEAN, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: A win.
GUY BERKEBILE, SOMERSET COUNTY GOP CHAIRMAN: The big prize is control of the Senate.
DEAN: Guy Berkebile is the chairman of the Somerset County Republican Party, and he acknowledges that some local voters had doubts about the television doctor.
BERKEBILE: We're a very Christian based conservative county. They were somewhat hesitant on Dr. Oz at first. You know, they weren't sold on his Second Amendment stance. A lot of pro-lifers here. You know, they weren't sold on whether he was pro-life or not. Some of them took a little bit of time, but they're realizing that, you know, my best option is to vote for Dr. Oz.
DEAN: Like a lot of the people who live here, Karen Walker-Shaffer and Terri Mitchell have known each other for decades and they share a lot of the same concerns about the state of the nation.
KAREN WALKER-SHAFFER, SOMERSET COUNTY VOTER: The economy. Inflation is just out of this world right now. Energy is a big issue right now. And, of course, the border crisis.
DEAN: Mitchell said she met Oz and his wife and found them to be genuine.
TERRI MITCHELL, SOMERSET COUNTY VOTER: Obviously, he's our candidate of choice now, so we need to back him because red is better than blue.
DEAN: Jennifer Fadly (ph) also saw Oz in person when he visited Somerset.
JENNIFER FADLY, SOMERSET COUNTY VOTER: I wanted to listen to what he had to say, and I liked a lot of things that he had to say.
DEAN (on camera): Are they voting for Oz or against Fetterman?
BERKEBILE: The sense that I get is that it's a very small portion of our voters who are saying, you know, I've got to hold my nose and vote for Oz, I guess. You know, most of them have come on board. I am not getting any feedback that people are going to sit the election out.
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DEAN: Oz's rival, Democratic Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman, is also trying to make inroads with rural voters here in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He even visited Bedford back in April. His company really believes that his path to victory lies in keeping the Republican margin down in these rural counties and then really running up the score in the urban and suburban areas.
John and Brianna.
BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN ANCHOR: Jessica Dean, thank you for that.
A teenager in North Dakota is dead and a man admits to hitting him with his car on purpose. Why he says he did it, next.
Plus, a significant new development this morning in the welfare scandal involving Brett Favre.
JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: CNN's Chris Wallace join us to discuss his new show set to debut.
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SHANIA TWAIN, MUSICIAN: And, man, I feel like a woman.
CHRIS WALLACE, CNN HOST: I feel like a woman. Ba, ba, ba, da.
TWAIN: Yes. You got the guitar part, too.
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BERMAN: In California, a very close call caught on video of a little girl just inches from being hit by an SUV. The video, which was captured by the dash cam of a driver who stopped to let a family cross the street, shows an SUV barreling through an intersection. Oh, and can just see it there, nearly hitting the young girl. It took the scooter right out from under her. That is amazing. The girl's father told CNN affiliate KGO that his daughter is doing fine now, she's doing great, only suffering a scrape on her knee. Wow. According to the San Mateo Political Department, the driver of the SUV returned to the scene and spoke with police. The department's traffic unit is investigating and the city is considering major traffic changes at that intersection.
Oh, she's so lucky. That is terrifying.
KEILAR: Oh, my goodness. No, I'm so -- I'm so glad the driver returned to speak with authorities, right. But it's sort of a reminder that if you see someone stopped, obviously, you have to stop as well. It's just - I think so many people are distracted. BERMAN: It's been a long time since my kids were on scooters like
that, but I remember back to those days. You know, they had lives of their own, minds of their own. I mean the kids would just go forward and you couldn't stop them and it was something like this that always just terrified me.
KEILAR: Yes, I have death grips on my children. That's probably going to continue for a little while here.
So, this morning, police in North Dakota say a man has confessed to fatality hitting a teenager with his car after a political argument.
CNN's Adrienne Broaddus is live in Chicago with more.
Adrienne, tell us what happened here.
ADRIENNE BROADDUS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Brianna, unlike that story John just shared with us, this driver did not return to the scene and authorities are saying, at least at this point, there's no evidence showcasing there was a political argument before that teen was killed.
Here's what we do know. Forty-one-year-old Shannon Brandt has been charged with criminal vehicular homicide. Now, he did call police and told investigators he hit a pedestrian. He was later arrest at his home for driving under the influence. His blood alcohol content was above the legal limit. He did consent to a breath test at his home.
He told investigators he feared that teen was calling people to come get him. By contrast, those who knew the teen say they were surprised to hear all of this unfolding.
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JUSTIN MCDONALD, FRIEND OF VICTIM'S FAMILY: It's just impacted the community like nothing I've ever seen before. What bothers me, and a lot of people, the most is it has become something political, which it shouldn't be. This is nothing more than a person who took another person's life.
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BROADDUS: And this morning that family is trying to figure out what exactly happened and why. It's unclear if the teen and the 41-year- old, who was charged, knew each other.
Brianna.
KEILAR: All right, Adrienne, so many questions here.
Adrienne Broaddus, thank you for that report.
BERMAN: In her first interview since her mother, Naomi Judd, died by suicide in April at the age of 76, Wynonna Judd is reflecting on her mother's mental illness.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) WYNONNA JUDD, COUNTRY SUPERSTAR: I did not know that she was at the place she was at when she ended it, because she had had episodes before and she got better.
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That's the challenge with mental illness. It's really, really mysterious. And that's what I live in is like, was there anything I should have looked for, or should I have known I didn't? That's why it's such a shock.
She had incredibly great days in the middle of the dark days. That's why it's so confusing.
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BERMAN: Yes, sometimes you just can't know.
Wynonna said she is continuing with The Judd's tour that had been announced just weeks before Naomi died, and she said she's doing it in honor of her mother.
The reporter who former President Trump called posing as John Barron to lie about how rich he was is now speaking out on the civil fraud lawsuit against the former president. He's with us ahead.
KEILAR: Today "Avatar" re-releases in theatres ahead of its highly anticipated sequel this winter. CNN speaks to director James Cameron ahead.
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KEILAR: New York AG Latisha James not mincing words in her sweeping fraud lawsuit this week against former President Trump.
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She said this, Donald Trump falsely inflated his net worth by billions of dollars to unjustly enrich himself and cheat the system. Now it's long been reported that Trump lied about his financial success back in 2018 in a "Washington Post" article, a former "Forbes" reporter, Jonathan Greenberg, detailed how Trump posed as a fictional Trump Organization exec named John Barron to convince him that Trump was rich enough to earn a higher spot on the Forbes 400 List.
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REPORTER: OK, what's your first name, by the way?
JOHN BARRON (TRUMP): John.
REPORTER: John.
BARRON: John Barron.
REPORTER: Are you saying that (INAUDIBLE) for tax purposes it's been - the ownership has been transferred to Donald Trump?
BARRON: Correct. Correct. That's correct.
REPORTER: OK. And would you say, you know, in excess of 90 percent of the ownership (INAUDIBLE)?
BARRON: I'd say in excess of 90. In fact -- well, it's really closer to even the ultimate. But it's in excess of 90 percent, yes.
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KEILAR: And Jonathan Greenberg is with us now.
I know you got that call back in 1984, Jonathan, while you were researching his wealth for the list. You now think he didn't even deserve to be on the list at all. And I suspect you're not all that surprised about what Leticia James is saying here?
JONATHAN GREENBERG, INVESTIGATIVE FINANCIAL JOURNALIST: No, I'm not. At that time, not only did he not have 90 percent of his father's assets, he had 0 percent of his father's assets and would not inherent them, you know, for another 10 years. But I'm not surprised at what she's saying at all.
BERMAN: I mean you may be the leased surprised person in America based on what you went through so many years ago.
So, what's different, though, about what she is saying, the New York attorney general, and what she is producing to back it up?
GREENBERG: That's a great question, John. You know, it's one thing to lie to a journalist, to fabricate your identity as your own PR person to, you know, to boast and exaggerate in business and in business negotiation. It's another thing to produce financial statements and provide them to lenders who have a legal and fiduciary responsibility to receive accurate numbers and to review accurate numbers and also to do the same thing to insurance companies which insure your buildings and your properties, which are regulated by the state and by the federal government, and also to provide those numbers to the IRS when you're filling out your taxes and stating the value of a property such as Trump's West Chester golf club - golf estate where he gave some land to the state and then vastly inflated its net worth to take a larger tax deduction, you know, and deprive the state of $3.5 million in revenue, for example.
KEILAR: It's been well documented, his father before him, how he would value assets in a way that they were not valued. How he would overvalue them for certain purposes, under value them for other. Why do you think it took this long for this to come to this point?
GREENBERG: Well, that's a - that's a good question. You know, Trump has always pushed the boundaries on what is legally permissible because he's -- he's done that in negotiations. He sees a contract in business, for example, the reason the New York real estate community, including many Republicans here, find him impossible to do business with, is he sees a contract as a point of departure. He sees the rules that apply to other people, not applying to him.
In this case, you know, Michael Cohen came forward with financial statements that are more recent than the things that happened when he basically scammed tens of millions of dollars from his public companies for the casinos, when the casinos went bankrupt based upon $3 billion worth of borrowing in Atlantic City in the 1980s, and he went bankrupt the first time. This time there are, you know, there's documentation and that documentation leads to, you know, further information and a reviewing of tax records and the whole thing sort of - the whole picture becomes clearer. Just like the picture of what his real net worth was in 1982 when I first put him on the Forbes 400, when we started it back then, that he was really worth $5 million and not $100 million, as I originally put him on there.
So, it -- the information becomes clearer and the big picture comes into view. And that's what's happening here.
KEILAR: Jonathan, it's great to have you. And it is still something every time to hear that tape. It really is.
BERMAN: Yes.
KEILAR: Jonathan Greenberg, we appreciate you.
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GREENBERG: Thank you very much.
KEILAR: So, you may need a cheat sheet for "Saturday Night Live's" upcoming 48th season. What's behind this cast exodus?
BERMAN: So, voting, if you can call it that, and we should be careful calling it that, underway in four Russian occupied regions of Ukraine. These staged elections that Ukraine and the west are calling a sham.
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KEILAR: Yankees slugger Aaron Judge was oh so close to putting his name into baseball's record books last night.
Andy Scholes has more in this morning's "Bleacher Report."
ANDY SCHOLES, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT: Yes.
KEILAR: He keeps doing it.
SCHOLES: Yes, he - you know, it was - you say it was so close. I mean it was like this close. This close, Brianna. And more than 42,000 fans on hand last night at Yankee Stadium.
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I mean they were certainly hoping to witness history last night. And everyone, for a moment, they really thought they had.
Judge was at the plate. Bottom of the ninth. Tie game. Crushes this one to center field. Even the cameraman thought it was long gone. But, no. Enrique Hernandez under it for the out. That one went 404 feet. It would have been a home run in 13 ballparks, but not Yankee Stadium.
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AARON JUDGE, NEW YORK YANKEES RIGHT FIELDER: I just got underneath it a little bit. Pretty windy night, so I was hoping maybe it was blowing out in the time I was hitting. But, you know, just missed it, but it lined up for a nice little JD walk off, that's for sure.
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SCIUTTO: And as Judge just mentioned, the Yankees did win in a walk off by Josh Donaldson in the 10th inning to clinch a playoff spot. So, home run watch continues tonight at Yankee Stadium. The game is on Apple TV. So if fans want to watch Judge try to go for number 61, they'll need to download the app.
All right, elsewhere, the Celtics suspending head coach Ime Udoka for the entire upcoming seasons. Multiple report say Udoka had a consensual relationship with a female staff member, which violates team rules. The Celtics say the suspension is effective immediately and the decision on his future is going to be made at a later date. In a statement to ESPN, Udoka saying, I want to apologize to our players, fans, the entire Celtics organization and my family for letting them down. I am sorry for putting the team in this difficult situation and I accept the team's decision.
Udoka led the Celtics to the NBA finals in his first season as coach last year. Brianna, assistant Joe Mazzulla is going to reportedly serve as the interim coach.
KEILAR: Wow, the Celtics are really sending a message with that. That is a long suspension.
SCHOLES: Yes, I mean, I - you know, I guess it's just a team policy is team policy and they weren't going to waiver on it.
KEILAR: Yes. All right, there you go.
Thank you so much, Andy.
SCHOLES: All right.
BERMAN: And as for Aaron Judge, we'll see if he can etch his name in the history books as number seven on the single-season home run record list.
Chris Redd now the latest "Saturday Night Live" cast member to depart the show ahead of season 48, joining a pretty long list this year.
CNN's Chloe Melas joins us with the latest on this.
There are departures every year, but this year it seems a little bit more. CHLOE MELAS, CNN ENTERTAINMENT REPORTER: Yes, well, we are just one
week away from a brand new season of "SNL," and it's going to look very different, John.
Take a look.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALES: Live from New York --
MELAS (voice over): It's almost time for season 48 of "Saturday Night Live." This year the parities of politics and pop culture will come after an epic talent turnover as eight cast members, including Pete Davidson -
CHRIS REDD, COMEDIAN: Yes, I should inspire hope, you know, like, that literally anyone could be on "Saturday Night Live."
MELAS: Chris Redd, Aidy Bryant, Kyle Mooney, and Kate McKinnon announced they were leaving the show.
KATE MCKINNON, COMEDIAN: I love you. Thanks for letting me stay awhile.
MELAS: Beginning October 1st, there will be four new faces, cast members Marcello Hernandez, Molly Kearney, Michael Longfellow and Devon Walker.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: These are tough times. We do what we can.
MELAS: According to creator and long serving executive producer Lorne Michaels, "Saturday Night Live" is in a, quote. transition year.
EMILY LONGERETTA, SENIOR TV FEATURES EDITOR, "VARIETY": That's not necessarily a bad thing. As we've seen on so many long running shows, sometimes change is exactly what they need.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: "Saturday Night Live."
MELAS: And Michaels signaled those changes this season, as "SNL" won the Emmy award for best variety sketch show. "SNL's" sixth straight win. A streak that lasted through the pandemic.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lots of people who could have left, didn't. And I want to thank them all for showing up.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Everyone else was fleeing New York, but Lorne was like, we should go back for comedy.
MELAS: Now with Lorne Michaels still firmly at the helm, veteran cast members like Michael Che, Colin Jost and Kenan Thompson will help carry the show closer to a landmark 50 years on air.
And as former cast members are quick to point out.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Wow, it is great to be back. MELAS: The show is always in transition. Some cast members return when
current events call them.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And I can see Russia from my house.
MELAS: Others just stay season after season.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, it's only getting better.
MELAS: And for better or for worse, "Saturday Night Live" lives on.
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MELAS: "Saturday Night Live" also announced multiple musical guests. So, you'll also going to see Willow Smith, Will Smith's daughter, take the stage to perform. You're also going to see Megan Thee Stallion, who's going to do double duty in a few weeks where she's going to be hosting for the first time and performing.
And I know that for so many people that love "SNL," including myself, this is a really big shakeup. I mean eight people to depart, that is a record amount of people, John, to leave in one season. But, as you know, the show always does bring the funny.
BERMAN: Change is hard. I think the audience will pull through.
MELAS: Yes.
BERMAN: They're make it through the difficult time.
MELAS: While laughing.
BERMAN: Chole Melas, thank you very much.
NEW DAY continues right now.
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So, Vladimir Putin under serious pressure.
