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Family Research Council Member Caught with Gay Escort; Lawrence Taylor Charged with Statutory Rape; Ben Roethlisberger Examined; Stock Market Loses Previous Months Gains; Containment Dome Lowered
Aired May 07, 2010 - 15:00 ET
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RICK SANCHEZ, CNN ANCHOR: All right. Thanks a lot, Don. Appreciate it.
We're getting a little sensitive especially around Times Square. Closed down for, what, an hour and a half over water bottles?
Let's do the list.
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SANCHEZ (voice-over): Here is what is making the list on this day.
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BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This kind of orange, almost goo.
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SANCHEZ: RICK'S LIST's chief correspondent makes it into the oily gulf muck. Wait until you see what Brooke Baldwin has found below the surface of the story.
Jocks behaving badly. Gilbert Arenas finishes part of his sentence. Roethlisberger, suspended. Taylor, charged with rape. We got the details.
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SEN. ROBERT BENNETT (R), UTAH: There is an anti-Washington feeling sweeping through the country.
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SANCHEZ: Another top GOP lawmaker could be going down because he's not conservative enough. How worried are other Republicans?
Then there's Greece, the Dow and a whole lot of confusion to wade through.
The lists you need to know about. Who's today's most intriguing? Who's landed on the list you don't want to be on? Who's making news on Twitter?
It's why I keep a list -- pioneering tomorrow's cutting-edge news right now.
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SANCHEZ: I mentioned that situation to you just a little bit. I want to show you what was going on there and, again, go through some of the pictures. It was quite remarkable, wasn't it? Parts of Times Square evacuated. And why?
I mean, these are some -- these are some of the scenes that were taking place. There was a white cooler. It was left in front of the Marriott Marquis, one of the most notable hotels there. It had water bottles inside. Several blocks were cordoned off as people scurried about, as police tried to figure out what was going on.
Obviously, bomb squads were called in as well as that famous robot that we see that tries to figure things out when human beings are too afraid to get near anything.
In the end, it was not another attempted car bomb incident. It was not another attempted bombing. It was just a cooler with some water bottles inside.
All right, let's get on to the rest of this, folks. Also topping the list right now is the effort to save the Gulf of Mexico from environmental disaster. This is serious.
Let me walk you through what has been -- what's been happening as we've been looking at this over the past 24 hours or so. And then we're going to be able to explain to the best of our ability, anyway, precisely what is at stake here.
All right. This is the containment dome that we've been talking about. See it right there? It's being lowered into the water. They dropped the thing in around midnight.
And the latest word we have is that it's made it all the way down to the bottom, just above the biggest remaining oil leak. This is, as you might expect, a critical moment, then.
All right. This is what's happening about a mile beneath the surface. Remember, we're going down about five miles in the end, but somewhere between one and 4.5 they're using these submersibles. They're also undersea robots, so to speak. And they're using these to try to maneuver or line that dome up into place so it goes over that leak that we have been talking about.
Let's listen now to the head of B.P., British Petroleum, describing what's happening. This is an exclusive interview he did with CNN.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) TONY HAYWARD, CEO, BRITISH PETROLEUM: We are proceeding with a lot of caution to ensure that we don't make what's clearly a very bad situation worse.
REPORTER: And how could that be made worse? That you do some damage to the pipes somehow?
HAYWARD: That we do somehow do some damage with the pipes. So, this needs to be done with a great deal of care and attention, it is being, and it should be settled on the seabed by the end of this afternoon.
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SANCHEZ: Let's get away from the politics of British Petroleum and the econ of this story, and let's talk about what's actually happening right now. That's why Chad Myers is here.
Take us through exactly what the process that they're going through right now and what's the likelihood of it working, by the way?
CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Why are they being so careful?
SANCHEZ: Why?
MYERS: Because they could make it worse.
SANCHEZ: Really?
MYERS: If this knocks the pipe off the top of the blowout preventer, we could go from 5,000 barrels a day lost to 50,000 barrels a day. We don't know if this blowout preventer is working 100 percent or not. It might be working some.
SANCHEZ: Say it again. Wait -- so, as this cap goes on the pipe, if it accidently takes the blowout preventer -- which never worked, but we wished it would have -- if it pops it out of place, it will increase the amount of fuel escaping. It will make the leak worse.
MYERS: There are two things that maybe slowing down the rate of a real flow, which would be about 50,000 barrels a day. It would be a lot of oil. It would be -- it would be millions of gallons of oil a day.
SANCHEZ: Compared to --
MYERS: That's not happening now.
SANCHEZ: Fifty thousand barrels or compared to what?
MYERS: Five.
SANCHEZ: To five.
MYERS: Which is 200,000 gallons, OK? SANCHEZ: That's good. That gives us a good reference.
MYERS: So, what has happened is that all of the sudden, this pipe comes out of the blowout preventer and it is kinked over. You kink your hose, kink your water hose --
SANCHEZ: Yes.
MYERS: -- it doesn't come out as much, does it?
SANCHEZ: Right.
MYERS: Well, they don't know whether that kink is holding back the other 45,000 barrels.
SANCHEZ: Ah.
MYERS: Or is the blowout preventer holding back those other 45,000 barrels. That is the problem. That's why they're being so absolutely, critically careful with this. This is the box that's going to go over the blowout preventer itself. They don't want to knock that pipe off as they lower it down.
This isn't an exact process here. This is what the blowout preventer looked like when it was brand new. They're going to take this thing, they're going to and put it on top of it and then they're going to let it leak.
But if this kink -- this potential kink -- here's where the hose comes off the top, it's the thing that goes up to the surface.
My microphone is moving around here. There you go.
So, this has gone to the top. What's happened at this point is that it's fallen over and there's that kink. That's where it's cut. And if they knock this off, then all of a sudden -- even if this thing goes on top and it goes on top properly, you can't capture all the oil that's going to spew out of this thing uncontrolled -- the release will be uncontrolled.
SANCHEZ: I hate to get back to an old argument, but why is it that they can't use those same submersibles that they're using to cap this thing to somehow get down here and trigger the changes -- even if they have to this do it with a wrench -- which I know some of those robots can do.
MYERS: Sure.
SANCHEZ: Use tools to --
MYERS: They've tried. It didn't work.
SANCHEZ: Can't do it?
MYERS: It didn't work.
SANCHEZ: How many times have they tried?
MYERS: They've been down there three times.
SANCHEZ: It just will not work.
MYERS: There is a -- there's a hydraulic issue with these slamming-shut, closing valves.
SANCHEZ: So, this is a major malfunction of this thing. This is a million dollar piece of metal that doesn't work.
MYERS: There are three -- this is -- there are three redundancies -- one, two, three. One of the three should have worked. So far, none.
SANCHEZ: Let's bring Brooke Baldwin in to this.
Brooke Baldwin has done some incredible reporting. Her stuff has been seen just about everywhere. You can't turn on any CNN network without seeing what you did.
You went out yesterday and you did what one of my old football coaches used to call getting down there among them. You got into the oil. You showed us what was going on.
Tell us what your experiences were, and tell us what you expect that you're going to be learning down there today.
BALDWIN: Yes, it was kind of icky stuff, Rick Sanchez. But I thought I needed to get into it to really show you what it looks like. And I know we're focusing a whole lot of this story on what's happening 5,000 feet deep down, but I have just talked to a marine scientist who says we need to be focusing on what's happening 16, 18 inches down.
I was able to take this teeny, tiny underwater camera when I went out yesterday. This teeny, tiny camera tells this huge story. This marine scientist is saying these dispersants and the bits and pieces of oil that we caught on this camera, equally toxic to the oil. Listen --
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BALDWIN: Are you surprised it's broken off the way it is?
KRISTIAN GUSTAFSON, MARINE SCIENTIST: I really am. This is the first underwater footage I've seen of this particular spill, with the dispersant applied. So, the fact that it's sinking now and covering a larger area is I think is as much of a problem.
BALDWIN: The fish beneath the pieces of oil, the pelicans eat the fish. I mean, how -- connect it for me.
GUSTAFSON: The base of the marine food web are actually microscopic plankton, and those are the first ones to get hit. They're incredibly sensitive to this impact. So, once they're gone, that just goes up the food chain, and once -- or a lot of fish actually feed off plankton, even whales. So, it's something that is incredibly harmful to the marine environment.
BALDWIN: So, even though they're out there and they're working hard on containing that leak, this damage -- would you say it's done?
GUSTAFSON: The damage is done. And it's continuing, absolutely.
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BALDWIN: And, rick, interestingly, we've heard now from B.P. They have gone out and said they are temporarily suspending their use of these chemical dispersants. I think to quote them, they want to test their effectiveness, but marine scientists we talked to say, hey, this is not good for the environment, either.
SANCHEZ: I'll tell you, that's a tough decision. I mean, you're darned if you do and darned if you don't. And --
BALDWIN: Yes.
SANCHEZ: -- we'll find out as we go forward with this.
Marvelous job, Brooke, let us know if anything changes there and we'll get back to you.
Meanwhile, take a look at this --
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SANCHEZ: Angry protests in Greece, and a bank is set on fire. People killed. The growing unrest over severe government budget cuts.
Meanwhile, investors were white-knuckling it watching the market plunge just as we were going on the air yesterday. So, how did it really go down? What actually caused the almost 1,000-point drop? We're going to be joined by some of our colleagues here in a little bit.
You're watching RICK'S LIST. This is your national conversation. And we'll be right with you in two.
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CALLER: Hey, Rick. This is John from New Mexico. You know, the question that I haven't heard yet is how come preventive measures weren't taken previous to this oil spill? In other words, how come they didn't have a dome already built or whatever it was?
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SANCHEZ: Welcome back. I'm Rick Sanchez.
You wouldn't believe what part of the argument is now about. They're arguing over those booms. The booms are those -- those floating giant cords that are being used to try and keep the oil off the shore.
We've got some pictures of them. I thought we had some pictures of them. Maybe we don't have pictures of them.
Oh, well. No. That's not them. These are just boats. Well, good try.
I'll tell you what -- let's go to this tweet over here. Wait. We have them now? No, we don't have them.
All right, those booms, anyway, those big orange floating cords off the shoreline that are trying to suck up and collect the oil? Look at this. David Vitter from Louisiana is complaining that Mississippi and Alabama are getting more of it than Louisiana is. "Louisiana only getting one mile of boom for every 13.4 mile of coastline. Calling on the Coast Guard to increase immediately."
That's interesting. We never thought this would be a state argument over the amount of boom that the Coast Guard is putting out to protect -- oh, there it is. There it was. There it was.
Wait, you saw it there for just a moment. There's one on the top. You see it now? That's what the boom looks like. Thanks, guys.
All right. Nerves are still rattled on Wall Street. We're still trying to figure out what really happened yesterday. Dow suddenly plunged almost 1,000 points like a bullet. At the same time, we were watching amazing video of protesters and police clashing in Greece.
Is it possible that this thing could have happened because some trader hit a -- you're not going to believe this. I'm sure you probably heard of this.
All right. Here's the Greece pictures, right? And we immediately -- or many on Wall Street concluded immediately that as folks there were watching their TV screens to CNN and saw this being reported, that that shook up the market so much that it sent it down like a lead balloon.
Well, now, there are reports that there may have been a trader who when dealing with Procter & Gamble hit a "B" or a billion rather than an "M" for a million. And we're talking about a lot of actual shares.
So, before we do anything else, when we were on the air yesterday, this is how the story broke. This is how we first got word that Procter & Gamble may have had as much to do with it, if not more, than Greece did. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
TED WEISBERG, PRES., SEAPORT SECURITIES (via telephone): There's a lot of technical things going on. Obviously, you talked about Greece. But one of the things that apparently happened, which is a little confusing and hard to understand, but there was one stock in particular, I think Procter & Gamble, that went from a fast market to a slow market in New York. But the other markets around the country did not recognize it, and apparently, the stock went down dramatically, 30 or 40 points, which represented in itself 200 -- because it's a Dow stock, 200 points down in the Dow.
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SANCHEZ : It was just an amazing thing. We were all sitting here trying to figure it out. That was Ted Weisberg. He was on the trading floor yesterday when he called into our show and was able to tell me on the air: Rick, Greece is important but you may want to look at P&G, you may want to look at Procter & Gamble.
Christine Romans joined us then and she kind of helped get us through the story yesterday. And she's joining us now.
Some people are calling this the fat-finger effect that somebody -- you know how when you hit your BlackBerry and the letters are so small --
CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes.
SANCHEZ: -- that it's hard to push them -- that somebody may have actually hit the wrong key. Of course --
ROMANS: Yes.
SANCHEZ: -- I don't imagine this is confirmed yet, is it?
ROMANS: No. And I'm going to be really honest with you -- it doesn't really make much sense the whole idea that one single trader making a dumb move, put the market down 1,000 points. What Teddy Weisberg was telling you is exactly what we've hearing in the hour since then, is that some stocks, including Procter & Gamble but also Accenture and maybe dozens and dozens of others, were trading in a slow market at the New York Stock Exchange but trading fast and quickly, in milliseconds really, on some of the electronic platforms and one set discrepancy happened, all of the computer programs started just slamming stocks, selling them in wild combinations.
SANCHEZ: But wait a minute.
ROMANS: And that made it worse.
SANCHEZ: But wait a minute, that's almost more disheartening, because what you just described is something that could happen a lot more. I would prefer that you were telling us now that some guy just pushed the wrong button rather than what you just told us -- because what you just told us could happen again tomorrow. ROMANS: Well, look, there are major investigations in to exactly what happened. We don't know what happened quite yet.
SANCHEZ: Yes.
ROMANS: What we do know -- I'll tell you what we do know. Look at that chart, we know that the market went down almost 500 points because it was worried about Greece, because it was worried that the European banks were showing signs of being more cautious about lending to each other, and when banks get cautious lending, we all get nervous about that means for a global recovery.
So, the market was already down 500 points. Something happened in trading. And, remember, 70 percent of trading happens on computers, Rick. We said this yesterday, we were talking about -- wow, people are seeing the market fall and saying, I want to sell. No person was saying that, the computers were saying the market is falling and I want to sell, and it pulled it all the way down. And it came back very, very quickly, but still closed down 350 points.
So, you know, I guess we will find out when there's a forensic accounting of probably millions of trades, what exactly went wrong. But I will say that in 296 stocks, the NASDAQ is canceling the trades.
SANCHEZ: Yes.
ROMANS: Two hundred ninety-six stocks. Some of those trades happened at these crazy strange prices at the bottom.
SANCHEZ: But that's not fair. That's not fair. What about the guy who was trying to buy at a low? I mean, when this thing hit 900, if somebody is smart enough to be on their computer and say, whoa, Procter & Gamble down all the way down there, you know what, I'm getting in.
Why should he be punished? He didn't do anything wrong.
ROMANS: Most people told me that individual investors were not involved yesterday at all. It was all machines trading against machines and we were all just watching it.
SANCHEZ: But they are canceling --
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SANCHEZ: My question is, maybe I need to rephrase it for you.
ROMANS: Yes.
SANCHEZ: They're canceling the sells as well as the buys?
ROMANS: Oh, yes -- anything that happens. Anything that happened --
SANCHEZ: Everything. OK. ROMANS: -- that happened below 60 percent, you know, around this certain level, the NASDAQ has laid it for the 296. Anything that was a complete aberration, they're going to throw out. And it's going to take some time to sort it all out.
But you make a very good point, Rick, about -- could this happen? That's a big question today and it's feeding into the volatility here. Could that -- what happened? We don't even really know. And could it happen again? That's what people are pretty concerned about here.
SANCHEZ: Just curious. Glad we got you.
Christine Romans, let us know if you get more. We'll get you back on.
ROMANS: Sure. Sure.
SANCHEZ: Take a look at this --
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: When we got to get off, I was getting my grandson. And he ran over my foot! Just ran over my foot.
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SANCHEZ: Ran over her foot? They're trying to catch a flight when suddenly they're mowed down by an out-of-control cart -- you know, the ones that go through the airports with people? On them who don't like walking long distances or can't.
I'm going to tell you what really happened here, because everybody seems to be talking about it.
Also, is Bob Bennett not conservative enough? Even though he votes along the Republican Party lines 88 percent of the time. It's an interesting question. Maybe a trend story. Maybe.
Jessica Yellin is drilling down on this and she's going to join me in just a little bit.
This is your national conversation, folks. This is your list, RICK'S LIST.
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SANCHEZ: Welcome back to RICK'S LIST. I'm Rick Sanchez.
Republican Senator Robert Bennett has always been considered a bona fide conservative. He has voted against same-sex marriage, voted against abortion rights, against the stimulus package, against the Democratic plan for health care reform, against the auto bailout.
According to the "Salt Lake City Tribune," Bennett votes Republican 88 percent of the time. He gets a score of 98 from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He's gotten an "A" from the National Rifle Association, and 84 percent from the American Conservative Union. It sounds, right, like he's pretty conservative.
But in this election year, he may not be conservative enough. Here he is talking to our own Jessica Yellin --
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SEN. ROBERT BENNETT (R), UTAH: My colleagues in the Senate find that hilarious, on both sides of the aisle, like saying, if you're not a conservative, we don't know what the definition of a conservative is.
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SANCHEZ: Jessica's joining us now. She's in Salt Lake City, Utah. She's been working on this story.
Why is it that three-term senator, Robert Bennett, fighting for his political life within his own Republican Party given the record that I just read to our viewers, Jessica?
JESSICA YELLIN: Well, Rick, it's really a battle for the soul of the Republican Party. You're looking at tea party Republicans in a sense against old-school Republicans.
And although Bob Bennett is one of those guys who has been considered a darling of the right for years, for many of the votes you've referred to, he made two fatal sins: he voted for the first bailout, that Wall Street TARP bailout in 2008 when the treasury said the sky is falling, you better act or else. And the folks here think that it showed he doesn't have enough fiscal discipline and they have a zero tolerance policy on that.
His second sin was that he talked to a Democrat about fashioning a possible health care alternative. He came up with an alternative plan, it went nowhere. He ultimately voted "no" on the Democrats' health care plan. But the fact that he even came up with the compromise is what stirred so much rage among the party activists here and he could pay the ultimate political price for it, Rick.
SANCHEZ: Is this one of those cases, speaking generally, maybe in more broad terms, rather than in just Bennett's case, of be careful what you wish for? The Republicans really wanted to reach out to their base, and in many of those who are in that base, they are very strident -- maybe more tea party voters than Republican voters. And now they're kind of turning against the mother ship, so to speak?
YELLIN: Right. I mean, it really is -- it's this tea party movement and the anger and passion it stirred that is -- it's a blunt political tool rage. And so this tea party rage is turning on some of the Republican Party's own folks.
You know, it used to be that you were a true conservative if you were a social conservative, and that doesn't matter to these folks quite in the same way. And so, the fact that you might take a vote on issues that they disagree with -- there's a zero tolerance policy. And some Republicans are very worried that they will lose some of their own because of it come November. It could cut into any electoral gains they might see.
SANCHEZ: By the way, one final thing, there in Utah, they do use a different type of election principle, right? These aren't --
YELLIN: Yes.
SANCHEZ: You were telling me this on the phone the other day, or by e-mail -- pardon me -- that it's not so much voters as it is almost like a caucus, so to speak, right?
YELLIN: It really is. Yes. Thirty-five hundred delegates will go into a convention tomorrow and they decide who the nominee is.
So, Senator Bennett has to rank in the top two in order to force a runoff and then voters can decide. But if he doesn't get into the top two, he's out. And it really this sort of style allows for the most vocal, the most engaged party activists to decide, and right now, that's the tea party folks. So, they're making the decision first tomorrow.
And I should make it clear, Rick, that even if Bennett loses, this is a red state. They'll still get a Republican for that seat.
SANCHEZ: Right. Right. Yes.
YELLIN: Is it a Republican who will work across the aisle? Different kind -- different kind of folks they're looking for now.
SANCHEZ: Yes. We talked about the effects it will probably have on the election from the Democratic side, and today, we're talking about some of the effects it will have on the Republican shied. We've got both bases covered.
My thanks you to, Jessica. We'll see you on Monday.
YELLIN: Yes.
SANCHEZ: Take a look at this now --
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BEN ROETHLISBERGER, PRO-FOOTBALL PLAYER: Absolutely. I want to be the leader this team deserves, valued in the community, and a role model to kids. I have much work to do to earn this trust.
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SANCHEZ: It's called "the hangover." What does it say? Ben Roethlisberger is on the cover of "Sports Illustrated," and the guy who wrote the story joins me live. It's ahead on the list.
And, oh, what a -- what a story it is. What a story it tells. It's not anything you would want written about you. Trust me.
Roethlisberger is not alone, though. I want you to look at the list of "SI" covers that we have gathered. First list, number five: four-time world champion, Darryl Strawberry, guilty of tax evasion and, years later, for soliciting a prostitute and cocaine possession.
Number four: NBA star Kobe Bryant. He was accused of raping a 19-year-old Colorado hotel worker back in 2003, and that's what he looked like on the cover of "SI." You want the rest of the list? It's coming up on your list, your national conversation.
What is this? It's RICK'S LIST. We'll be right back.
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RICK SANCHEZ, CNN ANCHOR: Oh, what an update we have for you. Welcome back, I'm Rick Sanchez. I'm about to be joined by my colleague, Randi Kaye, who has just completed an interview with a young man from rentboy.com. Show them, Roger, what rentboy.com looks like over there. There's the web page for it, and that's just the part that we can show you. Obviously if we showed you anything else, it would not be -- it would not be appropriate for you or your family, if you're watching.
Why are we showing you this? Well, from every indication there's a gentleman named George Rekers who is involved in a scandal. Rekers is a man who is part of an organization called the Family Research Council. Rekers in the past has talked about helping gays become, well, I don't know quite how to say this, un-gay. He's anti-gay activist, fair to say. He's written books on how to cure homosexuality.
But recently he was spotted by a south Florida newspaper with a young man from rentboy.com. In fact, there's the picture.
You know, what's interesting about this picture is, that he told one newspaper reporter, "I needed to hire him so he could help me with my luggage." But pay close attention to the picture here. You see the boy in the red shirt? He's not helping with the luggage. He's standing there by himself. It's Rekers that's actually moving all his own luggage.
Obviously there's a lot more to the story. Rekers is saying it's not true. All the other information seems to prove otherwise.
Randi Kaye I believe is ready to go. Is she joining us now? Is she there? Randi, are you there? All right, she's going to be joining us, I'm told, in the next hour, and she'll be taking us through this -- through this incredible story that we probably got as much response to from many of you calling it a clear case of hypocrisy as any other story we've broadcast in the last couple of weeks.
Now, take a look at this --
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: there was a consensual sexual act that took place here. My client did not have sex with anybody, period, amen. (END VIDEO CLIP)
SANCHEZ: Was it consensual sex or not? Taylor's lawyer seemed to suggest that it was at first, but then he said no, it wasn't. His wife was all set to go on "Larry King" last night and at the last minute she backs out. What is going on with the Lawrence Taylor case? We've got the lowdown on it. That's ahead.
And then listen to this. Did you hear that? Why is it hissing? I'm not sure we hear it now. But we heard it there just as we were going into the break. The sea lion that hits the streets, I'm going to tell you where this is happening, and it's not where it's supposed to be obviously.
And how are the markets doing right now? Well, let's take a look. Down 209, but there is still, well, almost a half hour left in the day, the trading day. We're going to stay with it, and we're going to be right back. I'm Rick Sanchez.
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SANCHEZ: Time to get up and dance. Welcome back. I'm Rick Sanchez.
Best pictures now. You know those suped-up electric golf carts at the airport? You've seen them. They're the ones that make the really screechy like beep, beep, beep sound when they're coming through?
Let's do "Fotos."
Watch out. This is ugly. Caught on a camera in Houston -- the airport cart driver steps out to help somebody. A passenger then gets in and accidentally puts a suitcase right on top of the accelerator pedal, and zoom! Those beeps would not have helped in this case. It was out of control.
The driver tried to stop the cart with his body. But he wound up under the wheels instead. He and one other person were hurt. We're told they're still recovering.
Where are animals not supposed to be? Let's see, maybe here. What you got there, sheriff, is your standard-issue baby sea lion. It waddled out of the water in Ocean Beach in San Diego, and holed up under a police car. Bring out the net and some folks from Sea World, move away, folks, nothing to see here.
The pup was just really dehydrated and under weight. The plan is to nurse it back to health at SeaWorld and release it. Born free.
Let's forget about the singing and move on to the next one. More animals in the wrong spot. Cows hanging out on the roof. Thanks to Matt Allen our wildlife photographer/ireporter who braved rising waters in Nashville to snap the rare image of cow in repose on rooftop. That's the title. I wonder if it spent time up there before the flood. By the way, I should let you know that you can look at all of our "Fotos del Dia" on my blog, and my blog is CNN.com/ricksanchez.
Now I want to bring you the rest of our list of "Sports Illustrated" covers since we've been talking about athletes behaving badly.
Here is number three. He holds the all-time MLB home-run record. Barry bonds, makes our list for his alleged steroid use. Number two, another baseball great. He was accused of doing what baseball is extremely sensitive about, gambling even against his own team were the accusations? Coming in at number two, none other than Pete Rose. Look at that mug on that cover.
And finally number one. The number one on our list of top athlete scandals on covers, can't seem to stay out of trouble, Mike Tyson, sentenced to three years. Remember when he went to prison for the rape of an 18-year-old woman.
If you're wondering, by the way, where is O.J. Simpson? Well, issues concerning copyright prevented us from showing that cover, but obviously he would have been on just about everybody's top five list of covers as well.
The "Sports Illustrated" who wrote "The Hangover, the Ben Roethlisberger story," heck of a story, really revealing. Not something any one of you who are watching right now would want written about you, trust me. He joins me next. Stay right there. This is "RICK'S LIST."
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SANCHEZ: Welcome back now. I'm Rick Sanchez. It's time to look at our follow-up list.
This is all about Lawrence Taylor. It happened here yesterday. He's on Nutrisystem commercials, that's the weight-loss company. He cut ties today with that company as a -- from the information that we've been learning. This after Taylor was charged with third-degree rape and patronizing a prostitute yesterday.
Third-degree means that he isn't charged with forcing himself on the girl. In this case, it means that she was underage, 16 years old. Taylor's attorney said that Taylor denied the changes (ph) and will fight them.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lawrence Taylor did not have consensual sex with anybody last night.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: How about a sexual act?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He is charged with rape. Lawrence Taylor did not rape anybody. Am I clear?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What was the admission of $300?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I have no idea what that admission was. I don't know what that money was. I don't know who that admission was to, when it was, under what circumstances it was gotten under.
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SANCHEZ: Taylor also getting support from his wife. Lynette Taylor told our Larry King, quote, "She believes that he was set up, that this is all a plot to somehow nab him by enemies."
Now, this is interesting. Lynette Taylor was scheduled to appear on "LARRY KING LIVE," remember I told you that yesterday about this time? But at the last minute she just canceled. In fact, look at the expression on Larry's face on this tweet. You see that? I love that expression, him holding the phone with his mouth open.
It says here, "Lynette Taylor canceled 24 minutes before airtime." It says she'll come on next week. What does that say?
Meanwhile, two-time Super bowl championship, onetime Pittsburgh PA hero, Ben Roethlisberger, is on the cover now of "SI." The suspended NFL quarterback is depicted as a sloppy, careless, abusive womanizer with a propensity for hanging out at drinking establishments, especially the ones that let him in for free or drink for free. Who wants that said about him?
Jack McCallum wrote the story for "SI" and joins me live. Did I miss anything in the way I described him, by the way?
JACK MCCALLUM, SENIOR WRITER, "SPORTS ILLUSTRATED": That would pretty much do it. That is what would be on the father's day card, so it's a good summary.
SANCHEZ: It's pretty ugly. He seems like a man who is just careless and out of control, but there's something else underneath all of this, and I'm interested in why you chose that headline, or why "SI" chose the "Hangover" headline.
MCCALLUM: Well, I think, you know, it's too -- not too long of a show to go into the criminal prosecution aspects.
SANCHEZ: Right.
MCCALLUM: But Ben Roethlisberger was not -- has not been charged with a crime. He's a subject of two civil suits. In the most recent case in Georgia, it did not rise to the level of prosecution according to the district attorney.
Therefore, the story kind of became when myself and David Epstein, another "SI" writer, went there. What's gone on in Pittsburgh? How else do they think about him? What is the last think effective the kind of civic malaise hangs over the city when it happens to one of its heroes?
And David and I were both flabbergasted to find out it's probably a lot more serious than we thought. We expected to get hey, stop picking on our Ben. We more got, oh, yes, you should hear the story I heard.
SANCHEZ: Wow.
MCCALLUM: So it's more like he's in a position when you start offending the little people in a town like Pittsburgh --
SANCHEZ: It's going to get around.
MCCALLUM: -- that's when you really have trouble.
SANCHEZ: Yes, it's going to get around.
MCCALLUM: Yes.
SANCHEZ: There were so many good stories when I read through your entire story and I was taken aback by several of them. I'm thinking now of that -- you write a story about him going to a casino, and getting a kid fired who had a pretty good gig but his job was to ask people for their I.D.
As you write it, correct me if I'm wrong, he walks in with a woman, the woman gets carded or asked questions. Ben takes offense to it, says, look, I know -- I know your boss. Literally goes to the boss and the guy said he was fired. You don't do people like that.
MCCALLUM: No. And that's one of the civil cases that is -- in effect the waiter had worked there for 12 years at Harrah's, he was a totally legitimate employee.
Ben was there not just with a young woman, but a group of men. So, it became kind of this bullying, look who we are, we know the boss. This kind of underlying kind of entitlement that goes along sometimes, and that's the kind of behavior that he's going to have to really correct if his pro career's going to go on in Pittsburgh.
SANCHEZ: Let me show you a clip. Roger, show just a little bit of his apology after the Milledgeville incident. Do that, would you? Thanks.
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BEN ROETHLISBERGER, NFL QUARTERBACK: I absolutely want to the leader this team deserves, valued in the community, and a role model to kids. I have much work to do to earn this trust.
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SANCHEZ: When I watched that that day and I went back and looked at it several times, he's unshaven, needs a haircut, wearing a sloppy shirt. He's reading everything, almost like he doesn't even know -- like somebody handed it to him two seconds before he read it.
I'm just thinking out loud here and then looking at the title that you guys use "The Hangover" is this really about alcohol? Is this guy having problems just going through life without some kind of substance?
MCCALLUM: I don't want to say that, and I certainly that day, I have no idea if Ben -- he looked -- it certainly was not, would not have put on "GQ's" best dressed look.
I do know this, this whole athlete apology, there's a 250-page book to be written somehow, because if you contrast that with Tiger Woods, Tiger showed up like he was going to the "GQ" best dressed look, proceeded to give a heartfelt kind of sincere thing, and was probably lambasted by half the populace for appears kind of insincere and scripted.
The best advice to athletes, don't get yourself in this kind of difficulty when you have to apologize. You can't seem able to pull it off.
SANCHEZ: You know what? Tweet it. Tweet it.
MCCALLUM: There you go. Open mouth, like Larry King, take care of the whole thing.
SANCHEZ: I started this tweeting thing and I love it. Great stuff. Great reporting. Enjoyed the article and I'd recommend that anybody out in who wants to get a sense of the character, read the story, because it really is -- it very much tells who Ben seems to be at this point in this life.
And by the way, we wish him well. We hope he's able to come out of this and do what he's promised he do. Thanks so much. Appreciate your time.
MCCALLUM: Thanks.
SANCHEZ: Our list now of the most intriguing people in the news. That's next. Stay right there.
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SANCHEZ: It is time now to check the list of the most intriguing people in the news today.
We certainly know why this person is intriguing, because he puts others before himself. He and his wife live in Haiti, own and run an on orphanage in Port-au-Prince. That was tough work before the earthquake, but imagine now.
Let's see what he looks like, Roger. His name is Bill Manassero. He and his wife run Suzette run the Lighthouse Orphanage and dedicated their lives to children, specifically the children of Haiti. You can see more about him and his remarkable selfless family this weekend.
My colleague, CNN's Soledad O'Brien has a documentary called "Rescue" premiering at 8:00. You can see why Bill and Suzette are definitely deserving of the label "Most Intriguing."
It is one of the worst days in market history. So how will it end today? Poppy Harlow is right there at the New York Stock Exchange following it for us today. And we'll watch it close, together, the three of us, me you and poppy. We'll be right back.
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SANCHEZ: Welcome back. I'm Rick Sanchez. This is "RICK'S LIST."
Stocks -- well, they've been doing a little bouncing today. But it's been nothing like yesterday's heart stopper when the Dow suddenly went boom. Closing bell is about to ring. Poppy Harlow is there at the New York Stock Exchange for us. No 1,000-point drop today?
POPPY HARLOW, CNNMONEY.COM: Sigh of relief on the street, Rick. No. No 1,000-point drop. Stocks, looking at the Dow, not that bad as compared to yesterday or earlier today, down 120. The NASDAQ composite off more than the Dow. A lot of tech stocks under pressure today. The S&P also down as well.
Listen, none of the traders on the floor here, a lot investors, don't want to hold on to their investments over the weekend because of so much uncertainty, Rick. We've talk about it. The debt crisis in Greece has become a debt crisis across Europe. That's a big issue.
Also the unknown of what happened yesterday? What technological blip, if that's what it was, triggered the massive sell-off yesterday, the worst we've seen in history in intraday trading? There are a lot of opinions. I want you to listen to one.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is the new trading world. It's great for the professional trader, but it is terrible for the public.
HARLOW (on camera): It's terrible for the average investor?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, absolutely, because the average investor, and that could be an institutional customer or an individual, didn't sign up for this volatility.
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HARLOW: And he is exactly right, when you look at the volatility, many it is say exacerbated by the computers and algorithms that dictate the trades, not the folks on the floor here.
We are on pace to have the worst Dow close, the worst level, since late February, Rick, and we're looking at the closing bell. The Dow down 139 points right now, Rick, 140 on the Dow. It could have been a lot worse than this, Rick.
But, again, all the gains we've seen over the last few months have been wiped out here in just a matter of days. It's a disappointing end to the trading week, but at least an end. We'll see what happens on Monday morning.
