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Golfer Death Mystery; Student's Deportation Deferred; High-End Repo Men; Interview With New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg; Wayward Whale in California
Aired May 12, 2010 - 16:00 ET
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RICK SANCHEZ, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome back. I'm Rick Sanchez.
Sometimes, all it takes is a rumor. That's all it takes, a rumor of something happening, like an investigation against Morgan Stanley, to cause Morgan Stanley's stocks to go way straight down.
Ready? Let's do this. Let's go to Poppy Harlow. She's standing by to bring us up to date on what happened today.
So, Morgan Stanley...
POPPY HARLOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes.
SANCHEZ: ... I imagine, has lots of 'splaining to do, right?
HARLOW: Well, they do.
I mean, this is just -- the long and short of it, Rick, is, "The Wall Street Journal" came out in the middle of the night with this report saying that the Department of Justice is investigating Morgan Stanley for what it did with complex mortgage deals, basically, kind of like what the SEC is looking at Goldman Sachs for.
Morgan Stanley says, we have never heard of this. The Department of Justice never told us they're looking at us.
And, Rick, the Department of Justice won't tell us if they're looking at Morgan Stanley. But Wall Street, listened. We have got a -- a market that is up 148 points on the Dow. Morgan Stanley's stock is off 2 percent, after being off 5 percent earlier today. Sell on the rumor, maybe buy on the news if we get some news on this one, Rick. But that's what's going on.
You said it. That's the top of my list today, top of CNN Money's list, what's happening with Morgan Stanley. And we're watching.
SANCHEZ: So...
HARLOW: We're watching to find out exactly...
SANCHEZ: So...
HARLOW: ... if we get some confirmation on this, Rick.
SANCHEZ: So, right now, we don't know if Morgan Stanley is being actually investigated or not.
HARLOW: No idea.
"Wall Street Journal" are the only ones reporting this. DOJ won't confirm or deny to us. Morgan Stanley looking for a lot of answers in this one. The big question this leads into, is this the tip of the iceberg?
SANCHEZ: Yes.
HARLOW: Will more and more big banks come under federal scrutiny? So, you better watch this one. I'm surprised the market was so strong today on this news, but, again, Morgan Stanley took a big hit.
SANCHEZ: They bought their explanation maybe. What a pickle they're in.
HARLOW: Yes.
SANCHEZ: Thanks so much. Appreciate it, Poppy.
Now this video that I have been telling you about, a lot of you have already tweeted me about it. There is this teacher who is literally in a fighting pose with a student, and you see the little guy in -- you know, like cowering in the corner. I'm going to take you through this video.
In the meantime, here's what else we have got coming your way.
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SANCHEZ (voice-over): Here is what is making today's LIST.
Does the Federal Reserve have too much power over your money?
SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I), VERMONT: We are on the verge of lifting the veil of secrecy.
SANCHEZ: Senator Bernie Sanders is giving them hell. He wants to audit the Fed. He and Senator Judd Gregg join me live.
This 16-year-old was living the American dream, playing as a high school hoops superstar. Guess what? He's not 16. Which list do you think he's going to go on?
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: Welcome back. I'm Rick Sanchez. This is RICK'S LIST.
And the 4:00 hour begins with the very latest off the coast of California. Have you seen what's going on there? This is a wayward whale. They can't seem to untangle it, completely anyway, from this commercial fishing line that seems to be wrapped around it. We understand there has been about 175 pounds worth of commercial fishing lines and ropes that they have already taken from the whale's body.
But, apparently, there is still more. They're trying to see if, after they get all the -- the commercial fishing line off of the whale, he's in good enough shape to swim off on his own, or if they're going to be able to -- or if they're going to have to call in more specialists to see if they can somehow treat the whale out there and see if they can fix him up. What a mess.
Anyway, this is happening as we speak, folks. It is in Dana Point. That's about 50 miles south of Los Angeles. We're going to be monitoring this for the next hour. And, as we get new information, we're going to share it with you.
Meanwhile, here's what else we're going to be following on the LIST. I want to show you something. What would you do if this was one of your kids? In fact, tweet me, if you would, after you watch this. Here it is. That video was shot by someone with a cell phone at a Houston school for at-risk students. The boy in this video is about 13 years old. He says he and some other kids were watching and laughing as a mentally challenged girl was dancing. The girl reportedly told the kids to stop.
That's about the time the boy says the teacher then pounced on him in the fashion in which you just watched it. He went home. He tells his mother. He says, mama, a teacher jumped on me and did this. His mother reported it to the school. The teacher apologized and was put on administrative duty.
But then this video you're seeing right here was shown on the local news. The school principal tells us: "We are horrified. This is no excuse. There is no excuse for a teacher to behave in this way with a child."
Now, we have tried here at CNN to reach the teacher, who has been fired and now faces a police investigation.
Speaking of police, one of the police officers I have worked with many times in Maricopa County in the city of Phoenix is joining us now, spent 25 years with the Phoenix Police Department, Andy Hill.
Andy, good to see you.
ANDY HILL, PHOENIX POLICE DEPARTMENT: Nice to see you, Rick.
SANCHEZ: As you look at this video, what do you think?
HILL: Well, it is shocking.
I mean, it is totally, you know, unacceptable. You know, absent some other particular circumstance -- and even if there was some other circumstance -- when somebody obviously snaps like this and attacks a child, it is inexcusable. SANCHEZ: Is she snapping, or does it look to you like she's almost done this -- look at this -- look at this pose. I don't understand what she's doing here, almost like she's getting ready, like -- like -- like Muhammad Ali going in for -- to punch -- to jab at Frazier or something.
What do you make of that?
HILL: Well, it begins like an absurd pose. It is almost from the absurd into just an increase in the violence.
SANCHEZ: Huh.
HILL: And it just appears -- you know, and there is no way anyone could expect something like this wouldn't get noticed and come to light. So...
SANCHEZ: But...
HILL: And, obviously, it is inexcusable.
SANCHEZ: OK. The moment -- let's just talk for -- first, we will talk police procedure. Or -- no, first, we will talk school procedures -- and I know you have worked with the school system in Phoenix -- and then we will talk the law outside the schools.
Sticking with school policy, the moment she lays her hand on a child and does so in an apparent aggressive manner, she's in trouble, right, just as a teacher?
HILL: Oh, absolutely. In Arizona, for a fact, you know, there are laws that protect children, and there are laws that allow for certain behaviors in school by a teacher, but not to the -- rising to the level of violence or threatened violence.
SANCHEZ: So, as soon as she touches a child in an aggressive manner, she is availing herself of some of kind of disciplinary action. In this case, she's been fired now. You see that as the correct decision by the principal and the school system?
HILL: Right. Barring any unknown information that we don't have, and based on the story that wrote -- that was written and presented through the video, I would say that, absolutely, that was the right thing to do. The school can't do anything else.
SANCHEZ: All right. Now, let me ask you the next question.
As a police officer, you are brought this information. Do you take it to the DA and say, we -- we want to file assault charges against this -- this teacher? What would your -- what would your thinking be on something like this?
HILL: Well, what's going to happen is, all the evidence is going to be gathered that they have, the video, statements from students. The -- the detectives or whoever from the investigator, from the prosecuting authority is going to go out and talk to people. They're going to put a report together, submit it to the prosecuting attorney and submit it to review for charges.
SANCHEZ: Right.
HILL: That's totally aside from what the school does.
SANCHEZ: Well, but I'm asking -- I'm putting you, my friend and often colleague working stories, on the spot here. I want to know what you would say if this was your call, and somebody brought you this tape, and you watched it, would you recommend or would you -- let me give you a little breathing room here, so I don't get you in trouble -- would you lean toward recommending that assault charges be filed against this teacher?
HILL: Right. Just based on what I have seen, I would say it would be a felony assault.
SANCHEZ: Felony assault, which constitutes what?
HILL: Prison time, possibly.
SANCHEZ: Do you believe there is any possibility, Andy, that there is a defense here that she was mockingly playing with him, because, at the beginning, she looks like she's doing these gyrations, so to speak?
HILL: You know, I would say, for a millisecond, you don't know what's going on with that stance that she took. And we don't know the history, the prior history at the school, what the students have, if there is a history between the child and the teacher.
But, regardless of any of that, there is an attack on a child by an adult. In Arizona, it would be a felony, and there would be a prosecution for it.
SANCHEZ: Andy Hill, Phoenix Police Department, good to have you. Hopefully, we will see you again soon.
HILL: Good to see you, Rick. Thanks.
SANCHEZ: By the way, again, we have tried to reach the teacher to get her perspective on this, and we have been unable to do so. When we do, we will bring that -- that part of the story to you.
Also, making our follow-up list, the illegal immigrant thrown in jail for a traffic violation. We now know whether she will end up back in school after doing her time or be shipped back to Mexico. This is an interesting story, because it affects one of most important laws being discussed in the United States. And we're following it from the scene.
Also, a house plunges into a river, and, for hours, the fate of the family who lived there was a mystery. Now we know what happened to the mother, the father and the two kids who were in that home. What a bizarre story. It's next. Stay right there. This is RICK'S LIST.
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SANCHEZ: Hey. Welcome back. I'm Rick Sanchez.
Now for my roundup list today, I'm keeping an eye on these stories for you.
We begin with number one: President Obama, United States, President Karzai, Afghanistan. It is the latter's first visit to Washington since his reelection. The two men played down the reported tension between their two countries on issues like the war against the Taliban and the planned pullout of American troops. President Obama said he still feels confident that beginning withdrawal of troops in July next year is still doable.
Number two: What a horror scene, wreckage strewn all over the airfield in Libya's capital, Tripoli. An airliner crashed there today. Witnesses say it was landing and just disintegrated. More than 100 people were on board. You're not going to believe this. One little boy -- one little boy survived. He's the only survivor. He was found alive.
He's about 10 years old. And he's now in a hospital. Investigators have the airplane's data recorders and are working to find out why it is that the plane went down.
Number three, remember I showed you this yesterday, an enormous sinkhole that just opened up and swallowed a family not far from Montreal? Terrible follow-up news: The family of four who lived in that house and were missing, no one could find them, we have learned today that they were found -- their bodies, that is. Their bodies were found in the damaged home. There is a story out there about a ringing cell phone that had everyone wondering -- mom, dad, and two children all deceased.
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SANDERS: I do believe there is a need for far, far greater transparency at the Fed than we have seen up until now.
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SANCHEZ: That is Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. That was just about a -- a little less than an hour ago, talking to me, right here, about his plan to protect our economy. He's had his say.
Coming up, we're going to hear from prominent Republican Senator Judd Gregg on what we do about the Fed to make them more transparent to us when it comes to dealing with our money.
What's wrong with this picture now? It's a high school basketball star hitting nothing but net. Man, he is good. There's only one problem with this story. And I'm going to tell you what it is. This is about the big lie. That's next. And, by the way, this story was the talk of the newsroom and made us think a little bit about infamous impostors. So, we have made a list of infamous impostors.
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SANCHEZ: If you want to see that list, music and all, stick around, because we're going to bring it you to right here on your national conversation on RICK'S LIST.
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SANCHEZ: We follow the tweets from people who are relevant to the news that we report, even sometimes if it's about us.
And I can tell you this. His dad had really good taste, I know, because he was a friend of mine. And the son, he obviously has good taste as well. Look at what Luke Russert over at NBC just tweeted. He's watching us. And he says: "Rick Sanchez is wearing an ascot because of the 'Daily Show' joke. Thank you, America."
Luke Russert, obviously a fan of fine fashion.
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SANCHEZ: By the way, I want to bring you into this now. If -- if you can't let it go, if you're so desperate to play and you have to win at all costs that you have to lie to do it, lie, tell fibs, then you belong on the list that you don't want to be on.
Watching this video, you may think this is an extraordinary 16-year- old carrying his team to victory in high school. When he told his high school coach last year that he was living with his big brother in a college dorm, the coach took him in and treated him like a son, and like a star player.
When the earthquake struck in Haiti, he talked about his homeland, and even got on the local news, all the makings of a Hollywood movie, right?
Well, guess what? It's all a lie. That's right. It's a lie. Jerry Joseph is actually a 22-year-old man named Guerdwich Montimere. He's originally from Haiti, a naturalized citizen, lived in Florida, and already played high school basketball there in Florida. He had his turn.
He reportedly faked his documents when he moved to Texas, so that he could enroll in a junior high there as a 15-year-old. Now he's charged with using the fake identification, and he's totally lost the respect of many of his fans and teammates at Permian High School in Texas, one of most famous athletic high schools in the country. So much for the playoffs.
Impostor Guerdwich Montimere makes the list that you don't want to be on.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I always get pumped, because, to me, it is exciting. You know, it sounds kind of bad to say, but, you know, I find thrilling to be able to go in and steal something, even though I'm doing it legally.
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SANCHEZ: This is one of the most unbelievable stories you have ever seen. This is a special thrill only a repo man can get. In this case, they have to get on to an airfield and get their hands on a private jet, and fly it out, without the owner of the jet catching them.
And, remember, this is -- they have to fuel it up, get it ready, pull -- we're not talking about a car here. We're talking about a corporate jet. It is an amazing story. And we're going to be taking you along for the ride -- the repos of our time, talk about a tale of our times.
And, last hour, we spoke with the senator who was forcing a crackdown at the Federal Reserve, his plan to protect our money. He's an independent. Now, what do Republicans think about this? We are going to talk with -- financial reform with Senator Judd Gregg. That's coming up right here on your national conversation. This is RICK'S LIST.
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SANCHEZ: Welcome back.
Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire is joining me now from Washington to talk about financial reform.
Senator, always good to see you. Welcome back.
SEN. JUDD GREGG (R), NEW HAMPSHIRE: Rick.
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SANCHEZ: Your side joined with the Democrats to pass the Sanders amendment to make the Fed a little more transparent. I -- I was -- I was talking to Senator Sanders just a little -- just a little while ago.
I told him the average American would look at something like this and say, thank you; it sounds like you're looking out for me.
Would you agree?
GREGG: Well, I think it was a good amendment. I voted for it, supported it.
And there is no reason that Americans shouldn't know how the Fed is in -- using that type of money, which they're basically putting out there to try to stabilize the economy and make our financial institution -- institutions stable, and thus allow credit to be available on Main Street.
SANCHEZ: It...
GREGG: I think the Fed has been extremely responsible and done a good job. And I'm happy to have that information out there. I think it will be good information to get out.
SANCHEZ: But what -- you know, he -- he -- he made that -- he made his point that, at one point, he was talking to Bernanke, the Fed chair, and he asked him, well, where did that money go and who got the loans and for how much? And Bernanke said to him, I'm not going to give you those answers.
And that's when he decided, you know what, he needs to give us those answers.
Is he right?
GREGG: Well, he is on those type of loans, yes. When -- and -- and Bernanke agreed to the amendment.
In fact, the Fed -- Federal Reserve -- worked with him to make sure the amendment was something they were comfortable with. And the information will be disclosed in a timely manner on the public Web site, so people can look at it. And I -- I think that's totally appropriate.
There are other things that the Fed does, however, that you don't want the Congress getting involved in, like printing our money. And this -- there is a legitimate disagreement, I believe, on that issue. I -- I don't think we want the Congress telling the Fed how -- how much money they should print.
SANCHEZ: Hmm.
GREGG: We're not very responsible with the taxpayers' money, and we certainly, I don't think, would be responsible if we got our hands on the printing press, which is what the Fed controls.
So...
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GREGG: ... there are parts of the Fed operations which we do want to keep independent from the Congress.
SANCHEZ: Well -- well, I appreciate your self-control, sir, but let me ask you about something else. Let me ask you about the interest rates, for example.
I mean, this is something that has a -- plays into many of the financial decisions, all the way from the top corporations in the United States to the average ma and pa, people like me and my wife and my parents and my brothers and -- and everyone else who is watching this show.
Is that a decision that we should be clued into the process as it is being made?
GREGG: Well, we are. Those notes, the information from those meetings is -- is released, not -- not immediately, and it shouldn't be released immediately, but...
SANCHEZ: Why not?
GREGG: ... in a timely manner, so people...
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SANCHEZ: Why not?
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SANCHEZ: Why -- why -- why not have a camera on that process? Why not let the sunshine in completely on something like that?
GREGG: Because you want very much to have an open and honest discussion in that room about what should be done. You don't want it to become a political discussion. You don't want it to be influenced by the politics of the day.
You want it to be a decision that is made in a conscious and thoughtful way. The -- remember, what -- what the interest rates are set at determines the value of the American dollar. And it is very important that we protect the value of the American dollar.
And that's why we have separated out from the Congress and from the political process, which the Congress represents, the ability to set interest rates...
SANCHEZ: Hmm.
GREGG: ... because we recognize, as a nation, that protecting the integrity of the dollar is absolutely critical, and you don't get that sort of protection if you turn it over to the political process.
All you have got to do is look at Venezuela right now today...
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GREGG: ... to see what happens when you put...
SANCHEZ: Yes.
GREGG: ... the political process in charge of defining your money...
SANCHEZ: Right.
GREGG: ... and how much interest rates -- how much your interest rate is going to be charged at your central bank.
SANCHEZ: I'm very familiar with Venezuela.
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GREGG: We don't want to be Venezuela.
SANCHEZ: Or Cuba, for that matter.
Let me ask you one final question.
GREGG: Or Cuba...
SANCHEZ: Mm-hmm.
GREGG: ... or anyplace else where the politicians set the -- set the value of the dollar, print the money, or set the interest rates.
SANCHEZ: No.
GREGG: That's not good. That's not helpful.
SANCHEZ: Then -- then you're basically toying with the possibility or the brink of a totalitarian regime.
Let me ask you about this process that you just went through with the Sanders amendment, which seemed to go pretty smoothly. Most Republicans were on board. Is this -- should we see this as a sign that, unlike the health care proposal, for example, Dems and Republicans are kind of coming together and working towards solutions, maybe -- not to say that the Republicans were at fault or the Democrats were at fault -- just to say that it appears that you guys are now starting to work together more so than you were in, let's say, the last year or so? Safe?
GREGG: Well, the financial reform issue is -- is not a partisan issue.
This is really a question of getting-it-right type of issue, a lot of technical issues involved in how you do financial reform. But there's very little philosophical, political partisanship sense of issues in this -- involved in this process.
SANCHEZ: So, I take that as a yes, then?
GREGG: How you do derivatives...
SANCHEZ: I take that as a yes, that you guys...
GREGG: Yes. Yes. Absolutely, it is a yes, that we should do this in a bipartisan way. And -- and the first amendment up was bipartisan on how you handle too big to fail. It was a good amendment worked out by Senator Shelby and Senator Dodd. I -- I hope there will be additional ones, such as the Senator Sanders approach.
SANCHEZ: Senator Judd Gregg, always good talking to you, sir. Appreciate you taking the time to be on RICK'S LIST.
GREGG: Thank you. My pleasure.
SANCHEZ: All right.
People say that tornadoes always seem to target mobile homes, right? Well, how about cars? What if you're in a van? You just happen to be driving down the road, when, all of a sudden, the area you're driving through or the road you're driving through gets hit by a tornado. What happens? You're going to hear from the guy who was driving this thing.
That's next on the LIST. Stay right there. I'm Rick Sanchez.
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SANCHEZ: OK. There is this move in mixed martial arts. It's called -- true -- the rear naked choke. Not making that up. We checked it with one of our staffers.
Well, one fan apparently took too literally that chokehold, and as a result, they are making the list of best videos. That which we call "Fotos del Dia."
Coventry, England, is where we start. Strike Force at the SkyDome Arena. It became Streak Force at the Moon Dome.
The fighters were scantily clad. The fans were awash in excitement, when suddenly this guy jumped into the cage, that streaker right there. Not a lot of room to streak in a cage, right? It's not like left field at Yankees Stadium.
The guy was buck naked. He jumped into the cage wearing just lovely black socks and nothing else.
We thought we would share.
Amazing video out of Oklahoma City. A tornado tore through and tossed this van around like a toy. Can you imagine being the driver or in the van?
The driver's name is Robbie (ph). He was behind the wheel. Mercifully, he survived and he's telling this story --
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I know it flipped once, or whatever. Then I think after that I just closed my eyes.
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Demolition in Detroit. By the way, I would close my eyes, too.
This is what it feels like when you're a guy and your wife makes you do a project around the house. And you get so frustrated, you just want to, like, well, blow the whole thing up.
City officials are sick and tired, and they're taking a bite out of crime and the wrecking ball to these vacant homes. They're tired of trying to fix them up. They say many of the homes are a haven for violence and criminal activity, drugs, crack. Six thousand of the most dangerous buildings are slated for demolition over the next couple of years.
By the way, any time you want to check on our best videos, go to my blog, CNN.com/ricksanchez.
All right. Now how about this?
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We got the airplane. Now he's mad because he thought he was beating us. And in the end, we ended up getting the airplane.
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SANCHEZ: All right. We have seen repo guys, right, take cars, furniture? But what about a corporate jet? I mean, this is one doozy of a corporate jet.
They've got to sneak in there, find out how to get in, find out how to get out, fly it out without the owner finding out. And this is quite an operation.
We're taking you behind the scenes so you can experience it for yourself. It is one whale of a story.
How did a rising LPGA star die? This is one many of you have been tweeting me about.
She is a fantastically talented young woman who suddenly turned up dead. And now we're starting to get some answers as to what may have happened to her.
Brooke Baldwin has been on this. She's joining us with our trending topics in just a little bit. Stay there. Brooke is joining me in two.
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SANCHEZ: Hey, Brooke's about to join me with her list of trending topics. But before we do that, look at this video that we just got in.
Check this out, Brooke.
BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Look at Nancy Reagan.
SANCHEZ: Wow. There is Nancy Reagan. There is Mrs. Bush.
They're at a book signing at the presidential library. This is the Reagan Presidential Library, by the way.
BALDWIN: For Mrs. Bush's book signing. SANCHEZ: "Spoken From the Heart," it's called.
This is really neat. Just kind of one of those things you kind of can't take your eyes off for a little while.
Nancy Reagan being walked in by the former first lady. And it's a pretty big deal. Good for her.
Boy, she's got some spirit, that Nancy Reagan. She was always spunky. That's fantastic.
You are looking into this story. You know, it's funny. When I was done and I got done with the news last night, I go home, and usually my wife comes running to greet me at the door. No.
BALDWIN: Not yesterday?
SANCHEZ: No. No. I was lying.
She was on the couch. And the very first thing she asked me about when I got home is, "What's go on with that LPGA golfer? What happened to her?" And it's like the one story that stuck with her.
BALDWIN: That's what stuck with her.
SANCHEZ: Well, and on Twitter, people have been asking about it all night as well.
So what's going on?
BALDWIN: It's so sad. She was this beautiful young woman, an LPGA golfer.
We're talking about Erica Blasberg. Still, her death, still shrouded in mystery.
You know, just to rewind, it was Mother's Day. And I've read, you know, her mother never got a call from her daughter. She knew something was up.
So then her father says at first glance, you know, when you look at what's happened, it looks look a suicide. But he told a reporter there was some very strange about her death.
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MEL BLASBERG, ERICA BLASBERG'S FATHER: Something happened. She was supposed to leave for a tournament that morning. She didn't.
This is devastating. I mean, you don't -- we're going to have to bury a 25-year-old daughter. So it's sad.
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SANCHEZ: All right. But yesterday we had no clue. Just, she was found dead. That's all we knew. BALDWIN: No. We're getting bits and pieces now.
Now we know she didn't show up. They found out she was -- she didn't show up for this tournament in Alabama.
Her bags were packed, so that's one interesting nugget we found out today. Also, the dad said she never gave her parents any trouble. She was a great young role model for aspiring golfers.
She did, though, struggle a little bit recently on the LPGA, I found out, never really finishing higher than 94th on the money list. So she was described as kind of keeping to herself.
SANCHEZ: But that's interesting. You just said she -- someone's who about to kill themselves, if in fact that's the allegation --
BALDWIN: We don't know -- right.
SANCHEZ: No, and I'm not saying it is. But as you go through these things, whether it was an overdose, or foul play, or whether it was something like that, the fact that her bags were packed means --
BALDWIN: She was ready to roll.
SANCHEZ: -- she was planning to go on with her life.
BALDWIN: She was ready to roll. And here's what's also odd, which I found out today. Police say -- the M.E. conducted the autopsy. Police are staying very tight-lipped as to how she died. And there was a 911 call that was made, but police are not saying who made the call.
SANCHEZ: Interesting.
BALDWIN: Questions.
SANCHEZ: So, right now, it could have been overdose, it could have been suicide.
BALDWIN: We don't know.
SANCHEZ: It could have been foul play.
BALDWIN: But interestingly, her bags were packed.
SANCHEZ: Could have been anything. All right.
BALDWIN: Yes.
SANCHEZ: We'll leave it there.
What else you got?
BALDWIN: Number two, for my follow-up file, you remember Jessica Colotl? She was the college senior at Kennesaw State University. We did this story about this young woman a couple of weeks ago. She was pulled over, remember, initially, because I think the ticket was written up as impeding the flow of traffic. Basically, she was trying to park, got pulled over, couldn't show the officer her license because she didn't have one, because of this little known law. It's called 287(g).
The sheriff's deputies in this particular county in Georgia could legally ask for her immigration status. They found out she didn't have a license. She got put in jail, and that is where she talked to me two weeks ago.
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JESSICA COLOTL, ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT: I'm here in a place where I'm being treated like a criminal. I'm leaving my family behind. Basically, my life has been destroyed because of this minor incident.
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BALDWIN: Here's the update today. She is now out of jail. ICE granted Jessica what they call deferred action. So, basically, she has an entire year before then being deported to Mexico, where she's granted a work permit. She'll be getting a driver's license and will resume summer classes at Kennesaw State to hopefully get her -- at least graduate next year.
But, you know, I talked to people who have talked to her today, and she is traumatized after being in this detention center. She's fearing for her own safety, Rick Sanchez, because some people are coming forward, these immigration control groups, and they're saying, hey, KSU president, you should be fired for breaking the law. And she's worried about her own self, and she's worried about a year from now.
But, again, the truth, the fact remains, she was here illegally.
SANCHEZ: That's the point I was just going to make, that she's in the country illegally --
BALDWIN: She broke the law.
SANCHEZ: -- and she broke the law.
BALDWIN: She's getting a one-year extension.
SANCHEZ: Until we figure something out.
BALDWIN: Yes.
SANCHEZ: That's the way we got to deal with this.
BALDWIN: Trying to talk to her. I'm working on it.
SANCHEZ: Heck of a story. Yes, it would be nice to have her on.
BALDWIN: Working on it. SANCHEZ: Thanks. Appreciate your trending topics.
BALDWIN: Thank you.
SANCHEZ: Take a look at this. We told you about this 22-year-old man, right, ,masquerading as high school student? Well, we put together a list of other famous fakers, people who lived a lie until someone or something tripped them up.
Who are they? Can you think of any yourself? Help us out here, folks. That's next.
And as we head to break, we want to let you know that the whale that we have been following throughout the show, the one caught in a rope 50 miles south of Los Angeles, has headed back out to sea. They saved him. They actually were able to take all those commercial fishing lines off of him, get him all untangled, and the little guy -- or not so little guy -- is flapping his dorsal fins there and heading out.
That's fantastic. Good to give you good news.
We'll be right back here on RICK'S LIST.
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SANCHEZ: Welcome back.
Now, if you thought that impersonating a 16-year-old student to play on a high school basketball team was bad enough, wait until you see the rocket scientist on our list of the top five most famous impostors.
Number five: James Hogue, who was admitted to Princeton by posing as a self-taught ranch hand going by the name of Alexei Endrisantana (ph). The charade lasted until a former high school classmate from Palo Alto recognized him.
Number four: Someone you may have seen walking the red carpet with Hollywood's elite. He is Christopher Rocancourt, who pretended to be the French relative of the Rockefellers. Remember him? A movie producer and boxing champ, and even married a "Playboy" model until authorities found out he was a fake.
Number three: Frank Abagnale. Remember him? Forged millions of dollars in checks, and his life of crime in the stuff Hollywood scripts are made of, literally. Ever heard of a little movie called "Catch Me If You Can"? Remember Eastern Airlines?
Yes, it's about him, not Mr. DiCaprio. He even posed as a pilot and as a doctor, as you saw in the movie.
Number two on our list: David Hampton. Swindled the wealthy and A- listers alike by pretending to be the son of the actor Sidney Poitier. He wasn't.
And the honor of number one on our list of most famous imposters goes to not one person, but two. They formed a Grammy Award-winning group in the late '80s, and had the hit single "Blame it on the Rain."
Did you guess yet?
Play the music up a little higher.
Is that helping? Have you got it? You got it?
Milli Vanilli. Who could forget line lip-syncing scandal that soon ended their career?
There you have it, today's top five.
Well, what happened when Afghan President Karzai met with President Obama at the White House? Wolf Blitzer is going to break that down for us. And he's also going to share something else with us.
He just did an interview with Ted Turner. Yes, that Ted Turner. And he asked him about the Gulf spill.
Now, what do you think Ted Turner said about that? Remember, Ted Turner used to be a sailor, right?
You'll find out. Stay right there. We'll be right back.
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SANCHEZ: Wolf Blitzer is about to join us. And he just finished talking to Captain Courageous. Now, remember, that's what he was called for his sailing exploits.
This is a guy who loves the outdoors. So what do you think he would say when he's asked about the Gulf oil spill?
Let's give a little piece of that. Not all of it. We're not going to steal Wolf's stuff. We're going to show you a little bit of this, and then we'll talk to Wolf on the back side.
Hit it.
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WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: Have you had some second thoughts or third thoughts about offshore oil drilling in the aftermath of what's happened in the Gulf?
TED TURNER, CNN FOUNDER: Yes I have. Hasn't everybody?
BLITZER: Well, tell me where you stand on that right now. What should the president do?
TURNER: I don't like knocking the mountain downs in West Virginia to make coal. I like mountains. And besides, it's time to say good-bye to coal and to oil.
I mean, they served us well for 200 years, but it is time to move on. It's like telephone booths. Aren't you glad you didn't invest in them?
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SANCHEZ: I kind of had a feeling he would go in that direction.
What was he like, Wolf?
BLITZER: He was vintage Ted Turner.
You know, 30 years ago, this June 1st, as you know, Rick, he created -- he had this vision that there should be 24/7 cable news, and he threw -- rolled the dice. All of his money, basically, he put into that venture. And guess what? Thirty years later, there is a lot of cable news out there.
And I think it is fair to say he changed not only the news environment, ,but by creating CNN, he changed the world.
SANCHEZ: It's a good thing that he's questioning the situation in the Gulf. I think we all should all be questioning the situation in the Gulf. I mean, that's not to castigate BP or anybody else, but we should be asking serious questions about what's going on there.
You know, when I think of Ted Turner, I think of the guy who was on the cover of "SI" when I was a little kid eons ago, sailing in the America's Cup, or whatever cup he was sailing in. I mean, this is a guy who obviously adored the outdoors. And from a global perspective, right?
BLITZER: Right. He's the largest private landowner in the United States -- all the land he has in Montana, and all sorts of other places.
He loves the sea, he loves the land. He wants to see oil go away, he wants to see coal go way. He wants green. He wants all sorts of clean energy out there, including maybe even nuclear energy. And we talk at some length about that.
We talk a lot about the news environment, though. And I asked him at one point what he thinks about a possible coordination, shall we say, or get-together between CNN and CBS or one of the other broadcasts.
SANCHEZ: What did he say?
BLITZER: You'll find out. We're going to air the interview in "THE SITUATION ROOM."
You're also going to find out what Bill Maher thinks about all this, because we have a separate interview with HBO's Bill Maher. I think it's going to be lively.
SANCHEZ: I knew you were going to do that. You're so good like that, man. You just know how to set that hook. Set that hook. And you get -- pulling away.
BLITZER: We want your viewers to stick around and watch. SANCHEZ: And they do, for the most part.
Hey, where's your ascot?
BLITZER: I just saw Roland Martin. He's here, and I asked him if I can borrow it one of these days. But I don't think I'm worthy yet. I'm still sort of an old school kind of guy.
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SANCHEZ: Did you get my e-mail today?
BLITZER: Yes, I did. I got your e-mail.
SANCHEZ: Did you open the link? Did you laugh?
BLITZER: Yes, I did. I laughed.
SANCHEZ: That will be between us.
BLITZER: Yes.
SANCHEZ: Nobody is allowed to know.
Wolf Blitzer, my colleague, coming up in "THE SITUATION ROOM."
Thanks, Wolf.
BLITZER: Thank you.
SANCHEZ: We're going to be right back. We're not done yet, folks. We'll going to take you through the rest of the day's news.
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SANCHEZ: Every day we give you a story to comment on, and then we make a list of the top four. Here they are, today's top four.
"After watching that teacher striking the student, thank God, for I see why schools are trying to ban cell phones."
"Hell no. I can't believe that teacher abused that young boy. She should not only lose her job, but should go to jail."
Number three, "I would not take it up with the school. I'd search that teacher out and treat her the same way she treated my child."
Number four, "That teacher should never be allowed to work with children ever again. Throw the book and library at him. Ban him from teaching."
There you go.
Obviously, you guys weren't happy with the video you saw.
Next on THE LIST, one of my favorite stories of the day, because you get to go along for the ride. You've heard of what repo men are doing now in this down economy, taking back people's cars, big flat-screen TVs, furniture. But what about the big guys -- corporate jets, yachts, that kind of stuff?
You're go along for the ride. Here's CNN's Carol Costello with the repo man.
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: So, all of these planes that we see here have been repossessed?
KEN CAGE, INTERNATIONAL RECOVERY & REMARKETING GROUP: Yes, they have been. All have their own story to tell.
COSTELLO (voice-over): Ken Cage is a high-end repo man with a booming business called the International Recovery & Remarketing Group.
CAGE: Here's the airline. It's a citation one.
COSTELLO: Forget about cars and motorcycles, Cage, along with former WWE wrestler Randy Craft repossess jets and yachts.
(on camera): I could just hop on the boat and take off?
CAGE: Pretty much.
COSTELLO (voice-over): Worth hundreds of thousands of dollars apiece. Today's target, a Cessna jet. A cinch? No.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They were trying to track the plane.
COSTELLO: The wealthy owner is not happy. The bank wants his jet back. So Cage thinks he's hiding it at an airport in Orlando.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They know anything is going on with this plane.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. They think it's hidden.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Welcome home, honey.
COSTELLO: After days of nifty detective work, Craft and Cage hit the road to meet a pilot they've hired.
CAGE: They didn't take on much fuel. So we knew that they were going to one of about eight or 10 airports. The airplane is there. I just texted the pilot to let them know we're on our way.
RANDY CRAFT, INTERNATIONAL RECOVERY & REMARKETING GROUP: Repossessions, I always get pumped because to me it's exciting. You know, it sounds kind of bad to say, but, you know, I find thrill to be able to go in and steal something and know I'm doing it legally.
We're just pulling into the airport now. What hangar number?
As much as I want him to floor it right now, you can't. Because if somebody comes out with an airplane, we're hamburger.
Is that her, John (ph)?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, that's her.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You got it open? Awesome. How does she look?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She looks good. We tried it and nothing wrong with the airplane.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No sign of approval (ph)?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, it's not.
COSTELLO: Cage and Craft catch a break. The plane was left unlocked. No need to break in.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm going to make the call.
COSTELLO: With the bank's repo order in hand, Cage alerts the local police.
CAGE: All right. We've got the call in. So this is legit now. It's legal.
COSTELLO: Now we get into hustle mode to get this baby out of here.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Can you move that?
COSTELLO (on camera): A minute, why? What would be free mode (ph) for you to get out of here?
CAGE: He says something like 30 minutes to get the thing fueled up.
COSTELLO: You don't like that?
CAGE: Oh, I hate that.
COSTELLO (voice-over): Meanwhile, the pilots tow the jet 400 yards to the fuel pump. Randy and Ken, they're on the move in case the jet's owner or his pilot show up.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's no jet fuel in there.
COSTELLO: Then a hitch.
CAGE: The jet fuel pump is shut down so we can't get fuel. We've got enough to get there. It's less than you prefer to have though, so that's the thing. So, he says we have enough, we have enough.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Guys, take off Runway 35.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, I'm ready when you are.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Be safe, John. Thanks so much. COSTELLO: Finally, Cage's $700,000 (INAUDIBLE) is airborne. Ten miles later it lands. The owner won't know what hit him until he calls the hangar a few hours later.
CAGE: We got the airplane. Now he's mad because he thought he was beating us, and in the end we end up getting the airplane. So he's mad.
There is danger. I don't think of it as danger. If I did, I probably wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.
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SANCHEZ: By the way, those of you who want to know what it is I sent Wolf Blitzer -- and I've gotten a lot of tweets from you suggesting that you should know -- we have been doing twit-vids of late, lots of twit-vids. And I'm putting them on my tweet site.
So, it's Twitter.com/ricksanchezcnn. Go there, and you'll see the one we did today and yesterday and the day before, and also some of the best of Brooke Baldwin, I should add.
That's it for us today. Let me know what you think.
Meanwhile, we take you now to Washington, "THE SITUATION ROOM," and my colleague Wolf Blitzer.
We'll see you tomorrow, folks.
