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Tarballs Hit New Places; Feds v. Arizona; Queen Elizabeth Visits New York Israel's Netanyahu at White House; Netherlands Defeats Uruguay in World Cup Semifinal

Aired July 06, 2010 - 16:00   ET

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RICK SANCHEZ, CNN ANCHOR: Yes I hear the cheering in the background. That's Miami's own Alison Kosik bringing us the very ;latest there from Wall St.

All right as we begin this newscast, I'm honored to report that we are the news of record for American Forces Network at this hour. Troops all over the world are watching with you here in the United States and I want you to know that we welcome all the troops that are watching overseas. Let's do our "National Conversation.

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SANCHEZ (voice over): Here's what's making The List on this day. One of the elements for reasonable suspicions with the new Arizona law? What a person is wearing. Will that trigger a constitutional challenge.

UNIDENTIFED MALE: We all want to put bad guys in jail

SANCHEZ: Will this law be implemented? Guess who has her day in court. Will a judge lay down the law for Lindsey Lohan?

And have you seen this?

Talk about fireworks. Look out! The list you need to know about, who's today's most intriguing? Who 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: Hi everybody I'm Rick Sanchez. Here we go, hour two. There is so much going on! We're going to try and pick up the pace for you. Watching all the stories that have been going on there's obviously no story that seems as impactful, as this immigration debate going on in the United States.

Arizona has said we're going to come up with a law, to try and deal with immigration in our state. Now as of about an hour and a half ago. Just as we were getting ready to go on the air. The Obama administration, told Arizona no you're not. We're going to try and stop you. We're suing you, we're going to challenge you're efforts there, so we're going to bring you the very latest on what Arizona is saying. We have that in the form of a video tape that we have been perusing for the last 48 hours. Very diligently.

And we also have,--I have so many papers in front of me. We also have the actual statue, the actual suit that is being brought by the Obama administration. And I'll take you through that as well. Let me tell you who's going to be joining us. White House Correspondent, Dan Lothian has been following this story all day long. Bringing us the very latest developments as they happen.

We're also going to be joined by Professor William Ross. He's a professor at Law at Samford University in Birmingham Alabama. I love Birmingham Alabama, great golf by the way. And he's going to join us in just a little bit to take us through this.

Before we do anything else, I want you to hear one other part of this Arizona Police Board video tape that was released yesterday.

I showed you a part of it where you saw, that police officers are saying, look if we stop you, and we ask you for identification, and you have identification, case closed. We can do nothing else, to be fair. That's what Arizona is saying the intent of the law is. Number two, is where they came in and they said look, we're not going to stop people or arrest people based on them looking like they're illegal aliens. First we're going to stop them on another potential crime, and in the process of investigating that crime-this is important, there will be another potential reasonable suspicion for the crime of being in the United States illegally.

So it's not like we're going down the street stopping people and trying to arrest them for being in the country illegally. That's the second point they make.

Now there's another point, and that is, what is it that an officer can take into account, when he decides that he can arrest someone? And Roger, that's where I want to see if we have this tape. Let me know when we have it.

We have it?

All right this is cut three, listen to how they explain that part. What the officer can or cannot take into account. And then we're going to ask professor to give us his take on this.

Roll it Rog..

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Those kinds of facts and circumstances that we're talking about, that may allow-amount to reasonable suspicion to believe a person is unlawfully in the United States. As in the development of reasonable suspicion for criminal activity. You certainly don't have to have all of those factors. And you may have lots of other factors that are not on that list or on anybody else's list. Remember, the determination of reasonable suspicion is yours to make, but you need to able to articulate, you need to able to state the specific facts and circumstances that lead you to the conclusion that the person-this person in front of you, is, or may be unlawfully present in the United States.

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SANCHEZ: All right professor William Ross. I want to bring you in now. And I want to have your take on that. And just as a little bit of information for our viewers, when she was referring to those are elements that you can use but you don't have to pick any one of those and you don't certainly have to have all of them.

Here's some of the things that she was talking about.

Elements of suspicion in the Arizona law some of them make all of the sense in the world. Obviously somebody needs identification, if somebody looks like they're trying to run away from you the moment you look at them, someone's demeanor is extremely nervous, we get all those.

But then they go on to say these as well. And here's where I want you to answer the question if you possibly could, about is this constitutional They say a police officer, can also use for suspicion if they see a vehicle that looks overcrowded, the way someone is dressed, if they have difficulty speaking English, if they're travelling in tandems.

Your take on that sir-

PROFESSOR WILLAM ROSS, SAMFORD UNIVERSITY: Those are all factors that can be taken into account in determining whether there is a reasonable search and seizure. I think though that the principle argument that the federal government is going to want to make in its lawsuit, is whether the Arizona law is a violation of the Supremacy Clause of the federal constitution.

In other words, whether the federal

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SANCHEZ: They do and I'll just interrupt you for a moment Robert, come on over here real quick and I'll try and explain that to our viewers as it's explained right here. Just so we're all caught up, this is the lawsuit and they say in our constitutional system the federal government has the preeminent authority to regulate immigration matter. This authority derives from the U.S. constitution. It also goes on to say although states may exercise their police power in a manner that has an incidental or indirect effect on aliens, a state may not establish it's own immigration policy, or enforce state laws in a matter that interferes with the federal immigration laws.

That's what you were referring to right professor?

ROSS: Yes. Absolutely, Arizona I assume will argue that the- it's law does not interfere with the federal law, but rather that it compliments the federal law. That federal law can operate smoothly alongside the Arizona law. That the Arizona law will be parallel to the federal law.

The federal government presumably will argue that the Supremacy Clause of the constitution controls. And that the state law is preempted by federal law, because it would interfere with the efficient and proper operation of the federal immigration and naturalization law.

SANCHEZ: What's the point-by the way before we leave that argument. And I think everybody at home gets that. I know this gets a little complicated so we're going as carefully as we can. I think most people understand they're saying , look this is congresses job. This is not your job in Arizona. Stay out of our turf.

We get the argument, I don't know who-I'm not a lawyer and I'm not a constitutional I don't know who's right about this. Is there precedent on this? And who does it help?

ROSS: States have an inherent power to regulate under the so called pleace (ph) power to for the protection of the health safety and welfare of their citizens. And the state of Arizona is contending that this law is needed, because illegal immigrants are causing a tremendous amount of crime in Arizona and also because, they are burdening the environment, they are imposing

SANCHEZ: We get all that, but what I'm asking you as a professor and as legal expert is, I know we just got this a couple hours ago and you haven't had a chance to study it or look at the precedent, so I'm putting you on a hot-on a difficult place here. But, is there from what you know in the past has there ever been a challenge like this brought by the federal government to a state saying, hey you guys stay over there in your corner and stop messing with the stuff that belongs to us.

ROSS: Yes it's rare but it's not unprecedented, and it's not surprising that the Justice Department would bring a lawsuit to enjoin the enforcement of a statute that contends interference with the operation of a federal law. And in particular, federal authorities as I understand it, are concerned that the Arizona law would impede the enforcement of the federal law because the federal government at least currently, is most concerned about the deportation of illegal immigrants who are causing significant crimes. And those were obviously a very small minority of all illegal immigrants.

Most illegal immigrants who are stopped and turned to the federal authorities under this law are not going to be probably hardcore criminals.

SANCHEZ: There's even one more thing, that they bring up. As I was reading through this a little while ago professor, I found something in the argument being raised by the federal government that I found curious and here it is.

Roger you over my shoulder here? It will cause-cause here look they're not defending-in this that I'm about to read you, they're not defending illegal immigrants, they're defending U.S. citizens.

Let me read "It will cause the detention of harassment of authorized visitors, immigrants and citizens who do not have or carry a identification documents specified by the statute." Now that's interesting, what the federal government is saying is, in your effort to deal with illegal immigrants, you are going to violate the rights of U.S citizens.

That's not talked about as much but that's important I imagine as well. Is it not?

ROSS: I think it is an important element, the federal government I think can plausibly argue-I'm not saying they're necessarily correct, but I think they can plausible argument, that the Arizona law casts too white a net.

That in the language in the law it's over broad and could result in the detention of or even the harassment if people who are in the United States perfectly legally.

SANCHEZ: Professor you've been wonderful, my thanks to you sir for joining us and taking us through this. Let me bring my colleague Dan Lothian in now, he's been watching this story unfold all day long.

Give us -set up the timing of how this came about, and then Dan I also want you to talk if you possibly can to the politics of this. Would you mind putting that in perspective for us.

DAN LOTHIAN, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Well yes first of all in terms of the timing I mean this did not come as any big surprise the Obama administration had been talking about for quite some time and we expected it to happen this week.

The president had talked about this Arizona law as being ill conceived and divisive saying that's unenforceable, and also, what you've been hearing the line from the president on down to other administration officials that, it would just create a patchwork of laws across the United States. And we heard that in a statement that was put out by Attorney General Eric Holder, who said "Setting immigration policy and enforcing immigration laws is a national responsibility. Seeking to address the issue through a patchwork of state will only create more problems than it solves". And that's essentially what's a the heart of this lawsuit.

SANCHEZ: But hold on. That's all well and good. And Holder and President Obama and all these fellows can say to the states, hey what are you doing? This is not your turf. But the states are going to say back to them, what are you doing?

LOTHIAN: Exactly that's the big question there you're right they're saying you can't do this because it sets up this patchwork of laws across the United States. And they're pointing the finger at federal government. And the president will say listen I'm trying to get this done, and Republicans up on Capitol Hill are creating this roadblock they're preventing me from getting comprehensive immigration reform. Yes there is a political implication to all of this because there are the midterm elections. The Latino community very big voting block. They elected this president on this one issue. Because he promised that he would get comprehensive immigration reform. They've been upset that it hasn't happened to this point, so certainly there has to be a play here, but the administration will point out that they're going on the law here.

They believe what's happening is unconstitutional and they want it to be reversed.

SANCHEZ: By the way just one caveat because Dan and I in our spirited conversation as we often do, we've known each other a long time. We're explaining that there's this back and forth going on between the feds and the states in this case Arizona. Janet Napalitano, to be fair also put out a statement today saying quote, I have it right here in front of me. "We are actively working with members of congress from both parties to enact comprehensive-to comprehensively reform our immigration systems.

Of course most people around this country would say yes and we've heard that before. Dan thanks so much for you following that story for us all day long.. We are definitely going to stay on top of this one.

Meanwhile there's Obama and there's Netanyahu, two men who many of the media have suggested don't get along all that well. Today there they were side by side convincing the media, or trying to, that they get along just fine. We'll take you into that story in just a little bit and show you some video you may not have seen. And then remember that female track star who beat competitors so badly some people started wondering whether she was a man, There's an investigation that's been concluded and I'm going to tell you how it ended.

That's coming up in just a little bit. This is your National Conversation, you list RICK'S LIST. I'll be right back.

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SANCHEZ: Welcome back to RICK'S LIST. I'm Rick Sanchez. So glad that you're here with us again.

We have lots and lots on this newscast. And one of the things we do for you every day is something called a roundup list.

Here's where we go quick, number one -- hit it, Roge! Summertime -- it's supposed to be holt, right? But up in the northeast, it's been ridiculously hot. Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York City. Now, I grew up in Miami, so I don't exactly feel sorry for these folks because this is what we used to get, 365 days a year. A hundred degrees or hotter today though for the folks up in the northeast -- high demand for air-conditioning is.

And here's where the real story is: knocking out power to some neighborhoods along major cities. We're following this for you. If we get word from the power companies, we'll report it right away and tell you what the sectors are.

Same forecast tomorrow, by the way, and it is hot, hot, hot -- like the song says.

Number two -- well, this is ugly. Look at how a high speed pursuit ended in Kansas City a couple of hours ago. Police say they were chasing that red pickup when it turned north unto a Southbound 71.

Wow. Big crash. Several cars. Six people taken to the hospital. Three of them are in critical condition. We'll let you know what we learn about that one as well.

And number three -- it's official -- the gender issue is resolved. She can compete as a woman without further delay. She is Caster Semenya, a South African track star. Remember last year she was banned from competition while medical experts worked to determine whether she was a man or a woman? Well, she's a world champion now as a woman in the 800 meters.

Look what's going on today as well. Lindsay Lohan is going directly to jail. She's ticked off the judge plenty and is back in court. This is happening right now, live. We're going to be dipping into this when we come back, because I know that America has been wanting to know whether she's going to be -- have the book thrown at her by the judge this time or not. We'll tell you if she's going to jail

Also, President Obama gets testy at his appearance with his Israeli leader, Benjamin Netanyahu. But it's not Netanyahu he's getting testy with. Au contraire. We'll tell you exactly what happened.

This is your national conversation. And we will be right back for you.

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SANCHEZ: Welcome back. I'm Rick Sanchez.

We showed you a little while ago what the queen of England had to say today in her historic speech -- a lot of H's there -- at the United Nations.

Well, she was not the only foreign dignitary on our soil today. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on this day is doing a make- good on his visit to the White House. Unlike his last visit, we can actually show you the pictures, complete with the customary smiles.

Remember what happened last time -- there was a dust-up over Israeli settlement policy, the visit fell apart, no joint photo-op, and a lot of people were conjecturing that, look, these two guys just don't get along. Well, they were calling this thing the make-up. But I want you to listen and I want you to hear now as the president field as question from an Israeli reporter there at the Oval Office -- almost sounding a bit defensive. Take a listen.

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REPORTER: Mr. President, in the past year, you distanced yourself from Israel and gave a cold shoulder to the prime minister. Do you think this policy was a mistake? Do you think it contributes to the bashing of Israel by others? And is that -- you change it now, and do you trust now Prime Minister Netanyahu?

BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Well, let me, first of all, say that the premise to your question was wrong and I entirely disagree with it. If you look at every public statement that I have made over the last year and a half, it has been a constant reaffirmation of the special relationship between the United States and Israel, that our commitment to Israel's security has been unwavering. And, in fact, there aren't any concrete policies that you could point to that would contradict that.

And in terms of my relationship with Prime Minister Netanyahu, I know the press, both in Israel and stateside, enjoys you know, seeing if there's news there. But the fact of the matter is, is that I trusted Prime Minister Netanyahu since I met him before I was elected president, and have said so both publicly and privately.

I think that he is dealing with a very complex situation in a very tough neighborhood. And, you know, what I have consistently shared with him is my interest in working with him -- not at cross- purposes.

BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER: Let me make a general observation about the question you posed to the president. And here, I'll have to paraphrase Mark Twain, that the reports about the demise of the special U.S.-Israel relations -- relationship aren't just premature, they're just flat wrong. There's a -- there's a depth and richness in this relationship that is expressed every day.

Our teams talk. We don't make it public. The only thing that's public is that you can have differences on occasion in the best of families and closest of families; that comes out public -- and sometimes in a twisted way, too.

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SANCHEZ: Two men trying to assure reporters, who says don't get along. Well, if that wasn't enough, it went even further. I want to show you some video now. You see this right here? That's the president of the United States, he made it a point to escort Prime Minister Netanyahu all the way to his car and then never turned his back. Actually sat there, waiting, until the car pulled away -- just to show his respect for the Israeli prime minister.

They say pictures are worth a thousand words. By the way, they also say they talked about Gaza, they talked about Iran and they both sounded extremely optimistic about starting direct talks with the Palestinians. The world says, we hope so.

As tar balls land on more Gulf shores, the Coast Guard is now sending in a blimp. A blimp? Well, we told you about the giant skimmer, but what's a blimp going to do? And guess what, they're talking now about tar balls in Lake Pontchartrain and tar balls in Texas. Two new pieces of information you may not know, we're going to take you through it.

This is CNN, on RICK'S LIST, I'm Rick Sanchez, and we'll be right back.

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SANCHEZ: OK. We want to show you something now.

So many of you have been tweeting us since the beginning of this newscast about what we've been reporting on immigration and Arizona and the challenge that's now being raised by the Obama administration, that we thought it would be important to share some of those. So, let's do that, let's go to our Twitter board if we possibly can.

Here's the first one: "I am a Mexican, born in Utah 60 years ago, as were my parents and their parents were born in Texas. Now, I can't go to Arizona without papes?"

Let's see the next one: "Remember when cops were given Billy clubs, guns and tasers? Never saw a cop abuse/overuse them, right? Arizona law is wrong."

Next one: "If you are not doing anything unlawful and you are a citizen of the United States, there should be no problem."

Next one: "Also, you say the language thing is wrong, but if you cannot understand them, what's wrong with asking for I.D.?"

All right. There you go. Two saying they have problems with the law, and two defending the law -- representing both sides for you. RICK'S LIST.

By the way, we just word that a very important sporting event ended just moments ago, not just any sporting event, the World Cup! And we've got pictures coming in as we speak. They are partying in the Netherlands. Why are they partying in the Netherlands? Well, they've been watching this thing, and guess what? Their team has won.

It was between Uruguay and the Netherlands. And the Netherlands have become successful.

These are live pictures that are coming in right now from South Africa. And all those folks there who wanted their team to pull it out have done just that. Let's listen to about 10 seconds of the screaming and yelling over this sporting event. I don't know what he's saying, but I bet you it's something about the fact that all -- the finals are now going to be all European, right? Who's left? Spain, Germany and the Netherlands. Right?

Did I get that right, guys? Come on, guys, help me. I follow baseball and football here.

So, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands. It's an all-European finals. And we're going to be following it for you. We'll let you know what happens.

Meanwhile, Lindsay Lohan's in the news today. She's been in court all day.

And many of you have been telling me that you're fascinated by watching this court proceeding. And I guess what we're now waiting to find out is what the judge is going to say to her this time about her potential probation violations.

We'll have that for you in just a little bit.

This is RICK'S LIST. Stay with us. We're going to be right back.

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SANCHEZ: OK, this is where I start to give you some of the weirdest and some of the coolest videos that you will probably find anywhere. And it's the Fourth of July weekend, and we were able to collect a lot of stuff that you haven't had a chance to see yet, so, let's do -- yes, I know, this is how I say it -- "Fotos del Dia."

Rockets red glare, except -- well, everywhere except straight up. Our iReporter sent us this from Chenoa, Illinois, said she knew something was amiss when rockets began flying sideways and bouncing off the ground. Duh.

Panicked screams drowned out the "oohs" and the " ahs." Here, this is what she heard.

Yes, that does sound like something's wrong. A box of fireworks fell over, went off by accident. That's an Independence Day to remember.

OK. Here's the next one. Wait for the music though.

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OK? What do you think that is? No, not an old Jackson -- Michael Jackson remake.

These are Israeli soldiers. They're just having some fun. Their video has gone viral.

Israeli soldiers in Hebron, no less. Are they going to get in trouble for goofing around? We don't know, but we think they do quite a nice job with this video, and so does everybody else who's seen it since it's gone (AUDIO GAP). Israeli army commandos apparently are not amused, but we give them kudos for trying.

All right. Last one.

Forget soccer. Who understands that any way? This is the real sport. It's called wife carrying.

Nowhere on earth do they take wife carrying more seriously than in Finland. This is really a big deal over there, where the world championships went down there this weekend for the 15th straight year.

The grand prize is you get all the beer you want. Well, wait, your wife's weight in beer. Sadly, any dignity was lost or gone forever.

You can see all of our "Fotos," by the way, on my blog, which is CNN.com/ricksanchez.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Very nasty. For the last four days, we've seen tarballs, big and small, washing up the coastline here, as you can see. And I can even see more off -- in the water further out, too.

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SANCHEZ: All right. We've been following the tarballs and the oil for you, and we can tell you now there's two new places -- Lake Pontchartrain, where they saw a lot of tarballs recently, as well as Texas beaches.

Now, that's interesting. I'm going to tell you what's the latest on everything affecting the Gulf oil spill. No, better. Brooke Baldwin is there, and she's going to bring you the latest on this.

That's next, right here on RICK'S LIST.

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SANCHEZ: Welcome back. I'm Rick Sanchez.

Next on the list, the crisis in the Gulf.

A cold front in the Gulf caused thunderstorms which have significantly slowed down cleanup efforts. Now, remember, the impact of Hurricane Alex -- remember the strong winds, the choppy waves? They've complicated the cleanup efforts quite a bit.

Now, hundreds of oil skimmers had to be docked. Well, one of the answers to this problem was the larger skimmer. Right?

Enter the world's largest skimmer, the A Whale. But this cold front and its thunderstorms caused choppy waters. And due to this and other problems, A Whale so far has not proved successful enough. BP says this today: that the oil floating in the Gulf isn't concentrated enough for A Whale to skim effectively. So much for the boat that would solve all the problems. Oh, well.

Even though the ship is located just a few miles from the gusher, it can't get close enough to the large concentrations of oil, even though it appears to be surrounded by pools of oil as we look at these pictures.

Meanwhile, the Coast Guard is now reporting today that a shift in weather patterns could send even more oil toward the Mississippi and the Louisiana shores. And then there's the surveillance issue.

Currently, helicopters are being used. But what is needed is something that can stay aloft longer and with lower fuel costs, something that can survey a wider area, something like, well, the MD3A (ph) Navy airship blimp. I'm serious.

It started its flight from Arizona last month and will arrive in Alabama -- well, who knows when? But they say it might be able to do what helicopters can't do as well. You see, its arrival has been delayed due to, you guessed it, the cold front and its subsequent thunderstorms.

Speaking of cold fronts and something they will have to deal with throughout hurricane season, meanwhile, tarballs are now being seen in places where they haven't been seen before. They've traveled all the way near beaches around Galveston, Texas, and they've also now been seen on Lake Pontchartrain.

Now, you wonder, how is it possible that they got into Lake Pontchartrain, right? Isn't there a very small strip of water there that could possibly get them there?

Brooke Baldwin is in Slidell, Louisiana, with more on this part of the story. Here's Brooke.

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BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Here in Louisiana, Lake Pontchartrain, known for its recreation, its fishing, its swimming, and now, sadly, these tarballs. Take a good look. This is what is now washing within this lake. This is significant for a number of reasons, primarily because this is the farthest inland and north we have seen now this oil reach.

Of course, the big question, how does this affect the people specifically here of Louisiana and close to New Orleans? The answer is simple. They've now shut down a third of Lake Pontchartrain to fishing. And so when you took to people who work here, for example, at this marina, one bait boy I spoke with, he's pretty much worried he's kissing his summer job good-bye.

JARRETT COCRAN, BAIT SALESMAN: We can't get live bait in. So that's pretty much where we make most of our money from, is live bait.

BALDWIN: Because they've shut down the commercial fishing?

COCRAN: Yes, from the highway, all the way back to Lake Borgne and Biloxi marsh, all the way back through Hopedale and out through the Gulf, pretty much. All that's shut down.

BALDWIN: This was Jarrett Cocran. Here now is Jeff Cocran, who told me he's been fishing in this beautiful lake for 35 years. And while it is slightly alarming to see this popping up where he's spent his boyhood fishing, he also recognizes that big oil does mean big business here on the Gulf.

JEFF COCRAN, RECREATIONAL FISHERMAN: Yes, they're around. Hopefully they'll eventually degrade. Over time, they don't seem to be that bad. There's really no oil sheen. There's no oil sheen.

The tarballs are -- whether part of the multiplication process out that BP -- that they're doing offshore. And they're getting up here because there's heavy tidal movement through the Regalese (ph) pass. And therefore, it doesn't surprise me that it's here.

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BALDWIN: Today, as you can tell, the weather's been kind of dicey. Some of the cleanup crews have been able to get out, have been able to lay a little bit more boom. And also, the barges are out there, essentially to work as walls in some of these passes to keep this oil at bay.

We will just have to watch and wait to see if any more of these tarballs encroaches upon New Orleans -- Rick.

SANCHEZ: There she is doing a great job for us following that situation down there. And we'll ask her to find out exactly what it is that a bait boy does when she gets back.

You've been tweeting about Lindsay Lohan, and we've been going back and forth on Lindsay Lohan and the queen. As we look at the queen there, and now we look at Lindsay Lohan, let me do something really quick.

Can you shoot that tweet over there?

This is interesting. You see Lindsay Lohan there? She's in court. Right? Those are live pictures of Lindsay Lohan in court.

This is a tweet from Lindsay Lohan five hours ago. Well, guess what? Five hours ago, she was in court. She's tweeting, she's Twittering, she's tweeting -- both words, I understand, are acceptable -- while she's in court.

"Oh my God! An LV bag for $1 at FashionBay! Maybe I can get lucky and win something cool here!"

What? Yes. We're fascinated as well.

We'll be right back in just a moment. (COMMERCIAL BREAK)

SANCHEZ: OK, here we go.

First of all, I'd like to welcome our audience members today.

Hi, guys. How are you?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hello. Hi.

SANCHEZ: The big wave. Thank you.

By the way, you're a little on the loud side back there. I'm going to ask you to behave yourselves while you're here. I'm just kidding. I'm not yelling at you.

Speaking of behavior, you ready for this?

Child stars grow up and get in trouble every day in Hollywood, but today's entry on "The List U Don't Want 2 Be On," well, her troubles are getting to be almost a daily occurrence.

Here's your list.

Lindsay Lohan. Need I say more?

LiLo, as they call her in the tabloids, she's 24 as of last week. Got punched in the face by a waitress on her birthday. In fact, amazing what you learn when you follow celebrities on Twitter.

Anyway, she went before a judge in Los Angeles today on a probation violation. That judge is in the process of deciding whether to send Lohan to jail for six months.

This whole mess started when Lohan was arrested back in 2007 for driving under the influence. She had to wear some extra jewelry during her probation in the form of an ankle monitor.

Well, just last month, on the night of the MTV Movie Awards, that monitor set off an alert. So, today, the judge wanted to see every document proving that Lindsay attended all her weekly alcohol counseling sessions.

And just to prove that yet again, everywhere Lindsay goes, a circus follows. TMZ reports that as Lohan was riding in the elevator up to the courtroom today, she got served with yet more legal troubles. This one in the form of a civil lawsuit that accuses her of skipping on out $17,000 in a clothing bill.

Seventeen thousand dollars. She's a movie star, right?

Lindsay and her PR team aren't talking about this yet today. All the courtroom hubbub today didn't keep Lindsay from tweeting though. There it is again.

By the way, I was told what "LV" meant. I didn't know. I swear. Did you guys know? Did you guys know?

What does "LV" mean?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Louis Vuitton.

SANCHEZ: Oh, one of you does know! "Oh, my God. A Louis Vuitton bag for $1."

Yes, despite all the courtroom drama, she found time to tweet about a purse. Priorities?

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SANCHEZ: Welcome back. I'm Rick Sanchez.

We want to bring you up to date on my colleague, Wolf Blitzer, because he's back and he's -- hey, Wolf, how are you?

WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: I'm excellent. How you doing?

SANCHEZ: You look good. Where were you?

BLITZER: I was in South Africa, then I went out to California. Now I'm back in Washington.

SANCHEZ: Wow. Big-time traveler there.

BLITZER: I was in Cape Town for the Fortune/Time/CNN Global Forum, as it's called, but I did have a chance to see the USA/Ghana game, which was very exciting even though we lost.

SANCHEZ: You think you can talk some of these suits into letting me go next year?

BLITZER: If you work really hard, play by the rules, maybe they'll let you do that.

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SANCHEZ: You know, people don't understand your dry wit. I mean, you're a funny guy, Wolf Blitzer. OK?

BLITZER: Yes.

SANCHEZ: You are a funny guy.

Listen, I think what you and I need to do now is talk about this immigration situation. I think it's going to be the biggest political story moving forward here for quite a long time.

I mean, here you have Arizona saying, hey, guys, federal government, you guys don't have your situation cleaned up as far as immigration goes. Who are you to tell us that we can't do this if you're not doing it?

But this thing is going to be going back and forth for quite a while, isn't it?

BLITZER: Yes. And the president would love to get some comprehensive immigration reform. He simply doesn't have the votes now. Certainly not before the election in November.

And after the election, if all the projections prove to be accurate, it's still a long time to go. The Republicans will gain seats in the Senate, gain seats in the House, if not take the majority in one or both of those chambers. It's going to even be presumably more difficult for the president to get the type of comprehensive immigration reform he really wants and he expressed his position last week on.

So it's -- this is a tough issue.

SANCHEZ: Yes, but there's a lot of politics involved in this. I mean, look, it's a legal argument. I've got the lawsuit right here in front of me and I've highlighted the heck out of this thing.

And they make some interesting points, saying, look, this is a supremacy argument, the federal government's business, not the state's business. And they go on to rattle off a bunch of other interesting things.

But as much this a legal document and a legal argument, it's also a political argument. Isn't it?

BLITZER: It's a major political decision that the Obama administration made to go forward with this legal challenge to the Arizona law. That of course is a political decision.

They've got their arguments in this 25-page Justice Department document that was released today, and they're going to go through the courts now and fight this Arizona law. But you're right, this is a major political decision, to go forward and challenge the Arizona law. It's not an easy decision for them to make, but they're doing it.

SANCHEZ: It's almost as if you have different types of electorate, different potential voters out there, and both sides are making sure that they please their constituency in this case.

Hey, Wolf, glad to have you back. Fantastic.

BLITZER: It was an exciting trip. Always, as my dad used to say, good to go, good to come home.

SANCHEZ: Thanks, man. We'll talk to you again.

By the way, back to the royals list and the queen's tour of New York City, we're going to take you through some of this video. And one of her subjects will join us in just a little bit. His name? Oh, my God! Look who's there. It's Richard Quest.

Come on. Give me a better bow than that. Bow for me as you would for the queen.

Ready? Go ahead. Show me your best bow. Very nice, sir.

We'll be right back with Richard Quest.

RICHARD QUEST, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's it! That's it!

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SANCHEZ: You watched history playing out here just a little while ago. Last hour, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II made a speech at the United Nations. The last time she did that was, well, more than five decades ago. She talked about leadership, and that's something she sure knows a little bit about.

Our resident Brit Richard Quest is joining us now in New York City.

And I understand it's been hot there today. Is it?

QUEST: It is extremely hot! Over 102. Record temperatures. But you know that, you nasty little man.

The truth is, this was an extremely good day for the queen. She came to the United Nations 53 years after she first addressed the world body.

It was a rallying cry, Rick, to the nations to come together to solve things like global warming, terrorism, and, of course, the pursuit of peace. And what she said was quite clear -- that she wasn't here for herself (ph), congratulatory reminiscence. This was about the future and what happens in the next 50-odd years at the U.N. -- Rick.

SANCHEZ: She's not a political animal, is she? I mean, when she speaks, she's very matter of fact and very careful to not try and be seen as playing a role that doesn't fit her.

Is that a good way of explaining it?

QUEST: It is spot-on. The palace knew she had to say something. It wasn't enough just to turn around and go, it's all very nice, aren't we all happy, let's all get along. That would not do, so she had to say something.

The 16 countries for which she is head of state were all consulted, as indeed were the commonwealth. And what they came up with was this idea that something has to be done and they better get on and start doing it now.

Now, for the queen, in the twilight of her career as monarch, this was considered to be one of the most important speeches that she has certainly given in last 10 or 15 years. One thing to point out to you, Rick, right here -- are you all right there, dear? This is Barbara.

Barbara, are you all right?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What are you doing taking my picture?

QUEST: I found Barbara. She's a bit -- but the important thing is, Barbara, you were here when?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: 1957 on 42nd Street.

QUEST: On 42nd street in 1957, when the queen was last here.

So, frankly, I think Barbara's entitled to a bit of free water from CNN.

SANCHEZ: Is that what's in that bottle, just water? Are you sure?

QUEST: Well, she's sitting down comfortably. So, if it was anything else --

Behind me, Rick, as you can see, the lines just waiting for the queen to leave. We thought she had already left.

There was a reception. There was -- but she will be leaving very shortly to go down to Ground Zero. And, of course, this is the interesting thing about this trip, Rick. This is the interesting thing about this trip. It's gone from the very, if you like, deeply important, as the United Nations, right the way to the somber down at Ground Zero.

SANCHEZ: It's fantastic.

You guys over there, is he good? Give him a round of applause.

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SANCHEZ: That's Richard Quest, ladies and gentlemen. Richard Quest, no less, in the heat that he's standing up to for us.

Here now, we take you to "THE SITUATION ROOM" and Wolf Blitzer.