Sarkozy's Home And Offices Raided
HARLOW: Welcome back to STARTING POINT everyone. I find this first story just fascinating. The first over-the-counter in-home HIV test has been approved by the FDA. Users of OraQuick swab their gums with a test pad and place it in a vial of solution. It's expected to be in stores in October and it will cost about 20 bucks. Some sad news to tell you about this morning. The family of beloved actor Andy Griffith has laid him to rest. Less than five hours after the man known as the sheriff of Mayberry passed away, Griffith was buried on the North Carolina island that he calls home. He was 86 years old. Brooke, we'll always remember him in that show, right?</s>BALDWIN: I know. (Inaudible) the tune, the whistling, the whole deal. Andy Griffith. Thanks, Poppy, so much. Time for our "Get Real." So it's Fourth of July, a day I know a lot of people take a moment, you know, you thank the men and women, members of the military, of course, for their service and their sacrifice, and oftentimes, like this soldier you see here, people go to cemeteries. They place flags on gravesites of fallen troops. But here's the but, there's a cemetery in Texas and they say, nope, you can't put flags on the gravesites. There's this whole controversial ordinance. It was actually recently approved by the city council of Mineral Wells that says flags are only allowed at graves at the cemetery -- this Woodland Park cemetery -- only one week before and one week after Memorial Day and Veterans Day. So that takes the Fourth of July and Labor Day out of it. And so just bringing you guys in. Apparently what they are saying is, you know, it's not just flags, but, you know, people go to the cemeteries. They put teddy bears, little sort of trinkets that maybe are, you know, important -- significant for that particular person, but they are saying it becomes -- to use their word -- "unsightly."</s>LIZZA: I feel bad for the city council that put this down because they were trying to do something that would help the people who are cleaning up the cemetery. The graves were getting unsightly. One thing you don't do in this country though is tell people they can't put flags on gravestones, no matter how good the spirit is behind that idea. These poor city council members are getting hammered.</s>BALDWIN: I have a feeling it will be overturned.</s>RICHARD SOCARIDES, WRITER, NEWYORKER.COM: -- other who are sympathetic as you are because this is crazy, right? I mean, if anything you ought to be able to put a flag there. This preoccupation with order that we have sometimes --</s>BALDWIN: Kind of ridiculous you think.</s>SOCARIDES: I think it's ridiculous.</s>MARGARET HOOVER, CNN POLITICAL CONTRIBUTOR: Especially on the Fourth of July. This has been going on for some time, of course they'll be able to at the end of the day have flags at grave site especially it's a military cemetery.</s>SOCARIDES: Nobody is an anti-flag person here.</s>HOOVER: Nobody is anti-flag person here. We all think the flag should be able to be at the cemetery.</s>BALDWIN: They have a meeting July 10th to reconsider this whole thing.</s>LIZZA: What are the chances it gets reconsidered?</s>BALDWIN: I think pretty high. I'm going to go with that. Guys, thank you. Still ahead on STARTING POINT here, former French president Nicolas Sarkozy in a bit of legal trouble this morning. Why police raided his home and raided his offices. And not on my roof, surface to air missiles, imagine this, surface to air missiles sitting on top of the apartment building in London to protect the summer Olympic games. A lot of controversy over this one. We're going to hear with some of the folks with the surface to air missiles on their roofs. Also a warning from the IMF about the economic recovery or perhaps lack thereof in the United States. Chief business correspondent, Ali Velshi, back with what this means for the rest of this in your money. From Ali's playlist, a little Bruno Mars, "The Lazy Song." Not so lazy on this holiday morning. You're watching STARTING POINT.