Booker Wins Primary For NJ Senate Seat; Marco Rubio: Obama Could Legalize 11 Million by Executive Order; President Pushes Plan for Internet in Schools; Feels Like Fall
CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: Neon Trees? Of course you knew that. Welcome back to NEW DAY -- smarter than I am, of course you are. It's August 14th, Wednesday, Hump Day. I'm Chris Cuomo.</s>KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Kate Bolduan. We're here with news anchor Michaela Pereira.</s>MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning, everyone.</s>BOLDUAN: Hump Day he says. Coming up in the show, your phone battery is dying and that public charging station looks pretty good like an oasis. Be careful where you plug in. Apparently, you may be exposing your smartphone to hackers.</s>CUOMO: Also, have you heard about this? The Justice Department moving to block a merger between American and U.S. Airways. Why? Well, it would create the world's largest airline. What would that mean? Big issue air fare and prices, will it send them higher or lower? We'll give you the details. First, a lot of news this morning. So, let's get right to Michaela.</s>PEREIRA: Yes, let's get to the headlines right now. We're watching Egypt, breaking news from there overnight. Egypt's military moved in to break up two massive makeshift camps in Cairo, occupied by supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsy. There are competing claims about fatalities. The Muslim Brotherhood claiming 200 protesters have been killed and more than 8,000 injured, Egyptian officials, however, dispute those claims saying that nine pro-Morsy supporters were killed and 78 others were hurt. More breaking news -- a tense hostage drama at a bank in St. Joseph, Louisiana, is over. The suspect identified as 20-year-old Fuaed Ahmed shot and killed by police after a 12-hour standoff. Two bank employees he was holding hostage removed from the scene in critical condition with gunshot wounds. Rescue efforts under way this morning in Mumbai, India, where an explosion and fire aboard an Indian navy submarine killed an unknown number of sailors. The defense ministry says About 18 people were aboard the vessel when the blast occurred. The cause is unknown at this point, but the explosion was powerful enough to sink most of that submarine. Juror number 12 from the Whitey Bulger trial speaking exclusively to CNN after the boston crime boss was convicted on 31 of 32 counts including links to 11 murders. Janet Uhlar says the jury really struggled with the credibility of witnesses.</s>JANET UHLAR, BULGER JUROR #12: You had people that were criminals giving system that took plea agreements, so you weren't sure what you could believe or what you couldn't believe. And some of the --</s>PEREIRA: The juror says she was sickened to hear from witnesses who were walking free despite having committed murders. Former Hollywood madam, Heidi Fleiss, in trouble with the law once again. Police found nearly 400 marijuana plants growing in her residence in Nevada. Fleiss is facing charges but she was not arrested. Police chose not to arrest Fleiss because she is carrying more than $200,000 worth of exotic birds and that she also allowed officers to search her home without a warrant. All right. Are you ready for some cute? Here we go, there's only one thing cuter than the world smallest monkey, the world's smallest baby monkey. The Houston zoo says this teeny-weeny baby pygmy marmoset was born July 27th. Not sure if it's a boy or a girl. The tiny monkey ticked the scale at 36 grams, just barely over an ounce, really clinging to mom's neck there. They almost blend, look at that. You can see the eyeballs. Don't leave me, mom.</s>BOLDUAN: When you're that little, you're like I got to</s>CUOMO: Exactly.</s>CUOMO: I'm glad that we've see involved that particular practice. I would not want to carry my kids.</s>BOLDUAN: No?</s>PEREIRA: When it's that size it fits in the palm of your kids. You're OK.</s>CUOMO: That's true, but my kids were never that small. Cuomos come out, you know, asking for their pants.</s>BOLDUAN: Ready for pants.</s>PEREIRA: Seven, eight, pounds?</s>CUOMO: Thirteen, 14 pounds, I forget. My son came out with two days' growth.</s>BOLDUAN: Christina, call and stop your husband.</s>PEREIRA: He came out with pants.</s>CUOMO: My daughter was two and a half feet tall.</s>PEREIRA: With roller blades on.</s>CUOMO: With roller blades.</s>PEREIRA: We're going to John King again, aren't we?</s>BOLDUAN: When we get awkward the best thing to do is go to John.</s>CUOMO: Bring it to John, he'll take care of it.</s>BOLDUAN: I love this face he makes. He's like, I hate you, Kate, I love you but I hate you.</s>CUOMO: He got that let it in face.</s>BOLDUAN: This is what he's thinking, bring it on, girl, I've known you long enough.</s>JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Remember the guy the other day stuffing the puppies up his t-shirt, keep that guy away from the cute little monkey.</s>CUOMO: It's down his pants, John. Down his pants. It's not funny if it's up his shirt. It's down his pants that made it --</s>PEREIRA: I know we have a soft spot for those stories.</s>BOLDUAN: I know exactly what we're going to talk. When we get John in studio, this is getting real. All right, but we will talk about other big news like politics. Time for our political gut check. First up he's got big named supporters, Oprah Winfrey, Google's Eric Schmidt, they're back him. But now, Newark's Mayor Cory Booker has his state party support winning the primary for a special New Jersey Senate election. But will enthusiasm be enough should he make it all the way to Washington? A long road to Washington, John. This happens a lot and Chris always jokes because this is what political coverage does. Are we setting expectations too high for Cory Booker? I mean, can he really make that big of a splash in a Senate and a Congress that has more gridlock than ever?</s>KING: It is a great question and in some ways, Cory Booker sets expectations high for himself because he's ambitious, because he's somebody who's very active in speaking to the media and active in social media. Let's not get too far ahead of ourselves. He did win the Democratic primary but he's the heavy overwhelming favorite. He still has to win a general election. But he's the heavy favorite. He's the overwhelming favorite now in a blue state. He's got all that fund- raising advantage that you talked about. And he's a fascinating guy. We've called him a rising star in the Democratic Party. Let's just drop that. Whether you agree or disagree with him, he's a star in the Democratic Party. He has a chance to be elected now the African- American senator he would be. He would replace Barack Obama, the last African-American elected to the Senate. We had appointed African-American. So, what would he be? He would be a new member of the Senate who has a bit of a national stage already because of his high profile as Newark mayor, he would be among the most prominent African-American politicians and the question how would he make his mark in the Senate? I would tell you this and lay this marker down. Talk to former governors in the Senate, Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee, the guys who have been chief executives like Mayor Booker was, they get really frustrated because of the gridlock you've talked about.</s>BOLDUAN: Well, and then let me ask you this, because "TIME" magazine approached it this way. If he is a chief executive of a middle sized city of Newark and he's so popular and he's so well-known, "TIME" magazine put it this way, "Why on earth does Booker want to be a U.S. senator?" Wouldn't the raw politics of it, wouldn't governor be a better route for him?</s>KING: Well, the Senate could say why would anybody come to Washington? Young people ask me all the time, do they want to come for jobs on journalism, do they want to come for jobs on Capitol Hill? Why would a grown man with a successful political career, he didn't challenge Chris Christie this time and what Republicans will tell you, he didn't have the guts to challenge Chris Christie for re-election in New Jersey so he chose the Senate seat when Senator Lautenberg passed, to go for the Senate seat instead. But it is a great question why would anyone come to Washington. My view is, the more people you get here, Democrats, Republicans, independents, no matter where they are on the spectrum, if they want to talk issues, if they want to debate policy, please come to Washington, please don't be cynical, please come and try to break that gridlock.</s>BOLDUAN: Try to change it.</s>KING: He gets criticized. The mayor gets criticized by liberal Democrats sometimes because he has friends on Wall Street. He's Newark, New Jersey, close to Wall Street, you might understand this, but he's brought in the business community to help with education policies. So, I'm not agreeing with his policy but he sometimes looks outside the traditional boxes for help and, again, without taking any sides --</s>BOLDUAN: Right.</s>KING: -- that's a good thing for Washington. Washington could use --</s>BOLDUAN: Anyone who says they want to find middle ground, you can debate -- you can argue it, but I would argue that is a good thing to try to stop the gridlock. One issue he could be facing if he does make it to the Senate, I want to ask you that real quick, is the immigration debate. Marco Rubio just this week is really sharpening his message, saying obviously it's pointed to Republicans that if you don't get on board, the president could completely take it out of our hands and push through immigration reform through executive orders, he's basically saying you might not like it but it could get a whole lot worse. Is this a threat -- do you think this threat is real, a real fear of Republicans?</s>KING: The president with the stroke of a pen can't bring those 11 million estimated illegal immigrants out of the shadows and grant them status. The president can't do that. He needs Congress to do that. Can he tell the government, enforce this part of the immigration law, don't enforce that, set this priority, don't make this a priority? Yes, the president can make this policy to some degree. But what Senator Rubio doing here is actually quite fascinating. He's gotten out of his skits (ph) a bit, if you will, calling for a path to citizenship. He's a Republican from Florida who's thinking about running for the presidential nomination in 2016 and the conservative base has been angry of him, Kate and Chris, saying, wait a minute, we don't want to pass the citizenship. So, what is he doing? Number one, he's trying to say, if we don't do something, the president will. Republicans need to be part of this for policy and political reasons and number two, he's trying to at the same time repair relationships with the right. He's talking about perhaps shutting down the government to defund Obamacare, he's talking about taking a leave on anti-abortion regulations. So, here's the guy who's in a bit of a box, because the right doesn't like this position on immigration so he's trying to talk big policy and fix his own politics.</s>BOLDUAN: That's true. Well, we'll see what they hear during recess and what happens when they make it back to Washington. Thanks, John. We'll talk to you soon.</s>CUOMO: Good stuff. Let's take a break here on NEW DAY. When we come back, a warning using public charging stations for your phone -- hackers, what we're talking about. They could be laying in wait. We'll explain the potential dangers.</s>BOLDUAN: And in our next hour, three teenagers caught on tape beating up a younger student on a school bus. We brought this story to you earlier. Well, they now face a judge and new questions about who is responsible, the law, the schools, or the parents?