Release of Sarah Palin's Emails
SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN ANCHOR: Live from Studio 7, I'm Suzanne Malveaux. Want to get you up to speed for Tuesday, June 7th. Reporters are going to be scouring through more than 24,000 pages of Sarah Palin's emails today. The six boxes of documents are from her term as Alaska governor from 2006 until September, 2008, when she was chosen as Republican vice presidential candidate. Now, Palin says she's not worried about what's in the emails, but she does think that they're going to be taken out of context.</s>SARAH PALIN (R), FMR. VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: A lot of those emails obviously weren't meant for public consumption. They are between staff members. They're probably between family members. So, you know, I'm sure people are going to capitalize on this opportunity to go through 25,000 emails and perhaps take things out of context. They'll never truly know what the context of each one of the emails was.</s>MALVEAUX: And Newt Gingrich is looking for a new campaign staff. The GOP presidential candidate pledges to make a fresh start after much of his staff jumped ship. At least seven senior staff members resigned over disagreements about the campaign. Gingrich recently took two weeks off for a planned vacation with his wife. Jury deliberations are under way today in the retrial of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich. He is accused of trying to sell President Obama's former Senate seat. Now, Blagojevich denies that he intended to bribe anybody, and he says he is relieved that the latest trial is almost over.</s>ROD BLAGOJEVICH (D), FMR. ILLINOIS GOVERNOR: We feel relieved, Patty and I, that we've had our chance. We literally did have our days in court where I had a chance to be able to get up there and answer honestly every single question that I was asked, and to answer as fully as I was allowed to answer.</s>MALVEAUX: Casey Anthony is back in court a day after jurors had to be sent home early.</s>JUDGE BELVIN PERRY, ORANGE COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT: Ms. Anthony is ill. We are recessing for the day.</s>MALVEAUX: Anthony appeared to cry and looked away when pictures of her daughter's decomposed body were presented yesterday. Now, this morning, a medical examiner identified items found with 2-year-old Caylee's skeletal remains. If she's convicted of killing her daughter, Anthony could face the death penalty. Well, contradictions on whether NATO is trying to assassinate Moammar Gadhafi. A senior NATO military official tells CNN that a U.N. resolution justifies targeting the Libyan leader, but a NATO spokeswoman insists that the alliance does not target individuals. We're going to get some clarity from former NATO commander General Wesley Clark.</s>FMR. NATO COMMANDER: You know, I think you've got to be careful not to split hairs on this thing. I don't think the United States or NATO is saying this is an all-out hit mission on the person of this individual. It's an effort to go after the command and control.</s>MALVEAUX: Protesters scatter as gunfire rings out. A Syria man says he shot this video on his cell phone last Friday when government troops opened fire. It happened near a northern town Syria's military plans to retake today. Well, residents are fleeing now to Turkey, afraid that they're going to be slaughtered by the troops. The government says the protesters were armed gangs. German health officials now confirm a deadly E. coli outbreak was caused by bean sprouts. They discovered 17 people became ill after eating sprouts at the same restaurant. At least 31 people have died, almost 3,000 have been affected. Well, some mixed messages on climate change. But now we could get some answers. Just a short time ago, NASA launched a new satellite from Vandenberg Air Base in California. The three-year mission will focus on movements of salt in the world's oceans, and the amount of salt plays a role in climate patterns around the world. I want to take a closer look at the release of today's emails, the release of Sarah Palin's emails. The Alaska governor's office is making the documents public after CNN and other news organizations requested them to be made public under the Freedom of Information Act. Well, joining us from Fairbanks, Alaska, is Dermot Cole. He's a columnist with "The Fairbanks Daily News Miner." And what do we expect? What are you expecting to see in these 24,000 pages of emails? What do you think they'll actually reveal?</s>DERMOT COLE, COLUMNIST, "FAIRBANKS DAILY NEWS MINER": Well, it will provide maybe one of the best looks yet we've had at the internal workings of the Palin administration from when she was elected governor, until she assumed a national role as the GOP nominee, because the emails are from 2006 until September, 2008. Some of this is bound to be embarrassing to the former governor, and perhaps to current and former state employees who may have said things in emails that they now regret, or -- you know, because they like to fashion -- people like to fashion their comments for public consumption, and they say things more candidly in emails. At least they did at that time. Perhaps they've changed their practice.</s>MALVEAUX: Sure. When you talk about potentially embarrassing things, what kinds of things are you thinking about?</s>COLE: Well, largely with the way that the former governor dealt with people and with issues in the state. I don't think, frankly, that on a national level, that this is going to make much of a difference at all to people who are already Palin opponents or Palin supporters. I think that people in both of those groups will find plenty of ammunition in these documents to confirm the notions that they've already formed about her. This will be a more candid view, I think, of the Palin administration, although it's not going to be complete, because a couple thousand emails at least are being withheld for various reasons. People are as curious about this</s>MALVEAUX: Dermot, we're having a little bit of a tough time hearing you, but do you think this will reveal something about her relationships, the kinds of relationships that she had with her employees when she was the governor of that state?</s>COLE: I think that's probably the main thing that will be revealed in these documents. Governor Palin was a fan of email and used it a lot in her daily communication. And I suspect that this will provide a good look at how she operated when she was the state's chief executive.</s>MALVEAUX: All right. Dermot Cole, thank you so much. We know you'll be poring through those emails. Please get back to us and let us know if you find anything that's of interest to you. We appreciate your time. We also want to hear from you as well. What new details do you expect to surface in the Palin emails? Send your responses to be on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SuzanneCNN. We're going to read some of them on air later this hour. Here's a rundown of some of the stories that we're covering in the next two hours. The U.N. ramps up pressure on Moammar Gadhafi, but is it specifically targeting the Libyan leader? Also, firefighters in Arizona make a little progress on getting that massive wildfire under control. Plus, how a young boy's amazing gift helps protect dogs in the line of duty. And now you can add Citigroup to the list of companies getting hacked. We're going to explain about online bank safety.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It doesn't mean anything about -- it's like driving to the bank. When you're driving to the bank, you're secure. Once you get inside the bank and engage in a transaction, it doesn't mean anything about the security of that transaction.