CNN Exclusive: Clinton Talks to Voters & Trust; San Francisco Pier Slaying: Suspect's Gun Belonged to Federal Agent; Subway Spokesman's House Raided by FBI
CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR: Stunning new information in a San Francisco murder, igniting an immigration debate. An undocumented repeat felon accused of murdering a young woman where investigators say his gun came from. That's ahead. Subway drops spokesman Jared Fogle. His house raided inside a child pornography investigation. A CNN exclusive: Hillary Clinton giving her his national interview since entering the race for president. Why she says voters should trust her. That's ahead. Good morning. Welcome to EARLY START. I am Christine Romans. It is Wednesday, July 8th. It is 4:00 a.m. in the East. John Berman has the morning off. Nice to see you all this morning. New this morning: Hillary Clinton sitting down with CNN for her first national interview for the 2016 campaign. The former secretary of state rejecting suggestions that voters have trouble trusting her. Instead, Clinton blamed onslaught of unfounded right wing attacks for raising questions in people's minds. She emphasized that she trusts the American people to, quote, "sort it all out." Senior political correspondent Brianna Keilar is with Mrs. Clinton in Iowa and has the latest.</s>BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Hillary Clinton has been dogged recently by a couple of controversies. One, her e- mail practices while she was secretary of state. She used a personal address only. She picked the e-mails that she turned over to the State Department. And then she wiped her personal server of those e- mails. Also, the Clinton Foundation, corporate and foreign donations to her family's charity. I asked her about this fallout and if she is at all to blame for it. I'm wondering if you can address the vulnerability that we have seen you dealing with recently. We see in our recent poll that nearly 6 in 10 Americans say they don't believe that you're honest and trustworthy. Do you understand why they feel that way?</s>HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Well, I think when you are subjected to the kind of constant barrage of attacks that are largely fomented by and coming from the right and --</s>KEILAR: But do you bear any responsibility for it?</s>CLINTON: Well, you know, I can only tell you that I was elected twice in New York against the same kind of onslaught. I was confirmed and served as secretary of state. And I think it's understandable that when questions are raised, people maybe are thinking about them and wondering about them. But I have every confidence that during the course of this campaign, people are going to know who will fight for them, who will be there when they need them, and that's the kind of person I am, and that's what I will do, not only in a campaign, but as president.</s>KEILAR: And that seems to be her campaign messaging on this, that voters can trust her to fight for them. It's a turn of phrase that is very important to note as her campaign tries to deal with this narrative that she isn't honest and trustworthy.</s>ROMANS: All right. Thanks for that, Brianna. The Jeb Bush campaign responding this morning to Clinton's comments about his stance on immigration. A spokesperson says the former governor believes immigrants should be able to earn legal status after paying fines, taxes and learning English. Hillary Clinton also speaking out on immigration on our CNN interview, criticizing San Francisco's lenient treatment of undocumented immigrants as sanctuary city. She blames San Francisco's sanctuary city law and local officials for failing to hand an undocumented felon over to federal authorities before the man shot a woman to death at a public pier.</s>CLINTON: The city made a mistake. The city made a mistake not to deport someone that the federal government strongly felt should be deported. So I have absolutely no support for a city that ignores the strong evidence that should be acted on.</s>ROMANS: Breaking overnight: new information in a San Francisco shooting. A source with knowledge of the investigation telling CNN the gun used by the suspect belonged to a federal agent. This news coming as the suspect who has admitted in TV interviews to shooting Kate Steinle pleads not guilty to murder. For the latest, let's go to CNN's Sara Sidner in San Francisco.</s>SARA SIDNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Christine, another strange twist in this case. A source with knowledge of the investigation told us that, indeed, the gun that was used in this trace actually traced back to a federal agent. Now, we don't know which one and we don't know how that all came about, but we understand that the gun was recovered in this case. This is happening on the same day that the suspect Juan Francisco Lopez Sanchez was in court. He was asked whether or not he was guilty or not guilty of the crime of murder in the Kate Steinle case and he said, in Spanish, not guilty. He was also asked several other questions, but really the only answer he kept giving the court was not guilty. He seemed not to understand some of what was going on in court. His attorneys say he only has a second grade education and that he had no prior violent felonies in his past, that this was a complete accident, a random act. He has also talked to a couple of local stations here in jailhouse interviews and gave conflicting information when asked about this particular case. His next court date is July 20th. He is being held in jail on a $5 million bond -- Christine.</s>ROMANS: There is some question this morning about whether he understood the questions asked of him when he was in those TV interviews, admitting to her killing. This morning, officials investigating a deadly mid-air collision between an Air Force fighter jet and small private plane over North Carolina. Two people aboard the civilian aircraft are killed. The military pilot, though, safely ejected. Listen to the woman who witnessed the crash as it happened.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I just seen one plane coming this way, one going this way and then, it exploded in mid-air and fireball. And then the plane landed in my yard! I can't do this!</s>ROMANS: Just remarkable. So, rare to have a small plane and F-16 collide. Official say the F-16 was on an instrument training mission into Joint Base Charleston. New this morning, the Subway sandwich chain cutting ties to pitchman Jared Fogle after an FBI raid on his Indiana home. Investigators seized computers and other electronics as part of an investigation that subway says may be linked to child pornography charges against another man, a man who used to work for Fogle as head of the Jared Foundation. That is an organization that fights childhood obesity. Following events for us, CNN's Ryan Young with the latest.</s>RYAN YOUNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Christine, and this is an involving investigation. In fact, we have been watching it for the last day or so. I can tell you investigators showed up around 6:30 in the morning and they went through the home. In fact, we see video of them coming out with hard drives and computers. We also have been told they brought special investigative dogs that can sniff out hidden electronics and brought them around the perimeter of the home. We do know when they arrived the family was inside sleeping. His wife and two kids were allowed to leave. Jared stayed for most of the afternoon. But police, so far, not telling us what's going on with this investigation. We do believe it's connected to a former Jared Foundation employee who has been charged with several counts of child pornography. Now Subway, late in the afternoon, released this statement that said Subway and Jared Fogle have mutually agreed to suspend their relationship due to the current investigation. Jared continues to cooperate with authorities and he expects no actions to be forthcoming. Both Jared and Subway believe this was the appropriate step to take. People in the neighborhood tell us they were shocked.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The only thing I ever see around his home are happy people doing their yard, waving, so I'm shocked and I'm sad, of course and saddened, a great figure in our community. Just have nothing bad to say about him.</s>YOUNG: And, Christine, something we noticed throughout the afternoon, it seemed like Subway started going through the Web site and dropping Jared's name from several sections of the Web site. Authorities are waiting for investigators to give comments on what they found during this investigation.</s>ROMANS: All right. Ryan, thank you for that this morning. The U.S. and world powers once again extending their deadlines on talks on Iran. So far, there have been no breakthroughs in the negotiations and both sides trying to hammer out a final nuclear deal by the end of the week. Senior international correspondent Nic Robertson is in Vienna with the very latest. Bring us up to speed, Nic.</s>NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: It seems like a slow morning today. You know, everything was building to a head yesterday. The deadline got extended for three days yesterday. As we have seen the sort of cycle of the talks, the day after the sort of supposed deadline day when things slip, tends to be a slower day. What we heard from officials leaving the meetings yesterday, we heard from the French foreign minister saying that, for him, there had been moments of tension in the talks, that the possible military dimensions has Iran used nuclear weapons or used their nuclear knowledge to build weapons has that been addressed fully yet for him? It seems not. The other issue for him -- the research and development of Iran's nuclear technology and how long that will be held and that seems to be an issue. We heard from the E.U. foreign policy chief describing how they touched on the most difficult and sensitive issues and that it was painful to touch on them. But she said that was necessary. And listening to a senior administration official last night, describing the nature of the talks and why they weren't able to get an agreement yesterday as everyone had hoped for, the nature of negotiations, this senior administration official described, is that you get as much as you can agreed before you push to those final lost issues in the hope that the other side feel that a lot has been agreed, they don't want to lose that, and they will make those final concessions and that is where it seems to be right now. At the moment, we are hearing that the sense is that while a lot of progress has been made, no one is still sure if a deal can actually be done -- Christine.</s>ROMANS: All right. Nic Robertson, thank you for that in Vienna for us this morning. I know you'll keep us up-to-speed if there are any developments. Defense Secretary Ash Carter stunning senators during his testimony on the U.S. strategy to defeat ISIS. He told the armed services committee saying the U.S. has trained 60 fighters and far from the cry of training 5,000 fighters each year, just 60. Carter says it's hard to find fighters who are willing to focus only on ISIS and not the Assad regime. Former CIA Director David Petraeus calling for U.S. troops to remain in Afghanistan past 2016. Petraeus says meeting the Obama administration's goal of withdrawing troops by the end of the next year, would be a mistake. He fears a complete withdrawal would reverse serious gains made against the Taliban since 9/11. Petraeus says the U.S. military went in to ensure Afghanistan never serves as a sanctuary for terrorists and he says the importance of that mission continues. The U.S. Army set to cut 40,000 troops the next two years, according to a leaked document obtained by "USA Today." The layoffs likely to affect the army's foreign posts. An additional 17,000 civilian Army employees will also be laid off. The document says the reduction is due to budget constraints. Breaking overnight. New fallout for Bill Cosby after admitting he got drugs to give women for sex. That's next.