`Operation Last House Call`; Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver Split
DR. DREW PINSKY, HOST: Here we go. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver go their separate ways. Is this marriage terminated? Then, Bath Salts. And don`t let that harmless name fool you. They`re drugs and they can kill. Plus, undercover police stings. Are they the solution to sex and drug crimes? Let`s see and let`s get started. My guests are here with me at the table, and they`re locked and loaded. And I`m going to talk to them in just a second. But first -- there they are -- a bunch of alleged pedophiles have just been rounded up and removed from the streets in Florida thanks to an operation called Last House Call. I love this. I want to -- I`m going to never forget the name of this operation. To our knowledge, none of these folks have commented on their individual cases, nor has the law enforcement. They are of course presumed innocent until proven guilty. Twenty-two men, half of them with criminal records in the past, they were arrested in this week-long sting which Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd oversaw. And he joins me now. Sheriff, this was initiated online, is that correct? And how did this work?</s>SHERIFF GRADY JUDD, POLK COUNTY, FLORIDA: Absolutely. Our detectives, which are simply the best in the business, go online through Backpage, Craigslist, and they begin communications with predators who are looking for very young children -- in fact, this operation was between the ages of 9 and 14 -- to have sex with.</s>PINSKY: Wow.</s>JUDD: And that`s where we intercept these predators, before they get to our children.</s>PINSKY: Sheriff, I guess you have advice for local law enforcement, or even for people communicating with law enforcement. Is there an organization they can get involved with to do these kind of things, or at least to rid their community of these kind of guys?</s>JUDD: Yes. Internet Crimes Against Children, ICAC, is a nationwide federal program. We encourage every sheriff and every police chief across the nation, if they`re not actively involved with proactively going after these child predators, they need to. And ICAC will help. The reason we have to do that is if we react to these events, then the child`s already been victimized. But we`re going out, preying on the predators before they can get to our children.</s>PINSKY: Well, Sheriff, the one thing that really stands out for me in this story is that, you know, I expect these things in big urban areas, or densely-populated areas, but you`re a relatively suburb, in at least area, and here the density of this is really stunning. We think our kids are safe. I want to point out to my viewers, you think your kids are safe online. This is a prime example of how dense this problem is. Wouldn`t you say?</s>JUDD: Well, absolutely. But quite frankly, only one of the people came from our county. We have gone after these folks and gone after them. These folks came from throughout Florida and four different states to this undercover location.</s>PINSKY: Wow.</s>JUDD: They know no bounds. They`ll go anyplace they can to attack a child. So they`re not from our community, it`s just that I proactively go after them to keep them away from children in our community that may communicate with them without knowing just how dangerous these predators are.</s>PINSKY: Thank you very much, Sheriff. All right. Now on to the big news of the last 24 hours. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife of 25 years, Maria Shriver, are separating. Take a look at this.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver have separated.</s>MEREDITH VIEIRA, "THE TODAY SHOW": Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver announced overnight that they are separating.</s>GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, "GOOD MORNING AMERICA": That surprise split making headlines this morning.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: For decades, this was, indeed, a very popular, powerful, and public couple.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This couple had spent long stretches of time apart.</s>VIEIRA: A couple months ago, she wrote on her Facebook page she was going through a transition.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Together, Saturday, without her wedding ring, just days before the official announcement.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She`s already moved out.</s>BARBARA WALTERS, "THE VIEW": She would still like to perhaps have a career.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Maybe the ultimate example of a political marriage.</s>JOY BEHAR, "THE VIEW": A Kennedy and a Republican is like a mixed marriage.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It brings to an end one of the most unusual partnerships in American media and politics.</s>PINSKY: That`s funny, Joy with a mixed marriage. OK. Well, he says he`s going back into acting, she says she`s at a transitional point in her life. Check out this video that Maria posted on YouTube just a few weeks ago.</s>MARIA SHRIVER, FMR. FIRST LADY OF CALIFORNIA: I would like to hear from other people who are in transition. How did you find your transition? Personal, professional, emotional, spiritual, financial? How did you get through it? What were the three things that enabled you to get through your transition? What did you -- after you transitioned, what do you wish you would have known? I wrote a book a long time ago, "Ten Things I Wish I Would Have Known Before I Went Out Into the Real World." Tell me some things you wish you would have known before you transitioned. I think it would help me.</s>PINSKY: Well, in retrospect, the transition sure sounds like she was talking about splitting up with Arnold. Joining me to discuss this are Ann Lopez. She was married to comedian George Lopez for 17 years, and they are in the process of a divorce. And Kevin Frazier, he is the host of "The Insider." Kevin, give us what we know so far.</s>KEVIN FRAZIER, HOST, "THE INSIDER": Well, what we know is that she`s moved out of the house. And the interesting part about this is that we aren`t getting a lot of details, but we are seeing a lot of clues, like that video we just saw from March 28th. Maria didn`t have on her wedding ring. At the time we thought, no big deal, she doesn`t have on her wedding ring, she`s just going through a tough time. We didn`t look at the clues. And now what`s emerging is there are reports that she`s wanted to get divorced, or at least leave this relationship, for two years now. I will tell you this -- as a Lakers` season ticket holder, I saw Maria here all the time with the kids. And it was interesting, because you thought, why isn`t she in Sacramento more with Arnold? Why aren`t they together more? But they`ve been living separate lives it looks like for quite some time.</s>PINSKY: Well, what I`m not hearing much speculation about is why the separation. There`s rumors about him misbehaving from the past, there`s rumors about her not being -- like you`re saying, living with him while he was pursuing his political career. What do we think?</s>FRAZIER: Well, the first thing is that, you know, sure, he wants to go back into the movies and he wants to pursue that. And also, as we`ve heard, she doesn`t know what she`s going to do. But, Drew, I think the most important thing to take out of all of this is that in the past, there`s been infidelity.</s>PINSKY: Yes.</s>FRAZIER: And we don`t know if they`ve ever fixed that. And then, remember, in a very short time period she lost her mother, her beloved uncle, and then she loses her father. That was in a short time span. So all that happens. It makes you evaluate life.</s>PINSKY: Yes.</s>FRAZIER: And I think that could be what`s going on too.</s>PINSKY: And calling it a transition is really a euphemism. Now, Ann, one of the reasons I was excited to have you here is that -- well, no, but you broke up after 17 years. And I`m used to -- the world I work in, people break up usually after shorter marriages, or for very specific reasons that are sort of recalcitrant. Again, that`s in my world. And so when you hear about a 25-year marriage or a 17-year marriage, that`s not what you think of as a couple that`s likely to break up. So do you have anything to share about your own experience that could shed light on hers?</s>ANN LOPEZ, MARRIED TO GEORGE LOPEZ FOR 17 YEARS: Well, I think 25 years shouldn`t be looked at as a failure.</s>PINSKY: Well, that`s true, right.</s>LOPEZ: You know, they made it 25 years in a very difficult and high- powered industry, which is Hollywood and politics. Plus, they dated 11 years before that. So this is 36 years of a union. Maria was very young when she started dating Arnold. They waited 11 years before they got married. It is a transition. It is a transition. I can say in my own life, I lost my mother about three months before my marriage broke up, and it does make you reevaluate a lot of things. And she lost three people, so --</s>PINSKY: So you think all those losses made her step back and maybe think, am I happy? Is this really working, this relationship? Those kinds of things?</s>LOPEZ: You know, I don`t think anyone really knows what`s going on behind closed doors.</s>PINSKY: We don`t right now. That`s why we`re trying to speculate.</s>LOPEZ: No, but --</s>PINSKY: And the fact that it`s been 25 years is sort of weird.</s>LOPEZ: I know. Yes, I think when you have death of your parents, and especially her uncle was like a father, I think it does. I think you start to reevaluate -- you start to see your mortality, and what do I want out of life? What makes me happy? Is this still working for me? And those are questions that at any time of your life, but especially when you`ve been married that long -- I think maybe the kids are getting older, they`re more independent. A lot of different reasons.</s>PINSKY: Really interesting, because you`re saying, so, the kids are gone now. She has subjugated her career to him.</s>FRAZIER: Well, let`s not forget, he`s also out of office now. And she did -- what many people are saying the right thing -- stuck by him while he was in office. This didn`t come out while he was in office, and it could have really hurt either a run, a second run, which he had, that second term, or even just his legacy. He had enough to deal with in California. He didn`t need that. I will tell you real quick, Drew, I visited the governor`s office in 2007, and while I was there, I walked around with Maria. And we talked, and I told her I was married for a second time, and she said to me -- when she walked in with Arnold, she said, "He`s one of those people. It`s his second marriage." And they chuckled.</s>PINSKY: Was that a warning for Arnold?</s>FRAZIER: I don`t know!</s>PINSKY: I wonder what that was.</s>FRAZIER: To this moment, I haven`t figured that moment out.</s>PINSKY: Well, we`re going to talk more about it. We`re actually going to talk to a Kennedy family biographer. He is here with us for his take.</s>PINSKY (voice-over): Trappings of fame, difference in politics, rumors of infidelity, razor-sharp angles in this sad story. But will it get worse? If you`ve ever been divorced, you know the agony of a bitter legal fight. And later, Bath Salts, a misleading label and a dangerous designer drug sold over the counter. You will not believe the damage it is doing to our kids.