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Hillary Clinton Stumping In Iowa; Jeb Bush Scheduled To Officially Declare Candidacy Tomorrow; Crowds Head To Theaters To See Newest Jurassic Park Movie; U.S. Military Conducts Counterterrorism Strike In Libya; More Than 100 People Rescued From Flood Waters In Central Louisiana; Mechanical Problem On United Air Flight Forces Plane To Divert To Canada For Emergency Landing; Controversy Over Spokane NAACP President. Aired 4-5p ET

Aired June 14, 2015 - 16:00   ET

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[16:00:00] ANDREW WYLIE, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, CLINTON COUNTY, NEW YORK: The information that we have is that they were going to meet down by the power plant, drive -- I'm not going to say to the sunset because it was after midnight and it was dark out. But they were going to drive away from the area, potentially to an area that was about seven hours away. She never indicated to us where that location was. It was just that that's the information that she was told by matt and sweat that it was about seven hours away.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So has that information helped you guys at all in the search since she didn't actually pick them up?

WYLIE: I mean, it helps us in the sense that she was planning it didn't work out. We don't know of a plan b yet other than walking away from the village and, you know, entering this valley here and fighting to survive.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Have you guys narrowed down your search area at all?

WYLIE: From what I understand speaking with, you know, the New York state police officials that they are continuing to bring the perimeter in, but it's still an active search. I can't tell you how wide the search is right now because I haven't been out -- I haven't been out there. I haven't been up in a helicopter to look at it and see where it's at.

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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN HOST: All right, take a look at this map. This showing how far the escape escapees might have traveled if driving 60 miles per hour for seven hours. They could have gone as far as 400 miles.

So let's now get the latest on this certainly. Miguel Marquez is in Dannemora New York. So Miguel, law enforcement has something like 800 officers involved

and they are covering a pretty vast area there. What are the concentrated efforts. Because even you have been moving quite a bit in the last three hours with searchers.

MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, we've been moving around the quite a bit around the outskirts or the outside of the search area trying to get a sense of where the heaviest activity is. This is just outside the prison, actually. So generally, we are a manner rode down road off 347, it is one of the areas that is most heavily being worked right now. You can see departments of corrections people all along the way.

This is pretty much what it looks like, that dense all the way along on both sides for miles and miles and miles and miles. That's what they are sort of trying to get through. Hundreds of officers lining the roads and then walking through there about 10 feet apart. We did just see a collection, an evidence collection team at a ravine, at a small stream underneath 347. And they had to crawl into the tunnel in the gear in order to pull out some sort of evidence that they found in there.

They had people who had been set there at strategic points like that. But they seem to have found something, something new that appeared in that ravine underneath 347 that they wanted to take a closer look at. It is just one sign of the intense search effort they are putting in to try to figure out where these guys have gone. It has rained a lot in recent days. And so, the streams are swollen and bringing a lot of debris down. And there may have been something they were interested in there.

There was a belt that we saw on the highway that they may have pulled out earlier. Whether it was more they were looking at in that area, we're not entirely sure. But certainly, throughout this area, they are concentrating very heavily without any word, any sense that these two are anywhere but near here -- Fred.

WHITFIELD: All right, Miguel Marquez. Keep us posted. Thank you so much.

So let's talk some more about this from our New York Bureau, Jonathan Gilliam, a former Navy SEAL and former FBI special agent and Casey Jordan is a criminologist joining us via Skype from (INAUDIBLE), Connecticut.

All right, good to see both of you.

So Jonathan, you first. So how much, you know, do the chances of capturing these fugitives decrease as time goes by? We are talking about day-nine now.

JONATHAN GILLIAM, FORMER NAVY SEAL: Well, I'll tell you, Fred, if they actually did have help on the outside, which is still a possibility, it's going to be very hard. I mean, we're talking about years of investigations possibly. I'm not sure even with what we know now that they weren't

communicating with other people on the outside somehow, some way, they may have just been telling Ms. Mitchell what she needed to know in order to help them out. So that's always a possibility. And I'm not even sure if, you know, if they thought this through correctly. They may have been able to put stuff out there that had their clothes on or something, you know, to where the dogs would follow a scent.

But if they only had five to seven hours and nobody was there to help them, they could have ran, you know, as far as they could down the road and gotten quite a ways away before they went into the woods. It's just -- you know, when you're on your own in the woods, if you don't have experience, you have to have water and eventually you have to have food.

[16:04:59] WHITFIELD: We heard our Miguel Marquez as earlier talking about the swollen rivers there and the strawberries and blueberries growing wild there in the sixth (ph) brush.

So then, Casey, to hear the DA say that according to conversations, you know, with Ms. Mitchell that possibly they had address rehearsals, how much does that tell you about their level of confidence that even if they had a plan a that perhaps their plan b just might be as effective?

CASEY JORDAN, CRIMINOLOGIST: Because everything they have told her and let's assume that she is telling law enforcement the truth about what they told her, which could be a very big if. I don't know if we really should trust her. But they would have been feeding her just enough information that she would need to know to stay in the plan with them. But they could very easily been feeding her information that with that possibility if she got caught or she chickened out or if she, you know, totally bailed on the plan, what would she tell authorities.

This had to occur to them. So the idea that we're looking in a seven- hour perimeter, I think it's something we have to consider, but at this point all bets are off. Once she didn't show up, I think they totally regrouped with another plan that she knows nothing about. Maybe they have made it up on the fly. But I don't think law enforcement can really say definitively that they have any clue where these guys are headed right now.

WHITFIELD: And then Jonathan, you know, does it make it any more dangerous that these men have nothing to lose, so to speak, based on what they were serving time for? Sweat serving life for murdering a deputy. Matt doing 25 years to life for the kidnapping and murder of another man. How much do those dynamics play into the risks that law enforcement, you know, maybe prepared for?

GILLIAM: Well, I'll tell you this right now, law enforcement is prepared for the worst. They are looking at these two individuals as though they have acquired weapons and as though they do want to confront the police officers if they are confronted. That's the way law enforcement has to work. They have to have their mind set ready for that. What I hope is happening, though, is that the teamwork within law

enforcement does not break down. A lot of the times when we have task force that are not used to working together and they're put together, they may have different ways of doing different things. And ultimately, that can be the demise of the speed in which they find these individuals. And I hope that's not the case. If it is, they need to fix that and right it. But I haven't heard anything about that, but listen, when you have a system and I've pointed this out before, that gives inmates green jump suits when they're surrounded by trees, a lot of things are not being thought through beforehand that allow this to happen. And that needs to stop now, politics, need to go to the side and they need to focus on catching these individuals.

WHITFIELD: All right, Jonathan Gilliam, Casey Jordan, thanks to both of you. Appreciate it.

GILLIAM: You got it.

WHITFIELD: All right. The name Rachel Dolezal, it's become a fairly familiar one in the past few days. She is the president of Spokane, Washington's NAACP chapter. And she was scheduled to address the controversy surrounding her race tomorrow evening. Well, that meeting has now been postponed and rescheduled.

The chapter posted this statement saying, quote, "due to the need to continue discussion with regional and national NAACP leaders, tomorrow's meeting is postponed and will be rescheduled for a later date. We appreciate your patience and understanding at this time," end quote.

Dolezal has been passing herself off as an African-American woman until her birth parents came forward saying she is white.

Well, joining me now from New York via Skype is CNN legal analyst Sunny Hostin.

So Sunny, our conversation would have been what could be said at that meeting tomorrow. Now, the question really is what is it the NAACP on the local and national chapter along with Dolezal feel like they need to work out before they make any more explanations public?

SUNNY HOSTIN, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: Yes, I think that is the question, certainly we thought that she was going to make this statement tomorrow at a regularly scheduled meeting with her local chapter. Remember, she's the president of a local chapter. And that chapter has been very vocal in terms of its support of Rachel. I mean, they did also come out with a statement basically saying that they supported Rachel. And she said she would be explaining her position on what has become sort of this media and social media fire storm. But now it sounds like that chapter is walking its support back a bit. Because remember, every local chapter does have to answer to a regional chapter as well as the national chapter in Washington D.C.

So I suspect that perhaps the national guidelines require a different perhaps investigation than was taking place at the local level. And so I -- I suspect that people have a lot more questions for this woman and it's going the be a while I think before we hear from her.

[16:10:13] WHITFIELD: Right. And it's interesting too, because while the parents came out and they said she is white, we are the biological parents. We're of European decent. They presented a birth certificate as well. Even after that, the NAACP local chapter came out and said we support her advocacy, the work that she has done. They refrain from comment about the whole identity, you know, crisis.

But, you have to wonder what kind of explanation can come now. Because even on CNN.com in an article, the brother, adopted brother of Dolezal, his name is Ezra (ph) said, quote, "she told me not to blow her cover about the fact that she had this secret life or alternate identity. She has only been African-American when it benefited her. She hasn't been through all the struggles. She's only been African- American the last few years."

So one has to wonder if this statement too from this adopted brother has kind of changed the game, changed the verbiage that she may want to use or even the NAACP.

HOSTIN: Well, I think it's certainly a game changer. I think many people have said and I think we can all agree that the NAACP historically has certainly had white members, have fore found members that have been office and white people across the country have always been involved in the civil rights movement. So I don't know that her position at the NAACP has been causing the most concern.

In my view, what is a concern is certainly that she went to Howard on a scholarship. Was that scholarship earmarked for a diverse candidate? She also teaches Africana studies at a university. Was that professorship earmarked for a diverse candidate? And why indeed did she feel the need to lie about her ethnicity, about her heritage.

WHITFIELD: And what really is where the potential legal, you know, I guess journey could begin right? Because if she declared that she was one thing in which to benefit directly from claiming she was African- American, we know that on the Howard university application apparently ethnicity was not stated. But when she arrived, they did see she is white. She still got the full-ride scholarship. And whether the jobs that she has had where she did identify being at least multi-racial if not African-American, can there be a legal argument made, will there be a legal path that she might confront for essentially posing, lying about who she is?

HOSTIN: I think certainly, you know. I don't think it's a criminal action. But civilly, if she lied on a federal form, if she lied on a job application and then basically took a position that had been earmarked for a diverse candidate, I could see potential liability there.

And I think what is interesting is that in terms of her professorship as a professor of Africana studies, you know, generally in those positions, the question is why don't we insist people have personal experience with an issue to be an expert on it. So if she studied African-American studies or African studies, certainly she may have been able to teach and bean expert without -- WHITFIELD: I don't think we're hearing that argument. I don't think

there's much being disputed about the credentials or whether you have to be black in order to have an interest in black studies or even be able to teach it. But instead, it's really about claiming to be something that you aren't. The deception.

HOSTIN: It's the deception that I think is so troubling to many, many people. And it's something that she's going to have to answer to. And we thought we were going to get the answer tomorrow, but obviously we aren't.

WHITFIELD: Now postponed. All right. Well, we will see what happens next.

Sunny Hostin, thanks so much. Always good to see you. Appreciate it.

HOSTIN: Thanks, Fred.

WHITFIELD: All right, also still ahead, a united airlines flight to London gets diverted. What happened next has passengers still very upset. I'll talk to one next.

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[16:17:28] WHITFIELD: All right, now to a travel nightmare. Passengers on a United flight are still fuming mad. They say their plane going from Chicago to London was diverted and the passengers had to stay in some old barracks in Goose Bay, Canada for 20 hours.

United airline tells CNN the plane was diverted due to maintenance issues. But the passengers on board complained there were few blankets and no heat in the barracks. And United finally put them on another flight and refunded their money eventually.

But right now, I'm joined by one of the passengers on that plane, Lois Harper. She's now that United airline flight. She is now at her final destination in Stanford, England.

So Lois, thanks so much for being with us.

So first, tell me your version of what happened when you discovered there was a problem with the plane and it would be diverted.

LOIS HARPER, PASSENGER, UNITED AIRLINE (via phone): Yes. So the captain came online and basically just said that there was some lights on in the cockpit and that there was some vibrations that the passengers in the back of the plane were feeling and that they needed to do a precautionary landing in Goose Bay, Canada. And that was pretty much all the information that they have shared with us and said that we will be landing in approximately 30 minutes.

WHITFIELD: OK. And then once that happened and you-all landed and you, I guess, were informed in some way that you would not be taking off right away, what were you told about where you would be staying?

HARPER: Right. So once we were on the plane for quite some time, they finally did communicate to us that we would be staying overnight, that they would be putting us up in some barracks on the base and that breakfast would be provided to us in the morning. And at that point, we would receive more communications on what the next plan was.

WHITFIELD: So describe what that experience was like.

HARPER: Well, so it took several hours for them to evacuate us from the plane. They had some old school buses that came out to the plane. We exited the plane. And then from there we went to customs and eventually to the barracks. So in order to exit all of us from the plane, it took quite a few hours to do that.

WHITFIELD: And so, what was going through your mind when you saw, as you described, the old school buses and when you saw the barracks and that will be the pace where you would stay, what went through your mind?

HARPER: Well, I mean, they had, you know, communicated that there would be towels and whatnot available to us as we got to the barracks so that people could shower and whatnot. Again, I think it depended on which barracks they took you to. But for example, the one that I was sent to there weren't any towels available. When we were get in the rooms, while there was a bed, there were no blankets. There was a sheet and a pillow. In addition, there was no heating in the particular barracks building that I was assigned to. So it was quite cold for quite a few hours while we waited for breakfast to be served.

[16:20:28] WHITFIELD: So, you describe what sounds like pretty miserable conditions. What was the demeanor of most of the passengers? Were people upset, angry, how would you describe it?

HARPER: Yes, I think -- to be honest, I think when most of us rejoined in the morning around 8:00 a.m. at the mess hall, the buses came back through to the barracks, picked us up, took us to the mess hall. It was really at that point that the majority of us passengers could start to speak to one another. We learned our experience through the night was quite different from individual to individual, room to room. I think that's when it hit us that there was no one from united airlines there to represent their company and to inform us of really what we were going to expect next. That was the biggest disappointment of all.

So I understand united did compensate every one by refunding and then getting you to your final destinations. Is that enough for you?

Well, I don't know that that's accurate. And the reason why I say that is on our flight back to London, they did advise that all the passengers should go out to their Web site and they would be given options for some type of compensation. As of today, I've not been reimbursed for my flight. Unfortunately, I haven't had an opportunity to go out to the Web site to yet see what they're even offering for compensation.

OK. Well, Lois Harper, all the best to you. Thanks for sharing your story and keep us posted on how it all ends.

HARPER: Absolutely. Thank you.

WHITFIELD: All right.

Still ahead, investigators are trying to figure out why someone would launch an all-out assault on the Dallas police department. Next, the suspect's father speaks to CNN. Hear what he says about his son's troubled past.

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[16:26:05] WHITFIELD: Investigators in Dallas continue piecing together evidence hoping to understand exactly what happened in yesterday's attack on the Dallas police department. The suspect who identified himself as James Boulware had a long and violent criminal past and used pipe bombs and an armored van to go after police. He was killed by a police sniper. No officers were injured in the attack. And now his father is talking to CNN.

CNN's Sara Sidner is live from Dallas with that interview - Sara.

SARA SIDNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, you know, his father was extremely emotional as any father would be when their son is killed. But he did talk about his son's anger toward the police. I do want to mention this. We just got information from the Dallas police that we are expecting them to release some more information about the attack here at police headquarters.

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JIM BOULWARE, FATHER: Every one of us has a breaking point. Every one of us.

SIDNER (voice-over): Did your son hit his breaking point?

BOULWARE: He hit his breaking point.

SIDNER: Jim Boulware is teetering on the edge himself, filled with grief after his son, James, attacked police and was killed for it. He says James was the man behind the attack on the Dallas police headquarters. Three hours before the attack, he was sitting right here with his dad.

BOULWARE: He told me he loved me and he was going back to west Texas. And I told him, have a safe trip.

SIDNER: But that is not what happened. Before the sun came up, James Boulware was dead, killed by a police sniper after threatening to blow police up for taking his child. He could have, his van was laden with explosives that police eventually detonated.

BOULWARE: He left from here. He mowed my yard yesterday. Told me he was going to be back in ten days to mow it again.

SIDNER: Did you have any idea when he left --

BOULWARE: No. No. I knew he was angry with the police. He blamed them for taking his son. I tried to tell him, the police didn't do it. The police were doing their job to enforce the laws. If you want to get to that, you've got to go back to the liberal people that put these laws in place to where CPS can grab kids out away from him. They are just imposing laws.

SIDNER: James Boulware had recently lost custody of his own son to his own mother, the boy's grandmother. The family tied in 2013 preceded the custody battle.

BOULWARE: Her mother, her half-brother and James had a fight in her house.

SIDNER: James Boulware was arrested in Paris, Texas, for multiple assault charges on family members. The charges were eventually dropped.

BOULWARE: While he was here this time, he said, dad, I've lost my house, my tools, my son. I'm going through every dime I've got. I can't find a job because I've got domestic violence on my record. He said I've lost everything. And then you have hopelessness.

SIDNER: Why didn't he get some help?

BOULWARE: Where? Where does a white male get help?

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Now, he talked about his son saying that anarchy would be better than having a police, his father argued back and forth with him but he said the son did make that statement. However, his father said he had no idea that his son was planning something and he could not believe it when he heard that he had explosives and guns - Poppy.

WHITFIELD: All right, Sara Sidner, thanks so much for bringing that to us.

All right, still 17 months away from the presidential election, but the race, it is getting rather interesting. Hillary Clinton hits the ground in Iowa just one day before Jeb Bush. He is expected to jump in to the presidential race.

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WHITFIELD: All right, hello again I'm Fredricka Whitfield. Hillary Clinton is stumping in Des Moines, Iowa this afternoon as just comes just one day after her first major campaign speech in New York, and a day before Republican Jeb Bush officially declares he is running for President. But the fly from the White House is CNN National Correspondent Sunlen Serfaty, Sunlen how do we expect this campaign to get underway tomorrow?

SUNLEN SERFATY, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, for Jeb Bush tomorrow, Fred really is about hitting the reset button. He's had a couple hard few months. He stumbled over questions about Iraq. He had a campaign shake up in his staff even before he had an official campaign, just all about hitting that reset button really bringing much-needed momentum into his campaign. He even debuted a new campaign logo today in advance of tomorrow's announcement. You'll see it there. Jeb, exclamation point no Bush added there and last week when he was traveling with (inaudible), he sat down with CNN's Dana Bash and he said that becoming a formal candidate would we really help him separate himself from the rest of the very crowded Republican field.

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JEB BUSH, FORMER FLORIDA GOVERNOR: This transition to a candidacy will allow me to be more direct about my advocacy of the leadership skills necessary for the next President to fix a few things. So, and as a candidate contrary to being someone who was listening and learning along the way, I'll offer up alternatives to the path we're on as well, so I'll be more specific on policy.

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SERFATY: Meanwhile, in Iowa today, Hillary Clinton finally weighed in a bit about the trade deal that Congress is working on. This is an issue that had Congress is working on. This is an issue that had divided the Democratic Party so she's received a lot of criticism for sitting on the fence and not really, firmly stating what she believes. Now today, she sided with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and distanced herself from President Obama. Here's what she had to say.

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HILLARY CLINTON, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I am willing to try now to see whether you can push to get rid of the objectionable parts, to drive a harder bargain on some of the other parts, and to provide more transparency so that the American people can actually see what will be in a proposed final deal, and so, if I were in the White House that's what I would be doing right now.

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SERFATY: And she stopped short of offering a firm yes or a firm no position on the many different layers of this trade debate, Fred. So many questions of course do still remain.

WHITFIELD: All right, Sunlen Serfaty thank you so much in Washington. All right, I want to bring you in -- our political panel right now, Brian Morgenstern, a Lawyer and Political Strategist in New York. And CNN Political Commentator Peter Beinart, all right, good to see both of you. So Jeb Bush, officially joining the race tomorrow, you know, it's interesting that I guess that moniker it is just singularly Jeb exclamation point. So you have to wonder if you know, that is one, very significant way of trying to distance oneself Brian.

BRIAN MORGENSTERN, LAWYER, POLITICAL STRATEGIST, COMEDIAN: Oh I don't know about that, I think the logo obviously is an attempt to harness the joyfulness that Jeb has been talking about quite a bit. But this announcement tomorrow, we're going to learn several things from it and one is what he's going to focus on from his record as governor. We think one of those things is going to school choice and helping poor kids get out of poverty and another is going to be assistance for victims of domestic violence. I would expect him to start breathing some fire at his opponents because as joyful as he wants to be, voters are going to respond to contrasts. And in doing that, I think we're going to see him target who he thinks are frontrunners with him. And I think that's going to be Marco Rubio, and Scott Walker. So we'll see -- like I said we're going to learn some things from this speech, it'll be interesting to see.

WHITFIELD: Peter, we heard Sunlen say the hope is to bring some real momentum to this campaign. Do you see that happening in just the way in which he announces he is officially in?

PETER BEINART. CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: No, I don't at all. I mean Jeb Bush is very popular with some big donors who have ties with his family, but in my experience there are a very few Republicans active and out there in the country who are excited about the prospect of electing another Bush or Jeb Bush who's been out of politics for a long time. Scot Walker has a lot of enthusiasm in Iowa where he's way ahead of Jeb Bush and where a lot of people don't even think Jeb Bush will seriously compete now. So Jeb Bush's chances will really be in New Hampshire, but he's not doing all that well in New Hampshire and there's a very, very crowded field. I think right now it's understandable he's going to go after Rubio and Walker because I think essentially Rubio and Walker are ahead of r him.

WHITFIELD: So who's next? You know Brian and we keep hearing names that maybe even Donald Trump may still throw in his hat into the ring, whether people think he's serious about it or not.

MORGENSTERN: Yeah, well you know, we'll see and anybody who says they don't want to see Donald Trump run for President is lying to you. And anybody who says Republicans don't have a sense of humor should see this as exhibit A that we do. I don't know what his angle his if he does get in, maybe he's upset he didn't get a cameo in the Entourage movie so he's trying to get some attention, I don't know what it is but he's going to lob some grenades into this race I think and it's going to be pretty entertaining to watch.

WHITFIELD: And so Peter, is it more than that, entertaining you've heard that word before, when associated with other times that he has run or is this real viable, serious potential to run?

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BEINART: I don't find Donald Trump's naked bigotry to be comical. And I would hope Republicans wouldn't neither, this is man who repeatedly questioned Barack Obama's citizenship, called him a Muslim, suggested the only reason he got into college and law school is because of affirmative action. I mean, he is as close to an out on out bigot as we have seen -- we see amongst major Presidential candidates. I think it's a great opportunity in fact for Republicans to shun him and show him that they infact, they don't condone that. And the last thing at it isn't a good enough response. WHITFIELD: All right, we shall see what happens. All right let's

begin with tomorrow with a Jeb Bush officially in the race. Brian Morgenstern, Peter Beinart, thanks so much, of course CNN will be covering that live, 3:00 Eastern tomorrow as it happens. We'll be right back.

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WHITFIELD: All right, Dinosaurs are back and taking a bite out of the box office.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You got 20,000 people, you got no more boats, you don't have enough guns.

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WHITFIELD: A whole lot more than 20,000 people saw this latest installment of the Jurassic Dinosaur Dynasty, Jurassic World. Taking in more than $204 million this weekend in the U.S. alone, the worldwide total puts it at more than $511 million. That makes Jurassic World the highest grossing global opening ever. Let's bring in Matt Atchity, good to see you, the Editor-In-Chief at Rottentomatoes. It's been way too long. Hey, so what is it about this Jurassic World? I guess some analysts had very low expectations and then, bam, it's a big hit now?

MATT ATCHITY, ROTTENTOMATOES.COM EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Well you know, let's put those low expectations in context. Everybody was predicting about $100 million which is a pretty huge opening weekend. So yes, in context that seems low but I think this one did blow everyone out of the water. It helps that you've got a movie that is based on a franchise that everyone loves. Everybody loves the original Jurassic Park Movie directed by Steven Spielberg. It's been over decade since we've seen one of those films in theaters and this is a movie that both adults will go and see because it's exciting but you've younger viewers who love dinosaurs. Maybe not little, little kids, but you know thirteen, fourteen and up. Go and see this. And you have also really seen that Chris Pratt is a huge star, right. Chris Pratt was in the couple of the biggest movies of the year last year, in the Lego Movie and Guardians of the Galaxy shows -- continues to show that he can basically print money at the box office for a studio.

WHITFIELD: Wow, is it just simply to -- sometimes people just love to be scared and that's fun?

ATCHITY: Yes, it is fun. You know this movie gets a lot of things right. It does queue very closely to the original Jurassic Park Films, there's a theme park, dinosaurs are exciting but sure enough one gets out and everything kind pf goes haywire and dinosaurs eating people. This is a movie that runs right up against the limits of pg- 13 but there are a lot scares in here. It looks great and people love it. It helps that the critics like it too. You know 70 percent our sites, 70 percent of critics really like this film, and word of mouth for a good is better than any advertising.

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ATCHITY: People were telling their friends, go see Jurassic World.

WHITFIELD: Isn't this funny because even if you've seen the other two right -- the other two before this one, you would think there can't be any surprises, you know what's going to happen, but apparently this does kind of have you at the edge of your seat, did you get a chance to see it?

ATCHITY: I have seen it, yes and it does...

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WHITFIELD: And it did that to you?

ATCHITY: It did, you know -- yes you're going to it and you know that dinosaurs are going to eat people but you don't know exactly how it's going to happen. There are plenty of thrills, plenty of scares here. I think Director Colin Trevorrow has made a solid action thriller and obviously it showed at the box office -- has $1 billion worldwide, that's a huge opening.

WHITFIELD: Unbelievable. All right well, I'm getting on the band wagon too. If I get a chance, I definitely want to see it as well, all right, Matt Atchity always good to see you, thank you so much.

ATCHITY: Thank you.

WHITFIELD: All right. All right and this breaking news now, we're following CNN has just received reports that the U.S. Military has conducted a counter terrorism strike in Libya. The strike was aimed at militants tied to Al Qaeda. The Department of Defense telling CNN that they are still assessing the results of the operation and will provide more information when appropriate. Back in 2012, four Americans were killed including Ambassador Chris Stevens when the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya was attacked. More on this breaking news as we get it. And we'll be right back.

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WHITFIELD: Former President Bill Clinton talked about his wife proudly on CNN' State of the Union. The programs new host, Jake Tapper asked him to sum up the Republican Field.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I know a lot of people on this audience would love for you to put on your political analyst hat. I know you can't look at the Democratic side right now for obvious reasons. Size up the Republican Field, what do you like, what do you not like, what do you think is going on there? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There are a lot of them that looks more like the

Kentucky Derby than Belmont. And -- I like that horse American Pharaoh. First of all, they got a lot of views, they've got a lot of energy. They've got some significant diversity. And they're no dummies. It's interesting and they got -- it's a pretty -- and I believe what they believe. They still believe trickle-down economics works better than investment. And their convictions are so great that they're undeterred by evidence. It's always amazing to me but they're impressive and they have some differences of opinion on -- like the national security issues and the incarceration issues and all that. It will be interesting to watch them debate. I sympathize with the question of how the primary voters are going to decide who to vote for and whether it's fair or unfair for some people to be eliminated from the televised debates.

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WHITFIELD: CNN's Jake Tapper will be your guide to the 2016 election. Join Jake each Sunday at 9:00 a.m. and noon Eastern. He is the new Host of CNN's State of the Union.

And now checking our top stories in Central Louisiana, more than 100 people have been rescued from flood waters. The Sheriff's office in Colfax said a levy breached around 2:00 this morning, it was described as a personal levy that was built just two weeks ago. And after raging flood waters killed eight people, residents in Tbilisi Georgia in the Former Soviet Republic are now being warned to stay away from wild animals. Zoo animals including this hippo are roaming the streets after raging floodwaters damaged the city's zoo and set many animals free. Wolves, bears, lions and tigers are also wandering the streets. And a mechanical problem on United Airlines flight from Chicago to London forced the pilots to divert to Goose Bay, Canada for an emergency landing. Passengers complained that they were taken to an old unheated barracks where they spent 20 hours without enough blankets, United said hotel space was not available but later put them on another flight and then eventually offered to refund their money. All right, thanks so much for joining me today. I'm Fredricka Whitfield, the next hour of The Newsroom begins right after this.

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