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Joyce Mitchell Back in Court; Emergency Calls Pour in After N.C. Shark Attacks; Trial at Vatican for Abusive Priest; Jeb Bush Launches Presidential Campaign as Hillary Is in New Hampshire; Turkey Opens Border to Refugees. Aired 1:30-2p ET

Aired June 15, 2015 - 13:30   ET

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[13:33:24] BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome back to our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Brianna Keilar, in for Wolf Blitzer.

I want to get now to our top story, the prison escape in upstate New York. The prison worker charged with aiding the escape of the two convicted killers was back before a judge this morning. During a brief appearance, Joyce Mitchell had her case moved from Plattsburgh City court to Clinton County court. She also has a new attorney. Andrew Cuomo has ordered a full investigation into how the two men were able to break out of the maximum security prison. More than 800 officers are now involved in this manhunt. Much of the focus in the community of Cadyville, a few miles east of the prison.

And part of the dragnet for these two dangerous fugitives involves multiple police roadblocks throughout the region.

That's where we find CNN's Polo Sandoval at one of the roadblocks in west Plattsburgh.

Police, Polo, at this point they've received more than 900 tips. Do they think they have credible, information from those tips the men are still in the area?

POLO SANDOVAL, CNN CORRESPONDENT; Much of that information they would keep close to the vest but based on what we've seen the last ten days now, it doesn't seem to show at least we don't believe there is a solid lead investigators are chasing. We took a drive jus$ past this police barricade and drove about a seven mile segment that remains closed here not far from the Clinton Correctional Facility and we see officers standing out there at times in the rain keeping a solid eye on the wooded area around here because at this point the predominant theory here is that these two individuals, David Sweat and Richard Matt, are in the woods not far from the prison.

But as we've reported already, Brianna, there's other idea speculation these individuals may have slipped through net. So they're also -- authorities are taking a hard look at the neighboring state of Vermont. Over the weekend, law enforcement sources telling me they've been able to identify a relative that one of these dangerous fugitives, Richard Matt, has on the U.S./Mexico border in south Texas in the city of McAllen, only a few miles from the U.S./Mexico border. Investigators believe he also has tied to human smuggling operations so while this plays out up here in upstate New York, there's still the very real possibility that they slipped out of the country already.

[13:35:47] KEILAR: All right. Polo Sandoval with the latest from Plattsburgh. Thank you so much.

I want to get now to North Carolina. Two shark attacks within 90 minutes of each other at the same beach. They may have been from a single shark. Two swimmers each lost an arm while swimming in the ocean on Sunday. They are now in fair condition. That's good news. But now we're hearing that 911 operators had to deal with so much. This happened as the emergency calls poured in.

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911: Ma'am, we've gotten several calls and we're getting help on the way. Do you know -- are any of the fingers completely amputated?

CALLER: It looks like her entire hand is gone.

911: OK, if you can just make sure they take a clean, dry clothe and wrap it around and put pressure on it.

CALLER: A clean dry cloth to wrap around the wound.

They have a towel wrapped around her.

911: OK, make sure they press and hold on the end of it to control the bleeding. Do not lift it.

CALLER: They wrapped it, they wrapped a boogie board leash to stop the bleeding.

911: Tell them not to lift anything up. We've already notified our units. We've gotten several calls and we have help on the way.

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KEILAR: The mayor there says that she can't remember ever hearing of a shark attack on that stretch of North Carolina beach.

Coming up, a historic day for the Catholic Church. A former archbishop, the first priest ordered to face a criminal trial at the Vatican for allegedly sexually abusing children. Is this a turning point for the church in this scandal? We have that next.

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[13:41:05] KEILAR: The decades-long scandal over priest sex abuse is taking an historic turn at the Vatican. For the first time, a criminal child abuse trial will be held. The Vatican's former ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Yosef Wesolowski, a defrocked priest, is charged with sexually abusing boys and having child pornography on his computer. He's the highest-ranking Vatican official to stand trial for sex abuse. Also today, the pope accepted the resignations of Minneapolis Archbishop Joe Weinstead (ph) as well as his top deputy. They resigned following the conviction of a local priest convicted of sexually abusing minors.

Joining me now to talk about this is a survivor of priest sexual abuse, Becky Ianni.

You are the Washington, D.C., director of SNAP, Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests.

You see what's happening with the former Vatican ambassador. What's your reaction?

BECKY IANNI, DIRECTOR, SURVIVORS NETWORK OF THOSE ABUSED BY PRIESTS & SURVIVOR OF PRIEST SEXUAL ABUSE: I'm angry for the victims. They have the right for him to be tried in the Dominican Republic. Instead they whisked him away to the Vatican where they can control everything. Instead of letting those victims, their families, the people in the Dominican Republic seeing justice dean there.

KEILAR: So you feel that he's getting protection within the justice system?

IANNI: Well, they can control the publicity. They can control what information is out because the Vatican is known for holding trials and giving all the information out whereas it was done in the Dominican Republic, those victims could be there. They could see the person that took away their innocence brought to justice.

KEILAR: Right there where it happened, right? So this story of the Minneapolis priest connected of abusing minors cost the archbishop his job. You were abused by a monsignor. When you hear this story, does it just feel like -- just feels like a flashback of people going through what you went through as a kid?

IANNI: Yeah, you know, when you're abused your life changes. It's never the same again and my heart goes out to those victims in the Dominican Republic and those victims from Minneapolis and I worry that just because he was allowed to resign versus they publicly said, "Oh, you have to resign because you endanger kids." I mean, I read a quote where he says something like, "I have a clear conscience because of the protocols I put in to protect children." And I'm thinking that's such a slap in the face to those victims that are hating and how can you say that?

KEILAR: So overall when you look at how the Catholic Church has handled all o4 these cases of sex abuse, a big wave of publicly is sort of passed, in a way, but we keep hearing these incidents and trials coming up. What do you think?

IANNI: I just think that the Vatican does a lot of things that look good but they're not protecting a child and I think we need to concentrate on doing things in the secular courts and let's try them -- it's not a spiritual issue, this is a criminal case. Let's try in the criminal courts.

KEILAR: Becky, thanks for being with us, you give a voice to so many people who maybe aren't using it so we appreciate you being here.

IANNI: Thank you.

KEILAR: Just ahead, Hillary Clinton is back on the campaign trail. This is after her big launch rally over the weekend. We'll explore similarities between her strategy and Jeb Bush. We have that and more with our political panel next.

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[14:48:13} KEILAR: Presidential politics now. Jeb Bush officially launches his campaign just over an hour from now and Hillary Clinton is campaigning in New Hampshire following her first big rally of her candidacy over the weekend.

I want to bring in CNN's political director, David Chalian; and CNN political reporter, Sara Murray, to get more on this.

We just got some excerpts from Bush's campaign kickoff. What are we expecting him to say?

DAVID CHALIAN, CNN POLITICAL DIRECTOR: A couple of things. He's going to play up his Florida record. Job creation record in Florida. Certain credentials in the way he governed Florida. But we'll head a lot about what he's been saying for six months, he wants to run for this job joyfully, and we'll hear about that, about him running and showing his heart to the country.

KEILAR: We have a graphic of part of his speech. It says, "I will campaign as I would serve, going to everywhere, speaking to everyone, keeping my word, facing the issues without flinching and staying true to what I believe. I will take nothing and no one for granted. I will run with heart. I will run to win."

If that kind of sounds familiar except for the "I will run to win." Hillary Clinton has left that "I'm in it to win" behind but I see similarities, right?

SARA MURRAY, CNN POLITICAL REPORTER: I think there are a lot of similarities between Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush, actually. They are both struggling to explain to the public why they're running for president aside from their last name and then show a side of them people haven't seen before. Something behind his stiff buttoned-up candidate and we see that from Jeb Bush all the time. He says he's going show his heart. And that's important for him if he's going to come across as a different person than his brother and dad.

KEILAR: There's one thing he can't do that Hillary Clinton can, that' emphasize let's listen to what we heard Hillary Clinton say on Saturday. Because unlike in 2008, she's really embracing it this time.

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[14:50:07] HILLARY CLINTON, (D), FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE & PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Well, I may not be the youngest candidate in this race, but I will be the youngest woman president in the history of the United States.

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KEILAR: She's playing the card no Republican can play, that she's a woman.

CHALIAN: Carly Fiorina could play that.

KEILAR: That's true, if she can get into even sort of the b and c tier. But she's also addressing age, which is key.

CHALIAN: Totally key. Early on, last year, you heard Republicans start to make a few rumblings about whether her age would be an issue. That seems to have gone away of late. I don't think they have chosen that path, sort of got her age, she's 67 years old and served as secretary of state. I don't think her age is going to be an issue.

KEILAR: You don't think -- now, if it's Jeb maybe he's for the going to run an ages campaign against her. But Marco Rubio and Scott Walker -- she looks so much older than they do.

MURRAY: You don't say age. You say generational contrast. Marco Rubio is concerned saying, turning a new page, that's what we're hearing from Marco Rubio, which sounds less insulting than, hey, you're too old to run for president.

CHALIAN: It's exactly that. They want to make the case that fresh leadership is not necessarily about her age but it's been that she's been on the stage for two decades and they haven't been. That's the argument.

KEILAR: And that's very interesting to me because when you look at polls, when you compare Hillary Clinton and then Jeb Bush who, political stage for so long and his family has been as well, they both have this dynamic argument against them, you have polls that show voters believe she's the candidate of the future and they don't believe nearly as much that Jeb Bush is, right?

CHALIAN: So this, to me, is the most surprising poll we've seen all year. People in Hillary Clinton's world as well as the Republicans expected the country to say she is a candidate date of the past. This gets back to the gender thing. This is where I think being the first potential woman gets at her sort of at least neutralizing the each that she's a candidate of the past because she would be a historic candidate.

MURRAY: Just think about how much the gender politics have changed since then we've had Sheryl Sandberg, the lean in, and so many CEOs speaking out about what it is like to break the glass ceiling. She's sort of capitalizing on it and it's a shift from 2008.

KEILAR: It is. It's an advantage. She's working that advantage whereas before she wasn't so sure that it was an advantage to her. Before I let you go, I want to talk about the logo. Jeb Bush's

campaign logo is out. Jeb with an exclamation point. What is the logo? I have no idea. It's almost identical to the logo he used in his '98 run for Florida governor. Do we have that one? I think we might have that one.

CHALIAN: Or not.

KEILAR: Or not. OK. So -- oh, there it is. We see it. Our monitors flickered for a moment. It's very similar. No Bush last name. That's not a coincidence.

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CHALIAN: It's not a coincidence. We know that the "B" stands for Bush, even better in Spanish. It didn't work so well for Lamar Alexander. But listen, being a first -- having your first name out there, not associating the last name, it's a clear break from his family name.

KEILAR: And we'll see if he can deliver on that exclamation point.

Sara Murray, David Chalian, thank you. Good talking to you guys.

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KEILAR: Coming up, a flood a refugees fleeing ISIS in Syria. They're pouring into Turkey. We'll take you to a key border crossing.

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[14:57:55] KEILAR: New developments in a looming humanitarian crisis. Today, Turkey's border has been reopened, allowing more than 1,000 Syrians to escape across the border as they flee new ISIS fighting. We can see as many as 2,000 come across Turkey just today. 2800 broke across the border on Sunday. As many as 100,000 could flee Tal Abyad, which would add to the staggering 1.8 million Syrian refugees.

Our Arwa Damon is at the border.

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ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: People are understandably upset as they are just being allowed to come across. The women were saying it's beyond a nightmare. We've seen groups of nightmare also dumping water on themselves and it's been fairly difficult and some of them having to wait overnight, women, children, babies, all of them. This is just the latest round of individuals that are fleeing the latest bout of fighting. In this particular case, we are talking about a vital town called Tal Abyad that is under ISIS control. And there are Kurdish fighters in Tal Abyad just out of eyesight on the other side of that wall. They will have cut off one of the key ISIS strategic routes to their stronghold of Raqqa. You can see also the Turkish military is readying themselves along this border. People were in a panic a few days ago that they literally forced down this wall in some areas. And for so many of those coming across, this is not necessarily the first time they have been forced to flee. Some we were talking to who were living in Tal Abyad said they were refugees there as well. They don't want to necessarily live under ISIS but for some of them it was a better option than living in security and having to make the choice and come across and end up as refugees.

Arwa Damon, CNN, on the Tal Abyad.

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KEILAR: I'll see you at 5:00 eastern in "The Situation Room."

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