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Juncker: Greece Voted On A Plan That Doesn't Exist; Greek Banks To Stay Closed Until Thursday; EU's Juncker: My Wish Is To Avoid Grexit; Documents: Cosby Got Drugs To Give Women For Sex; Iran Nuclear Deadline May Not Be The End Of Talks; South Carolina Lawmakers Vote On Flag's Removal; Britain Marks 10th Anniversary Of Deadly Bombings; Calls For Change After Violence In Chicago; Trump Raises Anger In Immigration Debate. Aired 3-4a ET

Aired July 6, 2015 - 03:00   ET

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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: A revealing admission in court, Bill Cosby said he had sedatives intending to drug young women.

MAX FOSTER, CNN ANCHOR: European and Greek leaders scramble to find common ground, the high stakes summit begins soon.

CHURCH: Another deadline looms the negotiations on Iran's nuclear program. We are live in Vienna and Tehran with the very latest on that.

Hello and welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church.

FOSTER: I'm Max Foster. This is CNN NEWSROOM.

CHURCH: And we begin this hour in Brussels where leaders of the Eurozone will convene an emergency summit on the Greek financial crisis just a few hours from now.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will be there hat in hand trying to secure a new bailout deal for his country's struggling economy. He does have the backing of the Greek people, as we've seen. They voted overwhelming Sunday against more austerity.

FOSTER: We're hearing right now from the European commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker. He is one of the key players in deciding what creditors might offer Greece next.

CNN's Nina Dos Santos has been listening to the speech at the European parliament. She joins us now live from London with the details. Is there going to be a deal there today do you think from what he is saying?

NINA DOS SANTOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It doesn't sound as though we are going to have a concrete deal by the end of these two summits that are taking place later on today, Max. But I want to draw your attention to the key line that he said there.

He did get quite a bit of heckling for saying this, he said, quote, "We are told we must respect the Greek people's vote and I will certainly do that." Here's the key bit, "The people of Greece has spoken and now I would like to understand what they've said. A question has been put to the Greek people which doesn't exist."

Which question is that, that is the question that the Greek people were asked in the 72-word question that was put forward on Sunday, which referred remember to the terms of a bailout deal that has now expired at the end of last month.

That was no longer on the table. So effectively, the European's position has always been we don't really understand what you are voting on here. The way we view the Greek vote is that you don't want to be a part of the Eurozone anymore.

This vote was always from the European side viewed as a proxy for membership of the single currency. Obviously the Greek government viewed it as vote on austerity.

But Mr. Juncker there clearly saying we need to understand and digest the outcome of this vote because it was based on a document that had expired. We view this as Greece and its people saying no to the single currency.

Now that is obviously not the way how the Greeks themselves have been viewing this. We've known even before the referendum and before that 60 percent vote in favor of no, 70 percent of Greeks still wanted to be a part of the single currency. The European's position is you can't have both and Juncker just reiterated that today.

FOSTER: What Greece needs is at least some sort of atmosphere where a deal can be presented. But from what Juncker is saying, it doesn't really sound he is not really up for listening.

DOS SANTOS: He is treading a very difficult line here because remember that he is the head of the executive arm of the European Union so not just the single currency area. Not every country inside the European Union shares the single currency. Only 19 of them do.

Then again, countries that are part of the -- signed up to the Lisbon Treaty one of the latest set of rules and regulations when the EU was expanded they signed up to irrevocably surrender their currency in favor of the euro.

There are no legal ways in which you can actually technically back out of the euro. So what he is trying to do is he doesn't want to alienate Greece from the hold of the European Union, but again, he is trying to raise the specter of a dreaded Grexit, a Greek exit from the Eurozone being a real possibility that the Greeks have to take into account here.

So this is a very difficult line that he is having (inaudible). On the other hand, when we talk about difficult lines in today's news, Max, we should also mention the ECB is having to tread a very difficult line as well itself.

And it precipitated this crisis just a little bit more, tightening the screws yesterday on those Greek banks by raising the amount of collateral requirements that they have to put forward to reflect as it technically has to.

The fact that the Greek banks have less and less money in their coffers and capital controls have been in place for over a week now, and the result of that, well, we now know that the Greek banks will be opening until Thursday.

So both the European Commission and the ECB, two of those key three creditors, which alongside the IMF make up the troika of international lenders to Greece, whose terms Greece has rejected, well, two of them now making very clear here that Greece really is coming down to crunch time.

[03:05:12] FOSTER: OK, Nina, we'll bring you the highlights as we get through to us.

CHURCH: All right, let's move to Athens now where Greeks are lining up outside banks and ATMs. CNN's Isa Soares is in the Greek capital and she joins us now live.

Isa, let's look at what we just heard from Jean-Claude Juncker there, though, clearly sending a very strong message to the prime minister of Greece, we mean business. You better put some good reforms on the table or forget about it. You're out.

ISA SOARES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Absolutely. I was hearing what he was saying, and he said time now is for those with common sense, he said, and reason, Rosie, to negotiate because if you remember, Greeks walked out of negotiations when they weren't even completed.

So Juncker there trying to say if there is a common sense on the table this is a time for common sense. He said we have to find a solution and it won't happen overnight. He said now is a time to talk to each other, understand each other, and have tolerance for each other.

Today what I expect to see is them sitting around a table and expressing each other's ideas and some thoughts and some proposals which the European Union. The troika will find credible proposals moving forward. They can't just be ideas. They have to be something meatier because there is just no time for that.

So I think Alexis Tsipras is going into this meeting as will the new finance minister going in knowing that time is running out and that time is of the essence. There is no time to be throwing ideas left and center.

This is a time to get down to business. Europe already knows what the red lines are. Is Greece prepared to give in on any of the red lines? At the same time, is Germany also prepared to give in on its red lines? Who is prepared to give in the most?

At this time, it seems Greece has the most to lose especially as the ECB is tightening the screws and that could mean two, three days if there is no deal or a tentative deal of sorts the banks won't have any cash left, Rosie.

CHURCH: It's a do or die moment for the prime minister, for Tsipras, isn't it? Whether he understands that, presumably the fact that he changed finance ministers here, is that an indication or signal and from what we know about Mr. Tsipras so far, is this going to work out for Greece in the end?

SOARES: Look, I think he's being very tactical. I think he is being very savvy. Some people would say he is being reckless, Rosie. You know, but so far it's gone his way. The banks are closed and capital controls imposed on many people here, but the majority of Greeks have his backing. They support him completely.

You saw the numbers, 61 percent, and Greeks are not saying, look, we want everything handed to us on a silver platter. We are prepared to work but let's be considerate, they say, in terms of what we can realistically achieve.

Because those five years of austerity and of cuts that have been added hasn't done anything for us. One way they have to come up with proposals. I think Alexis Tsipras is going into this knowing that Europe has had enough.

The Europe's door is being slightly ajar, but any moment, it could close and really it's up to him and up to his finance minister to make some concessions on some of the proposals that Europe has been calling for.

There is no time to lose and if really he goes into this thinking that perhaps he will have another 48 hours or a month or so. I think he will be very reckless with his own people -- Rosie.

CHURCH: Isa, let's just have a listen. We have some sound on what Jean-Claude had to say a few moments ago. Let's just listen quickly.

JEAN-CLAUDE JUNCKER, EUROPEAN COMMISSION PRESIDENT (through translator): Greece is a great nation and putting Greece out of the monetary union or the European Union is not something we want or should want. And as that is the case, the European Commission will continue to work towards a reopening of the negotiations with Greece. What kind of a European Union would it be if we stopped talking to each other?

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CHURCH: European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker speaking there a short time ago saying, "My wish is to avoid Grexit," but he is making it quite clear that this is up to Greece now.

SOARES: Yes, absolutely, Rosie. He said very clearly, throwing Greece out of the European Union is not something we want, but now we have to talk.

[03:10:07] And I think what he kept saying time and time again during that speech there is that he didn't understand the question the referendum was being asked and I think that is why he was heckled somewhat.

He was perplexed what Greeks were voting for. Now I think it's time for Greeks to come to the negotiating table and to speak some common sense and with European leaders about what they want to put forward.

There's no time to throw in the towel, which is what we saw when negotiations last week when Alexis Tsipras walked out and to many people's surprise overnight decided to announce a referendum. I think he is basically saying we don't have time for that.

If you are serious, you want to stay in the monetary union, you need to come forward with some credible proposals -- Rosie.

CHURCH: Yes, the Greek prime minister scored some points with the referendum. No doubt about that. But now of course the pressure is on him to put solid reforms on the table. We'll see what he comes up with. Many thanks to Isa Soares live there from Athens.

FOSTER: Heckling in the European parliament. I haven't seen that in a while.

CHURCH: That's new.

FOSTER: Now to a newly revealed admission from comedian, Bill Cosby. We've learned that Cosby obtained sedative drugs to give to women he wanted to have sex with.

CHURCH: Now this comes from newly released court documents and Cosby's own sworn testimony in a 2005 sexual abuse case he settled out of court. I spoke with Deborah Feyerick about this new development.

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DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Cosby has long denied drugging and sexually molesting these women even though they have been vocal in speaking out. But in court papers that were unsealed, comedian, Bill Cosby, testified in 2005 that he obtained Quaaludes.

In fact, seven prescriptions worth intending to give them to young women that he wanted to have sex with. He was asked by a plaintiff's attorney, quote, "When you got the Quaaludes, was it in your mind that you were going to use these on young women you wanted to have sex with" and he answered yes.

The lawyer then asked Cosby whether he gave these Quaaludes to other people and Cosby once again answered yes. Now these newly unsealed documents were part of this deposition a decade ago in a defamation lawsuit.

And a young woman had accused Cosby of drugging and molesting her, giving her three blue pills. She asked Cosby whether they were herbal. He said they're your friends. I have three friends to make you relax.

He later came back and said they were Benadryl, the anti-histamine. Cosby again has denied the allegations against him, but it's there are a number of civil lawsuits he is now facing. The information in this deposition is clearly not going to help his statements that he never molested these women. CHURCH: No, certainly not. And Quaaludes, this is a drug that acts as a sedative and hypnotic. What did Cosby actually say his motive was for intending to give the drug to this particular woman?

FEYERICK: Well, Cosby in the deposition is giving very broad answers to the questions that are being put before him. But what is interesting is it is made very clear that the woman could not fight back. She knew what was happening, but she was in a semiconscious state in which she felt him behind her and she simply passed out.

When she awoke her clothes were in a state of disarray. The lawyers were trying to get to the point that Cosby knew what was going on and was aware what was happening, but as far as why did you give her these Quaaludes he was vague and he had a lawyer with him making sure he didn't answer certain questions.

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CHURCH: Deborah Feyerick talking to me there a short time ago.

FOSTER: Iran says a nuclear deal is an historic opportunity for the U.S. as negotiations face a looming deadline in Vienna, the latest on the talks are coming up in a live report for you.

CHURCH: Plus Chicago's police chief is calling for change after a wave of violence over the 4th of July holiday weekend. We are back in a moment.

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[03:17:58]

FOSTER: Negotiators in Vienna are working around the clock as they face another deadline in the Iran nuclear talks.

CHURCH: A senior Iranian official says there is more time for negotiation if the U.S. makes some constructive moves, but western leaders are prepared to walk away empty handed if Iran refuses to budge on the important issues.

We are covering all the angles with the help of our senior international correspondents, Fred Pleitgen is in Tehran, and Nic Robertson is in Vienna.

Senior CNN international correspondent Nic Robertson joins us live from Vienna. We know they worked through the night trying to come up with some solutions. Some of the thorny issues have been resolved, but there is a lot that hasn't been, some of those major challenges. Talk to us about what remains at this point.

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, the thing on both sides, the Iranian and U.S. side continue to -- other foreign ministers say that much ground has been covered, yet there are still gaps.

The significance of those meetings, three hours total in two meetings between the foreign ministers of France, Germany, Britain, the EU foreign policy chief, China, Russia, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and with the Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif.

Unprecedented really in terms of these talks to have two such long meetings back to back going on to these -- but some of the outstanding issues still seem to be the amount of research and nuclear development technology can continue after an agreement.

The dispute about how much and how long the cooling down period should be where they have no research and development. The issue of access to sites across Iran for the inspection teams. The issue of sanctions, some of that seems to be laid to rest.

[03:20:04] But one of the things that emerged perhaps as one of the strongest issues and biggest red lines as much as we can tell at this stage, we're not privy to what goes on inside the meetings. But a diplomat said that U.N. Security Council sanctions that put an arms embargo on Iran are a red line.

That U.N. Security Council resolution, the ensuing arms embargo must be lifted before they are willing to get on board with a broader nuclear deal. That is a red line for the United States and other western powers here. That seems to be one of the big issues, but again, we are not privy to what happens inside those meetings -- Rosemary.

CHURCH: All right, Nic Robertson, talking to us there live from Vienna, keeping an eye on those negotiations. Many thanks to you.

FOSTER: Let's bring in Fred Pleitgen. He is covering reaction to the talks from Tehran. Actually all they are looking for is for the sanctions to go as quickly as possible. It's a straight forward deal as far as Iran's concerned, isn't it?

FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, it is in some respects, Max, and certain if you speak to normal Iranians here on the streets, the majority of them will tell you they want the sanctions to be lifted as fast as possible.

We have to keep in mind that this is a very young population that wants economic development very quickly, but it is also a very proud population and certainly the majority of people here do feel that Iran should have the right to at least use nuclear technology in a civilian way.

Now we have been speaking to government officials and hard liners and the average Iranian as well. And it certainly is interesting to capture the mood because people here do realize that this is a pivotal time for their country.

I was able to speak to the deputy foreign minister, his name is Hossein Amir-Abdullahian, about what this deal could mean for Iran's future relations with the U.S. and with the west. Here's what he had to say.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) PLEITGEN: What do you think a nuclear agreement would mean for cooperation or interaction with the United States here in this region?

HOSSEIN AMIR-ABDULLAHIAN, IRANIAN DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER FOR MIDDLE EASTERN AFFAIRS (through translator): Our nation has bitter memories of the United States in the past 36 years following our revolution. But the nuclear negotiations are a historic opportunity with the U.S.

If the United States acts wisely and logically in these negotiations then we can say that America has left a positive impression with the Iranian nation. So if the moves and actions of the United States are constructive, it can leave a positive impact of the U.S., which can lead to further engagement and interaction.

PLEITGEN: Including the fight against terrorism and ISIS. Do you see cooperation there?

AMIR-ABDULLAHIAN (through translator): There is a need of serious confidence building in that respect. We are helping the Iraqi government fight against terrorism on the request of that government. However there are no links and no cooperation with the United States in the fight against ISIS.

PLEITGEN: There are some countries in this region and there are politicians in the United States as well who fear that Iran will expand its influence here in the region if a nuclear deal comes through if the sanctions are lifted. What do you say to that?

AMIR-ABDULLAHIAN (through translator): If a nuclear deal is finalized between Iran and the P5+1 that will help developments in the region and our agreement will not be aimed at any country in that region.

PLEITGEN: Is there any scenario in Syria where Iran would drop support for Bashar al-Assad?

AMIR-ABDULLAHIAN (through translator): We do not insist that Bashar Al-Assad remains the lifelong president in Syria. But we are against the idea that terrorists should make that decision for Syria. Upon request of the Syrian government, we have offered assistance on the level of military consultants to Syria in the face of terrorists and we have no troops on the ground in Syria.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

PLEITGEN: It's interesting, Max, because of course these negotiations are about the nuclear issue, the lifting of the sanctions would be the nuclear sanctions as well. But in total it's about Iran's role here in this region.

A lot of the powers in this region would be afraid of an Iran that is stronger than it is right now. But I want to get back to your original question where you said for Iranians this is straight forward.

In a way it is, but there are also of course a lot of things that complicate the matter. You have a moderate population, at least the majority of them, but you do also have very powerful hard liners who don't want to give an inch to western powers especially to the United States.

And this is something that the government here and the supreme leader in Iran have to navigate both in any final agreement but also in statement in the run up to any agreement -- Max.

FOSTER: OK, Fred Pleitgen in Tehran, thank you very much, indeed.

CHURCH: All right, back to the United States now, in South Carolina's Senate has given preliminary approval to remove the confederate flag from capitol grounds. Lawmakers had an impassioned discussion Monday.

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[03:25:08] VINCENT SHAHEEN, SOUTH CAROLINA STATE SENATOR: It is not about the history. It is not about heritage. It is not about hate. It's about how to heal wounds that stretch back many, many years.

LARRY MARTIN, SOUTH CAROLINA STATE SENATOR: As far as this day on the state house grounds it isn't part of our future.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

FOSTER: The final Senate vote is planned for today. A 2/3 majority is required to move to the state House of Representatives for approval.

CHURCH: South Carolina's governor is among the voices calling for the flag to come down. It has become the subject of renewed criticism after a racist shooting at a black church in Charleston.

FOSTER: Now it was an attack that left London reeling. Ten years later, Britain remembers the July 7th bombings. We'll have a live report.

CHURCH: Plus a 7-year-old boy is among several killed in a series of shootings in Chicago over the holiday weekend. We hear from some who say that change does not appear close. We're back in a moment.

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CHURCH: And a warm welcome back to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. This is CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Rosemary Church.

FOSTER: I'm Max Foster. Let's check the headlines for you this hour. The European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker says he wants to avoid a Greek exit in the Eurozone, but he says he is struggling to understand exactly what Greeks voted for in Sunday's referendum. He spoke to the European parliament this morning in France.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

JUNCKER (through translator): Carried along by very ambitious presidency and let me also pay my respects to your negotiators. [03:30:10] It is true that since the Treaty of Lisbon -- the role of the European union is not something we want or indeed should want and as that is the case the European Commission will continue to work toward a reopening of the negotiations with Greece. What kind of a European union would it be if we stopped talking to each other?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CHURCH: Jean-Claude Juncker there. Newly released court documents show that comedian, Bill Cosby, testified in 2005 that he got sedatives for women he wanted to have sex with, but he doesn't say he gave drugs to any of his accusers. More than 25 women say Cosby drugged and raped them. Accusations he has repeatedly denied. Cosby has never been charged.

FOSTER: At least 14 people are dead after gunmen opened fire on quarry workers as they slept in northeastern Kenya. Reuters reports it happened in Mandera. No one has taken responsibility, but the Somalia-based al-Shabaab militants have carried out similar attacks in the past.

CHURCH: Deadline day has arrived, but there is no deal yet on Iran's nuclear program. A senior Iranian official says the U.S. needs to make constructive moves. But western leaders say Iranian demands are holding things up. The EU's foreign policy chief says a final deal is very close.

FOSTER: Now ten years ago, a terrorist attack shattered London's celebration of winning the bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games. Fifty two people were killed and hundreds more were injured when suicide bombers attacked London's mass transit system.

Today Britain is honoring the victims and the survivors. Erin McLaughlin joins us now from London where the events are about to begin. Obviously, this happens in the shadows of what happened in Tunisia as well so particularly poignant.

ERIN MCLAUGHLIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Max. It's soon to be 8:50 in the morning here in London marking ten years to the moment that three suicide blasts detonated on three separate London underground stations.

Less than an hour later, another suicide blast, a fourth blast took place on a bus. In total some 52 people killed that tragic day. This country forever changed. There will be a wreath laying ceremony to mark that moment in Hyde Park.

The British Prime Minister David Cameron expected to be there as well as the London mayor and emergency response officials. Separate ceremonies expected to take place at the four relevant sites with survivors and family members.

But all of London being encouraged to participate in a show of solidarity, there is a social media campaign #walktogether encouraging London's commuters to get off the trains and tubes a station early and walk the rest of the way to work in in remembrance of those who died. British Prime Minister David Cameron has also released a statement, let me read to you part of it, it reads as follows, "Today the country comes together to remember the victims of one of the deadliest terrorist atrocities on mainland Britain.

Ten years on from the 7/7 London attacks, the threat from terrorism continues to be as real as it is deadly, the murder of 30 innocent Britons while holidaying in Tunisia is a brutal reminder of that fact. But we will never be cowed by terrorism."

So authorities there are not only reflecting on the attack, but also reflecting on a very real threat of terrorism. You see there, British Prime Minister David Cameron referencing the attack in Tunisia.

The country is still reeling from that. That attack claiming some 38 lives including 30 British nationals, the deadliest terrorist attack against British nationals since the 7/7 attacks.

So today, though, a focus very much on remembering the victims ten years ago, there will be a ceremony following the wreath laying ceremony there will be another service at St. Paul's as well as a moment of silence observed across London's underground networks and then a separate ceremony again at Hyde Park later in the afternoon.

FOSTER: And a moment that affects the survivors more than anyone else doesn't it? Remembering the victims the people that died it's the survivors who find it so often at these times to understand how they survived.

MCLAUGHLIN: And people here in London remember that day, still remember that day ten years on, and in vivid detail people recalling where they were when they first heard the news of the attacks.

[03:35:00] But as you point out, most vivid for the survivors and for the family members of those who died. We spoke to Graham Russell. He lost his 28-year-old son to the blast aboard the bus. Take a listen to what he had to say.

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GRAHAM RUSSELL, SON KILLED IN 7/7 ATTACKS: It feels like yesterday. When you hear that your son has been killed, it's like having a piece of your soul ripped out and you just go on. If people ever tell you that you get over it, that's just not true. Time is not a great healer. All that happens is you are further away from the event and things get easier, but they never heal.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

MCLAUGHLIN: You heard him say it's like having a piece of your soul ripped out. For the families and friends of the victims, for the survivors they are not just remembering today, they remember what happened every day. That's one of the reasons why it's so important that the country comes together -- Max.

FOSTER: Erin, thank you very much. CHURCH: An illegal immigrant accused of killing a San Francisco woman is now charged with murder. Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez admitted to a local television reporter that he shot Kate Steinle, but he claims that the gun, which he found lying on the ground, wrapped in a t- shirt, went off on its own.

Steinle was walking with her father last week when she was shot. She died on the way to the hospital. On Monday a prayer vigil was held on the popular walkway where Steinle was shot. People left flowers, candles, notes and prayed for the 32-year-old victim and her family.

FOSTER: Chicago's police chief says the city's justice system is broken and needs to be repaired. The comments came after a series of shootings over the 4th of July holiday weekend that left at least seven people dead including a 7-year-old boy. CNN's Ryan Nobles reports.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You might as well turn yourself in. This 7- year-old, our family member did nothing to you.

RYAN NOBLES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The 7-year-old is Amare Brown, killed by a bullet police believe was intended for his father, a man the police have called a known gang member, who has been arrested more than 40 times. In addition to Brown, seven others were killed this weekend ranging in age from 17 to 48. At the nearby Greater St. John Bible Church, Pastor Ira Acree is frustrated.

REVEREND IRA ACREE, GREATER ST. JOHN BIBLE CHURCH: Amare was not in the game. He is 7 years old and there is power in the blood of the innocent.

NOBLES: Acree believes Chicago needs fewer guns and more opportunity. But despite the horrific headlines, real change doesn't appear close.

ACREE: We need to go straight to the core and the core is to deal with the social desperation.

NOBLES: The level of violence in the nation's third largest city is not much better than it was two years ago.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm not going to say they are worse, but they are not better.

NOBLES: That's when the murder of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton sparked outrage across the country. Hadiya's parents still can't believe that her death did not lead to greater change. And that again, this weekend, yet another innocent young life was cut short.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's instant heart break. I know what that -- those parents are feeling.

NOBLES: But despite the frustration, the Pendletons will not quit because the pain they feel will never go away. CLEOPATRA PENDLETON, MOTHER OF HADIYA PENDLETON: You don't want other people to feel the way they have felt, but there have been thousands of other families who have joined this fraternity that no one wants to be a part of.

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FOSTER: That was CNN's Ron Nobles reporting from Chicago.

CHURCH: Republican presidential candidate and billionaire, Donald Trump continues to ruffle feathers with his stance on immigration and his latest rivals on the issue might surprise you. The details are coming up next.

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FOSTER: Now the debate on immigration in the U.S. is growing and Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, is leading the charge right now.

CHURCH: He is but his stance on the issue is causing a rift with other presidential candidates even ones in his own party. Jeff Zeleny reports.

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DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: They're not sending their best.

JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Republicans are racing away from Donald Trump whose controversial comments about Mexican immigrants are royaling the GOP.

TRUMP: I love Mexico, but every time I talked about it, they accused me of being a racist.

ZELENY: Jeb Bush was blunt on a weekend stop in New Hampshire.

JEB BUSH (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Trump is wrong on this. He's not a stupid guy so I don't assume that he thinks that every Mexican crossing the border is a rapist.

ZELENY: After holding their tongues, GOP candidates are now speaking out.

RICK PERRY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The fact is I have said very clearly that Donald Trump does not represent the Republican Party.

ZELENY: It has been nearly three weeks since the entertainer turned politician set off outraged by saying some Mexican immigrants are rapists and drug runners. The fallout is still dominating the debate and dividing Republicans. Ted Cruz is standing by him.

TED CRUZ (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I like Donald Trump. He is bold and brash and I guess it seems the favorite sport of the Washington media is to encourage some Republicans to attack other Republicans. I'm not going to do it.

ZELENY: Chris Christie is not.

GOVERNOR CHRIS CHRISTIE (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I've said that the comments he made were inappropriate and have no place in the race.

ZELENY: And Mike Huckabee is blaming the media for stirring the pot.

MIKE HUCKABEE (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Donald Trump needs no help from Mike Huckabee to get publicity. He is doing a really good job at that.

ZELENY: Trump has not backed down telling CNN's Don Lemon last week that crime is rampant along the border.

TRUMP: Somebody is doing the raping, Don.

ZELENY: And now he is turning to Twitter to fire back at his rivals saying, "Jeb Bush says, illegal immigrants breaking our laws is an act of love. Trump is also pointing to a shooting of a young woman in San Francisco as an example of failed U.S. immigration policies. Police say she was killed by an undocumented immigrant with a long criminal record.

Today Republican presidential hopeful, George Pataki, urged all GOP candidates to stand up to Trump.

GEORGE PATAKI (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: It is not appropriate to use that, to demonize millions of people who have come from Mexico and to try to paint them as all being like that horrible criminal in San Francisco.

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ZELENY: Now the Trump campaign released a statement doubling down on his remarks. He said the Mexican government is forcing their unwanted people into the United States. They are in many cases, criminals, he said, drug dealers and rapists.

Now he pointed it at San Francisco shooting and says there are thousands of similar incidents throughout the United States. But it's statements like that that get Trump into trouble. Now all of this comes as the first Republican presidential debate is only one month away. Jeff Zeleny, CNN, Washington.

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[03:45:07] FOSTER: Now, ceremonies are set to begin as Britain marks ten-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the transit system. We are going to hear survivor accounts of that terrifying morning coming up.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) CHURCH: You're back with us as we take these live pictures, British Prime Minister David Cameron at the wreath laying ceremony in memory of those who died, the 52 victims of the 7/7 attacks that hit the transportation system in London.

FOSTER: There will be a moment of silence later led by Prince William and the prime minister really starting a day of events today to commemorate what happened ten years ago now, which seems incredible.

Fifty two people killed when bombs went off simultaneously in three tube stations and later on a bus as well. More than 700 were injured and the survivors very much involved in all of the ceremonies today and the families of the victims as well. That's the main memorial in London.

CHURCH: And of course there will be a service, a commemoration at St. Paul's Cathedral as well. Survivors and first responders will attend and at 11:30 local time, there will be 1 minute of silence across London.

[03:50:03] FOSTER: Another memorial service back here in Hyde Park later on as we said with Prince William attending. But that memorial, very, very powerful, and what's interesting, Rosemarie, is you can go there any day and there are always people there even ten years on, it really affected the U.K.

CHURCH: It really is, and when you think 52 people died. Hundreds were injured in that. And it is just shocking and for the British people, of course, this comes as we know, Britons are mourning those who were killed in Tunisia.

FOSTER: That's the shadow and debate around all of this as well. Statements released by the police and MI5 today, and the references you constantly get are that the terror threat is constantly changing.

This was an attack on home soil, Tunisia on foreign soil but the message really from the security services is you are vulnerable as a Brit wherever you are right now. But this was the last terror attack on the UK home soil.

CHURCH: It sends the message to people the terrorists trying to terrorize people on the public transport system. People are not easy any more on the trains and the buses.

But it is just part of life that they need to, the practicality of having to get from "a" to "b." But unnerving for people and on this day, people remembering the loss of those 52 people, it was a tragic day for Brits.

FOSTER: Just had an e-mail from MI5 and their director general said we remember the victims of a dreadful day, we all know where we were on Thursday morning ten years ago when 52 people died at the hands of terrorists.

And the truth about the murders, the injuries to hundreds of others and the many lives affected quickly became apparent and you remember that day. Initially you had the reports of a power surge and then these multiple attacks coming through over the course of the day.

CHURCH: And then as authorities gradually and slowly tracked down the killers.

FOSTER: Yes, and there was a big, big test and huge investigation that followed and all the systems have changed as a result. It's interesting. We were seeing earlier pictures of one of the survivors who met the policeman, the transport policeman who saved her for the first time in all of these years. It was a very emotional moment.

But the systems weren't perfect on that day in response. But they've been constantly reviewed ever since and I was recently at a big rehearsal, a -- where they try to practice what happened in Sydney, actually, a lone gunman running through.

And these -- what they're trying to do now is just try to keep up with the current threat. The last real example of something that happened in London was this and more than 50 people dying, it was the worst- case scenario, really.

CHURCH: And of course, these attacks were the first suicide bombings by Islamist militants in Western Europe.

FOSTER: For a day, touched by so many we'll forever keep in those people's minds.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: All I remember is a white light in front of my eyes. And it wasn't just a flash. I felt like it was there for a long time. And I remember looking at this white light and having the feeling that I was being shook from side to side.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Dense, billowing smoke poured into the carriage. We didn't know what had happened at that time, but it felt like there was an explosion.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The bomb was four foot away from me.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are getting reports of another explosion.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was a power surge as it was described.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Some people were sitting silently and others were crying hysterically.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I couldn't understand why I couldn't move myself and then I sort of looked up and all I could see was this metal which was the corner of the tube had buckled from the explosion. It was just going to look like it was going down into the ground but it wasn't. It was going down into my legs.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And I started to pray.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Going to run somebody over. Another -- UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The news was full of the four explosions. And one

of them was in the square here. Now I thought, well, that's not a problem because my son would not be there. He works over in the city.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Mom had spoken to my dad on the phone after she got evacuated and before she got on the bus.

[03:55:05] UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was an eerie scene because the bus had been ripped apart by the explosion and a quiet except for the sound of silence.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: One lady died in front of me. She had a wedding ring on. You are thinking she's obviously married. Does she have children? Is mom not coming home tonight?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We didn't know that Philip had died until the Monday.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: On the Saturday I allowed myself to think about the possibility that she could have been on the bus and on the Monday her identity was confirmed to us forensically.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I will never, ever forget those people that lost their lives that day.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I heard a quote from a Detroit firefighter who said I wish my head could forget what my eyes have seen and that just sums it up, really, doesn't it?

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CHURCH: It is horrifying to hear the stories and particularly that father you hear him saying part of his soul was ripped from him when he heard the news of his son having died.

FOSTER: Saying it doesn't heal.

CHURCH: Thank you so much for watching CNN. I'm Rosemary Church. "EARLY START" is coming up for viewers in the United States.

FOSTER: I'm Max Foster. For viewers elsewhere do join me for more CNN NEWSROOM right after the break as that memorial continues.

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