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Possible Debris from Missing Malaysian Airplane Found; Donald Trump Leads other Republican Presidential Candidates in New Poll; Donald Trump Clarifies his Current Views on Abortion; Former Univ. of Cincinnati Officer Indicted for Murder; Interview with Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. Aired 8-8:30a ET

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[08:00:00] WARREN TRUSS, AUSTRALIAN DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER: -- a part of the aircraft may have been found.

ROBYN KRIEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: A piece of debris possible part of a wing of what appears to be a Boeing 777, the same model as the missing commercial airliner, discovered washed up on a western Indian Ocean beach on the island of Reunion near Madagascar.

French and Malaysian authorities dispatching teams to Reunion island to investigate the debris which washed up more than 2,300 miles away from the current search zone off the Australian coast in the southern Indian Ocean, a group of people happening on the wreckage during a beach cleanup. This man telling a reporter he saw a wing as he walked closer to the debris.

The debris bearing a marking BB670, which could help in the identification process.

DAVID SOUCIE, CNN AVIATION ANALYST: If it is indeed part of a 777, then we're pretty clear that it would be then part of MH370.

KRIEL: Flight MH370 vanished without a trace in March of last year with 239 souls on board shortly after takeoff from Kuala Lumpur on route to Beijing, the Malaysian government ultimately declaring the missing plane an accident, everyone on board presumed dead.

Now after almost 500 days of empty leads, this may be the first piece of physical evidence, bringing authorities one step closer to unlocking the mystery of the ill-fated flight's disappearance.

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KRIEL: And to further unlock that mystery, that piece of debris will be taken to the Toulouse which is very similar to the United States Civil Aviation Authority head. It's called BEA. That is where the French will oversee the investigation, oversee the, I guess, tests that will be done to confirm if this is part of MH370. Malaysian officials will also join in that investigation and Australian and Malaysia officials as well as French official here on the island will continue to search for any further debris. John? JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: All right, the recovery of this piece

of debris comes almost a year and a half after the nonstop search efforts for the plane largely focused over here on the western arc of Australia. So how did the debris get from over here all the way to Reunion Island, some 2,300 miles away? Let's bring in CNN's Andrew Stevens on more with how this has all progressed as the mystery unfolded. Andrew?

ANDREW STEVENS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This has been an extraordinary part of the story, John. And 500 days after the MH370 took off only now we're starting to get some identification perhaps of debris from a crashed plane. So that flight took off and it disappeared from radar fairly soon after taking off, and the initial investigation -- this whole search was spread over a huge area. People were looking along the flight path.

But as it became apparent that the plane had turned back, shadows of radar images had been caught at the time, it had turned back from Malaysia, that search widened toe a stage of 4.6 million square kilometers was under active investigation. That's an enormous area that the searchers were trying to come to grips with, 26 countries at that stage were involved, obviously Malaysia. The U.S. was involved, Australia, China of course. Pakistan, Bangladesh, Thailand, countries like that all involved in the search, yielding nothing.

And as the technical analysis advanced investigators starting switching their gaze further and further south into the far southern areas of the deep Indian Ocean. And the search contracted in size down to about 120,000 square kilometers. Only three countries still searching, that's Australia, which is leading the search, Malaysia, of course, and China, 153 Chinese nationals on that flight. And that's where we are at the moment, $100 million later and we still don't know whether this is the actual debris and when you'll be able to link it back to where that plane actually is. Back to you.

ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: It's been $100 million, 500 days, it has been an incredible ordeal. Andrew, thank you for that.

And it also has been an agonizing wait for the families of the 239 people aboard the missing airliner. Could this new lead finally bring them answers? Many are treating the news with caution. CNN's Will Ripley is live in Beijing. That was where flight 370 was headed before it vanished. He has that part of the story. What have your learned, Will?

WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Alisyn, we're talking to the families here. And they really do feel left behind and left out of the loop right now because unlike when the plane disappeared, they don't have the support network, the infrastructure, the information center, they don't have a hotline. They don't have psychologists who were there to assist them with the grief that they're going through.

A wife of one of the passengers we spoke to said her heart is tortured right now. This has brought her right back to early March of last year when the plane vanished with 249 people on board including more than 150 Chinese.

[08:05:03] Some of those families are putting out a statement right now. Obviously this is such a hard time for them, and they are saying, quote, "No matter where the debris is found, we care more about the whereabouts of our family members. Whether or not the debris of MH370 is found all parties should not stop or give up their previously pledged search effort." The wife of Patrick Gomez, the inflight supervisor, also speaking, saying, "I'm torn. If it is confirmed to have come from 370, there will be closure for us, but I'm also hoping that it's not the plane, that Patrick is still alive." That is the hope that is shared by so many of the families of those on board the flight. And they need to be kept in all of our thoughts this morning because, again, they feel so along right now. They're not getting information through the official channels. They have to watch the news just like everyone else.

CAMEROTA: Hopefully in the next 24 to 48 hours they will have more information. Will, thanks so much.

So let's take a look back right now at how we got to this point. Here's what we know. The plane took off March 8th, 2014. And it went off radar just one hour into its flight. And at that point the search centered around Malaysia. The satellite company Inmarsat revealed that the plane communicated with its systems for hours after that point and they believe that the plane may have been on this arc based on those signals they were getting.

That's when the search moved closer to Australia. Ships searching this last area, making a detailed map of the ocean floor to try to spot the plane. But still nothing but false alarms until today. So in order to get to Reunion island, the debris had to travel from Australia or Malaysia. That's called this, the Indian Ocean gyre, and its currents that spin counterclockwise.

Let's talk about all of this with your CNN aviation analysts David Soucie and Miles O'Brien. David is a former aviation safety inspector. Miles is a science correspondent at the "PBS News Hour." Gentlemen, it's great to have both of you here. Miles, what do you think about where this piece of debris has just been found?

MILES O'BRIEN, CNN AVIATION ANALYST: Well, there's nothing about the location of this piece of debris which would tell authorities to search anywhere else than they're already searching. So that's, I guess, good news that they've been plowing through the ocean in the right spot. We know a lot of places where the plane isn't. But at least they're probably in the general vicinity, because given the amount of time and the currents that we know of, it stands to reason that the part would be just where it was found.

CAMEROTA: But Miles, the base of the search area is 2,300 miles away from where this piece of debris was found. So what makes you think it's the right spot where they're searching?

O'BRIEN: "Exact" in this case is not the right term, Alisyn, because Inmarsat engineers did a very clever reverse engineering job just to figure out that the plane was on a southerly course for all those many hours. That's an extraordinary thing, but it's not precise by any means. And the search zone is much larger than a conventional search zone would be where you would find some wreckage in the water, backtrack it, and come up with a bull's eye. It's a huge area. There's a lot of margin for error, and so there's still a lot of ocean to go through.

CAMEROTA: David, were you surprised by where this debris has washed up?

DAVID SOUCIE, CNN AVIATION ANALYST: Not at all, because if we look back to April and May of last year, they actually predicted that we wouldn't see any debris -- well, that the debris would be that that area and that we wouldn't see any for 16 to 18 months. So as far as predicting the currents and the gyre of that ocean, it is pretty reliable and it's exactly what we would have expected at this time.

CAMEROTA: Miles, can you describe what this piece of degree is and what it might reveal about what brought down this plane?

O'BRIEN: It's called a flaperon. It's a two in one item. It does two things. It banks the wings, part of the turning process on an airplane. It's also use, it deploys as the plane is on approach for landing to change the aerodynamic surface of the wing to allow the plane to fly slower, safer. So it could be used for two things, to bank the wing or to slow it down.

So the question is, why did it break off so cleanly? Was it deployed? Was it hanging out on the backside of the wing? Does that mean the plane was turning at the time it hit the water? Or, perhaps in a more sinister fashion, was it slowed down to allow it to land gently in the water, to ditch?

CAMEROTA: And that would mean that somebody in the plane would have wanted the plane to go in the water in one piece?

O'BRIEN: I think that's the conclusion you could come to. The autopilot could control the flaperon to bank the wings. The autopilot would not deploy the flaps which would have caused it to slow down and would have had it deployed in that fashion. So that means somebody would have been onboard making that decision.

CAMEROTA: David, what do you think about the fact that this piece is intact? What does it tell you?

[08:10:05] SOUCIE: Well, I think it's a reach to deploy as a flap. The autopilot cannot deploy as a flap. And that would be in line with what Miles was saying about the intentional trying to land the aircraft. But this aircraft by itself will try to fly straight and level. It's designed to do that. And the autopilot would extend or retract that flaperon. So it is indicative of that flaperon being extended because of the way it was torn off.

If the aircraft had gone in straight in a dramatic hit, the front of that flaperon would be damaged because it would collide with the wing. Whether it was extended or not, you'd see damage in the front of that. So Miles is correct in that the only way it could have been torn off and be in the condition it is, is if it had been extended in some fashion. But I think saying whether it was being used as a flap versus being used as a flaperon, I think it's too premature --

CAMEROTA: But David, I guess my question is that it's big, it's a significant piece. We've seen other crashes where pieces are like little puzzle pieces. What does it mean that it's so big?

SOUCIE: It definitely means one of two things. One is that the aircraft did land in a ditching fashion and would have more or less skimmed on the water. But most of the damage when that type of accident occurs on the water occurs after the initial impact. You have an impact spot, and if the flaperon's were extended at that time and it did make that level ditching, this could have been torn off and subsequent to that the aircraft could break into small pieces. But it's not what we would expect to see in an aircraft that did a direct nose-in crash into the water, because it's just like concrete when it hits in that manner.

CAMEROTA: Miles, we've heard from the commissioner in charge of the search that he believes in the next 24 to 48 hours we would know definitively. What are they going to be doing today to figure out if this is actually from MH370?

O'BRIEN: Well, there's a couple of things. First of all, just visually this is a 777 part. There's only one 777 missing. So we're already at about 99.9 percent. There's some markings on the flaperon which indicate where it fits, where its panels are supposed to go. They have removable panels which are coded. Some of the codes on it match what a 777 panel code would be. And then of course the final and most important thing to give complete certainly would be some sort of serial number. Every part of an airplane has a serial number and a long pedigree attached to it. It's not like they're randomly put on there. So once that number is located and matched against the maintenance records, then we can go with 100 percent.

CAMEROTA: OK, we'll see what happens today. David Soucie, Miles O'Brien, always great to rely on your expertise. Thanks so much. Let's get over to John.

BERMAN: All right, thanks Alisyn. We're going to have much more of our continuing coverage of flight 370 ahead. But first, Donald Trump, a brand new poll out this morning from Quinnipiac shows Donald Trump creating some space, pulling ahead in the Republican race. The nearest Republican rival Scott Walker seven points back. Look how far back Jeb Bush is. Trump also setting the record straight when it comes to his views on abortion. That in an interview with our chief Congressional correspondent Dana Bash who sat down with Trump one on one.

DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: That's right. Donald Trump is now, of course, as you just saw doing very well in the Republican field. But people might not remember 15 years ago in the year 2000 he considered running on the Reform Party ticket. And about that time he wrote a book where his views were quite different than they are now. I asked him about that.

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BASH: On the train up here, I bought your 2000 book, "The America We Deserve."

DONALD TRUMP, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Right.

BASH: It's $7.99 on Amazon by the way. And so I was reading it, and there were a couple of things jumped out at me. One is on abortion, at the time you said you were pro-choice. Now you've changed, right?

TRUMP: I am prolife. I had an experience with a friend of mine who was frankly -- they were going to abort their child, which they ended up having, and their child is like this magnificent person. And it had an impact. I've seen that now a couple of time. I'm prolife.

BASH: Your prolife, but you do think there should be exceptions for rape and incest?

TRUMP: Yes. And the life, the health of the mother, the death, because you have some cases where the mother may die. It's basically Ronald Reagan had the same thing. He had the three exceptions.

BASH: If you are the Republican nominee, you would be the effective leader of the Republican Party. Would you make sure those exceptions are on the Republican Party platform?

TRUMP: I think it would be something I would discuss very seriously with the people in the Republican Party.

BASH: Healthcare. In this book you at the time said you were very conservative on most issues but liberal on healthcare.

[08:15:02] You advocated a single payer system, sort of Canadian-style universe healthcare. What's your position now?

TRUMP: Well, at the time -- and I will say this -- at the time, we were having not the kind of difficulty that we're having now with Obamacare. Obamacare is number one and maybe least importantly is costing the country a fortune.

It's also a very bad form of -- it's very bad. People are losing their plans. They're losing their doctors.

Doctors -- you know, one of the biggest problems that nobody talks about, doctors are all leaving. They're leaving the profession.

BASH: Do you think the answer still is a single-payer system?

TRUMP: No, I think the answer is going to be we have to knock down the borders and let people compete, and then we do. Now, we're may be different than other people. I want to take care of everybody. You know, you have a group of people who aren't able to take care of themselves.

BASH: How do you do that?

TRUMP: You can't imagine -- we're going to have to work out some kind of a deal with hospitals where they can get some help, when they are sick, when they have no money and they're sick.

And you know what? If a Republican, or if a conservative, and I'm a very conservative person, but if a conservative doesn't like the fact that I have to want to take care of somebody that if they're really sick and they have no money, I want to help the person --

BASH: How do you do that?

TRUMP: We're going to have to work out a very smart deal with hospitals around the country.

BASH: So, you're in the Oval Office. You're saying Obamacare --

TRUMP: It's got to go.

BASH: It's got to go.

TRUMP: Repeal and replace with something terrific.

BASH: And the terrific is --

TRUMP: The terrific will be plans. It can be done by private companies.

I have to be able to compete. I want to be able to compete and go to a company in California, company in Iowa, company in New Hampshire, company -- for -- and I'll get a good price. The only way the government should really be involved is they have to make sure those companies are financially strong so that if they have catastrophic events, they have plenty of money. Other than that, it's private. You'll get great plans, you have great competition, everything else.

Now, at the lower end where people have no money, I want to try and help those people. And I don't think there's anything wrong with that. But I want to try and help those people so they also -- now, it's not going to be like a good plan, the finest plan that somebody that's made some money or has a good living can go do. But you've got to be able to help the people.

Can you imagine you have no money and you get sick like somebody else, and you have no place to go? And you know what? If I lose votes over that, or if I don't get a nomination over that, that's just fine with me.

BASH: Because it would be government assistance effectively.

TRUMP: You have to help people.

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CAMEROTA: Interesting to hear his positions, particularly how they've changed. I interviewed a panel of his supporters who do not see any of that as flip-flopping. They see it as evolving.

BASH: Isn't it amazing? Mitt Romney, four years ago and eight years ago in 2008 as well, he made really pretty much the same changes on abortion for example. And most conservatives for a while wouldn't give him the time of day because they didn't consider him a real conservative. It's that very group of the Republican electorate that seems to be flocking to Donald Trump right now. Fascinating.

I should also say that trump is now in Scotland because the British Open is at his golf course in Scotland and he just landed. He said, "The world has asked me to be here."

MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR: Wow. OK.

BERMAN: There you have it.

PEREIRA: Effectively sent out an invitation.

Dana, thank you.

BASH: Thank you.

PEREIRA: Very interesting.

CAMEROTA: Thanks so much.

PEREIRA: A former University of Cincinnati police officer is going to make his first court appearance in less than two hours' time. He is charged with murder and involuntary manslaughter. Prosecutors say Ray Tensing shot and killed Samuel DuBose during a traffic stop earlier this month. The entire incident was caught on that officer's body camera.

We take you live now to Cincinnati. CNN's Jean Casarez joins us -- Jean.

JEAN CASAREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Michaela, in just about an hour and a half, this young 25-year-old police officer is going to be in the courthouse right behind me, his initial appearance before a judge. Now, under the law someone is innocent until proven guilty by a jury of his peers inside that court house. But the prosecutor is saying this is murder.

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CASAREZ (voice-over): Protesters pleading for justice in front of a Cincinnati courthouse on Wednesday. Emotions running high, as newly released body camera footage shows campus Police Officer Ray Tensing shoot and kill Samuel DuBose during a routine traffic stop.

RAY TENSING: Go and take your seat belt off. Stop! Stop!

(GUNSHOT)

CASAREZ: Tensing now behind bars.

The 25-year-old police officer turning himself in on Wednesday after being indicted for murder.

JOSEPH DETERS, HAMILTON COUNTY PROSECUTOR: This is the most asinine act I've ever seen a police officer make.

CASAREZ: The nearly 30-minute long video shows Tensing pulling over DuBose for a missing license plate.

TENSING: Hey, how's it going man?

SAMUEL DUBOSE: Hey, how's it going?

CASAREZ: Tensing asked repeatedly for his license.

TENSING: Why don't you have your license on you?

DUBOSE: I just don't, I'm sorry.

CASAREZ: What happens next is hard to watch.

TENSING: I'm trying to figure out if you have a license or not. Go ahead and take your seat belt off for me.

[08:20:00] DUBOSE: I didn't even do nothing. Why you?

TENSING: Go and take your seat belt off. Stop! Stop! .

(GUNSHOT)

CASAREZ: Frame by frame you see the police officer reach for DuBose's door. DuBose starts the car and the car begins to move.

From a second body camera attached to a different officer, you can hear what Tensing says happened.

TENSING: I just got tangled in the car. I thought he was going to run me over.

CASAREZ: The county prosecutor says Tensing's account is misleading.

DETERS: When he got shot, you can hear the car accelerating because he fell forward and must have pressed on the gas.

CASAREZ: Dubose's mother says she thanks God everything was revealed.

AUDREY DUBOSE, MOTHER OF VICTIM: I'm so glad that the man that murdered my son is in jail now.

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CASAREZ: And here is how different the two sides are going to be on this case -- the prosecutor said that the car slowly was rolling. He then immediately shoots. The defense attorney for this young police officer said that the victim began to mash the accelerator down and then the shot rang out. And also today the defense attorney says will also be probably a bail hearing -- Alisyn.

CAMEROTA: Such a disturbing video to have to see.

Jean, thanks so much for the update.

Well, there are more breaking developments in the search for Flight 370.

But, first, a new poll says trump continues to lead the Republican field. We will speak with one of his rivals, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal.

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CAMEROTA: Let's talk some politics, because a new national poll just released this morning has Donald Trump the clear Republican front runner with 20 percent support. That's ahead of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Jeb Bush.

Joining us to discuss the crowded race for president and so much more is Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. He's also, of course, a 2016 Republican presidential candidate.

Governor, great to see you.

GOV. BOBBY JINDAL (R-LA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Great to be back. Thank y'all both for having me.

CAMEROTA: Thanks for coming in here. We love to have you on set.

[08:25:00] Let's talk about the hot issue of immigration.

Donald Trump just sat down with our Dana Bash and he talked about his plan to fix immigration. Let us play that for you and get you to respond.

JINDAL: Sure.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

TRUMP: You're supposed to come in legally. I would get people out and I would have an expedited way of getting them back into the country so they can be legal. I would move them out and then move them back in and let them be legal. But they have to be in here legally.

BASH: Legally, like --

TRUMP: Excuse me. Otherwise, you don't have a country. You don't have a country. If people can just pour in illegally, you don't have a country.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CAMEROTA: He wants to get them out, referring to the 11 million or 12 million here illegally, get them out and then get them back in.

Does this plan make sense to you?

JINDAL: Well, let me tell you what I would do. I think right now, what we need from the federal government is to secure the border.

We don't need a-thousand-page bill. We don't amnesty. We don't need a comprehensive approach. We don't need the "gang of eight" approach. We don't need the Jeb Bush approach. He came out (ph) for amnesty again earlier this week.

Secure the border.

CAMEROTA: How do you do that?

JINDAL: Well, I think, one, you know that it's secured when the board of governors tells you it's secure. Secondly, I've been to the border myself. I was down there in Texas last year, saw people. They weren't sneaking across the border. They were coming across the border.

Yes, we need to build a wall. Yes, we need more boots on the ground. And yes, you need technology and sensors. And yes, you need heat flare technology in the helicopters.

One of the interesting things, when Texas, when they surged their resources to a particular part of the border, what they found is people stopped coming in that area. Now, they would go somewhere else, but it shows you can deter -- you can stop people from coming across the border illegally. Secure the border.

What happened in the '80s was the American people were told we need to do everything at once. We need to do border security and amnesty. And instead, they got amnesty. They didn't get border security.

I don't think they want that same -- they don't want to see that same failed approach again.

BERMAN: But, Governor, you're being criticized in some parts for only having a border strategy. Not having a strategy for how to deal with 11 million people who are in this country.

Donald Trump just gave a limited plan, a limited plan. Jeb Bush has a more evolved plan where he does call for legal status.

What would you do with the 11 million people here?

JINDAL: Well, two things, one, I think the American people would be pragmatic and compassionate about the people here, but I don't think they want that as part of the discussion with securing the border. We need to secure the border first.

And, look, I've often said, our immigration policy can either make us stronger or weaker. Our immigration policy is backwards today. It's a low wall and narrow --

BERMAN: But you rule out legal status? Could you ever support legal status?

JINDAL: I'm saying, let's not even have that conversation until we secure the border?

BERMAN: So, you refuse to take a position?

JINDAL: Well, what I do see, wait, let me talk about my approach to immigration. I think that you need a higher wall to secure the border and a broader gate. I do think we need to make it easier for people to come legally, that want to learn English, adopt our values, want to roll up their sleeves and go to work. I think that kind of immigration can make our country stronger. Not enough people talk about integration, assimilation.

I've also said, we've got to get rid of the hyphenated Americans. We have proudly been the melting pot. That has made our country great. You look at Europe, you got second, third generation immigrants that don't consider themselves part of that culture. We don't need to let that happened here.

CAMEROTA: I mean, you say pragmatic and compassionate, that sounds like a path to citizenship.

JINDAL: Again, look, the reason the American people are so skeptical -- we've heard this before, whenever folks before said we need to talk about it all together, we have gotten amnesty without securing the border. Let's secure the border, then we will deal with the folks that are here already. But, first, let's secure the border.

BERMAN: I think we're not going to get an answer to that question no matter how hard we push right now of what to do with the 11 million.

CAMEROTA: I hear your timing, your timing answer.

BERMAN: Let's talk --

JINDAL: I think timing is important. I think folks that, they feel like it's not right, it's not appropriate to talk about the second thing until you get the first thing done.

BERMAN: But it is an issue for 11 million people who are in the country. They want to know what's going to happen to them.

JINDAL: But this is, look, we are a compassionate pragmatic country. But we've -- the problem is, we've been down this part before, where we've been told, look, you can't talk about securing the border until you do these other things. There's no reason -- if we don't secure the border it's 11 million, 12 million today. Who knows how many it will be tomorrow? We've got to secure the border.

BERMAN: Do appreciate sharing your views with us on that.

Let's talk about the race right now. You're a candidate right now, one of I guess 17, because Jim Gilmore got in yesterday. So, we have to change our numbers on this one from 16 to 17.

A new Quinnipiac poll out this morning, we've been looking at it all morning, Donald Trump kind of pulling away at 20 percent. I believe in the Quinnipiac poll, you were at 2 percent in the polls right now.

As it stands right now, you will not be on the stage as part of the ten candidates debating next week in the first debate. Is that a disappointment?

JINDAL: Well, a couple of things. Look, this is the first debate, not the last debate. We've been focusing our time in the early states. We've seen great crowds in Iowa. We're going to every single county doing town halls. We stay until the last question is answered.

There are a lot of people running for president that a lot of those candidates that don't have the bandwidth, they don't have the backbone, they don't have experience to get the job done. I do. I believe if voters start paying more attention to this election, they understand this is a very important election, we're going to do very, very well.

So, again, I remind folks. This is the first debate, not the last debate. I'm happy to debate anybody, anytime anywhere.

But we're very pleased with the movement we're building in Iowa. We're moving up in the polls, seeing more and more crowds showing up. We're doing very, very well in our early state strategy.

CAMEROTA: We want to ask you about another thing, in Capitol Hill. That's Iran deal. The administration is trying to sell it to Congress.

This week, Senator Ted Cruz said, "If this deal is consummated, it will make the Obama administration the world's leading financier of radical Islamic terrorism."