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Trump Unveils Immigration Policy Plan; Remembering Julian Bond; Man Alleges Sexual Assault At Airbnb Home; Man Alleges Sexual Assault At Airbnb Home; Spieth Could Make Golf History Today; North Korea Threatens U.S.; Passenger Plane That Went Missing Over Indonesia Has Been Found; Trump Says He Would Rescind President Obama's Immigration Executive Order. Aired 2-3p ET

Aired August 16, 2015 - 14:00   ET

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[14:00:20] FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Happening right now in the NEWSROOM, an Indonesian airliner gone missing, now believed to have crashed into a mountainside.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mountains in this area top out well above 10,000, even 13,000 feet.

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WHITFIELD: Rescuers hoping to resume their search after bad weather forced them to quit. Plus --

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I felt like Pierce Brosnan in "Dante's Peak." I was literally outrunning flames at 60 miles an hour.

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WHITFIELD: Wildfires ravaging the west. Thousands of people forced to evacuate as firefighters try to beat back the flames.

And North Korea threatening the U.S. with quote "tremendous muscle" if tomorrow's military exercises with South Korea are not cancelled.

NEWSROOM starts now.

Hello, everyone, thanks for joining me, I'm Fredricka Whitfield. Parts of a passenger plane that went missing over Indonesia on Sunday have been found. A transportation official says wreckage has been recovered in the district of Papua province. That confirmation came shortly after villagers reported seeing the aircraft crash into a mountain. The search for the plane has been suspended until tomorrow because of thunderstorms in the area and lack of light due to night fall there.

CNN's David Molko has the very latest -- David.

DAVID MOLKO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Fred, we're just a few hours away from first light in that part of Indonesia. The big priority now, to get search and rescue teams in the air and on the ground in the area where it's believed this plane went down. Remember, right now all officials have to go on are a few villagers' accounts saying they believe they saw a plane crash into the side of a mountain.

You know, this is an extremely remote area with mountaintops in the 10,000 to 13,000 foot range. Communication is difficult. Accessibility will be difficult. But the hours ahead will be absolutely critical, 54 passengers and crew on board the twin engine turbo prop including several children and infants.

Fred, this is also raising broader questions about the safety of air transport here in the region, including in Indonesia. It was only a couple of months ago that a military cargo plane, carrying some civilians went down, killing more than 130 people. And then, of course, back in December we had the crash of Airasia flight 8501. All this again raising questions not only about oversight but safety, maintenance, and training.

Again, Fred, the big priority in the hours ahead, a search and rescue mission. The search for survivors as dozens of family members await news of their loved ones' fate - Fred.

WHITFIELD: All right. Thank you so much, David Molko.

All right. Let's bring in CNN's aviation correspondent, Richard Quest.

So Richard, this plane was only 33 minutes into flight when it lost contact and was just about 20 minutes away from its scheduled landing, a relatively short flight. So what are all of the things being considered as to what may have caused it to have problems?

RICHARD QUEST, CNN AVIATION CORRESPONDENT: A combination, Fred, of bad weather, poor piloting, bad maintenance, as David Molko says. The plane will have been starting its descent at roughly the time that the accident took place. It may well have been well and truly into the descent. We know the weather was appalling and there were high mountains in the area.

Now, honestly, none of those individually are lethal to a plane being properly piloted. But this particular airline, Trigana air services, I'm looking down at the list. It has the most appalling safety record. Since 1992, it's had 14 incidents, 14 incidents.

Let me give you a comparison. It's only got about 20, 22 aircraft. Compare that to, say, United Airlines with hundreds and hundreds of planes, which has only had seven incidents, most of them nonfatal and not including 9/11. So this particular airline, along with an old plane of some 27 years old, the number PKYRN, Fred, this was a noxious mixture that was ripe for an accident, if it was a poorly piloted and badly maintained aircraft.

WHITFIELD: When you talk about these 14 incidents in one year alone --

QUEST: No, no, no, no. Not in one year.

WHITFIELD: How long?

QUEST: Sorry, forgive me if I said one year, since 1992. Since 1992 it's had 14 incidents.

[14:05:01] WHITFIELD: 1992 to present.

QUEST: Yes, '92 to present. Now, that may not sound that many, but compare it to a British airways, which has had five or six, United which has had six. Even Delta has only have nine. And these are airlines which have 10, 20 times as many aircraft and more complicated routes.

Now, this airline, if you look at all the incidents they have had. They have been as the result of poor piloting, poor judgment, poor maintenance or a combination of both. Now, they're flying an aircraft that's a tricky aircraft to fly in the best of times, the ATR. It's a good, solid workhorse plane for short-haul commuter routes when you don't want to put a jet on the route. And it's very prevalent in that part of the world. And it's not inherently unsafe or unstable. But if you take the circumstances that we're obviously looking at here, you clearly see this plane was bordering probably on a death trap.

WHITFIELD: Well, in that region, who polices the fitness of an airline or an airplane, you know, determining whether that kind of track record is just too bad to allow them to continue flying?

QUEST: Well, bearing in mind even though this airline, Trigana Air Services, even though it didn't fly to the European Union, it didn't have anything like international routes, it is on the EU's banned list. So if they wanted to, they wouldn't have been allowed to.

The Indonesian Air Services are the ones, Indonesian regulators are the ones that would be monitoring. That's the Indonesian equivalent of the FAA. And you've got to bear in mind that it was -- David Molko refers to AirAsia, but it wasn't just AirAsia a-320 crashed last year, it was Indonesia AirAsia, a subsidiary owned in Indonesia. So this does raise some very serious issues, some very serious questions, not so much for the national (INAUDIBLE) which has made some tremendous safety products strides in recent years and is widely and safely regarded now. But the rest of them serious questions need to be asked.

WHITFIELD: And then, what's your understanding about how the search would be conducted, particularly since it's believed that area is very tricky?

QUEST: It is very tricky. It's mountainous. It's dark. And you know, you are obviously hoping that somebody has survived. And, of course, it's not out of the realms of possibility that that's happened. It's happened before. But this plane went into a mountain when it was coming on descent. So I mean, there is always hope and that because we don't know. For example, we don't know did it lose power and come down like that or did it go straight into the mountain. One obviously is much more survivable than the other. We don't know the circumstances.

But I think what you're looking at here, just from sheer experience of covering enough of these sort of incidents, you're looking at something that happens on the aircraft, weather related or mechanical related, and a poor decision is made on how to respond to it. The plane itself, even though it's 22 -- this one was 22, 23 years old, is not inherently dangerous or unsafe. The airline, however, has some very dubious qualities about it.

WHITFIELD: All right. Richard Quest, thank you so much.

All right, coming up, in this country raging wildfires forcing evacuations and destroying homes in three states now. The major challenges facing firefighters, next.

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[14:11:58] WHITFIELD: An intense battle is raging in the northwest as firefighters try to beat back a series of wildfires in three states now. Residents in Idaho, Washington state and California have been forced to evacuate and at least 50 homes in Idaho alone have been destroyed.

CNN's Nick Valencia joins me with more on all of this. What a terrible season.

NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Terrible season. These folks really could use a break, especially in the northwest. More than dozens, I should say, dozens of large wildfires are burning all across the United States. This fire season has been particularly active. This weekend hundreds of firefighters are working to protect people and property from these fast-moving flames.

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VALENCIA (voice-over): Against a majestic mountainous backdrop, the flames rage, forcing evacuations in Washington.

MATTHEW ANDERSON, RESIDENT: I was literally outrunning flames at 60 miles an hour.

This whole ridge was on fire. That whole hillside there. This whole hillside was on fire last night. It was nuts.

VALENCIA: Local resident Matthew Anderson watched as dozens of fires swallowed the hillside.

ANDERSON: It's crazy.

VALENCIA: At least 100 structures have burned. Power is knocked out for most of the 9,000 residents in the area.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's I don't know how many hundreds of people affected here, the other side.

VALENCIA: Just to the south, in Canyon Creek, Oregon, a lightning fire has left more than 20 homes burned, with at least 34,000 acres lost, and still limited containment.

Resident Dean Fox says the fight to save what's left has been exhausting.

DEAN FOX, RESIDENT: We would have to keep hosing our self-down because it was so hot.

VALENCIA: This fire season has been devastating, especially in the west, where already more than 6.5 million acres have burned. That's about the size of New Hampshire.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It is just devastation for these people.

VALENCIA: Idaho has been among the hardest hit. This ranch outside of Boise charred and caked with ash from the soda fire, which has burned more than 265,000 acres. Containment is just at 25 percent.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just ripping up this hillside.

VALENCIA: In drought-stricken California, the fires are out of control, fueled by high heat and wind, the cabin fire has devoured 1400 acres in Angeles national forest. Hundreds of firefighters have worked for days to stop it. Ten of them have been injured in the process.

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VALENCIA: And according to our meteorologist, Ivan Cabrera, this has been a particularly active fire season. Two million acres burned above average. The good news in all of this, though, Fredricka, is no one has been killed, just those ten firefighters that have been injured so far.

WHITFIELD: All right, thank you so much.

Let's talk more about this because lightning may have sparked a lot of the fires in Washington State. Meteorologist Allison Chinchar has more on the conditions there.

Allison, this is a very tough battle.

ALLISON CHINCHAR, CNN METEOROLOGIST: It is indeed. And again, it is a lot of conditions that are working against a lot of the firefighters. Now again, as we mentioned, as we're dealing with right now about 6.5 million acres. And again, as you have heard before, it's about the equivalent size of New Hampshire. But it's not just that, it's also the weather conditions that surround the firefighters trying to battle this blaze.

Now, beneath me you will see all of where we are experiencing all of these wildfires. So let's take a look. We have a lot of them spread across much of the western U.S. right now 83 active, large fires. So this does not include some of the smaller fires included in that 6.5 million acres burned. But in addition to that, this is the drought monitor, so you can see just because they have the wildfires, it isn't necessarily in the areas where they're seeing extreme drought. We have 42 percent of this area alone that is in a severe drought, 23 percent that's in extreme drought, seven percent is in exceptional drought. And most of that, as you can see, is in the California and Nevada areas.

Now again, also, one other thing to notice is the weather that's going to play a factor when we get into the next couple of days. So here's a look, above average temperatures in San Francisco, they are under a heat advisory for the next 24 to 48 hours. That means for the firefighters they're going to need to take a few more breaks and have a lot more water to help fight the fatigue that will set in in addition to them, of course, trying to battle the blaze.

[14:16:23] WHITFIELD: Oh, my God, what a dangerous mix.

All right, thank you so much, Allison Chinchar.

All right. Still ahead, Kim Jong-Un is at it again. North Korea issuing a direct threat against the United States over planned military exercises. We break it down, next.

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[14:20:23] WHITFIELD: All Right, checking our top stories, an undocumented immigrant from Belize is facing murder charges in Florida. Officials say 19-year-old Brian Hyde slipped into Texas nearly seven months ago. Prosecutors say he murdered his aunt, pregnant cousin and her boyfriend. Officials say he will remain in jail without bond.

The Reno police department is investigating the death of a Nevada officer. The sheriff's deputy was shot and killed while responding to a domestic violence call early Saturday morning. Officials say a male suspect emerged from the home and began shooting allegedly when officers arrived. The shooter, the alleged shooter was also killed.

And North Korea is at it again, threatening to retaliate against the U.S. with quote "tremendous muscle" unless it cancels joint military exercises with South Korea like these from 2013. They are scheduled to begin tomorrow. The threat is nothing new. The U.S. state department says the exercises are transparent, defensive in nature and aimed at improving South Korea's readiness.

Joining me now is North Korea expert, professor Han Park.

All right. Good to see you, professor. So at what point should anyone take these threats very seriously? Is now the time?

HAN PARK, NORTH KOREAN EXPERT: Yes, now is the time at all points because Kim Jong-Un is also feeling very unstable and nervous about the domestic people, especially the military. He should maintain he feels credibility with his followers. So they have had these allegations that they want to retaliate to military exercises repeatedly. I think it's going to be pretty hard for him just to sit idle.

WHITFIELD: So North Korea has issued these kinds of threats before to the U.S., and asking -- demanding rather that these military exercises not take place, but what might be different this time?

PARK: Well, the fact that he has been executing some of the followers, very close ones that do not comply with his exact line of politics and policies. So here you will have a great deal of sense of insecurity and threat and fear throughout the country. The government especially. So I think he has the need to strengthen his power position by maintaining his words and policies credible. So that requires him to be more than being rhetoric.

So I'm a little more concerned this time around. I visited North Korea some two months ago. At this time I visited this country some 50 times for decades, but for the first time I felt that this time North Korea is quite -- quite dangerous spot in the world.

WHITFIELD: And even more isolated.

Professor Han Park, thank you so much for your time. Appreciate it.

PARK: Thank you.

WHITFIELD: All right, coming up, presidential candidate Donald Trump talking immigration again and this time he says families in the U.S. illegally need to go.

Plus, how he plans to make Mexico pay for a wall along the border.

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[14:27:06] WHITFIELD: All right, I'm quoting now, they have to go. That is Donald Trump's assessment of how to handle undocumented immigrants in the U.S. In an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press," Trump said he would rescind President Obama's executive order protecting so-called dreamers from deportation. The Republican presidential candidate also said quote "a new set of standards" unquote needs to be implemented for those who want to come to the U.S.

CNN's Sunlen Serfaty is in our Washington bureau with more on what Trump says is a detailed account of his immigration policy plan.

SUNLEN SERFATY, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Fred. Here it is all six pages, 1800 words of Trump's campaign policy proposal on immigration. Clearly, an attempt by the campaign to get down in writing the policy specifics that so far have been lacking in his campaign.

And in here there are some new details. For the first time Trump revealing how we would get Mexico to pay for building a wall along the border, saying until they do, he would impound all remittance payments from illegal wages, increase fees on visas issued to Mexican CEOs and fees on border crossing cards.

But he also more broadly proposes to end the U.S. law, of course, right citizenship saying that it's the biggest magnet for immigration and he calls for the number of ICE officers to be tripled along the border and (INAUDIBLE) for sanctuary cities. But there is, of course, a big part of this immigration position that

still very unclear. Trump in this document, he only calls for deportation of criminal undocumented immigrants. He does not call for all undocumented immigrants to be deported, which he has called for in the past and repeated again today.

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DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We have to make a whole new set of standards. And when people come in --

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're going to split up families, deport children?

TRUMP: No, no. We have to keep the families together.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But you are going to --

TRUMP: But they have to go? They have to go.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What if they have no place to go?

TRUMP: We will work with them. They have to go. Chuck, we either have a country or we don't have a country. We will do it and expedite it so people can come back in. In four years you'll be interviewing me and saying what a great job you've done, president trump.

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SERFATY: And the DNC wasted no time responding saying in a statement quote "Trump has reignited the GOP's long-standing obsession with mass deportation."

Meanwhile, all this attention that Trump has been getting from this and that dramatic landing he made in his Iowa -- entrance at the Iowa state fair in his helicopter, it seems to have some of his Republican opponents a bit frustrated. Here's what he told Dana Bash today on "STATE OF THE UNION."

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MIKE HUCKABEE (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I want to salute Donald Trump. I mean, he is a master at branded. There is no one like it. He is alone in this class of being able to get attention. Latest survey showed, Dana, that she's getting ten times the press coverage than any other candidate.

Well, I'm just going to be real clear with you. You give me ten times the coverage that any other candidate gets, I'll be leading in the polls.

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SUNLEN SERFATY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: And Huckabee went on to note that he doesn't have a helicopter himself and will be doing old-fashioned politicking the old-fashioned way. FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: All right, thank you so much. We're going to talk some more about this, Sunlen. Let's dig a little deeper into particularly Trump's immigration plan.

Joining me right now from New York is political strategist and lawyer, Brian Morgenstern and with him is columnist and author, Ellis Henican. Good to see both of you.

OK, so Brian, you first, this is the most detailed and we are talking about six pages long, Trump has been on any kind of policy. Will this satisfy some of the critics about his vagueness?

BRIAN MORGENSTERN, POLITICAL STRATEGIST: I think it's going to ignite a new feeding frenzy over what we now have in terms of details, which often happens when policy papers are released.

And I think the biggest nuance there that Sunlen pointed out is the difference between what he said about trying to deport 11 million people, which conventional wisdom says is practically impossible.

And the position paper which actually just focuses on criminal illegal aliens, which actually is a point of bipartisan consensus, making sure that violent criminals are in fact sent back to their country.

So there's a pretty big difference there and I think in the conversation to come, he's going to have to hash out which side of that he's actually on.

WHITFIELD: So, Ellis, do you see that there is room for him or do you even see him going in the direction of fine tuning any of that policy, particularly on questions about whether the whole family would be deported? Then he told Chuck Todd there, well, we'll work with them.

ELLIS HENICAN, COLUMNIST: I guess he could start by reading the six pages, how about that. I have no indication that he has any idea what's in there. He's saying all these things that are just contradictory.

WHITFIELD: At least people who've worked with him say that no one tells Donald Trump what to do. He owns his words. He comes up with his own ideas and policies. He doesn't really have advisers like your typical presidential candidate does.

HENICAN: I don't expect him to write it, but it would be nice if he read it. There's nothing even internally consistent about it. He wants to evict 11 million people, right? But he wants to keep all the families together.

Now, how are you going to do that because a lot of these families have some legal members, some illegal members? The kids were born here. The parents came from somewhere else. Donald doesn't know, he's just saying stuff.

WHITFIELD: So, Brian, did we even see -- I don't know how much of the interview that you saw with Chuck Todd on "Meet The Press," but did you see a different kind of Donald Trump? He was still very definitive or I should say even brash, but there was a lot more nuance of I'm not sure yet or, you know, I'm going to think about it, and we haven't seen that in him on the campaign trail.

MORGENSTERN: Well, that's a pretty subtle change because I think he still does talk about how he's going to be the greatest. He's going to be the greatest on every issue to the extent that he's willing to start thinking about details.

He still came back at the media and blamed the media for being the ones demanding the details. So I think the change you noticed certainly indicates that we are going to continue to receive more of these policy papers with actual proposals.

But again it's a pretty subtle difference. Nice pickup there, but he still had the same attitude.

WHITFIELD: OK, and then in the meantime, let's talk a little more about what Sunlen was reporting on, the DNC, the director of Hispanic media released a statement in reference to what Trump rolled out as his immigration policy saying, quote, and this is a larger portion of that statement.

"Trump has reignited the GOP's long-standing obsession with mass deportation. Like his fellow GOP candidates Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, and others, GOP frontrunner Trump dismisses a full and equal pathway to citizenship for hard-working immigrants.

The GOP should quit treating these families as second class citizens and join Democrats who support immigrant families and want to keep them together."

Ellis, isn't this rather unusual for a DNC statement on a candidate, someone who is one of 19, given he is the frontrunner, but does this seem premature?

HENICAN: Well, when your opponent starts giving you political advice, you should always recognize that the motives may be a little complex, Fred. But the reality is Republicans have got to make their peace with Latinos or they're not going to win. It's the fastest growing group, a lot of them are voting and this does just inflame all those bad feelings from the past.

WHITFIELD: Brian.

[14:35:02] MORGENSTERN: Yes, that oversimplifies things to an extent. The highlight here that Republicans are debating, I think a lot of Americans are debating, is where does the fairness lie, and that is between some kind of legal status and actual citizenship for folks who jump the line of the people waiting to get into this country legally.

That actually is a debate that is about fundamental fairness. It's not about race, it's not about the sort of passions that this Democratic statement is trying to ignite, but the conversation between legal status and citizenship is a valid one that a lot of voters are concerned with and a lot of candidates, reasonable minds disagree on it.

But this is trying to pin one view of Donald Trump on the entire Republican Party. As I think we can all agree, he is no conventional Republican. And so we'll see where the primary voters shake out on this, though.

WHITFIELD: And speaking of which, perhaps also exemplifying your statement, you saw him arriving at the Iowa State Fair on his chopper and giving free rides to young kids too.

Now there will be another unique appearance for Donald Trump tomorrow. He's reporting for jury duty. Can you imagine what that's going to look like tomorrow in New York? Imagine the faces of the other prospective jurors who see him show up.

HENICAN: Yes, it will not be a quiet day at Manhattan Supreme Court. I can promise you that. Poor Huckabee, maybe he can come in his pickup truck, how about that?

WHITFIELD: I don't know. So Brian, do you think it will turn into a little bit of campaign event? Do you think he'll start talking, shaking hands, kissing babies maybe?

MORGENSTERN: Of course. He's going to talk about how he's going to make the jury system great again or something. It's going to be amazing. If that jury box isn't gold plated, though, I think he's going to be a little disappointed.

WHITFIELD: That might be a problem.

MORGENSTERN: The other jurors will be pretty excited. I don't know the answer to the question. I've been trying to think about this. Would I want Donald Trump on my jury if I were a defendant? I just don't know because --

HENICAN: Maybe for insider trading, how about that.

WHITFIELD: Why don't you think about it and when we come back to you, maybe you will have given yourself a little more time and you'll give me another answer coming up. All right, Brian, Ellis, thanks so much, Gentlemen. Appreciate it.

Still ahead, a Massachusetts man says he was held hostage by the owner of a vacation home in Spain, and his mother says the home rental web site wouldn't even help her find her son. We take a look at the case with a judge, next.

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UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Gone are the days of Americans like Pete Sampras and Andrei Agassi winning multiple majors. But a group of American teenagers may be headed that way.

REILLY OPELKA, WIMBLEDON JUNIOR CHAMPION: When I'm in the tournament, I just want to win, I just kind of focus on myself. Once I'm out of the tournament, I'm always rooting for an American. It doesn't matter who. I mean, we all have our friends and whatnot, but I mean seeing an American win, it's awesome.

UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT: It's been awesome lately for American junior tennis. Reilly Opelka claimed the boys Wimbledon title in July. Weeks after American, Tommy Paul won (inaudible).

TOMMY PAUL, FRENCH OPEN JUNIOR CHAMPION: We definitely like beating each other, that's for sure. We talk a little trash to each other. I mean, we just push each other.

UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT: It's working. The U.S. has three of the top four juniors in the world. And Francis Tiafo who is not on that list maybe the most promising of all. He's already making waves on the pro tour including a grand slam debut at this year's French Open.

FRANCIS TIAFOE, AMERICAN JUNIOR TENNIS PLAYER: Me doing well somewhere helps Tommy doing well somewhere and helps Riley. I'm just happy we have a big group and it takes the pressure off one person.

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WHITFIELD: Civil rights icon, Julian Bond, died Saturday night after a brief illness according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Here's a look back at his extraordinary life.

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WHITFIELD (voice-over): He was one of the youngest civil rights foot soldiers. Julian Bond's journey as an activist, poet, lawmaker, television commentator, and teacher was impressively significant, spanning decades.

In the '60s, he was a student at Morehouse College when he became co- founder and communications director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee serving alongside then fellow co-founder, John Lewis.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We got others to join us by demonstrating that we were willing to risk our lives to help them, but they'd have to take a step too. They'd have to join us. And time, moment by moment, minute by minute, time by time, more and more people did until we had an effective organization.

WHITFIELD: Described as passionate about fighting discrimination and any vestiges of white supremacy, he was also known for his wit, intellect, cool demeanor, and good looks. He'd be elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1965, but would still encounter indignities at the start of what would become his 20-year service.

His white colleagues in the House refused to let him take his seat because of his opposition to the Vietnam War. His critics accused him of being disloyal.

A year later in 1966, the Supreme Court accused the legislature of violating his freedom of speech and ordered it to seat him. He'd also serve in the Georgia Senate for years.

A constant advocate of learning, the former lawmaker would teach at various universities, including Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and most recently American University.

He was founding president of the Southern Poverty Law Center in the '70s. In a statement following his death, the SPLC said, "With Julian's passing, the country has lost one of its most passionate and eloquent voices for the cause of justice.

He advocated not just for African-Americans, but for every group. Indeed, every person subject to oppression and discrimination, because he recognized the common humanity in us all."

The Tennessee native was committed to civil rights in America and beyond. In 1985, he was arrested outside the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C., leading crowds protesting apartheid, that country's legalization of racial segregation. The human and civil rights icon served as chairman of the NAACP for a decade.

[14:45:07] UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What we do has not changed. We fight racial discrimination, but the way in which we do it has changed remarkably. We used to have a heavier reliance on the courts than we do today.

WHITFIELD: Upon his passing in a tweet, this message, "The NAACP mourns the passing of Chairman Julian Bond, civil rights titan and our brother. May he rest in eternal peace." Julian bond, dead at the age of 75, survived by his wife and five children.

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WHITFIELD: A Massachusetts man says his vacation in Spain turned into a nightmare when he became a prisoner in his host's home. The 19- year-old Jacob Lopez booked a stay in Madrid through Airbnb, a web site where people can rent accommodations in people's private homes.

Lopez says the host locked him inside a room and then sexually assaulted him. Panicked, Lopez then called his mother who immediately contacted Airbnb for help, but she says the company refused to give her the location of the Madrid home where her son was and wouldn't even call police.

Lopez filed a police report after he was let go. The host says the sex was consensual and an investigation is now under way. Joining me now is former Judge Glenda Hatchet.

All right, so we wanted to talk about this further because people have been booking through Airbnb to really experience culturally what it is to visit any place around the globe.

So in a situation like this, does this exemplify or underscore that there are potential dangers involved for anyone?

GLENDA HATCHETT, ATTORNEY, THE HATCHETT FIRM: Well, there are potential dangers for anyone, but I think that this is the small minority. That's what we've shed light on and appropriately so. In this situation, I am delighted that Airbnb has now changed their policy of how they respond to people who say there's an emergency.

WHITFIELD: And what are those changes now?

HATCHETT: Yes, they have changed it to say that their personnel -- let's just take the situation with this mother. She calls and says my son says that he's locked in by the host. She calls Airbnb and they don't call the police, they tell her to call the police, but she has no address.

WHITFIELD: And she's somewhere else.

HATCHETT: She's in the states and he's in Madrid. So what they have done now as a result of this incident is that they have now said that their policy will be that their employee will then call the police and alert the police and give them the location. And I understand the privacy of not having given it to the mother --

WHITFIELD: Because, A, they're not really sure that that's mom who's called so there is a level of security that should be in place to say anyone who calls and say they want to know the whereabouts of somebody who's registered, we don't know what the relationship is, we shouldn't give that.

HATCHETT: We don't want to do that -- but, but, this company has a responsibility, and they have acknowledged that their employer should have called the police. That should have happened.

But let me also say, Fred, for us as consumers, as potential clients, don't go anywhere where nobody knows where you are. I mean, leave some kind of address, some kind of phone number. Make sure your phone can accept or you can dial out.

WHITFIELD: And that you have an international compatible phone when you travel.

HATCHETT: To be able to do that. What he was doing was texting and of course, after the incident --

WHITFIELD: There's a delay, you don't know if anybody is receiving -- so what might the investigation there look like?

HATCHETT: Now, it's all happening with the Madrid police. The police will then interview her. She says she's already been interviewed, the woman who was the host. She said it was consensual.

So now we've got this he say/she say kind of back and forth which is going to be very difficult to nail down. The real question for me, and I looked at the contracts because I knew we were going to talk about this today, is what responsibility does Airbnb have in this situation and their contracts don't speak to this. Their contracts basically put you, the client, in touch with the host and suggest that the host have some kind of leasing agreement.

WHITFIELD: OK, all right, very complicated. So you've got to read the fine print or demand some answers that really pertain to your personal safety when you're dealing with any company, whether it's Airbnb or some other kind of company that is providing a service that may be cheaper and may not involve some larger arm of security.

HATCHETT: And this guy have used them before in Brazil and had good experiences, but unfortunately, it seems that something went terribly wrong this time.

WHITFIELD: All right, we'll leave it there, Judge. Thank you so much. Good to see you.

HATCHETT: Absolutely, always, thank you.

WHITFIELD: And of course, we'll be right back.

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WHITFIELD: All right, let's talk golf, shall we? Jordan Spieth, you've gotten used to the name. Well, he has a chance to make golf history today. That's one of several stories coming out of the tournament, the PGA championship.

And then there's this, take a look at this amazing shot by Matt Jones right there after his ball wound up in the hospitality tent. He managed to play the ball off the carpet and then get it just off the green there. My gosh, they're so excited. Jones is among eight golfers within striking distance of winning. Even if you come in second, that's OK too, right?

Let's bring in Don Riddell, anchor of CNN's World Sport. Who has the best shot here, is it Spieth or are we talking about Matt Jones?

DON RIDDELL, CNN ANCHOR, WORLD SPORT: I don't think it's going to be Matt Jones, with all due respect to him. He's the 75th best golfer in the world. He wasn't expecting to be leading at the halfway stage, but he did give us a lot of entertainment there.

I guess if you're going to put your money on any of the contenders, Fred, it would have to be Jordan Spieth. Just look at what he's done already this year, ran away with the Masters, winning that in dominant fashion. He was still only 21 at the time.

He's won the U.S. Open. He was very much in contention to make it three out of three at St. Andrews for the Open championship, but for a mishap on the 17th hole on the final round. We could have been talking about the grand slam.

As it is, he's still going for an historic achievement. Only Ben Hogan and Tiger Woods have won three majors in the same year in the modern era. And actually I think what happened to him at St. Andrews is giving him extra incentive to get it done here.

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JORDAN SPIETH, PRO GOLFER: I certainly have a little chip on my shoulder this week that I want to get back from those last couple of holes at St. Andrews, but that won't be in my head tomorrow. Tomorrow it will be drawing all the positives that we've done when we did win, why did we win, what was there and how are we going to make it happen again?

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RIDDELL: Fred, Jordan Spieth is just so confident. He was looking very relaxed on the range a few minutes ago before he teed off. It tells you everything you need to know about the determination of this young man, that he's already thinking about his legacy and how it's going to be counted in majors and he doesn't want opportunities like this to slip through his fingers.

WHITFIELD: My gosh, talking legacy and he is so young. You talked about his poise and feeling very relaxed. I remember those same words describing him when he won the masters, that he just seemed so nonchalant, like no big deal.