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[01:00:10] ISHA SESAY, CNN ANCHOR: This is CNN NEWSROOM live from Los Angeles. Ahead this hour, Donald Trump calls Hillary Clinton a criminal while demanding an investigation of her links with her husband's global charity.

Plus at first they said it was a young teen but Turkey now says they don't know the age of the suicide bomber responsible for the deadly wedding party blast.

And all his major sponsors dumped Ryan Lochte after the U.S. Olympian admit he exaggerated the story of a robbery in Rio.

Hello, and thank you for joining us. I am Isha Sesay, NEWSROOM L.A. starts right now.

With a persistent e-mail controversy hanging over her, Hillary Clinton took a lighter approach to questions about her opponent Monday night. The Democratic presidential nominee appeared on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" right here in L.A. and talked about how she prepares for debate with Donald Trump.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I watched a lot of his debates during the primaries. And he insulted all of his opponents.

JIMMY KIMMEL, HOST, "JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE": Right.

CLINTON: He insulted all of the moderators. He insulted, I guess, about 80 percent of the American people and the rest of the world. And so how do you prepare for that? I am drawing on my experience in elementary school.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SESAY: Well, the Republican nominee says there's nothing funny about Clinton's e-mail controversy and he's escalating his attack on the Clinton Foundation. Trump calls for an investigation into ties between the donors and the State Department.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The amounts involved, the favors done, and the significant number of times it was done require an expedited investigation by a special prosecutor, immediately, immediately, immediately.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SESAY: While the pay-for-play allegations have dogged the Clinton campaign for months, the question of whether foundation donors were paying for access resurfaces with every release of e-mails.

Drew Griffin takes a closer look at the foundation, its donors and its future.

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DREW GRIFFIN, CNN SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER (voice-over): This is the map of the world and these are the specific countries in this world that have given millions to the Clinton Foundation over the years. Ten to 25 million from Australia, Norway, and Saudi Arabia. Five to 10 million from the Netherlands and Kuwait. Between one and 5 million from Oman, United Arab Emirates, and Brunei. And it's not just countries. Individual foreign donors and foreign groups make up a huge share of donations to the Clinton Foundation.

The campaign now says if Hillary Clinton becomes president, any foreign donations like these will no longer be accepted.

CNN's Dana Bash asked Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, why wait?

DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Why not do it now? Why wait until the idea of her being president? Why not do it when she is running for president?

ROBBY MOOK, HILLARY CLINTON CAMPAIGN MANAGER: Well, the foundation is doing an enormous amount of work and it takes time when you're in a number of countries around the world to retool, refocus the mission, and adapt.

GRIFFIN: At the heart of the issue is conflict of interest or even the appearance of one, namely, would a President Clinton give favorable treatment to a country or a company or a person who donated millions of dollars to the foundation. That's how Donald Trump sees it.

TRUMP: They've made hundreds of millions of dollars selling access, selling favors, selling government contracts, and I mean hundreds of millions of dollars.

GRIFFIN: Despite that claim, there are no definitive examples of what Trump says. But that doesn't mean there aren't questions. Like longtime Bill Clinton pal and mining magnate Frank Giustra. Giustra's foundation have given more than $50 million to the Clinton Foundation. He's allowed Bill Clinton use of his private jet. And when a company he founded merged with another that became part of a Russian business deal that needed government approval, that deal got the OK from the State Department run by Hillary Clinton.

Giustra says he sold his stakes in the company years before the Russian deal. So anything wrong? No, all above board says the State Department, other government agencies approved the deal. All the rules were followed, as they were in all cases involving Monsanto.

The food giant has donated between $1 million and $5 million to the Clinton Foundation and that it has had multiple partnership projects with the Clinton Global Initiative.

[01:05:08] In 2009, when Hillary Clinton took office as secretary of State, Monsanto was actively lobbying the State Department for helping promote an open market for its bio agricultural projects across the globe. And it all coincided with Secretary Clinton's global policy to promote agricultural biotechnology.

According to Clinton, she was promoting U.S. agricultural and especially the U.S. farmer, much like her Republican predecessor did. But there is no doubt, one of the big winners was the big agricultural giant and Clinton Foundation donor, Monsanto.

Hoping to put the potential pay-to-play allegations, especially with foreign donations, to an end, it was Bill Clinton who tweeted this afternoon, "If Hillary becomes president, the foundation will only take in money from U.S. citizens, permanent residents and U.S.-based independent foundations."

And the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation will change its name to just the Clinton Foundation. In other words, no Hillary.

Drew Griffin, CNN, Atlanta.

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SESAY: Well, CNN's senior reporter for Media and Politics, Dylan Byers, joins us now here in L.A.

Dylan, always good to have you with us. So President Clinton and the Clinton Foundation trying to outrun this controversy but there is this constant drip, drip, drip of e-mails.

DYLAN BYERS, CNN SENIOR REPORTER FOR MEDIA AND POLITICS: Right.

SESAY: And we know that just on Monday another 725 released by Judicial Watch, a conservative group. Are the Clintons' efforts too little, too late? Has the perception of wrongdoing already taken hold?

BYERS: Yes, I believe so. And I believe that this perception matters and it especially matters to all of those folks who continue to have trust issues with the Clintons and specifically with Hillary Clinton. For them there are serious issues raised.

The problem is, and the problem for Donald Trump, is that there's such a record of all these things that we know Donald Trump has done or has said that run counter to what he did or has said that don't match up with what he said yesterday or an hour ago or a minute ago.

With Hillary Clinton there are these sort of perceived issues, this perceived shadiness. And look, the Clinton Foundation is a global network that has its hands in so many countries as that report just showed. There are legitimate questions to be asked. Just like there are legitimate questions to be asked of Hillary Clinton deleting all of those e-mails from her server.

The problem is there's nothing concrete to pin down. And as much as Donald Trump might want an investigation into this, I don't see that happening between now and November. So, you know, you can have 500, 5,000 e-mails come forward every week, until there is something concrete that the Republicans can really pin down, there's just going to be this sort of vague premonition of shadiness from the Clintons. And I'm not sure that's enough to turn the tide.

SESAY: Well, there are now the 15,000 to come. A federal judge on Monday ruled that they should be released. Of course a concern many would say but I want you to listen to how Hillary Clinton responded to the issue on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on Monday night here in L.A. Let's play that clip.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

KIMMEL: The State Department said that they have to release 15,000 e- mails by -- the deadline is a couple of days before the debate. Are you concerned about that?

CLINTON: No. No, I mean --

KIMMEL: Because I would be terrified if my e-mails were released.

CLINTON: Jimmy, my e-mails are so boring.

KIMMEL: Yes, mine aren't.

CLINTON: And, I mean, I'm embarrassed about that. They're so boring.

KIMMEL: Yes.

(LAUGHTER)

CLINTON: And -- so we've already released, I don't know, 30,000 plus. So what's a few more?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SESAY: She's making light of it. But --

BYERS: Right. And we saw this, she made light of this several months in the primary season.

SESAY: Yes.

BYERS: You know, said did you wipe your server, and she said --

SESAY: But the timing, right?

BYERS: But the timing is off. And it will send a message to concerned voters that she is not taking this issue seriously. That she did something she wasn't supposed to do, that the Clinton Foundation -- the Clinton Global Initiative is a shady organization with questions to answer and that she's not taking that issue seriously. For many people that's a trust issue. That goes right to the heart of Hillary Clinton as this -- you know, this candidate who you can't trust.

Now for Democrats, I think that this sort of making light of it resonates extremely well.

SESAY: For them it's a witch hunt, right?

BYERS: Yes. And I think they think it's part of a witch hunt and it's part of the witch hunt that Hillary Clinton has had to deal with for the last 30 years when it comes to what she once referred to back in the days, the vast right-wing conspiracy. You saw her take on those charges about Benghazi and all the suspicions about Benghazi. She sat through a hearing. She dust it off her shoulders, she survived that. For Democrats this is yet another issue like that. But it is -- it is an issue she needs to take more seriously for those independent voters.

SESAY: Donald Trump is calling for a special prosecutor to be involved, to be appointed, to take this up. You know, it's clear what he is trying to do here.

[01:10:01] But let me ask you the question, as we look at the data and the polling as he tries to make this stick, are her untrustworthiness numbers going up?

BYERS: I think -- I think over time they will. And I think that the longer that Trump can -- and by the way, Donald Trump should have been focusing on these questions a long time ago. The fact that he is really starting to do so now and making a concerted effort after going after Hillary Clinton on this, we could see those numbers go up a little bit. But again, Hillary Clinton is running against Donald Trump.

SESAY: Yes.

BYERS: He's a guy for whom there are so many people who don't trust him, who can't stand the idea of seeing him be the president of the United States.

SESAY: So let me read the statement that was put out by the Clinton campaign manager John Podesta actually put this out to push back on this issue that, you know, she's got dirty dealings with the Clinton Foundation.

Let's put up the statement. "Donald Trump needs to come clean with voters about his complex network of for-profit businesses that are hundreds of millions of dollars in debt to big banks including the state-owned Bank of China and other business groups with ties to the Kremlin."

My question about the statement is, you know, the statement about Trump's business dealings being unclean, if you will, for want of a better word, have long swirled around him but they haven't become toxic.

BYERS: No, they haven't become toxic. But there is -- for all the voters out there who want Hillary Clinton to be more candid about the relationships that the Clinton Global Initiative had about her own e- mails all of that, there are that many voters, if not more, who want to see Donald Trump release his tax returns. And so again, it's this issue where if Hillary Clinton were returning against any other Republican candidate this might be a serious issue. The only thing we might be talking about for the next two months leading up to November is Hillary Clinton's e-mails and the Clinton Global Initiative.

The problem is, again, for Republicans she's running against Donald Trump and there is just so much fodder out there to talk about.

SESAY: Yes. Well, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump made this point today. You know, continues to refuse to have these press conferences for the media, continues to limit availability to the media. Donald Trump himself is making some adjustments to his media availability. It appears to be FOX all the way.

BYERS: Right.

SESAY: Which, you know, shouldn't surprise people but say that he's going to FOX. I mean, one would expect he has a lot of support there, but if the goal is expand the base --

BYERS: Right. Well, then you're absolutely playing the wrong game. And so the question is, is he really trying to expand the base? I mean, like so many things that Donald Trump has done, it almost seems like the only principle that would seem to apply is that he's trying to lose the election. Because just going to FOX News, you know, bringing on the head of Breitbart News to run your campaign, you are living in an echo chamber, in a sort of cocoon where you just hear what you want, where you get to go on Sean Hannity's program and just, you know, have --

SESAY: Now he's advising him.

BYERS: Yes. Basically advising him. And just sort of say whatever you want unchallenged. If Donald Trump really wants to expand his network, if he really wants to pick up those independent voters in order to win the election, he's going to have to go to other newspapers. He's going to have to go to other newspapers. He's going to have to come to CNN and come to MSNBC. The problem is he just doesn't want to do that.

SESAY: But he does seem he wants minority votes, though, because that has been the focus of his appeal, his outreach in the last couple of days. He's been speaking out, you know, calling on African-American voters to cross the lot in with him.

BYERS: Right.

SESAY: I want to play part of his appeal to African-American voters, part of what he said on Monday in Ohio. Take a listen.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

TRUMP: It is a disaster the way African-Americans are living in many cases. And in many cases the way Hispanics are living. And I say it with such a deep felt feeling. What do you have to lose? I will straighten it out. I'll bring jobs back. We'll bring spirit back. We'll get rid of the crime. You'll be able to walk down the street without getting shot.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SESAY: Well, I guess that's one way of framing the argument.

BYERS: Yes.

SESAY: Why is it when Donald Trump speaks to the African-American community, at least the last three speeches he's made, predominantly it seems toward the African-American community, why does he appear to frame the argument as one of criminality and hopelessness and poverty?

BYERS: Right. I mean, in many ways, and I think many Democrats would criticize that as a dog whistle.

SESAY: Yes.

BYERS: It's a way of simultaneously trying to appeal or at least, you know, suggesting that you're appealing to African-Americans, to Latinos but in reality what you're doing is you're reinforcing this narrative that, you know, every African-American is two steps away from being a criminal. And that's -- look, whatever African-Americans he is hoping to reach, it's either they see the dog whistle for what it is, or it's too little, too late because they've seen him for 12, 13 months, they've seen him at the Republican National Convention, you know, sending this message that his anti-African-American anti- immigrant, anti-Hispanic, and I just don't -- again, I think it's too little too late.

SESAY: The Clinton campaign put out a statement again in response to the Trump outreach to the African-American vote.

[01:15:05] Let's share that with our viewers. It said in part, "It could not be clearer how much African-Americans have to lose under Donald Trump. He's doubling down on insults, fear and stereotypes, that set our community back and further divide our country. But again this is not surprising. This is a man who questions the citizenship of the first African-American president. Has a disturbing pattern of courting white supremacists. And has been sued for housing discrimination against communities of color."

A statement that evokes a number of Trump's past controversies such as the birther movement.

BYERS: Right.

SESAY: Controversies that are no -- that in no small part have held down his numbers in those communities.

BYERS: Right. That's absolutely right. And let's just take the whole conversation. Right? So we ask how much does Hillary Clinton have to worry about the controversy she is dealing with? And we agree there are legitimate questions that she needs to answer. That she hasn't answered. We agree she hasn't held a press conference in way too long. But all they need to do is point to a -- the way that Donald Trump has talked about minorities. You know, his own record of what he hasn't released, the things that he's said, and the things he's done that have been negative towards minority communities like African-Americans and Latinos. And it's just easy for them to drive the narrative because everything he's done is so concrete and to so many people it's so hard to stomach that these vague premonitions that people have about the e-mails, about the Clinton Global Initiative.

SESAY: What about this immigration policy on the part of the Trump campaign? Are we witnessing a flip-flop? Are witnessing an attempt to kind of -- again, reframe the outreach to the Latino community? Because the deportation force, this force that Trump had proposed to take back 11 million undocumented immigrants doesn't sound like a sure thing anymore.

BYERS: Right. No, and look, Donald Trump has never been totally concrete on his immigration policy with the exception of saying that he's going to build a wall. He's constantly reiterated I'm going to build a wall. This is something that -- it's red meat for his conservative base. It gets the crowds cheering. But like so many things when it comes to Trump when you try and pin him down on the specifics of what he's going to do, he had it goes back and forth, he flip-flops, he doesn't really have a plan.

At some point between now -- not between now and November, but between now and the first presidential debate on September 26th, he is going to have to lay out a very specific immigration plan that he can stick to and that he can stand by in those debates.

SESAY: This is a hard pivot for him to make because his immigration tough staff is one of the central planks of his base. Right?

BYERS: Right.

SESAY: It was appeal for his base.

BYERS: I mean, it is -- I would say, you know, so often over the last few weeks, we've asked what is it about Donald Trump, what is it about what he's saying that resonates with the supporters that he has? And if you look again from the very first day that he announced when he was running for president, it was about immigration, it was about building a wall, it was about calling Mexicans criminals and rapists, and things like that. That is the platform that he's running on. That is what appeals to his base. How can he get rid of that and still be the kind of president he says he's going to be.

SESAY: Questions that may or may not be answered in the weeks ahead.

BYERS: May or may not be answered.

SESAY: Dylan Byers, thank you.

BYERS: Thank you.

SESAY: Thank you very much.

All right. Time for a quick break now. And a Turkish bride and groom return to the scene where their wedding turned into a blood bath. The government is now backtracking on what they know about the attacker.

Plus the skies are filled with smoke on the road to Mosul. Why Iraqi forces say they'll retake the city from ISIS before the end of the year. Do stay with us.

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[01:22:26] SESAY: Hello, everyone, Turkish authorities are now saying they don't know if the suicide bomber who targeted a wedding over the weekend was a child or an adult. The Turkish president said on Sunday the attacker was between 12 and 14 years old. Dozens of people died in the blast in what's become Turkey's deadliest terror attack this year.

CNN's Ben Wedeman has the story from Gaziantep.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: So far, 54 people have been killed in that Saturday night suicide attack on what was essentially a street party, a wedding celebration in a Kurdish working class neighborhood.

Turkish officials say of the dead, 22 are under the age of 14 and it's believed that the rest of the victims, many of them are women as well. Turkish investigators have found pieces of the suicide vest.

Now adding to just the totally disturbing nature of this attack, the Turkish media was at the house outside of which the bomb went off and this was the house where the newlyweds were supposed to move into, Besna and Nurettin. Now when they -- they were only slightly injured in the attack. They spent the night in a hospital. When they went back to see their home, to see what had happened and they found out how many of their neighbors, friends and relatives were killed in the attack, they were utterly devastated. Friends and relatives tried to console them. That didn't work. They had to go back to the hospital because according to the Turkish media they suffered from a nervous breakdown.

Now Turkish officials do believe that it was ISIS behind the attack. This city is only 40 kilometers north of the Syrian border. This is a part of the country where ISIS has been known to operate in the past. Turkish police have cracked down on ISIS cells in Gaziantep itself and it's believed those cells are indeed still operating.

I'm Ben Wedeman, CNN, reporting from Gaziantep, Turkey.

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SESAY: Well, the Iraqi army is gaining ground on ISIS near Mosul. The military along with Iraqi counter-terror forces launched an operation to retake al-Qayyara from the terror group on Tuesday. An Iraqi commander says ISIS is weakening, putting his forces one step closer to liberating Mosul as well.

CNN international correspondent Arwa Damon reports.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

[01:25:03] ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice- over): Under apocalyptic skies blackened by thick smoke is Qayyara, the next target for Iraqi forces. ISIS used to move around 100 oil tankers of crude a day out of these fields. Now set a flame by ISIS fighters to decrease visibility from above.

(On camera): We are some 65 kilometers or 40 miles south of Mosul. Lands Iraqi forces have not stepped in some since ISIS took over more than two years ago. Their corpse is left to rot in the sand. And the commander tells us that ISIS appears to be weakening.

NAJIM ABED AL-JUBOURI, NINEVEH LIBERATION OPERATIONS COMMANDER: Before, as I told you with, the majority of fighters attacked us were foreign fighters. Now they put some foreign fighters with local fighters. Now they -- I think they have luck on the foreign fighters.

DAMON (voice-over): On display, weapons trips found in residential homes. Among them, homemade mortar tubes and mortars larger than anything the Iraqis have at their disposal. Another significant gain in this area, the Qayyara airbase, the third largest in Iraq. Much of it destroyed by ISIS fighters as they with the group. Leaving, we are told, explosives under piles of dirt on the runways that need to be cleared.

This will be a vital forward base for the Iraqis and potentially U.S. forces. Families wearily haul what they can, stumbling away from the fighting.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (Through Translator): They took half of our men, they forced them to fight for them. They killed my father.

DAMON: Tears for all that they lost. Loved ones gone in a war that few can fully comprehend. The lives they knew and loved, disintegrated years ago.

To the southeast of Mosul, the Kurdish Peshmerga has pushed their front line forward as well. The Peshmerga defensive berm sneaks its way along the east and north. The villages controlled by ISIS visible in the distance.

Here, too, they have noticed ISIS weakening, showing us how ISIS moves within nondescript buildings like this.

(On camera): The Peshmerga fighters did initially drop down and take a few steps into what appear to be some sort of tunnel. But rather than take their chances they decided to then withdraw and seal off the entrance.

(Voice-over): The chokehold around Mosul is tightening. And the government's pledge to liberate the city by the end of the year is still the goal. The battle there with over a million civilians will potentially be starkly different from the ones out here. A success will be defined in land gained, not lives destroyed or lost.

Arwa Damon, CNN, south of Mosul, Iraq.

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SESAY: And a quick break now. U.S. swimmer Ryan Lochte finds himself in more hot water. How his wallet is suffering the consequences of a made-up robbery story.

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[01:31:37] SESAY: You're watching CNN NEWSROOM, live from Los Angeles. I'm Isha Sesay.

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SESAY: Tokyo accepted the Olympic flag from Rio on Sunday. Tokyo 2020 will be an unforgettable spectacle. Ambitious tech innovations are already hype even four years out.

Will Ripley shows us what we can expect from the next summer games.

WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Shinzo Abe dressed as Super Mario may have set the tone for Tokyo 2020 but few Japanese saw it live. Half a world away and 12 hours ahead of Rio, the closing ceremony was right in the middle of the Monday morning commute and an approaching typhoon. A few gathered inside.

"We hope to see all of Japan's technology showcased in the next Olympics," says this man, watching the closing ceremony on a huge HK TV.

(on camera): You can see every tiny detail in HK.

RIPLEY (voice-over): That's just a sample of high tech cool Tokyo 2020 organizers are promising. Super high speed trains far faster than the bullet trains, robots giving directions and driving taxis. Ambitious tech projects Japan hopes will impress crowds and will boost the economy.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We will make it the most innovative.

RIPLEY: This is one of Tokyo 2020's executive directors. New technology and five new sports will draw fans.

(CHEERING)

RIPLEY: Winning the Olympic bid three years ago was supposed to be Japan's badly needed comeback after years in the doldrums. But problems have plagued Tokyo 2020. A scrapped Olympic stadium design, construction delays and even a bribery investigation.

(on camera): Has Tokyo bounced back?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think so, yes.

RIPLEY (voice-over): Problems do persist. Many are worried about the growing multi-billion-dollar price tag along with a huge national debt. The responsibility of cutting costs fall on Tokyo's new governor, the first woman to hold the job.

"We don't know if our governor can do the job yet," says this man. "We need more transparency when it comes to the Olympics."

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We know the problem and are looking for the solution.

RIPLEY: Now she carries an Olympic-sized burden. And with Tokyo Tower decked out in full Olympic colors, the countdown is officially on.

Will Ripley, CNN, Tokyo.

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[01:35:30] SESAY: Sure to be an amazing spectacle.

U.S. Olympic swimmer, Ryan Lochte, is losing out on his endorsements, Speedo, Polo, Ralph Lauren, Gentle Hair Removal and mattress maker Air Weave all cutting ties. Lochte admitted to lying about being robbed at gunpoint with his teammates.

Here's Jeanne Moos.

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JEANNE MOOS, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The sorry refrain --

(SINGING)

MOOS: -- sung by everyone from Justin Bieber to Brenda Lee.

(SINGING)

MOOS: And look who is sorry now, not just Ryan Lochte.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He lied to you.

MOOS: When travelers left messages, "Sorry about Ryan Lochte" was one of the popular ones on the board. Embarrassed Americans felt a need to apologize.

(on camera): But you know who said sorry even more times than the message board?

(voice-over): Lochte himself.

RYAN LOCHTE, U.S. OLYMPIC SWIMMER: I'm just really sorry about I'm embarrassed. I'm really sorry. How sorry I am. I'm really sorry. I'm really sorry, how truly sorry I am.

MOOS: He is paying a stiff price.

"Do you lie a little or a Lochte," was one meme.

John Oliver's "Last Week Tonight" said farewell to him.

ANNOUNCER: Ryan Lochte, America's idiot sea cow.

(LAUGHTER)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What defines me? Ryan Lochte?

(LAUGHTER)

MOOS: Now he is being stripped of his endorsement deal.

LOCHTE: I am Speedo Fit.

MOOS: Not any more. On Monday, Speedo dropped Lochte.

One commented "Ironic to lose a Speedo endorsement over an inadequate cover-up."

A mattress company dumped him. Even his Gentle Hair Removal sponsor cut him off. Ralph Lauren refused to renew his contract.

LOCHTE: I could be having the worst day of my life but when I step foot in the water everything disappears.

MOOS: Better dive. Make that one worst day of admitted intoxication disappear.

(SINGING)

MOOS: Drunk --

(SINGING)

MOOS: Jeanne Moos --

LOCHTE: I over exaggerated.

MOOS: -- CNN --

LOCHTE: I over exaggerated that story.

MOOS: -- New York.

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SESAY: Next on NEWSROOM L.A., ask to name the best films of the millennium and you get a fascinating list of new movies but you might not guess number one. Stay with us to find out.

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[01:41:29] SESAY: All this week the CNN "Freedom Project" is exploring the problem of sex trafficking in Canada's indigenous community. You will meet a woman embracing her tangible as part of her path to rehabilitation.

Paula Newton has her story.

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PAULA NEWTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): With every stroke of the drum, Tenay Little finds sounding strength from flash backs to her past painful life fade faster and the beat of the instrument reminds her, she's safe.

(SINGING)

TENAY LITTLE, FORMER SEX SLAVE: While you are drumming, your spirit, you feel safe, feel connected.

NEWTON: She is now visiting that safe place, little sisters in Winnipeg, a transition home for sex trafficking victims that sheltered her when she came off the streets.

LITTLE: I love being here knowing this place helps women change.

NEWTON: She calls it change but it was nothing short of salvation.

(on camera): How old were you?

LITTLE: 11.

NEWTON: Already introduced to drugs?

LITTLE: Yeah.

NEWTON: What drugs?

LITTLE: Crack/cocaine.

NEWTON: At 11?

LITTLE: At 11.

NEWTON (voice-over): Tenay takes me to the streets where it began. An older girl, someone who pretended to be her friend was preying on her, luring her with drugs and trafficking her for sex. LITTLE: I remember she put me in a room and then two guys, won not --

not together. But one would come in and then I would -- have sex with him. And then the other guy would come in. And then I'd get high after that.

NEWTON (on camera): What would happen if you refused to have sex?

LITTLE: If you're not beat up, you would get raped by a few of them at once.

NEWTON (voice-over): As an indigenous girl in Canada the nightmare is hardly rare. The indigenous population is just 4 percent. But yet more than 50 percent of all sex trafficking victims there are indigenous, a huge overrepresentation. And just like Tenay, they are coping with poverty, racism and abuse.

DIANE RESKI (ph), ADVOCATE, MAMA WORKS: There is a debt bondage between 1,000 and $2,000 a day that these girls must bring, must hand in to their trafficker or else.

NEWTON: Diane Reski (ph) can't help but fear anger. She runs Mama Works, a center that advocates for indigenous women and children. She says the history of racism against this population feeds into the cycle of violence and exploitation against them.

RESKI (ph): It's difficult to fight those stereo types when a whole society is targeting indigenous women and girls particularly for violence and abuse. And that spills over into sex trafficking.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thanks for coming into the circle. We're going to start with a smudge.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm honored to be sitting in circle with you today. Thank you for inviting me.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Honored to sit here with my survivor sisters today.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm glad it's being brought to attention. It's been hidden far too long.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Amazing thing to open your hearts.

NEWTON: This elder leads a traditional sharing circle.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thank you, thank you to each and every one of you.

[01:45:13] NEWTON: It's a spiritual connection with indigenous culture and a unique path to healing for victims who don't feel worthy.

(on camera): They don't feel sacred. They feel worthless.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That's right. The only way they will feel whole again is to reconnect to their

traditional ways, through the ceremonies and coming back to believe -- to believe. They are not all that has happened to them. They are not that. They are sacred.

LITTLE: You need to know your worth and your strength to get through it.

NEWTON (voice-over): Tenay says connecting this, her native culture, has empowered her to heal and wonder why she was both vulnerable and exposed as a child.

Paula Newton, CNN, Winnipeg.

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SESAY: Tomorrow, we'll introduce you to an indigenous community confronting the issue of child exploitation head on.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The first step in rebuilding the community is to say enough is enough.

NEWTON: Both community leaders trained by the Manitoba government in a curriculum-based program where kid kids hear how and why it has traumatized their community.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I don't think it has ever been talked about that way. It's more like let's leave it under the rug and let it stay there.

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SESAY: Well, more on how one community is educating its kids in our series "Canada's Stolen Daughters."

We'll be right back.

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A familiar face will be a part of the elections in France. Nicolas Sarkozy will try to make a political comeback after being defeated by Francois Hollande back in 2012. He broke the news on his Twitter account on Monday saying that, "France demands that we give her everything. I felt I had the strength to lead this battle during the troubled time in our history."

Four months after Prince's death we are learning new details about medications investigators found and seized in Prince's Paisley Park compound.

Sara Sidner reports.

SARA SIDNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The "Minneapolis Star Tribune" reports that the pills seized were mismarked as Hydroquinone, but when tested turned out to be the much more potent drug Fentanyl. But they said several other drugs were found, including Lidocaine and Percocet. Fentanyl toxicity is what the medical examiner listed as the cause of death. Either the drug manufacturer mismarked the pills or, the most likely scenario, the pills were illegally manufactured and sold. The question, how did Prince get them? Did he know what he was taking and did he take those pills?

The DEA says counterfeit Fentanyl laced pills are coming to the countries with record numbers and deadly consequences.

JOHN MARTIN, DEA SPECIAL AGENT: 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine and 25 times more potent than heroin.

SIDNER: For drug cartels, the painkiller Fentanyl is a best seller. For users, it's a prolific killer. So dangerous that law enforcement has to wear the highest protection hazmat suits just to confiscate it.

MARTIN: It can be absorbed through the skin and eyes. So it poses a threat to law enforcement also.

NATASHA BUTLER, LOST SON ON FENTANYL: I don't wish this on nobody. Nobody should have to lose their child like this.

He called and said his heart hurts.

NEWTON (voice-over): So after taking how many pills?

BUTLER: It was stated the young man who was there with him, that he had one and the young man had three.

NEWTON: So just one?

BUTLER: Just one. Just one.

This was something that was purposely done.

NEWTON: Jerome Butler was one of 10 people to die in just 12 days. Sacramento County alone and those clusters of deaths are happening all over the United States.

(voice-over): Here's just a small sample of what's happening. In Ohio, 514 Fentanyl related deaths, up from 92 the year before. That's five times the number of deaths. In Florida, 397 deaths, up from 185. And in Maryland, 185 deaths, up from 58.

BUTLER: What are we doing? What are we doing about it? I'm willing to do everything that I can.

NEWTON: The DEA says Fentanyl is flowing in record amounts from China through Mexico and into the United States.

(on camera): It's growing.

MARTIN: The trend has indicated that it has right now. It's feeding America's addiction to opioids.

[01:55:02] NEWTON (voice-over): On the east coast it's mostly powder. On the West coast it's mostly pills. The pills are often a perfect counterfeit copy labeled as other drugs.

(on camera): How strong is Fentanyl?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's much stronger. You can get a morphine tablet that contains 30 milligrams. Heroin would be in a dose of 10 milligrams if it was pure. One milligram looks like this.

NEWTON: I can't even see that.

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SESAY: Our Sara Sidner reporter there.

You're watching CNN NEWSROOM, live from Los Angeles. I'm Isha Sesay. I'll be back with another hour of news right after this.

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