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CNNW CNN Newsroom With Victor Blackwell And Christi Paul August 15, 2015

A blast site in china. Workers frantically digging as they rescue a firefighter who has been buried in that rubble. So grateful to have you with us as always on a saturday. Here with newsroom, im christi paul. And im victor blackwell. Its a big political day in a couple of hours, many president ial hopefuls, a lot of them, will descend on the iowa state fair, Hillary Clinton, bernie sanders, and lincoln chafee, we also have Rick Santorum and donald trump as well. And donald trump will make a grand entrance. To say the least, yes. The business mogul expected to arrive in his helicopter. How else would he, correct . Thats just the way. Thats just the way. Meanwhile, clinton heads to iowa after taking shots at each other and the rest of the gop field is essentially whats happening this morning. Weve got the latest. We know, jeff, that hillary spoke last night. Wondering, first of all, what was the reaction to her speech . Reporter hey, good morning. Youre right. This is ground zero of the 2016 president ial campaign at least for the weekend. But Hillary Clinton spoke with the rest of the democratic field at the surf ballroom in clear lake, iowa. She was defiant, more so than weve heard ever before, about this whole controversy over her private email server. Of course, this week she finally agreed after five months of saying no, she agreed to turn over the server to the Justice Department and the fbi and in her speech to democrats last night she made a bit a joke about it. Lets listen. I know that people across the country are following us on social media as well. By the way, you may have seen that i recently launched a snap chat account. I love it. I love it. Those messages disappear all by themselves. Reporter now, of course, that joke played well to that audience of democrats and that underscores the partisan divide in this whole controversy. She is trying to make the case that this is nothing other than politics as usual. In fact, she said just that. But victor, i can tell you, by agreeing to turn over the private email server the Clinton Campaign is taking this very seriously. This has hung over her campaign. Its eroded some of her trust and credibility numbers as well in the first months of her campaign. But sort of across the country in New Hampshire, donald trump last night almost at the same time was making a bit of a different argument about this email server. All republicans have been hammering her on this and using it to raise questions of her trust and credibility. Donald trump took it a step further last night in New Hampshire. Lets take a listen. And i think at some point shes perhaps not going to be able to run. Shes going to have to end her campaign. That seems to be the thinking by so many. General petraeus, his life was destroyed with a tiny fraction of what shes done. So, its very unfair to him if theyre going to destroy him over doing by comparison nothing, i dont see how she can run. I think shes got much bigger problems than running for office. Reporter now, of course, donald trump saying Hillary Clinton is getting out of the race is, you know, filled with partisan politics. And almost certainly not true. And it draws a distinction of this, democrats believe republicans may overreach on this thing, as the Investigation Continues in the house of representatives, the Benghazi Committee when she finally testifies in october, will republicans overreach . And by donald trump there saying its like david petraeus, he makes a point. Its actually not like david petraeus. Its different in this respect. David petraeus passed on classified information that was marked classified at the time. The Clinton Campaign is saying that secretary clinton and her staff did not pass along any information that was marked classified at the time. It later maybe became classified. So a couple distinctions there, a couple differences. But overall today the email server will probably switch to the back burner, and Hillary Clinton and donald trump will be at the iowa state fair at the same time as well as bernie sanders. So more fireworks of a different kind today in iowa here at the state fair. Guys, back to you. All right, well look forward to hearing more about that. Thank you, sir. Now, consider the day as jeff said, youve got donald trump. Youve got Hillary Clinton there at the iowa state fair. Bernie sanders as well. Now, while they are there, both rivals along with a fiery jeb bush. Theyre not mincing words when it comes to their opponents. Listen. But jeb bush has 114 million. Whats he going to do with it . Hell start hitting me with ads i guess, you know, at some point hes got to because hes going down the tubes. The guys going down the tubes. Heres the deal, my email address, write it down and send me your thoughts. Jeb jeb. Org. I just gave out my email address is exactly what i did when i was governor of the state of florida. I released all my emails. Dont let the circus distract you. If you look at their policies most of the other candidates are just trump without the pizzazz or the hair. I think at some point shes perhaps not going to able to run. Going to have to end her campaign. That seems to be the thinking by so many. All right. Lets talk more about the race now. Weve got with us Iowa Republican Communications Director charlie zold. Good to have you this morning. Thanks for having me. So, we know that mr. Trump will be coming in on his helicopter, flying in to the iowa state fair soon. I wonder if there is a message thats being received by republicans there when he flies in and cherry picks events hell attend instead of what were seeing from other candidates like Rick Santorum, like governor christie who are staying day after day, going county to county. You know, each candidate has to run his own race and donald trump thinks this is the best way for him to reach iowans thats for him to decide. We like candidates that are here as often as possible and meeting people in small settings and talking to them in diners, but donald trump is donald trump and if theres one thinks iowans dont like is inauthenticity, if he doesnt think he can go into a diner and do a sitdown with four or five people, thats for him to decide. We just want our candidates to be authentic and explain their vision for the country. There would be some support or validity to his process because of his position in the polls. Does that weaken the traditional process by which candidates run in iowa . No, i dont think so. Every ca every candidate has to run his own race and Rick Santorum in 2012 ran the quintessential campaign and he went to every 199 counties and it paid off in spades for him. Rick santorum can run his race and done always trump can run his race. And, you know, i want to talk about the iowa state fair and the soapbox because we know that donald trump wont be there. Weve also read that jim gilmore will not be. Rand paul as well. Do republicans in iowa see that as a snub if the candidates dont give them the 20 minutes back and forth . Only if the candidates have a prior history of not talking to them. You know, jim gilmore, you know, he hasnt been here very often. Hes going to have to come here and introduce himself to iowans. He wants to compete. Rand paul has been here plenty. Hell be here again. Hillary clinton on the other hand has been running a race where she is staying behind closed doors and not being open with the press so iowans might hold it against her. All right. Lets listen to what donald trump said about jeb bush and talk about his campaign there in iowa. Listen. But jeb bush has 114 million. Whats he going to do with it . Hell start hitting me with ads i guess, you know, at some point he has to because hes going down the tubes. The guys going down the tubes. Theres no energy. So when jeb and hillary and all of these other candidates start spending money, remember this, that money was given by people that have total control over them. And those people, many of whom i know very well, they dont care about him, they dont care about the color of his hair, they dont care anything about him. And they dont care about the country in many cases. They only want whatever they want. And theyll get plenty. So, jeb bush in the latest poll appears to have slipped to seventh place here. He says hes all in in iowa. Does that correspond with what youre seeing on the ground . Yeah. Absolutely. Hes got a topnotch team here. Hes coming more often. He just was at the state fair yesterday for four hours. He did everything he had to do. He went to the bud tent and the pork producers tent. So jebs doing a great job here, you know, its up for iowans to decide who they like and who they dont. But jebs absolutely putting himself out there and working hard for everyones vote. All right, Charlie Szold and youve got a full day of double fried oreos and butter cows. Ill let you get back to the iowa state fair. Thank you very much for being with us. Thank you very much. And thanks for pafing attention to iowa. Am i wrong not to know what butter cows are. Its a big cow mailed of butter is exactly what it is. It makes sense i suppose then. Much more than this next story does. This one makes no sense. This is so crazy. A michigan lawmaker accused of covering up an affair with another state rep. The alleged coverup itself is so bizarre well tell you whats going on that we know of. Also new explosions in china at the site of that deadly warehouse blast from earlier this week, reigniting fires sending black smoke into the air. Those are the pictures coming to us this morning. 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The other is accused of trying to cover it up in a really weird 2007. Cnns ryan nobles is joining us live from new york. To clarify, i understand one of the aides who knew of this alleged affair is about to go public with the details, is that right . Yeah, thats right, christi. That staffer his name is joshua klein. He claims he has the inside story on this scandal and going to go public on monday, this as the two law makers at the center of this controversy attempt to repair their reputations. My husband and i reporter for the first time, the female state representative at the center of a sex scandal rocking michigans State Capitol is speaking out. I know that ive made some poor decisions as they relate to my personal life. Reporter cindy gamrat and her fellow republican todd courser are accused of engaging in an extramarital affair. Both are conservative lawmakers with spouses and children. The detroit noyce obtained an audio recording captured by a staffer where courser hatches a selftargeted plan to send an email under a fake name falsely accusing himself of soliciting a male prostitute. The goal . To distract attention from his relationship with gamrat. What does this do . I need to, if possible, inoculate the herd against gutter politics that are coming. Reporter the salacious details are leading to calls for both courser and gamrat to resign. A tearful gamrat acknowledged mistakes, but stopped short of admitting to the affair and has refused to step down. My husband is here, joe, and i have three children, sorry. They all deserve whats come upon them. I take full responsibility. Reporter meanwhile courser who has not admitted to the affair has released a 27minute audio statement where he does admit to faking the email and describes himself as a broken messenger, but he, too, refuses to step down, claiming that former staffers led by political opponents are trying to blackmail him. So, i refuse to leave quietly and have decided that these efforts really need to come out. Reporter back at the State Capitol Michigan House speaker kevin cotter has ordered an investigation in to the allegations and whether any house rules or laws were violated. Its an investigation gamrat welcomes. I am looking forward to the investigation. I think that will vindicate me in that. And michigan speaker of the house has also called this entire affair disturbing and hes called on both of these two representatives to step down. Christi . All right, ryan nobles, we appreciate it, thank you. And a new round of explosions rocking china. Hear from the man remarkably pulled from the rubble. 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Reporter were at an emergency shelter, victor, which is a little over a mile away from the blast site. Last night there were hundreds of families staying here and theyve all been evacuated and sent to another shelter farther away. The reason for this is concern about the air quality in light of those new explosions and fires that reignited during your overnight hours in the united states. It was day time here when a lot of people herald the board the smoke plumes rising up, because then came word from government officials that deadly sodium cyanide had also been detected in this area and there was a lot of concern that anybody who breathed that in could potentially be lethal. Thats in addition to all the other dangerous chemicals. Thats why you see a lot of people Walking Around with masks like im wearing right now. Its just a reality of life for the people here in tianjin for their own safety. There was that second survivor rescued today. That is one piece of good news. It was remarkable to see that so many hours after the blast that a 50yearold man was able to survive. Thats in addition to the 19yearold firefighter who survived for 31 hours. While he has pretty severe injuries, he is expected to be okay. Theres also a mother who gave birth to a babe prematurely during all the explosion and the height of the danger and the blast. But were told that her baby and the mother are both expected to survive as well.

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