You cant help it. I think he would have been a successful athlete in any sport. He was incredibly gifted as an athlete. Now we are always so grateful to see you especially early in the morning. Im christi paul with. Joe johns and with victor blackwell. This is the final sunday before the final super tuesday of the primary season. Pretty much. Were going to get to that obviously because theres so much politics to talk about, but we do want to get to first to the breaking news hearing out of california. Video here. A wall of fire going through the upscale neighborhood. The calabasas fire. Its 15 contained this morning. At least 5,000 people forced to flee the area which is home to celebrities such as the kardashians, Jessica Simpson and jessica braxton. This fire might have started when a truck hit a power pole. Steve gentry is joining us. You have recorded video of firefighters battling this fire. How serious is this from your perspective . Reporter the situation was very serious. Things here in california, theyre very dry, and it doesnt take a whole lot for a fire to get going and spread really rapidly. At one point the fire was right up through to the backyards of a lot of the homes and residents in that area to the point where even sheriffs deputies were grabbing fire hoses and using them to fight the fire. Any sense of how long its going to take to get this under control . There are several celebrities tweeting about it. Reporter as far as i know the Evacuation Center was at a high school. As for how long, im not really a firefighter so i cant tell you, but i would say probably just taking a guess it will probably end up being sometime later this evening that theyll start letting people back in. Steve, just real quickly. I mean, youve seen so many of these fires. Help us understand how serious this is compared to what youve seen in the past. Reporter very its very serious. Its very serious any time that you have a fire in residential areas. The first job of a firefighter is to save lives and to save property and they need to be able to do that in a very safe way. And with the conditions throughout california the way they are, the fires are moving much more rapid than they have in the past. Yeah. Steve gentry, we appreciate you being with us, especially so early in the morning as we know it is out there. Thank you for bringing it to us from your perspective. We appreciate your time. Reporter thank you. Thank you. Reporter youre welcome. This morning Hillary Clinton is inching closer to the democratic president ial nomination. The former secretary of state notching a win overnight in the u. S. Virgin islands caucuses soundly defeating Bernie Sanders with 84 of the vote. Now if we look at the latest delegate count, Hillary Clinton is now just 63 delegates shy of the magic number of 2383. Today puerto rico holds its democratic primary. 60 pledge delegates there. This could push her to the brink of the nomination. She is expected to pass the delegate threshold tuesday in california. There are such a significant number of delegates at stake for the democrats in california. Plus, i think very interesting is she could cross the threshold in new jersey even before the polls close in california. On the republican side, donald trump says no one respects women more than he does, but a new report shows a troubling pay gap between the sexes. According to a boston globe analysis, Donald Trumps male staffers are paid nearly 6100 compared to 4500 for their female counterparts. A 35 difference in pay. The Campaign Paid staffers on the clinton said roughly equals amount. This is coming as the presumptive nominee is battling lawsuits claiming his Trump University is nothing more than a scam. Were joined by Scotty Hughes along with miami beach mayor and Hillary Clinton campaign surrogate. Thank you both for getting up early. Good morning. Scotty, lets start with you. Donald trump has made his early promotion of women in his Construction Business a key part of his record. Why let this disparity happen on the campaign . It seemingly shows how he will compensate employees. Great word. It suggests it. Already in the numbers they leaked, theyve added 60 employees. Both campaigns have changed since april but what they did is they compared apples to oranges. Youre sitting here looking at the Clinton Campaign that has 731 employees at this point compared to donald trump who has 113. You have more numbers to look at when youre averaging out. Scotty, let me just stop you right there. Right there at the top you said that this was a reflection of april. In other words, the campaign has changed the way it pays women after april . No, im saying that its added more staff onto it so you can sit there and talk about the averages compared to male compared to women and you cant do that when your numbers are already off. 60 more additional Staff Members on the Clinton Campaign changes their numbers as well. Heres whats interesting about this. Lets talk about Bernie Sanders. A gender disparity is on the sanders campaign. The ten highest paid Staff Members are all men. Women on his cam pain make 1,000 less than average than the men. Theyre the same kind of numbers and totals than clinton. They compared communication versus senior staff which is your Campaign Manager and campaign. To sit there and do this, and the reason why this is happening, by the way, is because clinton got caught. She got caught when she was paying her senate Staff Members, the women, 76 cents to every dollar to men. The clinton foundation, the ton man makes 215,000 compared to 115,000 today. Lets move on to Trump University. One of that schools top rated instructors, james harris, told the Washington Post i was told to do one thing, to show up to teach, to train, to motivate people to purchase Trump University products and services. So the daily beast has reported that this instructor was a convicted felon, that he never went to college. I think the question arising from that is whether it sort of plays into the charge that Trump University was shady. Depends if youre looking at it as being shady. Mr. Trump never said this was an accredited university. This was more like a seminar, business teaching. Guess what, it was up to these folks. Who ever goes in and blindly trusts a name and puts down a credit card for 35,000 without looking into the instructors themselves . I dont do that when i go into the ballot box and i didnt do that with my education. Wait a minute. Youre saying the people who say they were defrauded are, in fact, responsible for whatever it was that happened to them . You have to sit there and look at responsibility. Its not like these people immediately went in and put down 35,000. They were up charged. They continued to buy in order to get to these levels. Maybe mr. Trump hired great salespeople, thats what it was, it was all about marketing and sales, but the key was were sitting here showing one side of the story with all of the ones that are part of this lawsuit that are complaining and were not showing the people that are actually very happy. Theres multiples of those. There are numerous ones of those. Theres a reason why it has the Better Business bureau rating. Lets talk about those people who are happy with their experience at Trump University. There are questions. Well have to debate that another time as to whether these people were sort of under duress when they were filling out their reviews. Lets move on. Phillip, i want to get to you. Clintons use of the private email is a story and the server she used still under investigation. There is a separate lawsuit by judicial watch, the man who helped set up clintons private server, Brian Pagliano just had his deposition delayed. Hes expected to invoke his fifth amendment. Potentially another problem for Hillary Clinton should the video be made public . Let me address this. Regarding Trump University, im going to get into the emails. Im not a supporter of donald trump. I have to say this maybe in defense of donald trump. The students that enrolled in Trump University, they did learn trumps ee krets of success. Think of the courses they took, one owe one, fraud. One owe two, misrepresentation. Course number 103, deception, over promise, under delivering. The reality is at Trump University, they got his business secrets to success. I think its important that we bring that out because thats exactly what they were. Just to be clear, alleged fraud. Alleged misrepresentation. Alleged fraud. I even heard that Bernie Madoff was one of the visiting professors. You have to love the fighting proc tors. Getting to the email situation. Oh, my god, she used the wrong server. Nothing was confidential. We realize that. Everyone was doing the same thing. Well, not everybody. Not everybody. No. They all did and everyone used the same service and colin powell did, condi rice did. No. The fact is he was granted immunity, it was wonderful. The Clinton Campaign is happy that he testified. Its important. The same thing again, nothing happened. Theres nothing there. This is old news were bringing back again that means nothing. Thank you both so much. Good to see you all on this early morning. Scotty and phillip, thank you very much. Thank you. And a programming reminder, stay with cnn for super tuesday election coverage. Thats all day tuesday right here on cnn. Big public memorial now planned for legendary muhamm muhammad ali. Good morning. You can see behind me the growing memorial. 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Thoughts and prayers going out to muhammad alis family as they get ready to say their final goodbyes to the greatest of all time. Theyre holding a public funeral this friday in his hometown of louisville, kentucky. The iconic threetime champion died friday night of septic shock. This came after decades of battling parkinsons disease of course. In his final moments he was surrounded by his wife, by his children, some whispering the last words hed ever hear in his ear. His daughter hannah ali tweeting we love you. You can go back to god now. Ryan smith is with us live in louisville with more information on alis funeral. You hear that and you just feel for this family. And people can relate to it because people have had to do it before, but this funeral for him is going to be so profound, is it not, based on even just what were seeing behind you and the way that its affected that community youre in. Reporter well, it really has affected the community. Really it affected the world. You look at the sports world and how they reacted to this. Outside of that, all of the people who dealt with humanitarians for years talked about what this man meant in terms of how he stood up against injustice. Look behind me, you see all of these flowers that have been brought out here. In the end, it was raining yesterday. People were stopping by. A lot of them wanting to pay their respects to the man they knew so well as someone who stood up not only for this area but for people all across the world who didnt have a voice that he had. In fact, muhammad ali said at one point, the will must be stronger than the skill and he proved that over and over again. The mayor talking about alis life and what it meant to the city. Well, were a grateful city here and grounded in the value of compassion and this is what were about, certainly its what the champ was about as well. He leaves a legacy in the ring, no question about that, but the real legacy is the values that he represented and how he wants us to live going forward. I think, you know, his passing right now, we hate it. We knew this day was going to come, but for us here in our city of louisville and around the world, i think the question is what do we do . How do we take up his values . Reporter we saw hundreds of people showing up yesterday. This funeral on friday, a lot of people planning to attend. You know the remembrances wont stop for quite some time. It will be very comforting for that community. Ryan young, we appreciate it. Thank you. Coming up, were going to talk about an american hostage who was held in iran who was crediting muhammad ali with helping to save his life. Its a cnn exclusive. Being stolen. That is cybercrime. And it affects each and every one of us. Microsoft created the digital crimes unit to fight cybercrime. 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That statement comes after the boxer was a dominated voice in the fight to free an american journalist from an iranian prison. Cnns jim sciutto talks to jason rosian about the moment muhammad ali changed his life. We know his passion for humanitarian issues span decades and crossed international borders, but heres something you might not know. In the final months of his lives ali tried to help free an american journalist in prison in iran. Im talking about this man, jason rosian. He was convicted of espy owe naming in iran. While jason was hold up in an iranian prison cell muhammad ali issued a statement, release jason. In it ali wrote, quote, to my knowledge jason is a man of peace and great faith, a man whose dedication and respect for the iranian people is evident in his work. I support his family, friends and colleagues in their efforts to obtain his release. Well, jason joins me now for his very first interview since his release. Jason, thank you for taking the time today. Thanks for having me on, jim. I really appreciate it. I want to ask you first just how much this statement meant for you, this statement of support, this call for your release from muhammad ali. Im just getting chills as i read that again. It meant so much to me at the time. My wife came to visit me, which she was allowed to do fairly rarely, and she told me this, that muhammad ali had made this statement, and i cant tell you, i cant express in words how much it meant to me, continues to mean to me. There were so many calls for my release, so much support, but getting the support of the champ touched me in ways that just still ripple through my life. So, jason, you say that the Prison Guards actually found be out about alis statement of support and they started treating you differently . Yes. I mean, the statement was covered in the iranian press, as so many things about my imprisonment were, and they started treating me in a better way. I think it brought some doubt to them about the charges against me. Along with that my spirits were lifted and i felt empowered in a way that nothing else nothing else lifted me throughout that time. Its incredible that that statement from so far away could reach you inside that prison cell so many thousands of miles away. I wonder if you could describe, you spent a lot of years living in iran. Just how important muhammad ali was as an american muslim, an american muslim leader, how important that was in bridge in our world with a Muslim Country like iran. As he was in so many countries, muhammad ali was somebody that the iranian people had been drawn to, had been for many years as a sportsman but also as a muslim and somebody who was doing great charitable work throughout his life. He was everybodys champion just like he was here in america and around the world. So, jason, you were in that iranian prison cell until your release for some 545 days. This is the first chance we get to talk to you. I know a lot of folks back home just would like to know simply, how are you doing . Better and better every day. Appreciate the support of everybody throughout the world and back here in the united states. Its just great to be home and im in the process of readjustment. It will still take some time, but by and large im feeling really good. We know youre a warriors fan. Well root for them as well to help you along the way. Most importantly, thanks for taking the time and were glad to have you home. Thanks so much for having me on, jim. Donald trump says a judge overseeing a lawsuit against his university is biased because of his mexican heritage. Its a cnn exclusive youll hear in his own words. I have had horrible rulings. Ive been treated very unfairly by this judge. This judge