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Greek Voters Reject European Bailout Offer; What Next in Greek Debt Crisis; Frustration Boiling Over After Chicago Shootings; World Cup Breaks TV Watching Record; Obama Meeting with Pentagon on ISIS Strategy. Aired 2:30-3p ET

Aired July 6, 2015 - 14:30   ET

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[14:33:50] BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR: Bottom of the hour. You're watching CNN. I'm Brooke Baldwin.

The Greek voters said no. They will no give into their creditors. They will not take that international bailout. That was the resounding result of Sunday's referendum. Suddenly, the country's finance minister quit over night. And this is the money picture. He hops on his motorcycle, wife on the back, bye-bye. The outspoken finance minister says bailout negotiations will be easier without him. There you go. Today, a big meeting with government and opposition leaders about this new financial proposal.

I want to begin our coverage with CNN business correspondent, Richard Quest, who is in Athens -- Richard?

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RICHARD QUEST, CNN HOST, QUEST MEANS BUSINESS: (AUDIO PROBLEM) -- the new finance minister, Euclid Tsakalotos, who is taking over from the pugnacious, Yanis Vanoufakis, who was resigned earlier today. Vanoufakis left saying he realized his presence -- he was widely disliked -- was a thorn in the side of the talks but he left with a parting shot, saying he wore the creditors' loathing as a bad joke of price. Now Tsakalotos has to come up with proposals that the European partners can start to find acceptable.

And from Europe, we've heard one minister after another say the economic situation in Greece has deteriorated over the past couple of weeks. The future talks will be difficult and tough and they are still expecting sizeable concessions from Greece.

Anyone who thought that a 61 percent "no" vote would somehow give Greece an easy pass is seriously mistaken.

The banks remain closed and the ECB so far has not said whether it will provide more money to the Greek banking system. And until they do, it's unlikely to open anytime soon.

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[14:35:52] BALDWIN: Richard Quest, in Athens. Richard, thank you so much.

So what now? What will the impact be on U.S. markets? And why our friends at "CNN Money" are saying we should be more concerned about China than Greece.

"CNN Money" and digital correspondent, Paul R. LaMonica, joins me now.

Richard Quest painted this whole picture of what is happening over there, but when you read about Greece, the population is like the size of Ohio. And everything I read about what is happening in Greece, it's like not this dire projection about how it could be impacting us, which you're agreeing with, but you're also saying the fear is the unknown.

PAUL R. LAMONICA, CNN MONEY & CNN DIGITAL CORRESPONDENT: Exactly. This is still a crisis unfolding in slow motion. There are more deadlines before Greece would actually get kicked out of the Euro. They are not printing new drachma yet to pay off their bills. It's still unclear whether or not there could be a deal that is reached. Having the very pugnacious prime minister ride off on a motorcycle with his wife, that's probably a good thing because you may have somebody be more willing to play with Germany and France and the big creditors that want more concessions. I think that's going to have to happen if there's going to be a favorable deal here.

BALDWIN: Before I get to China, I want to follow up with Greece. There's a play Vladimir Putin, this whole Russian posturing perhaps to help Greece, with this even -- he made the phone call to the P.M. of Greece. Is this actually realistic, is this about that gas pipeline that Russia is trying through Europe.

LAMONICA: I think that's really what it comes down to. Politically, it could be advantageous for Russia to try and be friendly with Greece because you have that pipeline going through Turkey. I don't see how Russia has the financial wherewithal to help Greece out. This is a country still reeling with the sanctions and the huge drop in oil prices earlier this year that crippled Russia's economy.

BALDWIN: China, this is a country with 1.4 billion people, the world's second-largest GDP. This is why we care in terms of geopolitical financial ramifications. When I was listening to you all talk about what was happening in China, I heard comparisons to 1929 and 2008.

LAMONICA: It's scary. It's scary what's going on in China.

BALDWIN: Tell me why.

LAMONICA: The stock market is in freefall right now. The Chinese government is doing everything that they can to prevent a bear market and becoming a full-blown crash like in 1929 or 2008. China's stock market was on fire earlier this year, even though the economy was weakening. People were betting aggressively in China on the companies there. And it was starting to look like a bubble. If China's market collapses, that could be a big problem when you look at how China is a huge trading partner of not just the U.S. but also Europe. Nobody wants to see China's economy ailing, even though we are more frenemies with China than full-blown partners. But China, they're success is vital to the global economy.

BALDWIN: Frenemies.

Paul LaMonica, great stuff on CNNmoney.com.

LAMONICA: Thank you.

BALDWIN: Thank you very much.

In his typical rock-star fashion, Pope Francis is greeting large crowds in Ecuador today, his first stop in his eight-day South America visit.

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[14:39:17]BALDWIN: Ah, the popemobile. Frenzied crowds waved and cheered as the Catholic leader rode by. He's holding mass right now in Ecuador and Pope Francis chose to visit Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay, three of the region's poorest countries. He continues to focus on the plight of the world's needy. By the way, this does not include a trip to his homeland, Argentina.

Next, breaking news about convicted Boston bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and his effort to get a new trial.

Also ahead, President Obama will deliver a statement from the Pentagon after getting updates on ISIS overseas. We'll take that live as soon as it happens.

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[14:44:13] BALDWIN: All right. Got some news into us here at CNN. Convicted Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, would like a new trial. His attorney has officially filed a preliminary motion for this new trial. This is according to federal court documents. The attorneys say they will file more documents in the coming weeks outlining reasons for requesting for a new trial. In the meantime, he's been held at the supermax prison in Florence, Colorado.

Frustration is boiling over in Chicago as gun violence claimed seven lives just over the Fourth of July weekend, and 41 others were hurt.

The youngest victim, 7 years of age. Amari Brown was shot and killed by a bullet meant for his father, a ranking gang member with a lengthy criminal record.

At a vigil last night, his family said this.

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MICHAEL SINGLETON, FATHER OF AMARI BROWN: All of you be back out here next week on another corner filming the same thing from somebody else saying exactly what I'm saying. So I'm tired of doing this and tired of listening to is and tired of talking about it. Until we make a decision as a community and as a city, this is all that is going to happen.

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[14:45:30] BALDWIN: Chicago police superintendent, Garry McCarthy, stood in front of a table full of confiscated illegal weapons just yesterday and spoke passionately about a broken system.

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GARRY MCCARTHY, SUPERINTENDENT, CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT: I'm angry, I'm frustrated, and I'm frustrated and angry that we're here again talking about another senseless murder. Pick out the names, Hadiya Pendleton, this list goes on and on. This has got to stop. We can put another 10,000 police officers on the street. What would happen? Maybe we'll arrest Mr. Brown 90 times and nothing will happen. Maybe we'll take another 10,000 guns off the street and another 10,000 will fill up that illegal market the next day. I'm incredibly proud of the men and women of this department who, in spite of what I'm talking about, go out every single day and do what they do. We need some help here, folks. We have to fix this broken system.

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BALDWIN: McCarthy pointed out that, since Friday morning, police have recovered one illegal gun per hour across this city. Compared to last year, the number of violent incidents is slightly down. If when you're being looking for the same period in 2014, there were 41 shootings and seven killed.

CNN's Ryan Young is live in Chicago covering all of this.

To hear the superintendent say he's angry is probably an understatement for that city and beyond? When you talk about the 7- year-old, how are people in his neighborhood responding to this?

RYAN YOUNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, I'm sure people across this city are happy to hear the frustration coming from the superintendent, but so many people are really to the day-to-day violence in their neighborhood. We went to that neighborhood and walked around a little bit. We saw police officers all over the area. The police officers know the community. In fact, there is a surveillance camera right over the area where this young man was shot. And you have to think about it, a 7-year-old. Who shouldn't be able to go outside and stand on a sidewalk and be able to see fireworks on the Fourth of July? But, unfortunately, Amari Brown was shot in the chest.

So many people are reacting to this in the Chicago area. When you talk about the numbers, they are astounding. On June 1st, 161 people shot and killed in the first 150 days of the year. So you can hear the frustration from officers and you know they are upset about this. You heard that passion from the superintendent as he talked about needing help from the community.

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MCCARTHY: If we don't hold criminals accountable, people don't go to jail for illegal guns. If they do not fear the criminal justice system, if they don't fear repurchase discussion from the gang that they belong to, losing the gun, outweighs the criminal justice actions that they would be subject to, we're going to stay in the position that we're in.

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YOUNG: Let's not forget that somebody called this city Sharat (ph) and that's a certain term that people don't like throughout the city, but as we talk to reverends and people throughout the community, there's no way to stop the flow of guns they thing. They're not way to stop the gang violence. How do you get kids out of this system and involved in something like this? You hear the anger from the superintendent but there is a disconnect because people in the neighborhood say, hey, when everybody is gone, they are back to hearing gunfire every single night.

BALDWIN: Wasn't that the point, when we heard this boy's family member saying, you all will be out here next weekend and next weekend. And you mentioned "Sharat (ph)", the Spike Lee film. But, again, when you look at the numbers, compared to last year, it's actually slightly better.

YOUNG: It is slightly better and, yes, there is a Spike Lee film, but people in the neighborhood have been calling this for quite some time. It's slightly better but down from what? When you hear about all of the murders happening inside the city, people say they want to stop the violence. The officers are working 12-hour shifts in the neighborhood and there may have been that surveillance camera from police where the shooting is. There are people who don't care what is being done and that's why so many people say the system is broken, when people can have guns and get arrested and be out in a short period of time. Somehow, they have to tip the balance so they make sure people using guns serve more time or there's a way to suck the guns out of the community. You can understand any parent doesn't want to leave a 7 year old there on the streets.

[14:49:55] BALDWIN: No. And just to see the table of guns, one illegal gun an hour, it's stunning.

Ryan Young, thank you.

Coming up next, President Obama meeting right now with top advisers at the Pentagon for an update on ISIS strategy. He's expected to deliver remarks in the next hour. We have our correspondent at the Pentagon, Barbara Starr, standing by for that. This is video just in from the Pentagon from this big visit.

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BALDWIN: Can we talk about the Team USA soccer match, the big win last night? I'm sure you've seen it. You've seen the replays of the record-breaking women's World Cup final.

Let me list some of them for you. The U.S. now holds the most womens World Cup titles. Carli Lloyd became the first player in history to score a hat trick in the women's World Cup final. She also broke the record for the quickest goal in history, three minutes into the game. Today, we're also learning of a record of a different kind, U.S. TV ratings. So last night's game was the most-watched soccer event in the U.S. ever, men or women.

Let me bring in Brian Stelter, our senior media correspondent, with all of the numbers and figures.

But I think what blows my mind is the fact that this beat a world series and an NBA final.

BRIAN STELTER, CNN SENIOR MEDIA CORRESPONDENT: That's right. Soccer clearly is here, and here to stay. And these ratings show it. FOX is about to announce the final numbers but it's going to be 25.4 million viewers. Spanish language broadcast, another couple million. That beats all of the matches we talked about last year and even the final -- the U.S. wasn't in the final last year but the final had like 25 million. It also beats 1999. You know, the famous match where the U.S. won 16 years ago. These ratings also beat that broadcast, which goes to show how prevalent and significant soccer has become in the U.S. These numbers really demonstrate that.

BALDWIN: It begs the question obviously why. And in the lead-up to the match last night, I had a couple of ladies on my show from previous major games and they were saying, Brooke, they really think it's a social media presence, that people feel connected with these players.

STELTER: Right.

BALDWIN: And that brings them through to watch the game. To your point, all the way through the match.

STELTER: Yeah. I thought viewership might start to fade towards the end of the match because the U.S. had a pretty clear lead, other shows were starting to be on at 8:00, 9:00 and viewership went on as more goals were being scored and in the end with the trophy. It goes along with the power of live TV and social media and Facebook and plain-old messages from friends will compel you to turn on the TV. And we knew the characters going into the match so people wanted to tune in.

In this age of on demand, when everyone watches what they want to watch, these big events get bigger than ever because of social media.

BALDWIN: I totally agree.

STELTER: Yes. BALDWIN: Brian Stelter, thank you very much.

Now this. President Obama has made a rare visit to the Pentagon discussing here ISIS.

Let's get straight to the Pentagon and to Barbara Starr.

My question is, we were just getting the video coming in of them sitting around the big tables there. Is this a decision-making meeting or is this a status update?

BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Well, all indications are that the president is here for a status update. Don't expect any big decisions when he appears in the bridging room about an hour from now, at least not public decisions. But it's been a very interesting weekend for those air strikes in Syria, especially about 18 air strikes around the city of Raqqa, which is ISIS declared capital, a very heavily populated area. U.S. and coalition planes going in and pounding targets. It doesn't happen very often that we see air strikes on this scale directly in an ISIS stronghold. So the president will get an update about all of that and an update about ISIS in other areas besides Iraq and Syria. Tunisia, Libya, we have seen a good deal of activity there. Recent attacks in Tunisia and north Africa is is' new front in their effort to exert their influence and barbaric activity. Maybe an update on the on -- maybe not breaking news on Iraq and Syria, part of the campaign that we have seen for so many months but a lot behind the scenes about what is going on and what the next steps may be -- Brooke?

BALDWIN: What will you -- when we take the president and he is speaking an hour from now, you've been covering this so closely, what will you be listening for in the president's message?

STARR: Well, I think everyone is going to be listening for what you asked, any indications of any decisions about shifts in policy, tone, emphasis, where the U.S. may be putting its focus next. Are we just going to continue to see air strikes day after day and week after week? There's been a lot of problems, as we've reported, to get Iraqi forces trained up and ready to go, Syrian forces, rebel forces trained and equipped. Make no mistake, this is all going very slowly, much more slowly than the U.S. anticipated. So we're going to be looking for any slight indication of a change in tone or emphasis and, again, that new front of ISIS, North Africa, in Tunisia, in Libya. This is where so many foreign fighters are now being recruited and sent into Syria. Is there going to be some new emphasis of going into those areas -- Brooke?

BALDWIN: We'll be taking it live.

Barbara Starr, thank you so much, from the Pentagon.

STARR: Sure.

BALDWIN: Hour two. You're watching CNN. I'm Brooke Baldwin.