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Accusers Speak Out About Cosby Revelations; Source: Federal Agent's Gun Used in Pier Murder; Subway Drops Spokesman Jared After FBI Raid; Chinese Stock Market Collapse. Aired 6:30-7a ET

Aired July 8, 2015 - 06:30   ET

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[06:32:31] ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: Bill Cosby admits in a sworn deposition to acquiring sedatives with the intent of giving them to women he wanted to have sex with. Some high profile people want to defend him.

With us for their reaction this morning are two of his accusers, Jewel Allison and Kaya Thompson.

Thanks so much for being here.

Jewel, I want to start with you. You look great. You are smiling.

JEWEL ALLISON, BILL COSBY ACCUSER: Thank you.

CAMEROTA: You say you feel much lighter today. How so?

ALLISON: You know, well, first I was in shock. I mean, I --

CAMEROTA: When you heard he had said that he got prescriptions for Quaaludes, a heavy sedative --

ALLISON: Can you imagine?

CAMEROTA: -- to give to women he wanted to have sex with, you were in shock.

ALLISON: I was in shock for about two hours. I think I'm still in a state of, oh, my God, you know? It's been unbelievable. It's been some journey. It's been very excruciating journey for me, personally.

CAMEROTA: You shared that with us on NEW DAY. After the two hours of shock, you had a spring in your step. Why?

ALLISON: Yes, I felt like I had more pep in my step, you know?

I didn't realize that I would -- I felt like I was walking around, carrying a lot of weight, a lot of weight on me that when I got this news was lifted, you know?

CAMEROTA: Because it was -- because you finally heard the truth or it confirmed what you have always suspected, that you were sedated by him?

ALLISON: It was definitely an oh, my God moment. It -- it -- it -- I still can't find the words to explain it. But I think, for me, I didn't realize that I was feeling a lot of the negativity and we all experienced enormous amount of name calling and bashing on the internet. It was very negative. I mean we were called names and quite frankly treated in a mean way. People didn't want to believe what we were saying.

CAMEROTA: Kaya, I want to bring you in because you were -- you met Bill Cosby when you were young, you were a teenager, an extra on "The Cosby Show". You considered him a mentor.

So, what were the past 24 hours been like for you?

KAYA THOMPSON, APPEARED ON "THE COSBY SHOW": Well, the news came out on my father's birthday, my good Bill.

[06:35:01] So, it was -- I think as Jewel, we've all spoken with many and heard about the medicine bags and it wasn't a surprise that he had purchased them. The beauty that he made this admission in court is out of control. A lot of people think Jewel and I have been paid all this money.

No. We just wanted you all to be equipped with the knowledge, the ingredients of this persona and to have that validated in a court of law, as Jewel said, the weight off of us, the spring in the step. I was doing an Irish jig yesterday, you know?

I was just dancing. So, yes, it's enough (ph).

CAMEROTA: And yet, there are still people, I suppose on the Internet, but certainly in Hollywood, high profile people, who do stand by Bill Cosby.

Kayla, let me start with you, because Whoopi Goldberg on "The View" yesterday is still defending him. Let me play what she said.

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WHOOPI GOLDBERG, HOST, ABC'S "THE VIEW": Save your texts, save your nasty comments, I don't care.

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And I say this -- I say this because this is my opinion. And in America, still, I know it's a shock, but you actually are innocent until proven guilty. He has not been proven.

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CAMEROTA: Kaya, what do you think of her comments?

THOMPSON: I'm sorry I had to listen to them. I do my best to avoid her and others who perpetrate this rape culture. I used to really look up to her and I'm sorry about her position, and that's about all I have to say about that. I wish I didn't have to hear it.

CAMEROTA: Jewel?

ALLISON: I think that it's a time to move forward. You know, these are defining moments for us and embrace, find the courage to embrace the truth and it takes a lot of courage and strength sometimes to deal with something that is very painful. The truth hurts. People don't want to deal with the truth.

But I think if we are going to be able to start a healing process individually and also, you know, our global society to look at this as an issue in terms of rape and sexual assault against women. You know, let's take this issue now and maybe we can have a broader discussion about it now.

CAMEROTA: What does moving forward in this particular case mean? What will happen now? What would you like to see happen to Bill Cosby? Because as you well know, the statute of limitations for most everyone's cases, that we've met has expired. So, what happens now?

ALLISON: It's amazing. We didn't think that it would be this big. I didn't know there were so many women involved, you know? I don't think any of us knew there were so many women. This is shocking to find out about this current, you know, public disclosure.

But, now is the time to just deal with the truth. To just come forward, move forward with the truth. And to bring this issue of sexual violence and violence against women of any sort, sexual assault. Rape, these are issue that is need to come forward with us as we all move forward.

We have presidential candidates speaking now and perhaps this is a defining moment for us as a nation to, for the first time, have these candidates talk about rape culture and rape and violence against women and it would be great to have all of them debate about, you know, rape and sexual assault.

CAMEROTA: There does seem to be a national conversation that is happening, in part because all of you have come forward with your stories.

Kaya Thompson and Jewel Allison, thank you so much for sharing what is obviously personal and painful, and we appreciate you being on.

We will let everyone know in the 8:00 hour, Kaya and Jewel will return to talk about the challenges coming forward against one of the most prominent African-American men in Hollywood and all that involved.

Also, tune in tonight at 9:00 to CNN Special Report, "No Laughing Matter: Inside the Cosby Allegations." Where we retrace the steps of how we got here today.

Michaela?

MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR: All right. Ahead here on NEW DAY, you won't see Jared in those Subway ads. Why the sandwich chain is cutting ties with its longtime pitchman. We've got startling allegations ahead.

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[06:43:56] CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: Troubling news. Not only was the man who killed a woman on the San Francisco pier here illegally, but he used a federal agents gun to do the killing. "The San Francisco Chronicle" reports this and the gun was stolen from the agents car back in June. No word whether the man on the screen stole the weapon.

Sanchez who initially indicated he killed 32-year-old Kate Steinle is now pleading not guilty to murder and weapons charges. His lawyer says he didn't know what he was saying.

CAMEROTA: One on one with Hillary Clinton in her first national interview for the 2016 race, it's a CNN exclusive. Clinton says she's disappointed in Donald Trump for his immigration comments and the rest of the GOP field for not forcefully condemning him. She calls it a pattern of hostility by the GOP towards immigrants.

PEREIRA: New charges for the confessed gunman in the Charleston church massacre. Dylann Roof is now facing three charges of attempted murder because of the three people who survived the shooting. The 21- year-old already faces nine counts of murder and a weapons charge. His next court date is expected in October.

[06:45:00] CUOMO: Listen to this one -- in Tennessee, a father of three is alive thanks to the quick thinking of complete strangers. The couple was driving home from Nashville, see a car in flames, the driver passed out. What do they do? Run over, pull him to safety.

Now, the man doesn't want to be identified, but he does have a message for his rescuers. Here it is.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you so much for saving me. My kids will remember this forever. I'll make sure of it.

They are so little, they need me there. I thank God there were there to allow me to carry on, take care of that.

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CUOMO: What happened? The driver believes he passed out after smoke from the engine came through the air conditioner vents.

CAMEROTA: Oh, my gosh, Good Samaritans.

All right. Listen to this story: popular sandwich chain Subway parting ways with long time pitchman Jared Fogle after an FBI raid on Fogle's Indiana home. The sandwich chain says the raid may be linked to the arrest of someone who once worked for Fogle who now faces child pornography charges.

CNN's chief business correspondent Christine Romans is here with more.

Yikes, Christine.

CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: Yes. You know, Subway says it is suspending that relationship with Jared after investigators raided his home yesterday. Investigators seizing computers and other electronics, this two months after the executive director of the Jared Organization, that's his organization to fight childhood obesity, the person who ran the organization was arrested on child pornography charges.

Now, Fogle has not been detained. He's not been arrested or charged. FBI won't say exactly what the investigation involves. But Subway is saying it is shocked by the raid and it's associated to the former employee who was fired. Subway said, quote, "Subway and Jared Fogle agreed to suspend their relationship. Jared continues to cooperate with authorities and expects no actions forthcoming. Both Jared and Subway agree this is the appropriate step to take.

Jared has been good for Subway. His first commercial showing off how much weight he lost, remember, just eating Subway. That aired in 2000. Two years later, there were more Subways than McDonald's store, 16,000 today. Subway has more locations around the world than any retailer, 44,000.

Fogle helped Subway build its image as a healthy fast food lower calorie alternative to burgers. His attorney says he will keep cooperating with law enforcement. But certainly, it's serious enough, they are scrubbing his image from their web activity, you guys.

CAMEROTA: He is identifiable for him. He's been the face of this.

ROMANS: He really. And now, the face is a raid on his home with computers coming out overnight. Seriously -- a serious situation.

CUOMO: But suspended, they said. That word makes sense, because they are going to watch the bottom line and give him a chance in the future, depending on how it turns out.

So, Christine, that's one business story for us this morning. But there's another one. The question will be, is it time to check out of stocks here in the U.S.? China's stock market in a freefall for weeks. Why is it happening?

Greece is a factor. But what else is going on and what happens here if Greece goes down? Answers ahead.

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[06:52:00] PEREIRA: China's economy in turmoil this morning. Half of all public traded companies involuntary suspending trading, is trying to suffer through the steepest market drop in decades. All this has Greece deals with its own debt crisis, facing a Sunday deadline to get it resolved.

What could the global economies mean here at home?

Bobby Ghosh is here. He's a CNN global affairs analyst and he managing editor at "Quartz".

Let's look at the graphic we built to show this decline. Chinese markets are in free fall. In June, it dropped 30 percent after a big boom, what is going on here in the second largest economy in the world?

BOBBY GHOSH, CNN GLOBAL AFFAIRS ANALYST: Well, the economy is slowing. But the main problem in the stock market is that it's just overheated. In this country and most of the western world, get used to the idea stocks are institutional. Most investors are institutional investors.

In China, 80 percent, that's a huge proportion, 80 percent are in --

PEREIRA: Individual stockholders.

GHOSH: -- small and individual stockholders, that lends to a lot of volatility. Until June, the stock markets were at a seven-year high. All these small investors thought, well, there's a long way to grow yet. They basically put the shares on the market. Things have begun to turn.

PEREIRA: And Greece -- pardon me, the government actually is trying to do what it can to stabilizing, slashing interest, et cetera, doing other measures. Is it enough? Is it soon enough?

GHOSH: No, clearly not. It's not working. This morning, within ten minutes of the opening of the stock market, nearly 1,000 listed companies, that's a third of the total number of listed companies, their prices went below 10 percent. When that happens, it's an automatic circuit breaker and trading is suspended.

By our calculations at "Quartz", only 22 percent of all the stocks enlisted in China are trading, only 22 percent.

PEREIRA: What does that do to our economy? What does that do to us?

GHOSH: Well, it doesn't do anything immediately. The important thing is China restricts it amount of money that foreigners can put into their stock market. It is somewhat insulated.

All is not well in the state of China. We have known this for a while. The economy is slowing. There could be a slower, but more profound carry on effect.

PEREIRA: All is not well in Greece. Can we talk about that? Formally asking for a bailout. Sunday deadline. A big meeting in Brussels.

What then? If Greece exits the eurozone, they are using the term Grexit, for goodness sakes. What then?

GHOSH: Well, we have until Sunday. The European leaders are going to meet on Sunday to see if there's a long time solution. The rhetoric ahead of all this does not sound promising. Both sides of this argument whether Greek leaders or leaders of Europe

painted themselves into opposite ends of the room. It's hard to see how they will find a common middle ground.

What happens? That's the unknown. It's going off the edge of the cliff. No one is sure how high the cliff is and how far down Greece has to go.

Argentina wasn't any part of monetary currency, but, sort of common currency.

[06:55:06] But Argentina defaulted on its loans in the early '90s and recovered somewhat. So, there may be some hope for Greece. There was a lot of pain before that.

PEREIRA: Yes, a lot of people are looking at what that means for the health of the European Union.

Let us talk about a big deadline looming, the marathon talks going on between Iran and the P5-plus-1. Consensus seems to be aloof, which I supposed is reasonable considering what's at stake here. But does it indicate to you, all the deadlines being pushed -- does it indicate they are close or this is elusive?

GHOSH: They have been close for a while. There are a few things, important things they can't seem to get an agreement on.

What is happening now, the U.S. and the P5-plus-1 is calling Iran's bluff. Iran has been counting on our anxiety over deadlines, to try to make last minute demands, to see if, because we are so tied to deadlines, we'll agree.

This is John Kerry's way of saying, you know what, OK, let's extend it a few days and calling their bluff. There's a deadline of the tenth of July. But, basically, right now, the P5-plus-1, and John Kerry particularly are saying, you know what, we can keep talking. Your economy is hurting because of the sanctions. You need this. We want this, but you need the sanctions to be lifted. You need this deal to be made.

PEREIRA: Realistic to think it is going to get dealt with anytime soon?

GHOSH: No.

PEREIRA: OK. I love that. That was a simple answer and straight to the point from Bobby Ghosh. Great to talk through all these things that are going on globally with you. You always make sense of it.

Bobby Ghosh, we appreciate it.

Chris?

CUOMO: A simple answer from a complex man with red socks.

That is one big story we are following this morning, but there's a lot of news. So let's get to it.

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CUOMO: The undocumented immigrant who shot and killed a San Francisco woman used a gun belonging to a federal agent.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He is being held in jail on a $5 million bond.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We maybe seeing not only an insanity defense, but a claim of competency to stand trial.

PEREIRA: Florida State quarter back De'Andre Johnson punched a woman in the face.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It wasn't until that video came out yesterday, that he was kicked off the team.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: His family is strongly against violence to women. This is not the way he was raised.

HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: People should and do trust me. I have every confidence that will be the outcome of this election. I'm not looking for ratings, I'm looking for votes.

ANNOUNCER: This is NEW DAY with Chris Cuomo, Alisyn Camerota and Michaela Pereira.

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CAMEROTA: Good morning, everyone. Welcome back to your NEW DAY.

Up first, shocking details in the shooting death of the San Francisco women. CNN learning that the illegal immigrant who allegedly shot Kate Steinle used a federal agent's gun. Reports his morning that the weapon was stolen from the agent's car last month.

CUOMO: Sanchez is the name of the killer and pleading not guilty in court. It's a contradiction from the videotape statement.

Let's get to Dan Simon live from San Francisco with the very latest.

We hear from the man's attorney who has a new rational. What is it?

DAN SIMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Chris.

What an incredible twist this story has taken. You have a suspect who provided a spark for a public policy discussion on federal immigration. Himself, allegedly used a federal agents weapon to carry out this crime.

What agency this gun is tied to, we don't know. It's under investigation. All this happening as the suspect had his first appearance in court. Take a look.

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JUAN FRANCISCO SANCHEZ, CHARGED WITH MURDER (through translator): No guilty.

SIMON (voice-over): Undocumented immigrant Juan Francisco Lopez Sanchez pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Tuesday.

REPORTER: Did you shoot Kate Steinle?

SANCHEZ: Yes.

SIMON: But just three days ago, he told a reporter that he did shoot and kill Kate Steinle on this popular California pier last week. His attorneys contend that he may not have understood the reporter's question.

MATT GONZALEZ, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Mr. Sanchez is not a student of the law. He has a second-grade education.

SIMON: Also developing, a source close to the investigation says the gun that killed Kate belonged to a federal agent. "The San Francisco Chronicle" reports the 40-caliber pistol was stolen out of an agent's car back in June.

SANCHEZ: Heard a boom, boom, three times.

SIMON: Sanchez, who has never been convicted of a violent crime, claimed in that same interview that he found the gun wrapped in a T- shirt by a bench, and he didn't mean to fire it.

GONZALEZ: This very well could be a completely accidental discharge of the firearm.

SIMON: The seven-time convicted felon has been deported five times to Mexico.

SEN. RON JOHNSON (R), WISCONSIN: He was released in general society to make a murder. Does that make any sense to you?

SIMON: At a Senate hearing, Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson, who chairs the Homeland Security Committee, berated an immigration enforcement official over why Sanchez wasn't handed over to federal authorities.