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CNN Hosts Republican Town Hall in Wisconsin; Trump Eyes Change in Relations with Japan and South Korea; Authorities Questioning Egyptian Hijacker; Brother of ISIS Executioner Speaks; Newlyweds Killed in Lahore Suicide Bombing; Fact Checking the Candidates; Brazil's Biggest Party Quits Rousseff's Coalition; Patty Duke Dies at 59. Aired 1-2a ET

Aired March 30, 2016 - 01:00   ET

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[01:00:11] ISHA SESAY, CNN ANCHOR: This is CNN NEWSROOM, live from Los Angeles. Ahead this hour, stepping back from the pledge. All three Republican presidential candidates now saying they may not support the party's eventual nominee.

Plus, we'll look at how a man was able to hijack a commercial aircraft using a fake explosives belt.

And the brother of an ISIS killer. CNN sits down with a Belgian man whose brother is waging jihad.

Hello, and welcome to our viewers from around the world. I'm Isha Sesay. NEWSROOM L.A. starts right now.

CNN hosted the three U.S. Republican presidential candidates at a town hall in Wisconsin. Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, and John Kasich appeared separately to answer questions from the audience one week before the state holds a pivotal primary.

Ahead of the town hall, pro and anti-Trump demonstrators clashed in the nearby town of Janesville. Police say one protester, a teenage girl, complained of being pepper sprayed and groped.

Inside the town hall, the candidates all weighed in on another altercation. Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, is facing assault charges for the incident you're looking at right here on your screen. He allegedly grabbed a reporter by the arm and shoved her away. Well, Trump defended Lewandowski's actions and attacked the reporter's official account of what happened. Take a listen.

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ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: He says her story has remained exactly the same.

DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Really?

COOPER: She was knocked a little bit off --

TRUMP: Can I read this to you, Anderson?

COOPER: That she was knocked off balance but she remained standing.

TRUMP: You mind if I read this to you? You want to read it or you want me to do it? You're a professional announcer. Why don't you read it? The bottom part. The bottom. Now that's an exact quote from her prior to seeing the cameras. And now she says, well, I better change my story, I guess.

COOPER: This quote says, I was jolted backwards. Someone has grabbed me tightly by the arm and yanked me down, I almost fell to the ground. I was able --

TRUMP: Yanked down.

COOPER: Was able to maintain my balance nonetheless.

TRUMP: Did she almost fall to the ground?

COOPER: I was shaken. Campaign managers aren't supposed to try to forcefully throw reporters to the ground.

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SESAY: Not surprisingly Ted Cruz has a different take on Corey Lewandowski. The Republican candidate said if Lewandowski was his campaign manager, then he'd ask him to resign.

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SEN. TED CRUZ (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Look, it shouldn't be complicated that members of the campaign staff should not be physically assaulting the press. I mean, that shouldn't be a complicated decision.

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SESAY: Ted Cruz was also asked to justify his controversial comments, calling for greater surveillance of Muslim neighborhoods in the United States.

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CRUZ: They're in communities that are isolated, they're called no-go communities, where the law enforcement doesn't engage in those communities. One in Brussels, Molenbeek, has been a particular incubator for radical, Islamic terrorism. Many of these terrorist plots traced back to Molenbeek. And my point is very simple. America should not make the mistakes of Europe. We should have law enforcement actively engaged to stop radicalization before it starts.

And I recognize that the media and the Democrats hate it when someone actually describes who the enemy is. I'll tell you, as president, every single day, I will wake up fighting radical Islamic terrorism and working to defeat it.

(END VIDEO CLIP) SESAY: Although he trails in the polls, John Kasich maintains he is the only adult in the Republican race. And the only candidate who can beat Hillary Clinton in November.

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GOV. JOHN KASICH (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: In virtually every national poll, I am the only one that beats Hillary Clinton consistently. The delegates would look, for example, at, you know, can you win in the fall? I mean, it's like a really important part of this thing. It's not just the nomination about winning the election. And frankly, if we do not have a strong candidate that brings people together we have a prospect of losing the United States Senate, as well.

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SESAY: It was a very busy night.

Seema Mehta is a political writer for the "Los Angeles Times," and she joins us here now in the studio.

Welcome again, Seema.

SEEMA MEHTA, POLITICAL WRITER, LOS ANGELES TIMES: Thank you.

SESAY: You know, the Corey Lewandowski story dominating much of the day here in the United States. It was a major question in the town hall. Donald Trump, put on the spot, doubling down, standing by his man.

MEHTA: Quadrupling down.

SESAY: Quadrupling down. Your thoughts.

MEHTA: You know, his campaign manager was arrested earlier today, you know, charged with misdemeanor assault. I'm sorry, simple battery.

SESAY: Simple battery.

MEHTA: Simply battery, which is sort of unprecedented in the presidential campaign, but Mr. Trump certainly stood by his campaign manager and I think his spokesperson often said that if he was convicted that they -- that he would still stand by his campaign manager.

The one interesting thing I thought tonight was that he tried to tie his support for his campaign manager to his platform that, look, I'm standing by my guy.

SESAY: This is about loyalty.

MEHTA: Yes. Standing by country. Exactly. It's about loyalty. And so I thought that's was sort of an interesting way to try to phrase it tonight.

[01:05:03] SESAY: Do you think this is going to hurt him?

MEHTA: I don't know -- I don't know what could hurt him at this point honestly because ever since last summer he said this about women, that will hurt him. He said this about John McCain, that will hurt him. He said this about immigrants, that will hurt. Nothing has -- if anything, his support has increased in the polls.

SESAY: Yes.

MEHTA: But I do wonder how it will affect his popularity among women if he is the nominee in the general election.

SESAY: Yes. That is really the question everyone is mulling right now. What will this do to his relationship with women. He already has such high unfavorables with women.

MEHTA: Right. Absolutely.

SESAY: And especially also, which might surprise some, with Republican women.

MEHTA: Right. Absolutely.

SESAY: And then this situation happens.

MEHTA: And Republican women can be key in certain states. Like if you think back to the soccer moms who supported George W. Bush at one point, he supported Bill Clinton at point in Pennsylvania. You know, these are women who might be fiscally conservative, not so totally socially conservative, but can go either way. And these comments -- I mean, a lot of people think it can really, you know, hurt him in the fall if he is the nominee.

SESAY: Another big revelation from Tuesday's CNN town hall, all three candidates, as you know, backed off their loyalty pledge early on in the campaign season. Republicans said they would support the party's nominee no matter who it is. Take a listen to what they're saying now.

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CRUZ: I think nominating Donald Trump would be an absolute train wreck. I think it would hand the general election to Hillary Clinton.

TRUMP: Obviously he doesn't have to support me. I'm not asking for his support.

COOPER: Do you --

TRUMP: I want the people's support.

COOPER: Do you continue to pledge to support whoever the Republican nominee is?

TRUMP: No. I don't anymore. Look.

COOPER: You won't?

TRUMP: No. We'll see who it is.

COOPER: You won't promise to support the Republican nominee.

TRUMP: And he was essentially saying the same thing.

KASICH: I got to see what happens. If the nominee is somebody that I think is really hurting the country and dividing the country, I can't stand behind them.

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SESAY: Loyalty pledge. What loyalty pledge?

MEHTA: I mean, I think the candidates tried to have some wiggle room all along the race. Jeb Bush, when he was still running, anytime I asked him this question, he would say, well, it doesn't matter, Trump is not going to be the nominee so I don't need to even bother to go down that path. And I think they're still trying to have it. But I think tonight marked a turn. And obviously we've seen more and more members of the Republican establishment come out and speak out against Trump. You know, whether it's Mitt Romney, John McCain to some extent, a number of donors.

So I do wonder, you know, where this ends up. I mean, if this ends up at a contested convention or is there a third party candidate as some of them are hoping for? I think it's just so unclear. And it points to sort of just how much -- how many fractures there are in the Republican Party right now.

SESAY: I mean, the pledge is all about trying to ensure that Trump didn't become a third party candidate, right?

MEHTA: Right. Absolutely. The party is trying to control anything at this point is a joke. I mean, if you remember, after the 2012 election, they made all these changes to the process so that it would be this tidier, neater, cleaner process. And look, I mean, look at this. I mean, it's insane. No one expected this. So I think it shows -- a party can do only so much, in terms of trying to control -- you know, at the end of the day, it comes down to voters.

SESAY: And what does this say in terms of, how does this read for the electorate? For GOP voters seeing such disarray, and you know, on a night like this, this moment where they refused to back the eventual nominee effectively?

MEHTA: Right. Right. But I mean, I think it also marks a change because, you know, earlier in the cycle, a lot of these candidates were hoping to pick up Trump supporters. They are thinking, he's going to fade in the polls, I don't want to alienate his supporter. We need to stay in good terms. He is not fading in the polls. Now they're openly talking about contested convention or brokered convention. And I think the idea that they could pick up his supporters is even -- you know, is questionable. So I think -- so much has happened between how much he's grown in the

polls, how much he's support has stood strong throughout all these controversies and then, you know, the controversies that keep on happening yet he keeps on going.

SESAY: They keep piling up.

MEHTA: Right.

SESAY: I want us to turn our attention to the Democratic side of things now, Seema. Democrat Bernie Sanders wants to debate Hillary Clinton, as you know, in New York, ahead of that state's primary next month. So far Clinton has resisted, with her campaign saying it's all a game on Sanders' part. A Sanders' spokesman told reporter he think she will eventually change her mind. Sanders told our Erin Burnett exclusively that he agrees.

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ERIN BURNETT, CNN ANCHOR: A Clinton campaign spokesman said your requests for more debates are a, quote-unquote, "publicity stunt.' Do you think she's serious about debating you?

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I certainly hope so. Look, there are huge issues facing this country. Our middle class is disappearing. Grotesque levels of income and wealth inequality. A campaign finance system that is corrupt and a broken criminal justice system. And in New York state, there are additional problems.

So I would hope that we would have a good debate. My understanding is she would like to do it in Brooklyn. I was born in Brooklyn. Let's do it.

BURNETT: Game on for Brooklyn.

SANDERS: Game on.

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SESAY: Do you think he's right in that? I mean, what does she got to gain by debating him ahead of New York?

MEHTA: It's rare that you see a frontrunner who's like, yes, bring on more debates. And I think if you look back to eight years ago when she was competing with then Senator Barack Obama, at this point, it was becoming pretty clear that he would be the nominee, even though they are still competing for delegates. She was calling for more debates. And I don't recall if any more happened but -- I mean, it's a classic race where, you know, the frontrunner is like that, I don't really need to, you know, make myself vulnerable.

[01:10:06] And the person who is trying to catch up, is like, you know, desperate for any opportunity where they could make a difference in the race.

SESAY: Yes. I mean, we've actually been playing the sound today where she says, I'll debate you anywhere, any time.

MEHTA: Right. Right.

SESAY: He doesn't debate her.

Seema Mehta, we appreciate it.

MEHTA: Thank you.

SESAY: Thank you so much for the insight. Thank you.

All right. Well, Donald Trump spent some of his own time at the town hall defending his suggestion that South Korea and Japan should consider developing nuclear weapons. He says America spends too much money defending its allies.

CNN's Paula Hancock joins us now from Seoul with the reaction to all of this.

Paula, what are you hearing from officials?

PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Isha, it's a combination of concern and confusion, being both Japan and in South Korea, from officials that this is even being discussed, that this suggestion is even on the table. And we're seeing some very high- profile responses to this.

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HANCOCKS (voice-over): The U.S.-South Korean military drills this year are the largest ever. But if this man becomes U.S. president, could they be the last ever?

Presidential candidate Donald Trump is suggesting pulling U.S. forces out of Japan and South Korea if they don't pay more and suggests they develop their own nuclear weapons to counter North Korea.

TRUMP: At some point we have to say, you know what, we're better off if Japan protects itself against this maniac in North Korea, we're better off frankly if South Korea is going to start to protect itself.

HANCOCKS: A former U.S. ambassador to South Korea was blunt.

CHRISTOPHER HILL, FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR TO SOUTH KOREA: With due respect to Mr. Trump and his real estate purchases, he has no idea what he is talking about.

HANCOCKS: Japan, the only country to have a nuclear weapon used against it, has had a nonnuclear policy and pacifist constitution since the end of World War II. Japan's Foreign minister saying it is impossible that Japan will arm itself with nuclear weapons.

South Korea focused on Trump's insistence they're not paying their share for the 70-year-old alliance. The Foreign Ministry in Seoul saying the U.S. public including its government and Congress, appreciates South Korea's role and contribution. Some journalists have slammed Trump's comments. One editorial in the

popular Chosun Ilbo in Seoul, calling them shocking, saying they could affect the relationship.

But this man, a well-respected academic actually thinks Trump may have a point. South Korea possesses enough nuclear material to make 4,000 nuclear weapons, he says. "All we need is our president's approval. If we have nuclear weapons, we'll be in a much better position to deal with North Korea."

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HANCOCKS: But that's not a view that's shared by the mainstream here in South Korea. The vast majority of officials believe that the status quo, the best bet at security and deterrence from North Korea, is for South Korea to have 28,500 U.S. troops, is for Japan to have 54,000 U.S. troops. And of course the significant military hardware that comes with that.

We also have the U.S. State Department spokesman having to weigh in on this. He was off to (INAUDIBLE) as well, saying that nothing has changed. It's really quite remarkable when you think about it. One comment from a U.S. presidential hopeful, not even a candidate, at this point, not even the Republican candidate, has provoked such a response. Even Japan's prime minister feeling he had to say something publicly -- Isha.

SESAY: As you say, quite remarkable indeed. Paula Hancocks joining us there from Seoul. Thank you.

Well, if you missed CNN's Republican town hall, we're putting together a special highlights show. Tune in for that at 12:00 noon Wednesday in London, 7:00 in Hong Kong. It is right here on CNN.

We're going to take a quick break now. And authorities are questioning the man who hijacked an EgyptAir flight. And officials say it's not his first run-in with the law. That story, just ahead.

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[01:17:53] SESAY: Egyptian authorities say the man who hijacked an EgyptAir flight Tuesday has a criminal record, including forgery, burglary and drug dealing. Officials described Seif al-Din Mustafa as unstable, saying he held passengers and crew hostage with a fake explosive belt. He apparently took over the plane because of issues involving his ex-wife.

For more, let's bring in CNN's Ian Lee who joins us now live from Cairo, Egypt.

Ian, so we're learning about the man who carried out this hijacking but what many people want to know is how he got on to the plane with a fake explosives belt in the first place?

IAN LEE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, it's about this time yesterday, Isha, that this harrowing experience began when Seif Mustafa went onboard this plane, claiming to have an explosive belt going from Alexandria to Cairo. He passed security, but claimed he had a bomb, sending this whole thing into motion.

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LEE (voice-over): For more than five hours, all eyes were on this plane on the tarmac at Larnaca Airport in Cyprus. EgyptAir Flight MS181 was forced to land here early Tuesday morning after taking off from Bourj Al Arab Airport in Alexandria. It had been bound for Cairo until it was hijacked mid-flight. One passenger recounted the horror on that flight.

FARRAH EL-DIBANY, EGYPTAIR PASSENGER: One of the cabin crew also told us that we are hijacked. We are being hijacked. So, yes, and that was it. And then there was a lot of panic on the plane, and yes, we didn't know. They didn't tell us anything more. They didn't say what he wants or where we're heading, nothing. We were just kidnapped. That's it.

LEE: A man now identified as 58-year-old Seif al-Din Mustafa, seen here being checked by security at Alexandria, later demanding the plane divert to Istanbul.

AHMED ADEL, EGYPTAIR VICE CHAIRMAN: We got a call into our operations room from the captain that he has information about one person who is claiming to have an explosive belt and asked to divert the airplane to Istanbul or anywhere else in Europe.

[01:20:10] The captain told him that there's not enough fuel to land in Istanbul so he diverted to Larnaca Airport.

LEE: Most of the 69 people on board were allowed off the plane shortly after it landed in Cyprus, but seven passengers and crew were held hostage for several hours as negotiators worked for a peaceful resolution. They soon established this was not a terror attack. But Seif Al-Din Mustafa's motives remained unclear. Initial reports indicated he wanted to be reunited with his ex-wife, prompting this response from the Cypriot's president.

NICOS ANASTASIADES, CYPRIOT PRESIDENT: Always there is a woman involved.

LEE: But the Egyptian prime minister said he kept changing his demands.

SHERIF ISMAIL, EGYPTIAN PRIME MINISTER (Through Translator): At some moments, he asked to meet with a representative of the European Union, and at other points, he asked to go to another airport, but there was nothing specific.

LEE: Then at 2.30 local time, this. More people emerged from the plane. Some run. This man casually walks down the aircraft stairs, even taking time to fumble around with his bag. Then another climbs out of the EgyptAir cockpit window to make his escape. They are met by special courses and checked for explosives.

Finally, the hijacker himself surrenders to police. He is searched on the ground. The bomb, it's found, is a fake.

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LEE: Isha, all the passengers on board that plane are now safely back in Egypt. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs here in Cairo called the man an idiot, and not a terrorist. But I think they are glad they were dealing with an idiot and not a terrorist, Isha.

SESAY: Yes. I think many people share that sentiment. But will there be an extradition request made for this individual? What are we hearing?

LEE: Well, what we're hearing from officials is that they do plan to request his extradition. That they haven't made that former request yet. So they are looking at the process of doing so. But Egyptian officials want him back here so they can try him.

SESAY: All right. Ian Lee, joining us there from Cairo, Egypt. Ian, appreciate it. Thank you.

Well, joining me now to discuss this is former CNN analyst, Ken Robinson. He serves as executive chairman of the board for the security company Whitehorse Technologies.

Ken, thanks for staying with us. You were looking at that surveillance video, just as I was, a few moments ago. And you seemed to shudder. Talk to me about what you saw in those images that seemed to trouble you.

KEN ROBINSON, WHITEHORSE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.: It was the way he was searching. He was kind patting him down. It was almost moving through the motions. He wasn't actually feeling for any type of abnormality on the individual. So you might as well as actually not been doing it. It's not effective. You have to actually physically touch someone in order to search them.

SESAY: But you said that there could be a culture piece to all of this.

ROBINSON: Yes. In the Arab culture, you know, a man is not going to touch another man, if he can help it. And if he is, he's not going to touch him in any place that's considered interpersonal. And it's one of the great problems we have also with women who are wearing traditional dress and some security official wants to check them. It's a very difficult process because you need a woman to check a woman. And you need to be able to provide for her privacy as you do that.

I mean, there's an enormous amount of cultural things that we really whip through in the U.S. that are unthinkable in their culture. SESAY: The way this played out there in Cyprus. They got everyone

off the plane or everyone got off the plane safely. The suspect was taken into custody. And no one was harmed. How -- the way it unfolded, would it have unfolded the same way here in the United States in your view?

ROBINSON: I don't think so. I think that -- first, I think an enormous amount of patience was exhibited on behalf of the Cypriots. Those who dealt with this individual know that the most important thing is to engage the person that you're trying to negotiate with.

I think that things in the United States may have escalated a little further and faster in terms of resolution.

SESAY: Why?

ROBINSON: Of the event. Well, we are trained -- United States trains for this eventuality all the time, on a monthly basis, and assumes that it's going to happen somewhere. And they work with federal, state, and local officials. And they're a lot more efficient at moving through and isolating and trying to come with form of a resolution of exactly what the truth rather is.

SESAY: You were saying last hour that you feel pretty comfortable in the way Israel has its airport security set up.

[01:25:07] But you also mentioned that there are other parts of the world that give you concern. Walk us through those places, at least some of them in your view, that need more work.

ROBINSON: Well, the gold standard is Israel. No one denies that. There are places I mentioned in the last hour like Athens, Greece, where there have been an amount of terrorist problems in the past. And there are certain places n South America where sometimes you can make a domestic connection to a connection to an international flight, but not be inspected the same way we would expect someone going on an international flight in our country. The standards are different. And there has to be one standard. And it has to fit everyone in aviation across the board.

You know, English is the language of aviation. Every pilot is required to speak English. There needs to be a standard across-the- board, too, in what's acceptable or not at each airport. And that's the area where nation states haven't caught up yet. To be able to be prepared.

SESAY: And very quickly, the U.S., what can they do in light of these gaps that exist as you see it in other airports around the world and flights are coming into the United States?

ROBINSON: We need to embrace our allies. We need to help train them more. Sometimes we need to pay the bill. But we already pay the bill in Egypt. They're the highest recipient of our foreign aid other than Israel. And for those, we need to demand either improvements that are measurable or we need to prevent them from utilizing their carriers and landing on our soil. That's the only stick that a president and our State Department really has, is to deny them landing rights.

SESAY: Ken Robinson, it's great to have you with us, sharing your insight and your expertise. Thank you.

We're going to take a quick break now. When we come back, we will update you on the investigation into the Brussels terror attack. That is just ahead.

And one Belgian family's disbelief at what their loved one has turned into. An exclusive interview with the brother of an ISIS killer.

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SESAY (voice-over): You're watching CNN NEWSROOM live from Los Angeles. I'm Isha Sesay. The headlines this hour:

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SESAY: The FBI is analyzing the phones and computers seized in the Brussels terror investigation. A U.S. official says Belgian authorities asked for help when they couldn't access the data. The hard drives and phones were shipped to the U.S.

Officials again revised the death toll from the airport and metro attacks to 32 people. More than 300 were wounded.

The terror attacks in Belgium have shone a spotlight on that country's radicalization problem: disaffected young men recruited by extremists. Among them, one young man who has appeared in countless ISIS videos, committing horrific crimes, now his family is speaking out. Our Michael Holmes has more.

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MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In an organization that revels in barbarity, the hands of this man are more soaked in blood than most. Hicham Chaib, Belgian born of Moroccan descent, praises the Brussels terror attacks and promises more to come.

Chaib is a murderer of many, by beheading, crucifixion and gunshot. He ends this video warning to his country of birth by killing another man.

MOHAMED AMIN CHAIB, BROTHER OF BELGIAN ISIS FIGHTER (through translator): He was someone who couldn't hurt a fly and went through life laughing. It's just disbelief and still the family doesn't believe this could happen.

HOLMES (voice-over): The brother of a killer: Mohamed Amin Chaib is sickened by what he cannot yet bring himself to watch, the actions of a man he no longer recognizes.

HOLMES: What good memories do you have of him when he was younger, before all this took hold?

What are your memories of him as a young man, as a child?

CHAIB (through translator): What I remember is an older brother, who was always there. That's what I remember. If I had trouble, he was there.

HOLMES: Hicham Chaib grew up in this suburb of Antwerp in Belgium, by all accounts, a normal upbringing in a moderate Muslim family of 13 until, his family, says he met people, radicals, who turned him to a view of his religion unlike that he was raised in, what his brother calls a twisted cut-and-paste Islam.

CHAIB (through translator): That's an Islam that they fill in according to their own interpretations, colored by their own frustrations.

HOLMES (voice-over): Twenty-two-year-old Mohamed Amin has not seen his brother since 2013, when he left Belgium for Syria. Since Hicham Chaib's latest grotesque video, the family who disowns his actions has received threats to their own safety.

CHAIB (through translator): With the latest video, we've had threats, hate messages. It's a major influence on our family, not just emotionally but also out of fear. Our parents are very fearful that something might happen with their sons or daughters.

HOLMES: The family's angst does not end with Hicham, though. Another brother, Anwar (ph), faces charges after authorities say he, too, allegedly tried to go to Syria, although --

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HOLMES: -- his lawyer says Anwar is no Hicham.

MATTIAS LEYS, CHAIB FAMILY LAWYER (through translator): My client has taken notice of the video images in which his brother is seen and he wants to absolutely distance himself from it. He rejects the acts and the words of his brother and is shocked by what recently happened in our country.

HOLMES (voice-over): Mohamed isn't sure if he'll see his brother again. But if his brother sees this, he has a message from a family paying for the sins of a son.

CHAIB (through translator): Hicham, think hard, because you have a family here. Your own mother thinks about you every night and cries always about you. Your father's old. He also always loves you. Think about the consequences for your family, because they're enormous.

HOLMES (voice-over): By his past actions, Mohamed Amin's plea, unlikely to be heeded -- Michael Holmes, CNN, Antwerp, Belgium.

(END VIDEOTAPE) SESAY: Authorities in Pakistan have rounded up suspected militants in a series of raids in Punjab province after the deadly Easter Sunday bombing in Lahore. They detained more than 5,000 people but later released many of them. Several hundred people are under investigation. A Pakistani Taliban splinter group claimed responsibility for the attack.

Well, 72 people died in the suspected suicide bombing. Hundreds more were wounded. A young newlywed couple were among the casualties. Our Saima Mohsin spoke to their grieving family.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (from captions): I entrusted them in God's hands, now they are with God.

SAIMA MOHSIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Naveed and Shawana Ashraf were married just four months ago. They both died in the bombing, both just 21 years old.

Shawana usually wore the veil. Her family asked that we respect her privacy, even though she's gone.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (from captions): Everyone who saw her said, "She looks like an angel." Well, God made an angel come and take my son away.

MOHSIN (voice-over): Just moments before the attack, this is now the last video taken by the Ashraf family on a day out at the amusement park. Laughter, happiness, then this: Shawana had never been to the park. They had taken Naveed's sisters with them.

They were sitting, having snacks close to this stand, when the bombers struck. The family searched for them at the park and then found them at the hospital.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (from captions): Oh, my lion son. I might as well be dead. I don't want to act like this but I just can't help it. He was my lion, my big, strong son. Oh, my son was soaked I blood.

MOHSIN (voice-over): It's too much for his sister to listen to. Her leg was injured in the bombing; their mother, delirious; father, resigned and unable to speak.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (from captions): My daughter was covered in blood, her scarf was drenched in blood. He was screaming.

MOHSIN (voice-over): Naveed and Shawana died of shrapnel wounds to the head and neck.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (from captions): If I could, I would swap places with them. I wish I could give all my years to my children.

MOHSIN (voice-over): They were buried as soon as possible under Muslim law, first thing Monday, leaving behind a family that says a darkness has befallen them. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (from captions): All I wanted to do was hold my

son and daughter-in-law close like this.

How could they betray me like that?

They took them away in coffins.

MOHSIN (voice-over): Saima Mohsin, CNN, Lahore, Pakistan.

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SESAY: So much heartbreak.

We take a quick break now.

And Brazil deals with political upheaval, as it prepares to host the Olympics. Just ahead, the major setback facing the president.

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SESAY: Turning once again to our top story, the race for the White House. In Tuesday's CNN Republican town hall, the candidates made a lot of claims.

But how many were actually true?

Our CNN reality check team breaks down fiction from facts. Here's our own Tom Foreman.

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TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Ted Cruz went after both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton saying they promoted bad policies in the Middle East and effectively encouraged terrorism.

SEN. TED CRUZ (R), TEXAS: Egypt was handed over to the Muslim brotherhood, Mohammed Morsi. The Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization that was profoundly harmful for U.S. national security interest.

FOREMAN: There's no question that the administration here was happy with the long-time ruler Hosni Mubarak was pushed out.

And, yes, the Muslim Brotherhood for a period of time did take control there. This is an Islamist group that believes that government should be controlled by religious principles. And some governments in that area consider it a terrorist organization, including the Egyptian government.

But the U.S. State Department has an official list of foreign terrorist groups, 59 of them and the Muslim Brotherhood is not on that list and never has been.

So for Mr. Cruz to suggest this is an official terrorist group that is simply false. Donald Trump said he is not self-funding his campaign the way he said he was for a period of time. But he did trivialize the idea of any outside money.

DONALD TRUMP, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I'm in for about $35 million right now. The small loans, that people that spend $17.50 or $250 even $1,000.

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: Have you solicited on your website?

TRUMP: No, I sell hats and --

COOPER: Sure, but you do solicit donations on your website?

TRUMP: No, I don't really think so. I think --

COOPER: No, you do, you have --

TRUMP: It's peanuts.

FOREMAN: It's peanuts, that's the word he uses, peanuts. Well, this is nothing like the kind of money that other campaigns have raised, nothing like that. But the Federal Election Commission said he has taken in $9.5 million from these outside donors. That's about a quarter of his funding to this point.

I've had peanuts before. They don't cost that much. What I'm trying to say is his claim about this is trivializing of it, is simply false.

And John Kasich got right to the point. He said if Republicans want to win in November they'd better look at him closely.

GOV. JOHN KASICH (R), OHIO: In virtually every national poll, I am the only one that beats Hillary Clinton consistently. In fact, in the last poll that came out, I was up 11 points.

FOREMAN: We took a look at the numbers and six national polls in the past couple of weeks say, yes, Kasich can defeat Clinton --

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FOREMAN: -- 4-11 points. Our CNN/ORC poll found he would beat her by about 6 points as better than Trump or Cruz.

Now that said, he doesn't really have a path to the nomination right now except through a contested convention. And a lot can change before our general election. But for the time being we will say what he told us here in this town hall meeting is true about that.

If you want to find out a whole lot more about all the things we checked out, go to cnn.com/realitycheck.

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will seek to reform a new government by the end of the week. This follows a political blow from the country's largest party. CNN correspondent Paula Newton has the details.

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PAULA NEWTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Dilma Rousseff is looking like a woman increasingly isolated and running out of options. Brazil's largest political party decided to back out of a coalition government with her and that leaves her incredibly hobbled and perhaps ill- equipped to face the vote that is coming, that vote about whether or not she should be impeached.

Now this is going to be a very complicated process that will endure with protests and as background noise for the coming weeks and months.

But it means there is a very good likelihood now that a caretaker government will be in place in the coming weeks in order for Dilma Rousseff to fight that kind of impeachment, she has been saying that she has no intention of voluntarily resigning and that she will fight any move to impeach her.

But, you know, the climate here in Brazil while all this is going on is incredible. We are just a few months away from welcoming the world here to Brazil for the Olympics here in Rio de Janeiro.

Beyond that, we have one of the worst recessions in a generation. Also the Zika virus was continues to be a disease that continues to stalk this country. On top of all that, it seems that business sentiment is also turning against Dilma Rousseff. The market continues to go up as it becomes more and more likely that she will be impeached -- Paula Newton, CNN, Rio.

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SESAY: In Myanmar, the first civilian president elected since the 1960s was sworn into office a short while ago. Htin Kyaw from the National League for Democracy replaces the outgoing president. The change in leadership brings an end to decades of military rule.

As widely expected, the new president will act as a proxy for the party's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who is constantly barred from holding the office.

The attorney general of North Carolina is refusing to defend the state's new bathroom law, which critics say discriminates against lesbian, gay, bi and transgender communities.

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ROY COOPER, NORTH CAROLINA ATTORNEY GENERAL: Not only is this new law a national embarrassment, it will set North Carolina's economy back if we don't repeal it.

(END VIDEO CLIP) SESAY: Well, the law adopted last week requires people to use bathrooms based on the gender on their birth certificate rather than the gender they identify with. Eighty CEOs and executives from major companies including Apple, Facebook, Marriott and Pfizer, have signed a letter to Governor Pat McCrory, asking him to repeal the law.

But McCrory is doubling down his support for the law, saying opposition to it is a, quote, " vicious nationwide smear campaign."

Attorney General Roy Cooper is running against McCrory for governor.

Well, she was a silver screen star who hit it big as a teenager.

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PATTY DUKE, ACTRESS: She was so filled with pain and the need to be perfect.

SESAY (voice-over): Next, we'll hear more from Patty Duke, as Hollywood marks her passing.

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SESAY: A scene from "The Miracle Worker" and actress Patty Duke's Oscar-winning portrayal of the deaf and blind activist Helen Keller as a child.

Patty Duke died on Tuesday at 69 from intestinal complications. Her greatest achievement may be how she publicly confronted her mental health issues. Says her son, actor Sean Astin. Melissa Luck from CNN affiliate KXLY spoke to Patty Duke in 2014 about that part of her life.

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MELISSA LUCK, KXLY (voice-over): Being at Patty Duke's North Idaho home is like visiting your favorite aunt, the one who makes you laugh and feel welcome every time.

She goes by her given name, Anna. And sometimes you forget, you're in the company of Hollywood royalty.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The winner is Patty Duke for "The Miracle Worker."

LUCK (voice-over): In the clips from those days, you see her happy, smiling, on top of the world. But she was hiding a terrible secret. DUKE: From the minute I walked through the door, if there was a kid nearby, he got smacked. People don't think Patty Duke could have done that. She did. She did. She was so filled with pain and the need to be perfect.

LUCK (voice-over): In her manic state, she was higher than high. She once bought three Mercedes in a single day.

On her lowest day, void of hope.

DUKE: It helped me to learn that kind of sensation that says there is nothing left. I am only a burden on everybody I supposedly love. So just let me get out of here.

LUCK (voice-over): She was finally diagnosed in 1982, the first major celebrity to admit being bipolar. Medication brought stability. Her family brought peace.

DUKE (voice-over): I had no idea --

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DUKE: -- what it would do to my career. But I really was at a point where I didn't care.

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SESAY: Missed by many.

You're watching CNN NEWSROOM live from Los Angeles. I'm Isha Sesay. The news continues with Rosemary Church and Errol Barnett, right after this.

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ERROL BARNETT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The arrest of a Donald Trump aide overshadows an event aimed at getting candidates to talk about policy.

ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): Frightened passengers describe their ordeal on board a hijacked Egyptian airliner.

BARNETT (voice-over): And a major political blow to Brazil's president as she struggles to maintain power.

CHURCH (voice-over): Also ahead, a new political era begins in Myanmar.

Hello, everyone, I'm Rosemary Church.

BARNETT (voice-over): Good to be back with you, Rosemary.

Hey, everyone, I'm Errol Barnett. Thanks for joining our two-hour block. CNN NEWSROOM starts now.

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BARNETT: We begin this hour with the race for the White House and a town hall hosted by CNN in Wisconsin.

A week before the state holds a key primary, the three Republican hopefuls appeared individually and fielded questions from the audience.

CHURCH: They covered a wide range of issues but one topic kept coming up. It involves Donald Trump's campaign manager.