[Christi Paul, Cnn Anchor:] New this morning, busloads of migrants in the thousands arrive in Austria. The pictures and the stories we have of their emotional journey into Western Europe, escaping conflicts in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and what a way for the rest of them.
[Unidentified Male:] It is our position and the position of the clerk of Rowan County, Kim Davis, that those licenses are void.
[Victor Blackwell, Cnn Anchor:] A defiant, determined, Kentucky court clerk, Kim Davis not backing down after being jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples and it is happening as a presidential candidate is coming to her defense.
[Unidentified Female:] Are you sorry? Do you want to apologize to the American people for the choice you made?
[Hillary Clinton , Presidential Candidate:] Well, it wasn't the best choice and I certainly have said that. I will continue to say that.
[Paul:] A contrite Hillary Clinton apologizing over e-mails. It's not the apology her critics were looking for, though. Good morning to you. It's Saturday. I hope you had a little R&R on the calendar. I'm Christi Paul.
[Blackwell:] I'm Victor Blackwell. Good to be with you. I want you to start by looking at these images. Look at these pictures and the video we have coming in, thousands of refugees arriving in Austria this morning. They are tired, they are hungry, but as you saw in that little girl's face, there was a smile there. They are greeted by cheers, people just cheering on the side of the road there in Austria, a far cry from their desperate situation over the past few days, waiting for days and days at a Budapest train station. Hungarian authorities refused to let them go without the proper documents. But finally, trying to walk to Germany because they had no other options, some buses picked them up. CNN'Arwa Damon has been on this journey with them and listen to her experience here.
[Arwa Damon, Cnn Senior International Correspondent:] The Hungarian government, the Hungarian security forces have been very hostile toward these refuges and a lot of them had horrific situations inside one of the camps and one of the main reasons they didn't want to go into the camps. Along this trek, they have managed to get real exposure to the kindness of some portions of the population of the Hungarian population.
[Blackwell:] The refuges are some of the thousands streaming into Europe from the conflict zones every day. Let's go to Fred Pleitgen now, he is at the AustriaHungary border. Fred, what's the scene like there now? I see that the crowds there behind you?
[Frederik Pleitgen, Cnn Senior International Correspondent:] Yes, it's a remarkable scene, Victor, because what just happened is that several busloads of these people just made it across the border from Hungary. You can see how many people are still marching towards this location here. I'm on the Austrian side right now. The people you're seeing streaming in here, they are all coming off buses on the Hungarian side of the border. The Hungarians have picked up several thousand of them with buses and brought them to their side of the border and dropped them off here and they walk to the Austrian side. We have seen remarkable scenes because they are exhausted and many traveling for months and a horrible time going through Hungary and many were camped out there in front of the Budapest train station where they barely had any food or water and they certainly had no shelter. And they were just camping out there on the ground until they got so frustrated that they started just walking towards Austria, which is a more than a hundred miles away. They said we are going to walk there and that would have taken a long time. Finally, the Hungarian government relented and they are arriving here and getting ready to go on the buses you see over there and the buses will take them from a train station from there on, they will choose whether to stay in Austria or go to Germany, which is a place many of them want to go to. Certainly very emotional scenes as even people who are so exhausted that they almost fell asleep standing, just had smiles on their faces as they walked over that border Victor.
[Blackwell:] Good to see that after what we have seen over the past week or so. Fred, any indication of what is to come, beyond the immediate triage, what Austria, what Germany, the other countries hosting these refuges, what they have in store for them.
[Pleitgen:] First of all, they will bring them to temporary shelters. They will go to the next rail station and either going to a shelter around here or they are going to go on to Vienna and Munich and when they go on to Munich they get processed there immediately at the railway station and brought to another temporary shelter. And then the German government will find places for them in Germany in various locations, both in the southeast which is the main entry point into Germany, but also in other places around the country. And then they enter into a process where their asylum applications is checked by the authorities and depending on whether or not that is successful, then, at some point, they will be recognized as asylum seekers and be allowed to move around and get work in Germany and basically start a new life there. It is quite a long process, bureaucratic process, but certainly one that, for them at least now, is somewhat predictable Victor.
[Blackwell:] At least there is now a process through which they are going through after days, some waiting on trains, some waiting at the train station, now this process has begun. Fred Pleitgen there for us at the AustriaHungary border, thank you so much. Later this hour, we will be joined by Bob Kitchen from the International Rescue Committee. He is going to talk more about the refuge crisis and what else is in store for them.
[Paul:] Turning to the U.S., controversial Kentucky clerk, Kim Davis, is going to be meeting with the presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee. Tuesday he will visit the woman who was jailed and still in jail, in fact, after she refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. This is, of course, in defiance of the law. Meanwhile, Davis says any marriage license issued in her absence is invalid and that did not stop these couples celebrating. CNN's Alexandra Field in Grayson, Kentucky with that story.
[Alexandra Field, Cnn Correspondent:] Christi, Victor, Kim Davis' attorney says her conscience is clear. She is willing to wait it out in jail. She has no plans to resign from her position as the Rowan County clerk and she is ready to fight her fight.
[Field:] The six times the charm for William Smith and James Yates, partners for ten years. They were cheered by their supporters after finally getting their marriage license following five other tries in Rowan County, Kentucky.
[Unidentified Male:] Each time, we were rejected and each time we were told it was Kim Davis' decision. The last time we came, it was really, really hard because we had protesters outside and as soon as we rejected, we had our hearts broken.
[Field:] Kim Davis couldn't reject the couple this time. The Rowand County clerk was sent to jail after a federal judge in Kentucky held her in contempt of court for refusing to issue licenses to same-sex couples, despite a court order to do so.
[Unidentified Male:] She can't violate her conscience so if that means she's going to be here for a longer period of time, she's prepared to be here.
[Field:] Davis remains defiantly opposed to authorizing same-sex marriages even as she sits behind bars.
[Unidentified Male:] If our government can bully you then they are going to make everybody bow down to what they want to do. If we don't take our country back, we are the one who puts them in there. They work for us.
[Field:] Davis rejected an offer from the judge to get out of jail if she agreed to authorize her deputies to issue the licenses or not interfere with the process. Five of those deputies are now giving out licenses that don't bear her name.
[Unidentified Male:] She needs to have her name and her authority off of the license. It could be issued under the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
[Field:] Davis' attorney says a marriage license without her name on it is not valid, but lawyers for the couples disagree, which means everything to William Smith and James Yates.
[Unidentified Male:] We are very happy. We are elated, actually, that we got our license this time.
[Field:] Davis had ordered her six deputy clerks not to issue any marriage licenses after the Supreme Court made its historic ruling earlier this summer allowing same-sex couples to marry nationwide. Those six clerks were all called into a courtroom. The judge asked if they could accept his orders to issue those marriage licenses. Five of the six clerks agreed. The lone hold-out was Kim Davis' son Christi, Victor.
[Paul:] Thank you very much, Alexandra. We appreciate it. Let's bring in CNN legal analyst and criminal defense attorney, Danny Cevallos now. Danny, good to see you. Davis' attorney says those licenses are invalid without her signature, any concern that she is right?
[Danny Cevallos, Cnn Legal Analyst:] It's an interesting issue and probably a case of first impression, but the arguments by the clerk here is that she is the elected county clerk and that these licenses must bear her name, in addition to the county seal. But I think that a court would ultimately determine that the Office of the Clerk is who is issuing the license, not necessarily the actual clerk, that is, the human, whose name is on the license. And just looking at my own cases and dealings with clerks of court, clerks of court routinely have deputy clerks who issue documents and they may bear a signature, but that significant is often just a stamp or some other facsimile. The reality is the actual person who occupies that office doesn't personally stamp and review every single document that goes through the office. It is a government office and that government office issues the licenses. So it is an interesting legal argument by Miss Davis. I don't know that it is one that will ultimately prevail.
[Paul:] In an interview after she was elected back in November, she told a "Moorhead News," I'm quoting here, "I promise to follow the statues of this office to the letter." And we know well, I guess, first of all, you have to wonder if she is going against her own pledge at this particular time, but we know her attorney and court papers argued that issuing same-sex marriage licenses irreparably violates her conscience. Help us understand here. What are her rights when it pertains to her religious liberties and freedoms, compared to federal law?
[Cevallos:] Miss Davis occupies two positions when it comes to speech. One is as a citizen of the United States, but the other is also in her position as clerk, where she essentially speakers for the government. So her argument is that she, as a person, cannot execute her duties because of her personal beliefs. But her opponents say, it's a pretty strong argument, once you are an elected official, you are, in many ways, an arm of the government and you are there to perform official government duties and I've reviewed the Kentucky statutes. And it appears that the country clerk is responsible for issuing marriage licenses. There doesn't appear to be anything in there that that disagrees with their personal views and there are many, many government jobs that if we had people refusing to do them because of whatever their personal beliefs were, then the offense result could be chaos. Imagine if all kinds of different elected official decided, well, these some of the duties I feel like I can perform and these are the duties against my personal beliefs. It would create chaos, I think, if this were county officials could just stop doing their job.
[Paul:] You wonder where the balance is then, I suppose. Danny Cevallos, don't go too far. Stick around here. Just to let you know, later this morning, Davis' attorney is going to be joining us coming up and we have some questions for him as well.
[Blackwell:] We will have Danny come up in the next segment to talk about these new reports this morning that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton paid a State Department staffer to maintain a private e-mail server at her home. Well, now that former staffer is planning to invoke the Fifth Amendment when he is questioned by a congressional committee. Why? We will have that discussion in just a moment. Plus, police across the nation are on edge after a spike in recent cop killings. We have got a live report on speculation, at least, about what is behind the attacks, and the challenges that law enforcement officers are facing.
[Unidentified Male:] There are some real challenges out there in this country right now. It is a very tough time to be a police officer at this moment.