Clinton To Formally Introduce Kaine As VP Today; Clinton to Introduce VP Pick Tim Kaine
CHRISTI PAUL, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning. You made it to Saturday. Take a nice deep breath. I'm Christi Paul.</s>VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Victor Blackwell. It's good to be with you this morning.</s>PAUL: We want to start to quick politics here. Hillary Clinton's new running mate. That's in a moment, actually.</s>BLACKWELL: First, though, we want to update you on the shooting rampage in Munich. You just saw part of that news conference.</s>PAUL: This is new video that we want to show you here as people are laying flowers and candles near the shopping mall where nine people were killed yesterday. The mayor of Munich has declared today a day of mourning. And right now, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is meeting with her security cabinet. They are discussing this attack. This is obviously the topic of their discussion. Right now Munich, police are holding a police conference though as you just saw. Officials saying there was no indication the attacker was linked to ISIS. CNN's Will Ripley is live in Munich. Will, so now we know that he does not have, as far as they can tell, any connections to ISIS, but what else do we know?</s>WILL RIPLEY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Christi, Victor, we know for sure, according to police that he did act alone. Even though there were rumors flying yesterday up to three gunmen, it was an 18-year-old with possibly illegally obtained .9 millimeter-handgun able to cause this, a scene that the next day is still closed off. An entire city of 1.5 million people on lockdown for seven hours. So many questions about why this teenager of German and Iranian descent would look up documents to carry out a rampage, targeting children and foreigners.</s>RIPLEY (voice-over): German police say the sole suspect in the Munich shooting took his own life. The chief calls the chaos caused by the 18-year-old German-Iranian his hardest day in 40 years of service.</s>HURBERTUS ANDRAE, MUNICH POLICE CHIEF (through translator): The events of yesterday, of this night makes us sad and speechless. Our thoughts are especially with the victims.</s>RIPLEY: An intense exchange with who appears to be the shooter turned up on social media. The suspected attacker seems to have a disturbed mental state insulting Turks and other foreigners. Shots rang out Friday at a popular shopping center. Witnesses describe the gunman targeting children.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Killing the children. Nothing but children were sitting to eat.</s>RIPLEY: Another apparent target, foreigners. This witness says he actually aimed mainly or only at foreigners as I could see it because all the dead bodies that I've seen on the ground and the young man who passed away next to me, they were all foreigners. The response massive. Special Forces from Bavaria, reinforcements from other German states. Authorities locked down the city searching for the gunman, urging people to stay inside and avoid public areas. Restaurants and other businesses closed. Public transit shut down. For President Obama, a new attack, a familiar message.</s>BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Our hearts go out to those who may have been injured. It's still an active situation, and Germany is one of our closest allies, so we are going to pledge all the support that they may need.</s>RIPLEY: This attack the latest in a series of recent tragedies in Europe. Last week 84 people died in Nice, France, when a man ran a 20-ton truck through Bastille Day crowds. Earlier this week, a 17-year-old Afghan refugee with an ax injured several people on a train in Southern Germany. ISIS claims responsibility for both attacks and is calling for more bloodshed.</s>PAUL: I want to thank Will Ripley for that. We will continue obviously to monitor what the mayor is saying and we will bring you more as soon as we get it. In just a few hours, Hillary Clinton will be speaking live in Miami introducing her vice presidential candidate, Tim Kaine. She made the announcement on Twitter saying this, "I'm thrilled to announce my running mate, Tim Kaine, a man who has devoted his life to fighting for others." Some are calling Kaine a safe choice for the Clinton campaign saying their joint ticket provides a stable alternative to the unpredictable Trump campaign. That's one perspective. Here's what we know about Tim Kaine. The Virginia senator is one of only 20 people in American history to serve as mayor, governor, and senator, and he's co-sponsored the Iran nuclear agreement review act. Here's something else you might not know. He plays the harmonica. A little bluesy there. He's actually pretty good at it.</s>PAUL: Yes.</s>BLACKWELL: Let's bring in CNN's senior Washington correspondent, Jeff Zeleny. In addition to his harmonica skill, Jeff, what else do we know about him?</s>JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: Victor, I'm not sure if we will hear that harmonica here today when he take stage here in Miami with Hillary Clinton to be introduced for the first time as her running mate. Almost certainly we are going to hear Spanish. He is a fluent Spanish speaker. It's one of the reasons that Miami was chosen for this announcement. At Florida International University where some 60 percent of the student body is actually Hispanic. It's a critical slice of this electorate for Hillary Clinton in a critical battleground state. But last night, Tim Kaine got the call from Hillary Clinton at 7:32 p.m. After that, she called a few others who were on the finalist list. She asked Tim Kaine to join her ticket. He said yes. He'll join her today.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are we ready for Hillary?</s>ZELENY (voice-over): Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine, new partners on the Democratic ticket.</s>SENATOR TIM KAINE (D), VIRGINIA: Do you want a "you're fired" president or "you're hired" president?</s>ZELENY: It may be an antiestablishment year, but Clinton's running mate is an insider, U.S. senator from Virginia and former chairman of the Democratic National Committee.</s>KAINE: And if I have anything to do with it, we'll win again.</s>ZELENY: By selecting Kaine, Clinton is betting that experience in government not sizzle is the best way to defeat Donald Trump.</s>KAINE: Elections are just the beginning. The real work starts tomorrow.</s>ZELENY: He's neither flashy nor show boat, a seemingly safe pick and steady hand, just what Clinton told Anderson Cooper she's looking for in a vice president.</s>HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I want to be sure that whoever I pick could be president immediately if something were to happen. That's the most important qualification.</s>KAINE: I'm Tim Kaine.</s>ZELENY: Who is Timothy Michael Kaine? A decade ago as governor of Virginia, he introduced himself in the Democratic response to President Bush's state of the union address.</s>KAINE: I worked as a missionary when I was a young man. I learned to measure my life by the difference I can make in someone else's life.</s>ZELENY: It was that stint as a Jesuit missionary in Honduras that shaped and now distinguishes him. He learned fluent Spanish and still speaks it today, which makes him a different kind of attack dog against Trump.</s>KAINE: If you're a Latino, he's going to trash talk you.</s>ZELENY: Born in Minnesota and raised in Kansas.</s>KAINE: The best decision I ever made was moving to Richmond to marry my wife, Ann, 26 years ago.</s>ZELENY: He built his political career in Virginia, rising from city councilman and mayor of Richmond to lieutenant governor and governor. He's 58, ten years younger than Clinton. Known well inside the party but not beyond.</s>KAINE: I'm not the one with the biggest profile. I'm not the one that's the best known.</s>ZELENY: He signed on with Clinton early. This time around. Endorsing her in 2014, more than a year before she declared her candidacy. For an original Barack Obama supporter, it was a chance to make up for lost time.</s>BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Give it up for Tim Kaine.</s>ZELENY: His politics are more moderate than the liberal strain driving today's Democratic Party. He's Catholic. Outwardly moved by Pope Francis' visit to Capitol Hill last year. His views on abortion are far more conservative than most Democrats as he explained in this interview.</s>KAINE: I'm personally opposed to abortion and the death penalty and I've lived my life that way. Law is what it is. I'm going to carry out the law and protect women's legal rights to make their own reproductive decisions.</s>ZELENY: He's also spoken out forcefully against the administration for failing to seek congressional approval to fight the Islamic State.</s>KAINE: War against ISIL is just, it's necessary, it's noble, but it's illegal. There's been no congressional authorization for this war.</s>ZELENY: It's an open question whether Kaine fits the mold of today's red hot politics. Yet his selection could help soften Clinton's partisan edges.</s>KAINE: When it comes to our leadership in the world, trash talk ain't enough. We need a bridge builder and we've got a bridge builder in Hillary Clinton.</s>ZELENY: So Tim Kaine is viewed as a governing partner should they win the White House in November. I talked to a top senior Clinton adviser last night to say, what really led her to pick him in the end. They said simply a comfort level. She liked his experience but simply, they said, he is someone she would like to have around the west wing, someone she gets along with, trusts, and is loyal. So they appear today in Miami on the stage together this afternoon and then, of course, that Democratic Convention begins in Philadelphia next week.</s>BLACKWELL: All right, Jeff, what more are we learning from the Republicans, their reaction to this pick?</s>ZELENY: Of course, Republicans are responding, Donald Trump in particular is responding saying, look, this is a couple of insiders. This is a guy who has been in elected office most of his life. So pretty typical response. More interestingly though perhaps is the response from some progressive and liberal groups. They believe that Tim Kaine simply is not liberal enough. They think he's too moderate on many issues like Wall Street reform, some other things. So there will be definite discussions at that Democratic Convention next week. He's certainly not a Bernie Sanders liberal Democrat. But that's probably why Hillary Clinton selected him -- Victor.</s>BLACKWELL: All right, Jeff Zeleny in Miami for us. Jeff, thanks so much. Don't miss the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Our live coverage begins Monday at 4:00 Eastern right here on</s>CNN. PAUL: An explosive new report could offer clues in the mystery of the crashed MH-370 flight. Yes, we're still talking about this because we're just learning of the possibility that this could have been a premeditated plot of mass murder and suicide. Our Matt Rivers is following that for us.</s>MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's the big question after a "New York" magazine report claims that the pilot of MH-370 flew a simulated flight just one month before MH-370 disappeared. That simulated flight closely resembles the suspected flight path of MH-370 itself. I'll have those details coming up.</s>BLACKWELL: Another blow to this year's Olympics, with the Rio Games now just less than two weeks away fears of terrorism and a doping scandal dominating the conversation. Now authorities are scrambling to keep the games safe and drug free. We'll tell you how.