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ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- An enormous Asian elephant stepped out from behind a big red curtain at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Atlanta, Georgia.

Eli Hummer, 3, gets to try out an oversized motorbike at the circus.

An audience of 20 pre-schoolers clapped and squealed as the elephant was handed a tiny harmonica and started playing.

But, instead of sitting far away in the stands, the children, all visually impaired, were just a few feet away from the action.

Among them was 3-year-old Eli Hummer.

"He doesn't see, so to learn about it, he has to touch it and be close to it," explained his mother, Martha Hummer.

She said being able to use the sense of smell, touch and sound helps her son understand the concept of a circus.

Every year as it tours the country, Ringling Brothers sponsors a "Blind-Touch Tour" in about a dozen cities.

During a stop in Atlanta, Georgia, children from the Center for the Visually Impaired got more than a front row seat. After the show, they were invited into the circus ring to interact with performers and try out some of their props.  Watch more on the "Blind-Touch" tour Â»

Eight stations were set up where children could touch and try on circus costumes, play with giant umbrellas and butterfly wings and sit on an oversized motorcycle.

Clowns roamed the ring juggling and trying to make the children laugh.

One clown dressed in a polka dot shirt and checkered pants took Eli's little hand and asked the boy if he wanted to touch the red clown nose.  Watch some of the sights and sounds of the circus Â»

Eli responded by trying to pull off the ball-like prop.

His teacher, Joyce Burnett, who is also visually impaired, spent two weeks before the circus visit preparing the kids in the classroom for the unique experience.

"We had clown shoes, a nose and a wig and we tried all of those on," Burnett said.

She said the students also listened to elephant sounds and drew the outline of the animals with chalk.

"Eighty to 90 percent of early learning comes through vision," Burnett said. "Our children are not using vision or (have) very little vision, so all of the other senses will make their world real." Visit CNNhealth.com, your connection for better living

Michelle Singleton, mother of 4-year-old Miya, said the experience is something the kids can't get anywhere else.

"The fact that she's on the floor now, she is really excited. She wanted to see the elephants so she's happy now," Singleton said.

Four-year-old Kristina Masta was fascinated with a trapeze swing that was hanging low to the ground.

One of the performers helped the girl climb on while her mother, Michelle Masta, stood nearby.

"Because of her visual impairment anything that is highly tactile and brightly colored helps out a lot," Masta said.

Her daughter weighed 1 pound, 1 ounce at birth and suffers from retinopathy of prematurity, a disease in which the small blood vessels in the back of the eye grow abnormally.

Masta said other people may not realize the limitations and challenges of having a visually impaired child.

"Everything is ten times harder," she said.

Masta smiled as her daughter handed her a rainbow-colored lollypop to unwrap.

"The kids feel special because they get to actually do something that the other kids don't do, and it is a real treat," Masta said.

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Cairo (CNN) -- Syria has accepted "in principle" an Arab League plan to permit observers into the country to verify whether the regime has taken measures to protect civilians, a senior Arab diplomat said Friday.

Questions remained, however, about the exact nature of the mission, if it proceeds. Originally, 500 observers were believed to be destined for Syria, but U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Friday afternoon that the proposed number had been reduced to 40.

Syria requested amendments to the plan Thursday night, a day after Arab league representatives approved it, the Cairo-based regional alliance said on its website.

Nabil el-Araby, secretary-general of the Arab League, said the league is studying the letter from Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem that included changes regarding the protocol and duties of the observers.

Eighteen of the alliance's 22 member nations voted to suspend Syria's membership in the league on Saturday. But the group, which met again in Rabat, Morocco, on Wednesday, gave Damascus three days to implement a protocol to allow observers to enter the nation.

"Our mission will be to portray the truth about the nature of the injuries (and) numbers of casualties and assess the hospitals, to see what they need and how well-prepared they are to accommodate the injured," said Dr. Ibrahim Zafarani, a former member of the Muslim Brotherhood and founding member of the Arab Doctors Association who said he'd volunteered to be an observer.

It is the latest diplomatic effort to resolve the crisis in Syria. International pressure has been mounting on President Bashar al-Assad over his regime's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, amid concerns that violence in Syria is escalating.

World support and confidence in the Syrian regime have continued to dwindle in recent weeks. France's top diplomat called the state of affairs in embattled Syria "no longer tenable" Friday and wants the U.N. Security Council to step up and grapple with the eight-month-long crisis in the turbulent Arab nation.

"Despite all the calls that were made to that regime" for peaceful initiatives to end the raging street violence, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said in the Turkish capital of Ankara, "the regime did not want to know anything. Still this morning, in the north of Syria, several villages were bombarded by the Syrian army."

British Foreign Secretary William Hague will meet Monday with representatives from the Syrian National Council and National Coordinating Committee for Democratic Change, two groups opposed to President Bashar al-Assad's government, a foreign office spokeswoman said Friday.

The Local Coordination Committees of Syria, another activist group, said that at least 19 people were killed Friday by security forces and the army, among them four children. This is in addition to 26 killed by security forces Thursday, on top of scores killed earlier in the week, according to the organization.

Eight people were killed in the southern region of Daraa, where about 20 people also were wounded when security forces fired at mourners. There were five deaths in Hama, in the west, four in the Damascus suburbs and two in Homs, also in the west, the Local Coordination Committees said.

The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency, meanwhile, reported the killings of two law enforcement members in Hama, the injuries of two in Daraa and the arrests of 10 "terrorists" in Idlib province.

CNN is not able to independently verify claims of fighting and casualties because the Syrian government has restricted international media access to the country.

Well over 3,500 people have been killed and thousands have been jailed in cities across the country, according to U.N. estimates. French and Turkish officials have been outspoken in their criticism of the Syrian regime's behavior, and some key international diplomats, such as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, said Thursday that the ongoing attacks on government buildings in Syria "look like a civil war."

News agencies have been quoting Juppe as saying it is "too late" for Syria to make the reforms the regime has promised. At the same time, he urged opposition protesters to shun violence.

In recent weeks, a military force of defectors called the Free Syrian Army has launched strikes against government targets.

This week, the force said it attacked an air intelligence base outside Damascus. Also, army defectors armed with a rocket-propelled grenades attacked a pro-government youth group office and clashed with Syrian security personnel, activists said.

And on Friday, a video emerged of another defector group announcing its formation: the Hawks of Damascus.

"We promise Bashar al-Assad and his unjust group that you will see us in every place and time and you will see from us what you don't expect until we return the freedom and dignity to our people," the group said in the video.

Juppe, meanwhile, urged the Syrian opposition "to take the stance that they have taken from the beginning, which is the refusal of violence."

"But I think that the point has now come to renew our efforts to accelerate sanctions. We all support a resolution to that effect at the United Nations General Assembly. France is happy to work with the Arab League, with Turkey, with all the countries in the region and to work with the opposition which shows a lot of courage," Juppe said.

Juppe said "it would be good" if the Security Council asserted itself on the issue.

"It is not normal in a crisis of this scope: 3,000 dead already, 20,000 prisoners in Syrian prisons, which are sometimes treated very brutally with torture," Juppe said. "It is not acceptable that the U.N. Security Council does not speak up."

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, appearing with Juppe, said his nation opposes "all kinds of use of violence against civilians" and hopes "Arab peoples will determine their own fate in this vein without a need for foreign intervention."

He said that calling for al-Assad's ouster and the establishment of a no-fly zone are not up for discussion.

"If massacres against civilians continue, we won't be indifferent to that whether it's in Syria or any other country," he said.

Syria has blamed the violence on armed terrorist groups. But activists and citizens say the government's military and security personnel are responsible for the many casualties there.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in Bali, Indonesia, on Friday that the United States had been concerned for weeks that the situation in Syria was spiraling out of control.

Syria's failure to make promised reforms had led to a peaceful opposition "morphing" into one that was, at least in part, well armed and prepared to take action against the Syrian government, she said.

Now important regional players like the Arab League nations and Turkey "are sending (the) same message loudly and clearly: that the Syrian government has to change, and it has to change now, or we all fear what the consequences will be," she said.

Turkey, formerly an ally and major trading partner of Syria's, has toughened its stance this week, threatening to cut its electricity supply to Syria and asking why the international community has not taken the kind of action to protect civilians that it took in Libya through NATO.

U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner in Washington said Turkey had "become an increasingly vocal opponent to what's going on in Syria and an increasingly powerful voice among the international community" in calling for an end to the violence.

A draft U.N. resolution is in the works, backed by Germany, France and Britain, who have sought support from Middle Eastern nations for the move.

Juppe noted European Union economic sanctions against Syria and said "we are ready to harden those sanctions."

European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Thursday reiterated her call for al-Assad to step down, her spokeswoman said. Ashton spoke after a meeting with Lavrov in Moscow.

Jordan's King Abdullah has said that a person in al-Assad's position would step down, a statement observers interpreted as a call for the Syrian president to do just that.

According to Russia's Interfax news agency, Ashton said she is confident that Abdullah would "reiterate the position that it's about time for President Assad to go."

An EU official said Ashton has asked Arab League head el-Araby to attend a meeting of the European Union's foreign ministers and talk about ways to put pressure on the al-Assad regime. The official didn't want to be named because he isn't authorized to speak about the matter.

CNN's Alexander Felton, Laura Smith-Spark, Joe Sterling, Mohamed Fadel Fahmy, Rima Maktabi, Niki Cook, Sarah Jones and Stephanie Halasz contributed to this report.

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text: ongoing

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text: United

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text: international

text: community

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text: kind

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text: Libya

text: through

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text: U.S.

text: State

text: Department

text: spokesman

text: Mark

text: Toner

text: in

text: Washington

text: said

text: Turkey

text: had

text: become

text: an

text: increasingly

text: vocal

text: opponent

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text: what

text: 's

text: going

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text: violence

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text: Union

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text: sanctions

text: European

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text: foreign

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text: her

text: call

text: for

text: al

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text: to

text: step

text: down

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text: spokeswoman

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text: a

text: meeting

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text: Lavrov

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text: King

text: Abdullah

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text: person

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question: What does the potential observer say?

answer: they need and how well-prepared they are to accommodate the injured,"

text: they need and how well-prepared they are to accommodate the injured,"

question: How many were slain in Syria on Friday?

answer: at least 19

text: at least 19

question: What is the name of the activist group?

answer: The Local Coordination Committees of Syria,

text: The Local Coordination Committees of Syria,

question: When did Syria offer amendments

answer: Thursday night,

text: Thursday night,

question: How many people died in Syria on Friday?

answer: at least 19

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question: Who will meet rebel leaders?

answer: British Foreign Secretary William Hague

text: British Foreign Secretary William Hague

question: Which country offered amendments?

answer: Syria

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question: What did a potential observer say

answer: "Our mission will be to portray the truth about the nature of the injuries (and) numbers of casualties and assess the hospitals, to see

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Editor's note: Hank Sheinkopf, a CNN contributor, is a longtime political consultant who was a member of the media team for President Bill Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign. Sheinkopf was a media consultant for Eliot Spitzer's campaign for New York attorney general in 1998 and has represented candidates around the country and the world. He represented Rep. Steve Israel, a Democrat whose name has been mentioned for the New York senate seat, in 2000, but hasn't had a business relationship with him since. Sheinkopf, who also represents corporate clients, does not represent any of the other politicians whose names have been mentioned for the Senate seat. For a rival view, read here.

Hank Sheinkopf says Caroline Kennedy hasn't earned the nod for a Senate seat from New York.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Judging by the screaming newspaper headlines and the steamy ecstasy of the gossip columns, people from other worlds might presume that it has already come to pass: that a woman who happens to be named Caroline Kennedy was pole-vaulted above the crowd and sent with magic wand and golden slippers to the U.S. Senate from New York, in the hope of saving the Empire State and bringing goodness to all its inhabitants.

After all, why shouldn't she be sent to the Senate?

Her unique experience of writing a book or two, smiling well, appearing from time to time -- but not too often -- at city mayoral news conferences announcing help for those who attend New York City public schools -- and, well, just being a Kennedy -- should suffice.

Her social standing alone, some might argue, would give her the advantage of all advantages. A Kennedy. Camelot. Ah! The greatness of it all? Not.

The man who has to make the decision whether or not New York is to be so vaunted in representation is Gov. David Paterson, the former lieutenant governor who had the fortune of replacing morally triangulated Gov. Eliot Spitzer after Spitzer's resignation in the face of a publicly humiliating sex scandal.

Paterson will have to face the voters in 2010. So will his pick to fill the seat that will be left vacant after Hillary Clinton is confirmed as secretary of state in early 2009. The governor's poll numbers suggest that voters like him.

Paterson has taken a tack much unexpected by challenging all to tighten belts, cut spending, pay more fees to the state and get rid of waste after Wall Street's collapse and the subsequent free fall in tax collections from the financial services business.

Paterson could have a tough time. Voters don't like losing money, they hate losing services, and all the earnest explanations about fighting the good fight together won't put better food on the table or pay the bills.

He needs someone who can help him win, and he needs someone who can win. He and the senator he chooses will both face the voters together. With that in mind, is Caroline Kennedy the correct choice?

On the issues of the day, Kennedy has been mighty silent. Financial cretins stealing for fun, profit and because they can? Not a word.

The wars? Syllable-less. Millions of humans evaporated in Africa's inner madness? Quiet and silent.

The auto bailout? Nada. The printing of a trillion soon-to-be inflated dollars that will further sap our savings? On such matters, Kennedy remains absolutely silent.

What about the destruction of the economy of western New York?

Does she know that there is a deeply pained world beyond the Westchester County border just a bit north of New York City that benefited little from some fairy-tale place called Camelot and less from well-orchestrated and timed public relations campaigns afforded only by the rich?

Why should Caroline Kennedy be named a U.S. senator? Is it because merit no longer matters? Surely, Kennedy offers the dazzle of an unmistakable surname and the kind of celebrity appeal that seems to follow members of the New York social elite. But for the white ethnics who gave their vote to Democrats on the promise of fairness and merit, Kennedy's star quality may not suffice.

The simple fact is that if the governor passes on other options -- candidates, many of whom serve in Congress and have earned their right to represent New York -- then he does so at his own risk.

In 1964, Robert Kennedy wanted then-Sen. Kenneth Keating's job so badly that he ran for office. President Lyndon Johnson's landslide victory in New York helped Kennedy win the election, but not before the challenger ran a campaign that made its appeal to voters and proved worthy. His niece has done neither. If Kennedy wants to be New York's junior senator, she should stand in line and run for office in 2010.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Hank Sheinkopf.

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NEW YORK (CNN) -- For years, Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout made millions of dollars delivering weapons and ammunition to warlords and militants, officials say.

On Thursday, Bout and his associate, Andrew Smulian, were arrested in Thailand after a series of events that officials said could have come straight out of a spy novel.

The men's capture involved law enforcement agencies from at least five countries, including two undercover agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration posing as Colombian rebels.

Bout and Smulian are accused of conspiracy to provide surface-to-air missiles and other weapons to Colombian rebels, said Michael Garcia, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

In a complaint filed by a DEA agent, they are said to have conspired to sell millions of dollars worth of weapons to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.

The U.S. Department of State designated the group as a foreign terrorist organization in 2003.

"This marks the end of the reign of one of the world's most-wanted arms traffickers," Garcia said of Bout.

"Someone will undoubtedly write a book about this case someday, and I can tell you that it will read like the very best work of Tom Clancy, only in this case, it won't be fiction," said Michael Braun, assistant administrator and chief of operations for the DEA.

Secret meetings

The operation began in January, when Smulian began meeting with two men who claimed to represent FARC but who were actually confidential sources working for the DEA.

The men expressed interest in buying millions of dollars worth of weapons.

At meetings in the Netherlands Antilles, Denmark and Romania, Smulian discussed the details and logistics of the arms deal with the two agents. At one meeting, the agents were given a digital memory stick containing an article about Bout and documents containing photos and specifications for 100 surface-to-air missiles and armor-piercing rocket launchers.

Smulian explained that a delivery system was in place that would allow the weapons to be air-dropped into Colombia, and he told the men that it would cost $5 million to transport the weapons.

During one meeting, Smulian introduced the DEA sources to Bout over the phone.

After that conversation, Smulian told one of the sources that the weapons were ready in Bulgaria. Smulian and Bout set up a face-to-face meeting with them to finalize the deal, and that is what happened Thursday.

The arrests were made Thursday afternoon.

The charges against Bout and Smulian cover the period from November through February, according to a written statement from the U.S. attorney's office and the DEA.

The United States plans to pursue the extradition of Bout from Thailand, the statement said. There was no mention of Smulian's fate.

Bout and Smulian are charged with conspiracy to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization. If convicted, each could get a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison, the statement said.

'I'm not a diamond guy'

Intelligence agencies around the world have tracked Bout for years. Although some of his work has been legitimate, most has not.

He has made deliveries to Africa, Asia and the Mideast using obsolete or surplus Soviet-era cargo planes.

Bout, a former Soviet air force officer who speaks multiple languages, has what is reputed to be the largest private fleet of Soviet-era cargo aircraft in the world, according to U.S. officials.

He acquired the planes shortly after the breakup of the Soviet Union, the U.S. Department of the Treasury said in 2005.

At that time, the U.S. Treasury announced that it was freezing the assets of Bout and his associates, who are all tied to former Liberian President Charles Taylor.

Taylor is being tried on war crimes charges by the Special Court for Sierra Leone.

Intelligence officials said Bout shipped large quantities of small arms to civil wars across Africa and Asia, often taking diamonds in payment from West African fighters.

A 2006 article in Foreign Policy magazine said that although Bout served many third-world leaders, he also aided organizations such as the United Nations.

"He made countless trips for the United Nations into the same areas where he supplied the weapons that sparked the humanitarian crises in the first place," the article charged. It said Bout probably committed multiple violations of U.N. arms embargoes.

British intelligence officials found evidence in Afghanistan that Bout had shipped arms to the Taliban and al Qaeda, as well as circumstantial evidence that he shipped weapons technology into Iraq.

And the U.S. government said it received information that Bout profited $50 million from supplying the Taliban with military equipment when they ruled Afghanistan.

Bout, who is said to be the inspiration for Nicolas Cage's arms dealer character in the movie "Lord of War," told CNN in 2002 that he never sold arms to the Taliban or al Qaeda. He also denied providing weapons and missile-guidance technology to Iraq.

Bout said that his air transport company is legitimate and that he ferried a variety of cargo to Africa and to Afghanistan since 1992.

He denied that any of it was done illegally or that he was paid in "blood diamonds" from Africa.

"It's a lie," he said. "I never touched diamonds in my life, and I'm not a diamond guy, and I don't want to go into that business."

Some reports at the time claimed that Bout flew into Afghanistan just before September 11, 2001. But Bout told CNN that the last time he was in Afghanistan was 1996 and that he never met terror mastermind Osama bin Laden. E-mail to a friend

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text: I

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text: was

text: in

text: Afghanistan

text: was

text: and

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text: he

text: never

text: met

text: terror

text: mastermind

text: Osama

text: bin

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text: E

text: mail

text: to

text: a

text: friend

question: what does U.S wants from Thailand?

answer: extradition of Bout

text: extradition of Bout

question: Who is Bout accused of selling weapons to?

answer: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia,

text: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia,

question: who is viktor bout

answer: Russian arms dealer

text: Russian arms dealer

question: what did british official say about bout shipping?

answer: shipped large quantities of small arms to civil wars across Africa and Asia,

text: shipped large quantities of small arms to civil wars across Africa and Asia,

question: what are associates accused of?

answer: conspiracy to provide surface-to-air missiles and other weapons to Colombian rebels,

text: conspiracy to provide surface-to-air missiles and other weapons to Colombian rebels,

question: what did bout do

answer: made millions of dollars

text: made millions of dollars

question: Who do the United States want extradited from Thailand?

answer: Viktor Bout

text: Viktor Bout

question: Who does the US want extradited from Thailand?

answer: Bout

text: Bout

question: To whom did Bout ship arms?

answer: warlords and militants,

text: warlords and militants,

question: To what rebels are Bout and his associate accused of conspiring to sell weapons to?

answer: militants,

text: militants,


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(CNN) -- Voluble real estate mogul Donald Trump called alleged Wall Street scam artist Bernard Madoff a "sleazebag" and "a total crook" Thursday in an interview on CNN.

Donald Trump said investors who lost money in a Ponzi scheme were victims of their own greed.

Trump recently hosted a party at his Palm Beach, Florida, estate, Mar-a-Lago, that was attended by several people who say they were victims of an alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme run by Madoff.

Madoff, 70, is a former chairman of Nasdaq. He was charged last week with fraud.

Trump, chairman and president of the Trump Organization, a New York-based real estate development empire, spoke with Kiran Chetry on CNN's "American Morning."

CNN: How angry are people at this situation with Madoff?

Donald Trump: ... The people in Palm Beach, many of those people have been just ripped off by this sleazebag, and they'll never see the kind of money that they've seen.  You have some people gave 100 percent of their net worth to him in trust, because they trusted him, they trusted his family, they trusted everybody, and now they literally are selling their houses in order to live. And some of them mortgaged their houses in order to give that money to this Madoff. And it's really a terrible thing. I'd see him around Mar-a-Lago, I'd see him around Palm Beach -- and he's a disgrace.  Watch the possible ramifications of the Madoff case Â»

CNN: ... How did he get away with this? How did so many smart people entrust somebody -- and we keep hearing over and over again, 100 percent of their money going to this guy. Would you ever let 100 percent of your money go to something, even if you trusted the person?

Trump: I would not, and a lot of my friends would not, but obviously a lot of my friends did. The word is very simple. It's a word called "greed." Greed. That's all it is. People were greedy. They thought he was going to get them a little bit more return, or a lot more return.

I mean, he was a Svengali for rich people. There are Svengalis for women; this guy was a Svengali for rich people -- very rich people. But when you think of a person putting up 100 percent of their net worth and even mortgaging their house, even though they had a lot of cash -- mortgaging their house to get more cash to this guy -- and now they're going to have to go out, literally, and maybe work in a drugstore. I don't know what they're going to do.

CNN: Did you lose money from Madoff?

Trump: No, I did not.

CNN: Some are blaming the [Securities and Exchange Commission], saying for years they did not investigate any claims. Chairman Christopher Cox said there were some credible accusations against Madoff made nearly a decade ago that were never referred to the commission to act. So what's your take on the oversight, how the SEC and government handled this?

Trump: I would not blame the SEC. This guy was a total crook. The people in his own organization supposedly didn't know about it. Now, that's another thing; I find that hard to believe. He's got two sons, and they didn't know about it? And they worked there for years? I think the whole thing is a swindle. I think even that's a swindle: The father said, "Look, you guys turn me in and pretend you don't know anything and I'll save my two sons." But it's impossible for me to believe that his sons didn't know about this.

CNN: So you also think it's impossible that he acted alone.

Trump: I don't know how you could act alone. They had three floors of a major office building. How could one man be manipulating that much money without all of the people knowing -- without at least a large number of the people knowing about it? So I would certainly think that his sons are guilty.

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question: Who doubts that Bernard Madoff could have acted alone?

answer: Trump:

text: Trump:

question: Who did not lose money to Madoff?

answer: Donald Trump

text: Donald Trump

question: Who does Trump doubt acted alone?

answer: Bernard Madoff

text: Bernard Madoff

question: What made the real estate giant lash out ?

answer: Bernard Madoff

text: Bernard Madoff

question: Who says he did not lose any money to Madoff

answer: Donald Trump

text: Donald Trump

question: How much was the investment scheme worth?

answer: $50 billion

text: $50 billion

question: what made people victims of their own greed?

answer: Ponzi scheme

text: Ponzi scheme

question: Who lashes out at suspect in $50 billion investment scheme

answer: Donald Trump

text: Donald Trump