Cook, 25, dropped by CNN's New York offices (with his mother, Beth Foraker, in tow) to talk about keeping creative control, losing his privacy and his responsibility as Idol No. 7.
In 2002 the Clinton-Schumer amendment gave New York City the right to tow the vehicles of delinquent diplomats and to recoup unpaid parking violations (plus a penalty) from U.S. foreign aid disbursements to offending nations.