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Two Teenagers Captured by Police; Controversial Letter From Samuel Alito Lights Fire in Washington

Aired November 15, 2005 - 08:00   ET

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SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: New details this morning in a murder case that stretched from Pennsylvania to Indiana. Two teenagers captured by police. One or both of them could be sent home today. A live report is just ahead with the very latest in that investigation.
President Bush arrives in Japan, but his troubles are following him. Another poll, another record low for his approval ratings.

And a controversial letter from Samuel Alito lights a fire in Washington. Are Democrats and Republicans ready to fight it out over abortion rights?

Those stories all ahead on this AMERICAN MORNING.

ANNOUNCER: From the CNN broadcast center in New York, this is AMERICAN MORNING with Soledad O'Brien and Miles O'Brien.

MILES O'BRIEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning to you.

Also, we should tell you, just a little while ago, a couple of hours ago, the cell phone bandit, bank robber, alleged cell phone bandit -- we've got to put that in there -- was arrested in northern Virginia by FBI agents. So, we'll keep you updated on that one, as well. That's been an interesting story.

S. O'BRIEN: To monitor, for sure. Absolutely.

Other stories that we're following today, this double murder case. It really started in Pennsylvania and then made its way all the way to Indiana, where it finally wrapped up. But many, many questions remain.

M. O'BRIEN: Yes, a wild conclusion to a very tragic story. A teenaged murder suspect could make his first appearance today in court. Eighteen-year-old David Ludwig is accused of killing his girlfriend's parents in Pennsylvania. It's still unclear what role 14-year-old Kara Borden played in the whole thing.

Allan Chernoff is live in Lititz, Pennsylvania -- Allan, what do we know about the pair here and if, in fact, the girl was perhaps an accomplice?

ALLAN CHERNOFF, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Miles, we just have the basics about these teenagers. This really remains a crime that has question marks written all over it. And as you mentioned, the key question right now, did Kara Borden play any role in the double murder of her parents?

For now, the police chief here is saying that he intends to treat Kara as a victim. He does hope to question Kara once she's back in Pennsylvania. Kara Borden and her 18-year-old boyfriend, David Ludwig, are now in police custody in Indiana, after a high speed police chase yesterday at speeds up to 95 miles per hour. It ended with the Volkswagen Jetta that Kara and David Ludwig were driving crashing into a tree.

As I said, they're now in police custody and there should be an extradition hearing in Indiana later this morning. And the police chief back here is hoping to have the two in Pennsylvania, at least by lunchtime. He said that was his hope.

Now, Kara and David, according to a police document, had been dating since May. Kara's Web site refers to very normal interests -- babysitting, attending prayer group. She's a soccer player. David, we know, plays trumpet in a community band. His Web site has lyrics of a Christian rock group. He also refers to an interest in computers and volleyball.

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BRETT LOVELACE: He had no other problems with the police at all. He had not been ever arrested or questioned, even as a juvenile. And that's why it kind of comes out of the blue that this whole thing happened.

Now, his father did keep a large collection of guns -- hunting rifles and handguns. And David had access to those and was familiar with shooting those.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CHERNOFF: The district attorney does plan to charge David with two counts of homicide, one count of kidnapping and, if convicted, Mr. Ludwig could face life in prison -- Miles.

M. O'BRIEN: Allan Chernoff, thanks very much -- Soledad.

S. O'BRIEN: Well, new anti-terror measures in Jordan today. One demands that all foreigners renting property be reported to authorities within 48 hours. And that's just one of the steps that the government is taking to prevent attacks like last week's triple hotel bombings.

National security correspondent David Ensor has more.

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DAVID ENSOR, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): U.S. and Jordanian officials say the capture of the woman whose suicide belt failed to detonate may provide important intelligence on Zarqawi's al Qaeda affiliated terror group in Iraq.

MARWAN MUASHER, JORDAN'S DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER: She is the sister of the right-hand man of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a man that was killed in Falluja earlier by U.S. forces.

ENSOR: The attacks, including one on a wedding party at a hotel, prompted protest marches in Amman and seemed to ignore the advice of Osama bin Laden's number two, el-Zawahiri, who had warned Zarqawi against hitting Muslim innocents in a letter U.S. intelligence made public last month.

BRIAN JENKINS, RAND: An old, seasoned veteran offering some advice to a young frontline commander. And that advice is don't alienate popular support. Don't expose yourself to internal betrayal by doing things that not everybody will understand.

ENSOR: But analysts say while the Amman attacks will reduce sympathy or support for al Qaeda among the Muslim majority, that may not bother Zarqawi.

JENKINS: He is looking for angry young men who will be inspired by violence. He is not looking for popular support among the Arab masses.

ENSOR: And his latest success in Amman could inspire Zarqawi to attempt additional attacks outside Iraq.

ENSOR (on camera): The best hope, say U.S. officials, is that the woman whose bomb failed to go off may supply names, even addresses, of other Zarqawi firebrands so that they can be stopped before they strike.

David Ensor, CNN, Washington.

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S. O'BRIEN: Jordanian officials say so far their interrogation of that woman is going very slowly and they have few details about her motivation for that attack.

There are other stories making headlines today.

Carol Costello has a look at that -- good morning.

CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning.

Good morning to all of you.

After marathon talks, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says Israel and the Palestinians have a deal on Gaza border crossings. The agreement gives the Palestinians freer movement across borders. Secretary Rice delayed her trip to Asia to help oversee negotiations for an extra night. She now heads to South Korea for an economic conference.

President Bush firing back at critics who say he misled the American people about Iraq war intelligence.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Some Democrats who voted to authorize the use of force are now rewriting the past. They're playing politics with this issue. And they are sending mixed signals to our troops and the enemy. And that's irresponsible.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

COSTELLO: The president making the comments en route to Asia. He arrived in Kyoto, Japan about four hours ago. He is expected to discuss economic and security issues with Japan's prime minister.

Another prison break, this time in Iowa. Two convicted killers are on the lam. They escaped Monday from a maximum security prison. No word on how they got away. More than 30 officers and dogs are now combing the area. Authorities in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri on the alert.

Remember the so-called cell phone bandit we've been telling you about? Well, she has been caught. She was arrested earlier this morning after FBI agents spotted a car associated with the robberies. Authorities say the woman is wanted in the robbery of four suburban Washington banks during which she was seen talking on her cell phone the entire time. We still don't know who she was talking to. I don't think police have asked her yet, but I bet they will.

A honeymoon behind bars for a go ahead woman this morning. She's facing child molestation charges. The woman is 37 years old. Her husband is 15. Under Georgia law, a person under the age of 16 cannot legally consent to a sexual act, whether married or not, but the marriage is legal if the woman is pregnant and, of course, there are those reports that the couple is expecting.

And once upon a time there was a beautiful princess who didn't want to be a princess anymore. Ah, love. A Japanese princess has opted out of her royal heritage by marrying a commoner. Hey, it's tougher than you think.

To prepare for her new life, the princess has taken driving lessons because she never had to drive. And she had to practice shopping at supermarkets, you know, the kind of supermarkets that we all shop at. Today's royal wedding is the most popular on CNN's Web site. For another look, log onto cnn.com for more.

S. O'BRIEN: Oh, it's so hard to be a princess. You have to learn the whole shopping thing now.

COSTELLO: It is.

M. O'BRIEN: Don't they have to walk a certain number of paces behind the prince? Isn't that how that works?

COSTELLO: Maybe that's why she opted out of that.

S. O'BRIEN: That's why she, yes.

M. O'BRIEN: I'd say, I'd bail. S. O'BRIEN: Ah, not that anymore.

M. O'BRIEN: I would so bail on that deal, yes.

S. O'BRIEN: But, on the other hand, you had people to do your shopping for you.

M. O'BRIEN: Yes.

COSTELLO: Yes, you know...

S. O'BRIEN: Yes, you know.

M. O'BRIEN: A tough call.

S. O'BRIEN: Carol, thanks.

COSTELLO: Sure.

M. O'BRIEN: All right, next week on AMERICAN MORNING, Week Of Giving, we're calling it. If you were affected by this season's hurricanes -- what camera am I looking at? At that one? Two? Ah, two. It's so confusing sometimes. I'm a simple man and not a brain surgeon.

If you would like to send out thanks to someone who helped you, we would love you to send us your story. This is a great way of thanking somebody. You might not have gotten their phone number or contact information. You can share it this way and perhaps you can connect.

We will post the responses on the Web site. We'll get Sanjay Gupta to give you the wwws a little later.

S. O'BRIEN: Cnn.com/am.

M. O'BRIEN: Yes. There it is. It's very straightforward. Cnn.com/am. Put it -- put your stories there and we would love to share them with you next week.

S. O'BRIEN: Yes, that'll be nice.

M. O'BRIEN: OK.

S. O'BRIEN: We'll select certain people to tell their stories right here.

M. O'BRIEN: A lot of reasons to give thanks in the wake of all this.

Let's check back on the weather.

Bonnie Schneider is at the CNN Center with the latest -- good morning, Bonnie.

BONNIE SCHNEIDER, ATS METEOROLOGIST: Good morning, Miles and Soledad.

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M. O'BRIEN: Coming up, more bad numbers for the president. Is there any way to put a positive spin on these things? Of course there is. That's what they pay political operatives to do, right? We'll talk to a Republican strategist.

S. O'BRIEN: Also this morning, how many times have you said to your children use your inside voices? Well, a restaurant owner posted a sign saying exactly that. Well, suddenly he became a hero to some and a villain to others. We're going to talk to him live just ahead.

M. O'BRIEN: And Oprah Winfrey with the ultimate clip show -- 20 years of highlights, let me guess, Tom Cruise on the couch. What else has she had there?

S. O'BRIEN: That was just bizarre.

M. O'BRIEN: Yes, I know. But what -- there's got to be some other good ones, right? Aren't there?

S. O'BRIEN: Lots of good ones. Are you kidding me? Oh, every show that Oprah does is good.

M. O'BRIEN: Every "Oprah" show. She does every "Oprah" show in her 20 year special. And we'll condense it all down into just a few minutes for you, for those of you who missed it.

That's ahead here on AMERICAN MORNING.

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M. O'BRIEN: The president of the United States, the first lady arriving in Kyoto, Japan just a little while ago. They have since retired, trying to sleep off a 14-hour jet lag situation. And they'll be up and running on an aggressive Asian tour. Lots of issues to discuss. But here in the United States, lots of numbers to digest. And not good numbers for the president, as he embarks on that trip.

Joining us now to talk about them, and probably to attempt to spin them a little bit, is Republican strategist Mark McKinnon from Austin, Texas.

Mark, good to have you with us.

MARK MCKINNON, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: Good morning.

M. O'BRIEN: Let's go to the -- this is a CNN/"USA Today"/Gallup poll. Let's go to the first slate of numbers.

The question is how is Mr. Bush handling his job as president?

This is kind of the gold standard approval rating question.

Thirty-seven percent approve, 60 percent disapprove. That's a grim number. Let's just take a quick look at a chart showing where the president stands pretty much since day one, well, since 9/11, anyhow, which was a high water point.

And as you can see, high after the terror attacks, bumped back up after the Iraq invasion, but ever since then, a steady downward decline. It looks a lot like, in some respects, the numbers of Bush 41, his father.

What do you think, Mark?

MCKINNON: Well, listen, the good news is, I think we've bottomed out. And the worst is behind us. It's been a very difficult period. But we've literally had the perfect storm with Katrina, high oil prices and Iraq.

So it was a difficult period, no doubt. But I think that we're -- on the big three, on Iraq, we're making progress. They've just had constitutional elections. We'll have elections in December. So I think we've got a lot of potential for progress there.

Oil prices have dropped 20 percent in the last couple of weeks.

And we're starting to rebuild New Orleans. I've got a daughter that goes to Tulane and she's looking forward to going back in January.

So on those big three, a lot of progress.

M. O'BRIEN: I would say you're grasping at straws a little bit, Mark, on all of those. I think that, you know, to see progress on all those fronts, that's definitely half full stuff.

MCKINNON: Well, but I think it's true. I mean I do. I am very confident we're going to make progress in Iraq. The economy is in good shape. We're rebuilding New Orleans. And oil prices are dropping. Those are facts.

M. O'BRIEN: All right, let's go to the next slate of numbers.

This, in some respects, might be more trust -- of more concern to you. The question was is Mr. Bush honest and trustworthy?

Forty-six percent say yes, 52 percent say no. You know, the back story on this is all the revelations about pre-war intelligence. Was it co-opted or cooked? Were the books cooked in order to build a case toward war? And I think people -- there's a credibility gap.

What do you do about that?

MCKINNON: Well, we set the record straight and the president began to do that on Friday. And I think that, again, the facts are behind us. The Senate Intelligence Committee has looked at all of that and they said unequivocally that the intelligence was not manipulated. That was a bipartisan panel. So it's just a matter of getting the story right. And we'll get it right and we'll get it corrected and those numbers will turn around. M. O'BRIEN: But they're still -- the Senate is still involved in further investigations on this front.

MCKINNON: Well, and we look forward to those investigations because we're quite certain that the president and the administration will, at the end of the day, it will be clear that that intelligence was not manipulated at all. In fact, it's the same intelligence that President Clinton and many other Democrats looked at and came to the same conclusion.

M. O'BRIEN: This one has got to bug you. The question is compared to Bill Clinton, do you trust Bush more, the same or less?

And look at that number...

MCKINNON: Well...

M. O'BRIEN: ... 48 percent say less.

Yes?

MCKINNON: Well, you can't compare apples to ex-presidents. And that's what we're doing. The fact is, people always like presidents more after they leave. And we're seeing that with President Clinton.

M. O'BRIEN: All right...

MCKINNON: As we've seen with every other president.

M. O'BRIEN: A final thought here, and this is, perhaps, the one that would upset a lot of Republicans the most as you look toward a midterm election coming up. Likely to vote for candidates if Bush campaigns for them? Are you likely to vote for candidates -- will you pick a candidate if President Bush is beside them? You know, Doug Forrester in New Jersey actually blamed President Bush for his loss just the other day.

And the response is less likely to vote if Mr. Bush is up on the stage with them.

What does that say about what lies ahead for the midterm elections?

MCKINNON: Well, the midterms are still a long way away. We've got a State of the Union ahead. We've got some -- a lot of things that I think we're going to be talking about and some progress and some new agenda items that'll be coming that I think that the Republicans will embrace and I think the public will embrace, as well.

One additional thing that's -- that people should remember, and that is that this president has more time left in his administration than President Kennedy's entire term plus four months. So there's lots of time left and lots more to come.

M. O'BRIEN: Republican strategist Mark McKinnon.

Thank you.

MCKINNON: You're welcome.

Thank you.

M. O'BRIEN: Soledad.

S. O'BRIEN: Ahead this morning, you ever tell your kid to use an inside voice? Well, one restaurant owner in Chicago did that. Some of his customers thought he was a hero. Others boycotted his restaurant.

He's going to talk about that just ahead on AMERICAN MORNING.

Stay with us.

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S. O'BRIEN: Here's a little note for parents out there. A popular parenting tool -- I don't know if you can call spanking a parenting tool. Anyway, it's coming under question. A new study says that if you spank your kid a lot, they might become aggressive or anxious.

M. O'BRIEN: Well, duh? I mean that, you know, that's kind of a duh moment, don't you think?

S. O'BRIEN: I think that is.

M. O'BRIEN: Yes, OK.

(VIDEO CLIP OF PARENT SPANKING CHILD)

S. O'BRIEN: Ow! Oooh! Oh goodness.

M. O'BRIEN: Ooh. I hate seeing that stuff.

S. O'BRIEN: Yes, me, too. That's terrible to watch.

M. O'BRIEN: Anyway...

S. O'BRIEN: Anyway, the survey did not ask, though, whether there were any advantages to spanking. Many child psychologists say the key is for parents to control their own anger and find other ways to chastise and talk.

M. O'BRIEN: Do you spank?

S. O'BRIEN: No. I'm not...

M. O'BRIEN: No. I don't spank.

S. O'BRIEN: I never -- I was spanked as a child. I hated being spanked.

M. O'BRIEN: Yes, me, too. S. O'BRIEN: And so I just can't. I, you know, how can you say don't hit your sister while you spank your kid? It just doesn't really work. If it worked, but it doesn't seem to work.

M. O'BRIEN: A little bit of hypocrisy there.

S. O'BRIEN: Let's talk about this story. Have you heard this? Another parenting tool -- use your inside voice.

Well, one restaurant owner put up a little sign, a harmless little sign, right there. It said: "Children have to behave and use your inside voices."

That was Dan McCauley.

He's the owner of Taste of Heaven.

M. O'BRIEN: Can we lose the banner? There we go.

S. O'BRIEN: There we go.

And...

M. O'BRIEN: You've got the idea.

S. O'BRIEN: ... well, talk about a tempest in a teapot.

M. O'BRIEN: Har-har.

S. O'BRIEN: Some of the people came out saying they completely supported him.

M. O'BRIEN: Cafe. Tempest in a teapot. I get it.

S. O'BRIEN: I know. That was my humor.

M. O'BRIEN: That was good.

S. O'BRIEN: It worked, didn't it?

M. O'BRIEN: That was good.

Yes.

S. O'BRIEN: Thank you.

M. O'BRIEN: There's the sign.

S. O'BRIEN: And it was a big hubbub over did he have the right to say this and do this? Some of his customers said that they weren't coming anymore. They felt offended and insulated.

Anyway, Dan McCauley is the owner of Taste of Heaven.

M. O'BRIEN: I'm really surprised at that. I mean I...

S. O'BRIEN: He is in Chicago this morning.

Dan, you know, we've been talking about this all morning, because I think it's fascinating. The note itself is cute. You have the little handprints up there and it says "behave," "inside voices."

What was the fallout?

What happened?

DAN MCCAULEY, OWNER, TASTE OF HEAVEN: Well, initially, when we -- we put the sign up because we had some disruptions in the restaurant and we had enough of them that other people started leaving the restaurant. So when I saw people walking in and walking out because the kids were kind of out of control, I thought I had to do something.

M. O'BRIEN: And so what -- give us a sense, like how bad were these kids? What were they doing?

MCCAULEY: Well, sometimes they'd be really out of control. Sometimes, you know, they'd be screaming, running around, kind of just playing. Also, they were -- it's a safety issue, too, where the kids were actually in the way of harm and the parents were just kind of ignoring them.

And, Soledad, I wanted to be very specific. If a mother is trying and the kid's out of control, we, you know, we're helpful. We want to help those kind of moms. But so often parents are completely neglecting the kids. And they are...

S. O'BRIEN: See, that's what I was going to ask you...

MCCAULEY: ... and they kind of pretend like they don't hear them.

S. O'BRIEN: Was your issue with the kids or the parents? Because you're right, you know, sometimes you see the kids running around and you're like hello, that's your child, pay attention.

So were you really sort of annoyed with people not monitoring their kids? Is that the real issue?

MCCAULEY: That's the real issue. And I hope today that you guys talk about some of the tools that parents can use, like, for instance, you just mentioned tools...

S. O'BRIEN: Boarding school.

MCCAULEY: ... my mother has a look -- well, no, but, Soledad, seriously.

S. O'BRIEN: Sorry. That was one of my tools.

MCCAULEY: Seriously, my mother had the look, which is this.

S. O'BRIEN: The evil eye. M. O'BRIEN: The evil eye.

MCCAULEY: And when my mother gave you the look...

M. O'BRIEN: You knew.

MCCAULEY: ... you knew...

M. O'BRIEN: You knew.

MCCAULEY: You just knew.

M. O'BRIEN: It was...

S. O'BRIEN: My mother...

MCCAULEY: And people say well, what...

S. O'BRIEN: ... had the evil eye, too, and she could shoot it from like 50 feet away and you would drop what you were doing.

MCCAULEY: Oh...

S. O'BRIEN: Why do you think we've lost the evil eye? Because the truth is, you had some people who were very unhappy.

In fact, let's play a little bit of one woman, who said she was insulated and offended by what you did.

Let's listen for a second.

MCCAULEY: Um-hmm.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

KIM CAVITT, MOTHER: If you don't want children, that's great. Put a sign that says "no children allowed." Not this benign thing where you are subjectively deciding what you consider to be positive behavior.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

S. O'BRIEN: Ooh, Kim Cavitt is an angry mother.

M. O'BRIEN: Ooh, she needs to work on her evil eye.

S. O'BRIEN: Wow!

M. O'BRIEN: Clearly.

S. O'BRIEN: But, you know, but in the -- in truth, I think a lot of moms sounded like they were a little bit offended by what you did.

Did you understand that?

MCCAULEY: I understand it, but it's very frustrating, because I love kids. As a matter of fact, we had a woman here yesterday, I think her name was Ruth. She had four little boys. Those were her youngest kids. And she had two more at home, two girls.

M. O'BRIEN: Wow! Wow!

MCCAULEY: So she is a mother of six...

M. O'BRIEN: She's beating Soledad.

MCCAULEY: She's only 32 years old.

M. O'BRIEN: Wow!

And were they well behaved?

MCCAULEY: No, but -- they were so well behaved. And, you know, again, you got that feeling of it takes a village, because when she was ready to leave, she said -- she handed me the baby and I was helping her to the car with the four boys. And that's the kind of mom you want to help. It's the moms who are kind of oblivious to the way their children are behaving and how they're interrupting the meal for other people in the restaurant.

M. O'BRIEN: All right, now, since all of this became a bit of, you know, the tempest in a teapot thing, brouhaha...

S. O'BRIEN: His business has tripled, right?

M. O'BRIEN: Business has tripled.

And let's take a look outside of the shop there at some of the letters that have come in. And these are not people that are joining the chorus of the upset mom. They just heard...

S. O'BRIEN: These are letters of support.

M. O'BRIEN: These are letters of support saying you know what? And it seems to me you can say non-smoking in a place, you can say no cell phones, you can say no shirt, no shoes, no service. Why not say, you know, make your kid behave? It seems reasonable.

S. O'BRIEN: I think it's completely reasonable.

So do you feel overall that people are on your side? I mean it looks like the letters certainly would indicate that.

MCCAULEY: Well, you know something? When I first heard about the boycott, I thought oh my gosh, this is going to be threatening. But I really believe in what I'm doing. I really believe it's a very acceptable thing to do, to expect, you know, to ask parents to supervise their children when they come to restaurants or when they're in a retail store.

So I really believe in this. So if I did lose my business because of the boycott, I could live with that.

M. O'BRIEN: Really?

MCCAULEY: I could not live with myself if I took the sign down.

M. O'BRIEN: All right, now, Dan, you're not a parent, right, so this is...

MCCAULEY: No, I'm not. But I do have many, many children in my life. I mean we have lots of nieces and nephews.

S. O'BRIEN: Hey, you don't need to be a parent to recognize an unruly, obnoxious kid...

M. O'BRIEN: This is true.

S. O'BRIEN: ... from 50 paces.

M. O'BRIEN: Right.

S. O'BRIEN: Dan, thanks for talking with us this morning.

You know, I completely support this, because the truth is, at the end of the day, nobody wants to be near a child who's having a meltdown. I take my kids out to restaurants all the time. You need them to be well behaved. And if they can't be well behaved, then don't take them.

M. O'BRIEN: Right.

S. O'BRIEN: Dan, thanks for talking with us.

He's the owner of A Taste of Heaven, where only well behaved children now go.

M. O'BRIEN: And give us your evil eye right now.

S. O'BRIEN: I don't have a good evil eye.

M. O'BRIEN: Let me see the eye.

S. O'BRIEN: I have an OK evil eye.

M. O'BRIEN: Here's mine.

S. O'BRIEN: The babies -- it doesn't work on babies. They're only 14 months old. They just spit up on you.

M. O'BRIEN: Is that evil? Are you feeling it? They say -- my kids laugh at me when I do that.

S. O'BRIEN: No, that's dorky.

And this morning, today is the day that seniors can sign up for Medicare's new drug benefit. It's quite confusing, though. We're going to talk to the secretary of Health and Human Services about all the paperwork just ahead on AMERICAN MORNING.

Stay with us.

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