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Madrid Terror Trial; Scooter Libby's Silence; Battle Over Anna Nicole Smith's Body

Aired February 15, 2007 - 14:00   ET

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DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, everyone.
I'm Don Lemon, live at the CNN world headquarters in Atlanta.

KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: And I'm Kyra Phillips.

So who gets the right to habeas this corpus? The legal battle rages over the remains of Anna Nicole Smith.

LEMON: Well, he sure crossed the line, but was it an intentional foul? A former NBA player opens his mouth and nets nothing but trouble.

PHILLIPS: He says it's his office, he'll smoke if he wants to. But his Capitol Hill neighbors are in a huff over his puffs. They say he's stinking up the joint. And where there's smoke, there's the CNN NEWSROOM.

It was a mass murder on mass transit and it shook the world. Almost three years after a deadly attack on Spanish commuter trains, 29 defendants went on trial.

CNN Madrid bureau chief Al Goodman joins us live.

Al, how did it go?

ALL GOODMAN, CNN MADRID BUREAU CHIEF: Hi, Kyra.

In the trial in the courtroom behind me, this was Europe's worst terrorist attack since 1988 when the Pan Am flight was bombed over Lockerbie, Scotland. Remember that the Madrid train bombings also came two and a half years to the day after the September 11th attacks in the United States.

Here's how the first day of the train bombing trial unfolded in this courthouse.

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GOODMAN (voice over): Unprecedented security at the courthouse, a huge police presence, even an armored vehicle, as vans brought in the defendants accused of mass murder in the Madrid train bombings three years ago that killed 191 people and wounded 1,800. Finally, the long-awaited trial began. Most of the 29 defendants behind bulletproof glass. The chief judge calling the room to order. Images transmitted and controlled by the court to let everyone see the trial. And soon the first defendant to testify, this Egyptian man charged with being a mastermind of the attacks.

"Are you innocent or guilty of the charges?" the judge asked.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): I know nothing of these accusations. And with due respect to the court, I will not answer any questions, not even from my lawyer.

GOODMAN: Then silence as he listened to dozens of questions, from the prosecutor asking about police wiretaps which show he boasted the Madrid bombings were his project, and from lawyers representing victims, asking if he had recruited and trained terrorists. But later in the day, he changed his mind and did respond to question from one of his defense attorneys.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): Have you had any relationship, however minimal, with the Madrid train bombings?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): I have never had any relationship with those events that happened in Madrid.

GOODMAN: But the trial was about more than just evidence. It was about emotions from victims like this woman, who lost her son on one of the trains bombed.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): We know this is not going to be easy. But we try to come here with dignity and be strong. Although there are so many sentiments.

GOODMAN: The trial is expected to last until the summer, a verdict perhaps by next autumn.

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GOODMAN: Kyra, the trial is riveting Spain. As we mentioned, it's been televised nationally, it's bringing back wrenching memories of those attacks three years ago. And Europe and beyond watching closely here to see if the charges now can be proven in court against these 29 defendants -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Al Goodman, we'll follow it with you. Thanks.

LEMON: "Wilder than the Wild West," President Bush's term for the Afghan-Pakistani frontier, a source of instability in both countries. Now, in a speech you may have seen live here on CNN, Mr. Bush says Afghanistan can be secured even though a resurgent Taliban is testing NATO's resolve. Well, he's asking for more than $11 billion in new aid and he's extended tours for 3,200 U.S. Troops.

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GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The Taliban and al Qaeda are planning to launch new attacks. Our strategy is not to be on the defense, but to go on the offense.

This spring there's going to be a new offensive in Afghanistan, and it's going to be a NATO offensive. And that's part of our strategy, relentless in our pressure. We will not give in.

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LEMON: Mr. Bush today also announced new initiatives to strengthen the Afghan economy.

CNN terror analyst Peter Bergen says Afghanistan's people are struggling, making them easy targets for Taliban sympathizers.

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PETER BERGEN, CNN TERRORISM ANALYST: You can get $100 a month working for the Taliban and maybe $70 working as an Afghan policeman. Now, this is one of the poorest countries in the world, people are absolutely desperately poor. They have large families, and so for a lot of people this is an economic choice.

I don't think Afghans are any less in favor of democracy than any other group. In fact, they voted -- 10 million of them fanned out to vote in a presidential election that elected President Karzai. It was a 70 percent turnout, which is much higher than turnouts in most elections in countries in the West.

So I don't think -- it's not that the people are opposed to democracy, it's that the Taliban is able to, particularly in the south, draw on certain resentments, pay a little bit more. And, you know, there is -- there is this question of safe haven in Pakistan. It's a, you know, kind of a complex answer to why they've come back.

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LEMON: There are currently 27,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, along with 23,000 NATO forces.

PHILLIPS: Silence may be golden, but will it work for Scooter Libby? Closing arguments are set for next Tuesday in the perjury trial of Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff. Testimony ended yesterday with neither Libby nor Cheney taking the stand.

CNN's Brian Todd reports Libby's silence did not go unnoticed.

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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): An angry Judge Reggie Walton warns Scooter Libby's attorneys not to play games, says he always expected Libby to testify and now that he isn't, the judge won't allow the defense to introduce some evidence it wanted, documents that might have shown how distracted Libby was with national security matters in the summer of 2003. It might have bolstered Libby's claim that he didn't remember what he told reporters about administration critic Joe Wilson and his wife's job at the CIA. JEFFREY JACOBOVITZ, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY: That decision really will impact upon whether Scooter Libby gets a jury instruction to the jury on faulty memory and what the jury considers.

TODD: Something the jury won't be able to consider any testimony from Libby's former boss who the defense elected not to call to the stand. Dick Cheney could have told the jury about Libby's huge workload that summer, all the crises he dealt with, but there was also considerable risks.

JACOBOVITZ: The evidence has showed is how essentially panic- stricken the White House was over this editorial by Joseph Wilson and if in fact Cheney was focused on it, then Libby was focused on it. And if Libby was focused on it, then Libby's faulty memory might not have been that faulty.

TODD: Bolstering the strategy of not calling Libby to the stand, the jurors already heard from him, hours of audiotape from Libby's grand jury testimony. And his attorney, Ted Wells, has made this crucial strategy call before.

Wells defended former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy on charges of accepting illegal gifts. Wells didn't put Espy on the stand either. Espy was found not guilty on 30 counts.

(on camera): But Ted Wells got another challenge in this case. He had wanted to call the prosecution's star witness, NBC News' Tim Russert, back to the stand, or play TV clips of Russert to try to punch holes in an obscure part of Russert's testimony, but the judge ruled it was too obscure, and Ted Wells never got another crack at Tim Russert.

Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.

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LEMON: There are several new developments today in the Anna Nicole Smith case. There's no resting in peace for Anna Nicole Smith as the battle over her body drags on.

Lawyers for Smith's mother, Vergie Arthur, her companion, Howard K. Stern, and her one-time boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, all fighting it out with a probate judge in the middle of all of it. And just moments ago -- Susan Candiotti is on the scene of that hearing. But just moments ago we also learned that the house in the Bahamas was searched.

You want to start with the court hearings and then talk about the search, Susan?

SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Sure, we'll talk about the court hearing first.

We just saw a little while ago Anna Nicole smith's mother, Vergie Arthur, who was here this morning. They broke for lunch. We saw her go back into the courthouse. So we expect those hearings to get under way in just a little while.

We can give you a live look at the courtroom. This is where the hearings have been taking place before a probate judge here in Broward County, Florida.

And while the war of words goes on as to who gets custody of Anna Nicole Smith's remains, there's also an ongoing debate over who's the father? Remember that Howard K. Stern says, I am, my name is on the birth certificate. But three other men have also weighed in.

That includes her ex-bodyguard. Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband says, I might be. And then you have -- who's the other one -- an ex- boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, and he is the one who filed a paternity suit in California.

He is the one who wanted a fresh DNA sample taken from her. And today, a judge here said, OK, that can be done. And apparently that sample may have been taken during the lunchtime recess.

Now, that boyfriend said that it was important for him to get that as part of his ongoing suit to prove that he is the father of Anna Nicole Smith's infant daughter who is now 5 months old and remains in the Bahamas. The Broward County medical examiner said, I have no objection to any of this as long as there is tight security.

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JUDGE LARRY SEIDLIN, BROWARD COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT: Doctor, if you're comfortable, you'll take that swab test -- the medical examiner. I'm ordering that.

JOSHUA PEPPER, BROWARD COUNTY MEDICAL EXAMINER: Your honor, I would like to have it done very promptly because that's not a complicated part.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Today.

PEPPER: It takes exactly 10 seconds.

As Anna Nicole is in our custody, that no one has access to describe the media how she looks (ph). So...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Absolutely not.

PEPPER: So, therefore, if you want to do the -- if your expert wants to do the examination of the (INAUDIBLE), we'll do it in a separate room outside the autopsy room without the viewing of the...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Absolutely.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CANDIOTTI: So there is also this matter as to who gets Anna Nicole Smith's body. Stern, her partner, says, I'm the executor and I deserve to be able to take her back to the Bahamas and bury her. That's what she wanted. On the other hand, you have her mother saying, no, I want to take her back to Texas. That's where she was born. That's where I deserve to bury her. But the attorney representing Howard Stern said to the mother, you have no right in this verbal attack.

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KRISTA BARTH, ATTORNEY FOR STERN: I have people that loved her, that stood by her, that were actually there that actually knew her. And the woman sitting across from me has not laid eyes on that young lady since 1995. She's never laid eyes on her granddaughter, and she sits here today to take her to Texas and put her in the ground all alone.

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CANDIOTTI: Now let's bring you up to date on what's happening in the Bahamas. Remember, that is where the baby is -- under court order, we might add -- and where Howard K. Stern, whose name is listed on the birth certificate as being the father, is also still believed to be.

We received word from The Associated Press that a number of police officers did arrive at the home where they are staying, evidently taking pictures, but there is no explanation as to precisely what they are doing there.

And finally, Don, we might add that is just one week ago last Thursday that Anna Nicole Smith died at the Hard rock Hotel and Casino here, and quite a lot, I think you'll agree, has happened since them.

LEMON: Yes. And, you know, it seems like much longer, Susan. I was just saying that, it's hard to believe it was a week with all the twists and turns in this case.

Thank you so much for that report.

We're certainly going to keep you updated on this, on who gets custody of Anna Nicole Smith's body. Lawyers involved in today's court fight speak out. Plus, the latest on the paternity test tonight on "LARRY KING LIVE" at 9:00 p.m. Eastern.

PHILLIPS: He no longer plays in the NBA but still manages to earn a personal foul. Ahead from the NEWSROOM, Tim Hardaway shoots from the lip and doesn't score any points.

LEMON: And there he is, working hard. Our Reynolds Wolf is tracking the snowfall and the melt. Let's hope that happens soon. But the temperatures of some airline passengers are way off the charts.

That's straight ahead in the NEWSROOM.

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(COMMERCIAL BREAK) PHILLIPS: A black eye for JetBlue. The discount airline is still trying to make amends to passengers who were stuck on planes, on snow-covered tarmacs, with little food or fresh air for as long as 11 hours yesterday at New York's JFK. JetBlue calls the delays unacceptable.

Here's how some other passengers put it.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They've left us out there all this time only because of greed, because they made a decision to let that flight leave from Florida and to keep all of these people on -- on the tarmac and not cancel those flights this morning. And it was purely greed. They knew what they were doing.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is our first Valentine's Day together being married. So a lot of red wine. There was a heart-shaped cookie. That was the big gift today. And just hoping we get home at some point in time.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was a disgrace. I've never experienced anything like that. I've been traveling for many, many years. And this was despicable.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I don't know if I'll fly JetBlue again. I'm not sure. We were first, and now we're pushed to the back of the line and everybody else is going to go out before us.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Based on my experience today, I will never fly JetBlue again.

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PHILLIPS: Well, JetBlue is offering him and everyone else stuck on a plane a refund and a free flight. Some people, though, are pushing for a passenger bill of rights. It's been proposed before but never gotten off of the ground. Spurred by an irate constituent, California Congressman Mike Thompson says he'll introduce the new measure next week.

LEMON: And this video sums up the trouble on the road. A jackknifed truck on an icy interstate, one of several accidents on I- 78 near Hamburg, Pennsylvania, that has stranded hundreds of drivers. Some have been stuck since yesterday afternoon.

National Guard troops are hand-delivering food, water and fuel, while road crews try to clear the backup that stretches 50 miles.

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They should have had the snowplows out earlier. And you know, this is -- this is all -- all a truck route out through here.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What are your biggest concerns?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Running out of gas.

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LEMON: Well, transportation crews say they hope to reopen this stretch of highway by late afternoon.

And it's still pretty chilly in upstate New York, but at least it stopped snowing. As much as three and a half feet fell yesterday. Man, they are getting hammered. That means no school again today, with everyone helping to dig out.

Our own Greg Hunter has a different perspective from Albany.

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GREG HUNTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The temperature in Albany today is going to top out around 15 degrees. Even though it's sunny and beautiful out and the roads are mostly clear, the next thing that road crews are worried about are cold temperatures, very dry snow, and wind gusts that could be up to 40 miles per hour, giving us 20-degree-below wind-chill.

Now, just to show you right now, the wind's picked up about 15, 20 miles an hour. And the wind is just blowing. And that's what they're worried about, snowdrifts happening in the next 15 to 20 hours and drifting things shut.

Back to you, guys.

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PHILLIPS: Well, as you know, when weather becomes the news, we ask for your I-Reports. And we do put them on the air. Just ask James Brierton, a high school student from Long Island, New York, who filed this I-report on the snowy situation in his neighborhood.

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JAMES BRIERTON, HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT: The first significant snowstorm for the New York City tristate area engulfed Long Island overnight, leaving what you see behind me. A coating of snow, sleet and ice is beginning to freeze on the roadways as temperatures begin to drop.

It's currently 29 degrees outside right now. And temperatures are expected to drop overnight.

That's going to make travel conditions very difficult. The Long Island Railroad has already suspended all trains on the (INAUDIBLE) branch due to a jackknifed tractor-trailer.

As well, Long Island is in a high wind watch and we're expecting gusts of up to 50 miles per hour which could cause a problem with electricity. We're expecting power outages throughout the tristate area because those power lines are already frozen from the ice and snow that has already fallen, as well as the tree branches that you can see behind me that have already begun to fall on to the roadways.

That's the latest from Long Island.

I'm James Brierton. I report for CNN.

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PHILLIPS: Reynolds Wolf, you better look out.

REYNOLDS WOLF, CNN METEOROLOGIST: I'm telling you. My...

PHILLIPS: He's only 16 years old, and he is totally taking your job.

WOLF: You have no idea. Wow. Sign him up. He's incredible.

Sixteen years old. Man, I've got 20 years on the guy and he's doing -- he's doing a great deal.

PHILLIPS: He needed to do a little more walk and talk, don't you think? We needed to see the tree branches behind him.

WOLF: But again, you've got to go back to the main thing -- 16 years old. I mean, we're going to hear from him. There's no question we're going to hear from him in the future. He's a good one.

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LEMON: Take a look at this. Do you see that, Kyra?

PHILLIPS: Live pictures from KABC. I would not want to be -- unless it's really hot, I really wouldn't want to be a firefighter right now.

LEMON: Yes. A car crashed into a fire hydrant. This is downtown Los Angeles.

You lived in L.A., so you -- probably this is your own stomping ground.

PHILLIPS: This is how I showered. I couldn't afford to pay my water bill when I lived there, for god sakes, it was so expensive. Yes.

LEMON: Oh my goodness. We certainly hope everyone is OK.

Do we know if there are any injuries in this? Do we know just yet?

Don't know just yet. But we'll keep checking in on this. Amazing pictures. We hope everyone is fine here.

All right. Let's move on.

You can do anything you want with that cigar. Just don't smoke it. Ahead in the NEWSROOM, a congressman's penchant for puffing ignites a flap on Capitol Hill.

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LEMON: All right, so the bashing begins. A week after former NBA player John Amaechi announced he's gay, retired Miami Heat guard Tim Hardaway weighed in with this one...

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TIM HARDAWAY, FMR. MIAMI HEAT STAR: Well, you know -- you know, I hate gay people. So, you know, I let it be known. I don't like gay people. I don't like to be around gay people.

I don't -- you know, I am -- I'm homophobic. I don't like it. There shouldn't be (INAUDIBLE) the world for that or in the United States for it. So, yes, I don't like it.

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LEMON: Well, of course it wasn't long before Hardaway's words came back to haunt him. Well, then came the apology of course.

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HARDAWAY: Yes, I do. I regret it and I'm sorry.

You know, I shouldn't have said anything like that. I shouldn't have said that, you know, I hate gay people or anything like that. It's just that I don't condone, you know, it being in the locker room. And that was my mistake, and, you know, that's it, that's all I have to say.

And I'm sorry. I didn't mean to have an uproar, and that was just my mistake and my bad and I'm sorry.

(END AUDIO CLIP)

LEMON: Well, earlier this week, I spoke with John Amaechi here in the CNN NEWSROOM.

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LEMON: Why did you come out? What's the reason?

JOHN AMAECHI, FMR. PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYER: I think it's something that's important. I recognize that whilst an average NBA player, there is something I can add to the debate.

I can create discourse. I can allow people to talk about issues that perhaps they otherwise wouldn't be forced to talk about, and not just in the scheme of 300 people within the NBA. And not even in the scheme of 1,000 or so people within professional sports, but the global issue of (INAUDIBLE) and diversity as a whole is something I think that needs to be opened up and re-examined.

LEMON: What do you make of -- how the players are reacting to this?

AMAECHI: I think may of the players have shown you that the NBA is not a league of Neanderthals. It's a league where there are some very well-considered, well-thought-out individuals, and they've made comments that have reflected that. But yes, there have been some disappointing comments.

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LEMON: And that was Monday here in the CNN NEWSROOM.

Now, Ameachi says Hardaway's remarks show homophobia is still an issue but, as he put it, "Finally, someone who is honest."

PHILLIPS: Say it ain't so, Ricky Bobby. Days before Daytona, a fuel-tampering scandal hits NASCAR. A tank full of trouble. But hey, if you haven't cheated in NASCAR, you ain't no NASCAR driver.

We'll have that straight ahead from the NEWSROOM.

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PHILLIPS: Hello again, everyone. I'm Kyra Phillips live in the CNN World Headquarters in Atlanta.

LEMON: And I'm Don Lemon. Living the high life or circling the dream? Britney's behavior has tongues waggling in Tinseltown and some are saying it's time for an intervention. You're live in the CNN NEWSROOM.

But first, that was then, this is now. The cry of the anti- smoking lobby reviving a campaign to give the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate tobacco. Today Senator Edward Kennedy and three colleagues reintroduced a bipartisan bill that supporters say stands a better chance than earlier attempts now that Democrats are in charge of Congress.

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SEN> EDWARD KENNEDY, (D) MASSACHUSETTS: Congress cannot in good conscience allow the federal agency most responsible for protecting the public health to remain powerless to deal with the enormous risk of tobacco, the most deadly of all consumer products.

And health experts believe this legislation is the most important action Congress could take to protect children from this deadly addiction.

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LEMON: Now, the measure would let the FDA restrict tobacco advertising, strengthen warning labels and eliminate or restrict tobacco additives.

PHILLIPS: Talk about clearing the air. A congressman who like to smoke cigars in his office got a visit this week from the cops. CNN's Tom Foreman reports on a Capitol Hill controversy that's running on fumes.

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TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Like many wildfires, it started with a spark, specifically an unexpected visit by a Capitol police officer to Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo of Colorado.

REP. TOM TANCREDO, (R) COLORADO: He said, "I just got a call to come up here and talk about you -- I got a call from somebody -- your next door neighbor, about the fact that you were smoking a cigar."

And I said, "What about it?"

He said, "Well, he's complaining about it."

And I said, "Well, that's tough."

FOREMAN: The complaint came from the office of freshman Democrat Keith Ellison of Minnesota. And the workers there denied our request to come visit. One of Ellison's aides, Rick Jowart (ph), told CNN he called the authorities because he found it, quote, "really bothersome to smell Tancredo's cigar through the wall."

Smoking is banned in public areas of the Capitol. The speaker's lobby, once a smoker's refuge, has been declared off-limits. And the new speaker, Nancy Pelosi, has even said the days of smoke-filled rooms in the United States Capitol are over -- well, not quite.

Individual offices can set their own rules.

TANCREDO: This is absolutely allowed. I can do this in my office when I want to.

FOREMAN: Tancredo has an air purifier running full time. And he's not sure how the smoke might be getting through the wall, but he expects he'll know if there's a problem in the future.

TANCREDO: We have a smoke detector. It's called our next-door neighbor.

FOREMAN: Tom Foreman, CNN, Washington.

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LEMON: Kennedy Space Center in sunny Florida.

No, you're not looking at a photograph of a space shuttle Atlantis, it is on the move, just really, really slow. The shuttle is crawling three and a half miles from hangar to launch pad for a mission set to begin a month from today. IT won't take a month there, just a leisurely six hours.

The Bahamas, Texas, Wounded Knee? When and where will Anna Nicole Smith finally be placed to rest? A Florida judge is forced to play Solomon to sort it all out. And update next from CNN NEWSROOM.

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LEMON: Well, Susan B. Anthony just didn't cut it. Now the latest effort to revive the dollar coin falls on the man known as the father of our country, just in time for president's day.

Susan Lisovicz in the New York Stock Exchange with all of the details on that.

Hi, Susan.

SUSAN LISOVICZ: Hi, Don.

It's a money makeover. The new dollar coins go into circulation today. It's the start of a series of presidential dollars. The U.S. Mint, hoping to spark the interest of collectors and consumers. After all, the Susan B. Anthony and Sacajawea dollar coins, well, they didn't fare too well. But the state series of quarters remains very popular.

The first dollar coin, fittingly, has a picture of George Washington on the front, the Statue of Liberty on the back. The mint will issue four presidential coins each year until 2016. By the way, only one president will be featured on two coins because he served two nonconsecutive terms. Don, Do you know who he is?

LEMON: Are you giving me a history lesson?

Two nonconsecutive terms...

LISOVICZ: All right. His last name is the name of a big city in Ohio. And his first city is the name of a really popular character on "Sesame Street".

LEMON: Grover Cleveland.

LISOVICZ: You are just amazing.

LEMON: Grover Cleveland, who's on the $1,000 bill.

LISOVICZ: Is that right?

LEMON: Yes, he is.

LISOVICZ: There you go. Well, I need to hang out with you more often. Especially when we have dinner.

LEMON: I was looking at the coins because I knew you were talking about them. But Grover Cleveland is on $1,000 bill.

LISOVICZ: Tony Harris seemed to know the answer, too. I didn't even need to give him any hints. Hmm, OK.

LEMON: All right, so tell me what's the buzz on that new coin? Do people really like it? LISOVICZ: Well, a recent survey done by the Associated Press found consumers are split on the idea of having both a dollar coin and dollar bill. One problem in the past has been the coin is kind of a lot like the quarter. This could be an issue with the new coin, as well. Both feature George Washington. The coins are about the same size. There are differences. The dollar coin is gold in color. It's heavier, a little heavier. It may feel a little different because the edge is inscribed with "In God We Trust." And for those folks who are awfully attached to the greenback, the U.S. Mint assures us the new coin will not replace the dollar bill, which is much lighter, folds easily and all of that.

Turning to Wall Street, more money being made here.

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LEMON: Meantime, too hard hitting for the NFL? Well, maybe.

The league refused to run a recruiting ad for the U.S. Border Patrol in this year's Super Bowl souvenir program.

CNN homeland security correspondent Jeanne Meserve has the play- by-play.

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JEANNE MESERVE, CNN HOMELAND SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voice over): The Department of Homeland Security scanned every truck making a delivery to Super Bowl XLI. Its K-9 team sniffed for bombs. Its helicopters helped police the skies.

But when one of its agencies, the Border Patrol, tried to place a recruiting ad in the official Super Bowl program, the National Football League said, no way.

"It was a little too hard-hitting for our fans," says an NFL spokesman. "We weren't comfortable with some of the language."

The ad copy says Border Patrol agents "... prevent the entry of terrorists and their weapons into the United States, detect and prevent the unlawful entry of documented aliens, and apprehend violators of our immigration laws..."

In 2005, the NFL held a regular-season game in Mexico City, part of an effort to cultivate an Hispanic audience. Some believe the Border Patrol ad was rejected because it could undercut that effort.

T.J. BONNER, NATIONAL BORDER PATROL COUNCIL: They're courting the Latino audience, but they're ignoring the fact that, for example, the Border Patrol is comprised 40 percent Latinos, American citizens. Most American citizens, regardless of their race, regardless of their ethnicity, support the Border Patrol and support secure borders

MESERVE: The Border Patrol ad has been accepted to run in programs for the NBA all-star game, the NCAA Final 4, and the professional bull riding magazine. Homeland Security says it's grateful to those organization for helping them recruit front-line personnel to help secure the nation's borders.

Reaction to rejection by the NFL? "We are disappointed," says a DHS spokesman.

(no camera): When it comes to issues like immigration, the NFL says, we don't take positions, we sit on the 50 yard line.

Jeanne Meserve, CNN, New York.

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PHILLIPS: So who took the bustle out of Baqouba? It should be one of the busiest places in Iraq. But if you lived there, you'd stay inside, too. CNN's Arwa Damon tells us why, coming up.

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PHILLIPS: Well, the Air Force sergeant who appeared in "Playboy Magazine" is not in the Air Force anymore. Imagine that. Michelle Manhart resigned after being removed from active duty, sent to the Air National Guard and demoted. The 30 year-old mother of two says the Air Force demoted her because she was pictured in her uniform in the spread. Now she wants to pursue a modeling and entertainment career.

She's eclipsed for the moment by Anna Nicole Smith, but Britney Spears will soon regain her custom place in the tabloids and gossip TV shows, leading some to wondering whether it might be time for and intervention.

Our entertainment correspondent Sibila Vargas takes a look.

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SIBILA VARGAS, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Even though Britney Spears says she's trying to get her act together, the newspapers are full of reports of more partying, more late nights and more explosive tabloid headlines as Brit gets off to yet another bad year.

CAROLINE SCHAEFER, "U.S. WEEKLY MAGAZINE": I think people are very hopeful that 2007 would bring, you know, a more composed Britney and sort of a more responsible mom. But it doesn't look like she's going in that way. You know, she hosted New Year's Eve at Pure Nightclub and, you know, there are reports that she collapsed. So she sort of started out on that note. And it's really just continued. She's been out almost every night. A lot of partying for somebody with two small children.

VARGAS: Two of New York's biggest newspapers are describing in excruciating detail Brit's drinking, dancing and make out sessions at several clubs.

"Britney's Wild Night" in the "New York Post", "Bomb Tweaking" in the "Daily News", behavior so regular, "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT" can tell you that it's become a joke. ADRIANNE FROST, COMEDIENNE & AUTHOR: Look, I'm a clubber. I club in New York City all the time. And I sit in my VIP section with my peeps. And Britney comes here and she's like, "Hey, y'all, how are you doing?" And her friends to pull up her pants and make sure that they cover up her whale tail. And my friends are there to make sure I don't muffin-top. So it's all good.

VARGAS: Newspaper reports and explosive, unconfirmed reports in tabloid magazines about her sex life while married to Kevin Federline, allegations coupled with picture like this, showing Brit's now infamous panty-less partying while out with fellow wild child Paris Hilton. That could really damage her image when it comes to the custody battle over he two kids with K-Fed.

SCHAEFER: He actually coming out looking a lot better, sort of more clean cut. And Britney right now is not looking like the most responsible mom.

HOWARD BRAGMAN, FIFTEEN MINUTES PUBLIC RELATIONS: I would say it's "Try something novel, stay home and watch your kids." Sometimes the solution to bad press is not more press but no press.

VARGAS: "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT" takes you back to one year ago, February 2006 when the bad press started. This picture of Britney behind the wheel of her black SUV with five month-old Sean Preston on her lap. No car seat, no seat belt, lots of outrage following.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The smallest fender bender and that child's neck snaps. And that's it. You don't take off in a car with a child in your lap...

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SCHAEFER: Whether she was driving with her infant on her lap or dropping him out of his highchair, there were a lot of things that happened that made her look like a questionable -- how good of a mom was she really.

VARGAS: From the driving disaster in February to this in May. Brit almost dropped Sean Preston outside of her New York hotel. Two incidents, a lot of bad press.

But things only got worse once a very pregnant and not so put together Britney sat down with Matt Lauer for "Dateline".

BRITNEY SPEARS, SINGER: You have babies at home and you have a life. And if you don't, you have to realize that we're people. And we just need privacy. And we need our respect. And those are things that you have to have as a human.

SCHAEFER: Well, Britney's publicist right before her interview with "Dateline" said, "You know what? Why don't you spit out your gum, why don't you wear this."

And Britney said, "No, I'm going to be myself."

You know, and so she did.

VARGAS: Two kids to care for, a image to revive and a music career to resuscitate, maybe being herself is not the best idea.

"SHOWBIZ TONIGHT" is asking if Britney needs an intervention.

FROST: I think Christina Aguilera needs to step in and, just, you know, "I want to help you."

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: J.C.

SPEARS: Britney.

FROST: I think the Mickey Mouse club needs to come together like Band Aid did -- maybe Bono could be there -- and have a concert for Britney, to save Britney.

VARGAS: "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT" found out the hard way that Britney's ex and former Mickey Mouseketeer Justin Timberlake isn't really interested in talking about Brit's image.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, SINGER: I'm not commenting on any of that.

F: That's all right. I understand that.

TIMBERLAKE: Thank you.

SCHAEFER: Britney ultimately is going to do whatever she wants. You know, she grew up in the limelight. She really never had that adolescence. She's having a delayed adolescence. So now she's really having that delayed adolescence, you know. And it's sort of unfortunate that she does have two small children.

SPEARS: Huh?

SCHAEFER: Yes, I do think a life coach or somebody to intervene, to tell her what to do. But I do think she has that already. I just don't think that she's following that advice.

SPEARS: What's that supposed to mean?

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LEMON: Now let's go to the other coast. There's Boston. You're looking at the Hasty Pudding Parade. They're getting ready to honor their woman of the year, who's going to actress Scarlet Johansson. The man of the year is Ben Stiller. There's going to be a separate parade for him tonight. But it's a 159-year tradition in Harvard, you know, the hasty pudding is when all the guys dress up like women every year and they do the same play. This a 159th original production. It's the "10th Commandments". But Scarlet Johansson is going to be honored in this parade. She's probably somewhere in there among the crowd. But this is taking place on the streets of Boston, courtesy of WCBB in Cambridge, I should say, where Harvard is.

Park the car in Harvard Yard, as they say. From civil war to civil rights, people still crave freedom. The fight doesn't come easy. A CNN special investigation looks back to the 1960s at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and how some were powerless to protect their own families. It's next, right here in the CNN NEWSROOM.

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LEMON: His words stirred a nation, changed history and touch the hearts of his readers and listeners still. Now we know which of those words will be engraved on the new memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Washington. The King Memorial Foundation had the herculean task of choosing. It took quotes from a variety of times and places, including Dr. King's Nobel Prize acceptance speech and 1963 "Letter From a Birmingham Jail".

"True peace," King wrote, "is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice."

Another quote to be etched in granite: "We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly."

PHILLIPS: And this weekend CNN takes an hour-long look at MLK's words that a nation. In 1963, Birmingham, Alabama was a hotbed of racial unrest. Violence erupted in the streets and eventually tore through the walls of a church.

CNN's Soledad O'Brien has that story.

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SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Six years before his Birmingham campaign, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote this sermon titled "Loving Your Enemies."

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: "Throw us in jail and we will still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children and we will still love you. We will wear you down by our capacity to suffer. We will win our freedom."

O'BRIEN: Sunday morning, September 15, 1963.

CAROLYN MCKINSTRY, 16TH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH: The phone was ringing in the church office. There was a male caller on the other end who said three minutes. And as quickly as he said that, he hung up.

O'BRIEN: At the 16th Street Baptist Church, youth volunteer Carolyn Mckinstry was preparing for service. I paused at the doorway, spoke to the girl that were there, Addie and Cynthia and Denise and Carol, and didn't linger there. I think they were just talking and primping, doing what girls do, combing hair. And Addie's about to tie Denise's sash. O'BRIEN: Seconds later, the unimaginable -- a bomb planted by the Ku Klux Klan exploded outside the bathroom window.

MCKINSTRY: It was just kind of chaos. Police immediately surrounded the building.

O'BRIEN: Birmingham had once again become Bombingham.

MCKINSTRY: This was the first point in which I really realized that my parents were powerless to protect me. You came to church, you had friends who by the afternoon were dead.

O'BRIEN: The lives of four little girls stopped at 10:22 a.m.

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PHILLIPS: And you can join Soledad this weekend in the CNN "SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT: MLK PAPERS, WORDS THAT CHANGED A NATION". It's a rare look into Dr. King's private library Saturday and Sunday at 8:00 p.m. Eastern only CNN.

The next hour of CNN's NEWSROOM starts right now.

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