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David Kay Steps Down; Following the Democratic Campaigns
Aired January 23, 2004 - 19:00 ET
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ANDERSON COOPER, HOST (voice-over): The Dean machine's media blitz: will the rush to reinvigorate his campaign pay off?
Outrageous, outspoken, the Reverend Al Sharpton. We'll talk to the candidate about why he came to Dean's defense.
A mother turned murderer: why are more and more women becoming suicide bombers?
Kobe Bryant back in court. Are sealed medical records really crucial to his case?
And do the Golden Globe Awards have a dirty little secret?
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ANNOUNCER: Live from the CNN Broadcast Center in New York, this is ANDERSON COOPER 360.
COOPER: Good evening. Thanks for joining us.
For Democratic John Kerry tonight, the news is good. His bounce in New Hampshire, even bigger. The latest CNN tracking poll shows a slight lead for John Kerry. We're going to have that story in a moment.
But first, we want to go to Jamie McIntyre, in Washington, for some dramatic information about David Kay and what he has now saying about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Jamie, what do you know?
JAMIE MCINTYRE, CNN SR. PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Well, Anderson, David Kay may not have found any banned weapons, but he did drop a bombshell today, saying that he doesn't believe that any chemical or biological weapons exist in Iraq. In an interview with the Reuters News Agency, by telephone, Kay said, "I don't think they existed."
He said what everyone was talking about was stockpiles produced after the end of the last Gulf War. And he said, "I think the best evidence is that they did not resume large-scale production, and that's what we're really talking about."
This can only be seen as a setback for the Bush administration, which cited the existence of weapons of mass destruction as the chief justification for going to war. Kay, of course, now stepping down as the chief inspector.
He's been replaced by the former U.N. weapons inspector Charles Duelfer, whose appointment was announced by the CIA. Duelfer conducted a conference call today with news reporters. He himself had expressed some doubts that any unconventional weapons would be found in Iraq.
Today, he said that those comments that he made before were as an academic and a scholar. He called them the "judgments and prognostications of an outsider." But he also said that "I've now been given the responsibility of being in charge of the investigation, and I don't know what the outcome will be" -- Anderson.
COOPER: It is an amazing development, Jamie McIntyre. Also, I understand we are just getting in some information into CNN about a new arrest, a possible al Qaeda member under arrest. What do you know?
MCINTYRE: Well, earlier today, we reported on the arrest of a suspected man with al Qaeda links who is part of the Ansar al-Islam organization. But apparently they got a bigger fish yesterday.
According to sources at the Pentagon, a man called Hassan Ghul, who is described as a key operator, a significant operator with al Qaeda, was arrested by friendly forces in Iraq and turned over to U.S. authorities. Apparently, he had just arrived, and the U.S. believes that he was there to look at possible missions that could be launched against the U.S. forces in Iraq. But again, they believe it was a key al Qaeda operative nabbed in Iraq yesterday by friendly forces.
COOPER: And Jamie, I know a lot of this information is just coming in now. Any sense of how long this man was inside Iraq? And where did he come from?
MCINTYRE: Well, it looks like he was only there for a short time. Again, this fits a pattern that we've been hearing from U.S. commanders over the past couple of days, where they've been talking about the infiltration of foreign fighters. And just this morning, the senior commander in -- on the ground in Iraq, General Sanchez, told CNN's Sheila MacVicar that he saw "the fingerprints of al Qaeda" on some of the attacks against U.S. forces. So the U.S. does believe that it is facing an attempt by al Qaeda to infiltrate Iraq and instigate attacks against the U.S.
COOPER: Do we know where this guy is now?
MCINTYRE: He's in U.S. custody, but we don't know exactly where he is in Iraq.
COOPER: All right. Jamie McIntyre, live at the Pentagon. A lot going on tonight. Thanks, Jamie.
For Democratic candidate, as we mentioned, John Kerry, the news is good. His bounce in New Hampshire even bigger. The latest CNN tracking poll shows Kerry now leading Howard Dean by 12 points, 34 percent to 22 percent. Wesley Clark is third, 17 percent. John Edwards, 12 percent.
Now, keep in mind, this poll, taken Tuesday through Thursday, is the first to reflect the full impact of the Iowa caucuses. We are, of course, just four days away from the primary, and our team of reporters is following the campaigns right now.
CNN's Jeanne Meserve with the Kerry camp. Senior political correspondent, Candy Crowley, with Dean. And CNN's Dan Lothian following both the Edwards and Clark campaigns.
Let's start right now in Kerry country.
Jeanne, how confident is the candidate this lead is for real?
JEANNE MESERVE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, with all the polls showing the same thing, I think he's confident, indeed. But to keep his lead growing, Kerry wants to meet as many New Hampshire voters as he possibly can. And there's only way to do that: campaign, campaign, and then campaign some more.
The message the senator started the day, greeting voters at a diner in Derry, though he ad to make his way through a swarm of reporters and cameras to do it -- and then he was joined at a rally for veterans by South Carolina senator, Fritz Hollings, who him endorsed him yesterday, and former Georgia senator, Max Cleland. Like Kerry, they are veterans.
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SEN. JOHN KERRY (D-MA), DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We have the money for tax cuts for people who earn more than $200,000 a year, but we don't have the money for our veterans. So ladies and gentlemen, this campaign is about making it clear not just to veterans, but to everybody in this country, that we're not going to take any lessons in patriotism from those who don't understand that the first definition of patriotism is keeping faith with those who wore the uniform of our country.
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MESERVE: The Kerry campaign says it has raised $800,000 on the Internet since the Iowa caucuses. And today, Kerry was endorsed by former vice president and Democratic presidential nominee, Walter Mondale.
But perhaps the clearest sign of Kerry's front-runner status, an attack today from the chairman of the Republican National Committee. Ed Gillespie called Kerry out of sync with most voters and more liberal than Ted Kennedy. The Kerry campaign responded that President Bush's record on taxes, health care and the economy shows that Bush is the one who is out of touch.
Anderson, back to you.
COOPER: Interesting. All right. Jeanne Meserve, thanks very much from New Hampshire tonight.
Now, Howard Dean kept busy on the campaign trail today with two town hall meetings, and he stepped into more criticism with some outspoken words.
The latest now from CNN's senior political correspondent, Candy Crowley.
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CANDY CROWLEY, CNN SR. POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Howard Dean, unplugged. It's hard to be normal when everything has changed. Now, even spontaneity is guarded.
HOWARD DEAN (D), DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: It's a tune called "Come Back Baby."
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, OK.
DEAN: I would have played "Cocaine Blues," but I figured that would cause these guys a lot of trouble.
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CROWLEY: Looking to halt the downward slide of his campaign, Dean walks the trail cautiously now, trying not to make new waves while calming the old ones. A sedate debate Thursday night was followed by a hand-holding, sweater-wearing, just normal folks interview with his wife, her first TV appearance of the campaign. And then, the requisite, "I can laugh at myself" late night appearance, with the top 10 ways to turn his campaign around.
DEAN: Oh, I don't know, maybe fewer crazy, red-faced rants?
From the feedback I've gotten this morning, I think we've turned the corner and we're going to come back up. And then the question is, can we close the gap between now and Tuesday?
CROWLEY: For Dean, who prides himself on passion and off-the- cuff talk, this re-tooling is an awkward fit. But this is politics; even apples can be dangerous.
DEAN: These are wonderful apples. I'd make a catty remark about them in Vermont. But since I'm running in the New Hampshire primary just four days away, I don't think I will.
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CROWLEY: Though his campaign is scrambling in the polls, they are consoling themselves with some fund-raising numbers. Since the close of the polls in Iowa Monday, the campaign has raked in almost $1 million on the Internet -- Anderson.
COOPER: Interesting. All right. Candy Crowley, thanks very much. Clark and Edwards are trailing the polls, but neither seem too worried about numbers right now. At least that's what they're saying publicly.
With the latest on both camps, here's CNN's Dan Lothian.
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DAN LOTHIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Still dogged by questions about his credentials as a Democrat, retired General Wesley Clark implied a Fox News Channel moderator at Thursday's debate was biased when he pressed Clark on the issue.
WESLEY CLARK (D), DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I looked at who asked the questions, and I think that that's part of a Republican Party agenda in the debate.
LOTHIAN: Earlier, a lighter moment on the trail in Nashua, new Hampshire, as the general, a bit off-key, joined kindergartners in a sing-along.
CLARK: God bless America, my home sweet home
LOTHIAN: Clark, who released a new TV ad, says he wants to maintain a positive message, as does John Edwards, who, while trailing Clark in the polls, says he has momentum in the Granite State. He reached out to voters at a belt factory in Concord.
SEN. JOHN EDWARDS (D-NC), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: And I believe that together, you and I are going to change this country.
LOTHIAN: Edwards says, compared to Clark, he best appeals to crucial southern voters.
EDWARDS: I've dealt with the day-to-day problems that southerners face.
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LOTHIAN: The Edwards campaign says since his impressive showing in Iowa, they've been able to raise more than $500,000. They said that at this point they've also seen an up-tick in their direct mailing that they've been sending out.
As for the Clark campaign, they said they continue to get some key endorsements. Today, they got the former attorney general of Florida, Bob Butterworth, and say they expect some more endorsements in the next couple of days -- Anderson.
COOPER: All right. Dan Lothian, thanks very much.
Now Reverend Al Sharpton not exactly a contender in New Hampshire, but I spoke to him earlier today about last night's debate and about a lot of other things. I started by asking him about the tone of last night's debate.
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AL SHARPTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I think that the tone didn't surprise me, because the only way it would have gotten combative is if Dean made it combative. And -- because there was no reason for Kerry to be combative; there certainly was no reason for Edwards to be combative. And by Dean having to respond to his own performance in the concession speech, he wanted to do the opposite of being combative. So I wasn't surprised at all.
The irony of this, when I started hearing Dean plead to Chairman McAuliffe and others, why don't you tell the guys to stop taking shots at me, he was the guy that usually was on the attack. In the early debates, Dean would come in almost like a pit bull. And then when he became front-runner and everybody started going after him, he started calling for mercy. It was always a strange irony to me.
COOPER: I want to ask you about what you said to him last night.
SHARPTON: I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don't be hard on yourself about hootin' and hollering. If I spent the money you did and only got 18 percent, I'd still be hollering in Iowa.
COOPER: It's interesting, because some people on my staff interpreted that as you kind of giving him a break, saying all right, it's no problem, let's move on. I saw it and I thought, you know what, you're smiling there, but you're also kind of twisting the knife a little bit.
SHARPTON: Well, I don't know. I didn't mean to do it as twisting the knife. I can see your point of view. But I did want to say, come on, let's move on, let's not talk about this all night.
DEAN: We will not give up in Arizona or New Mexico.
COOPER: I got to ask you, were you watching that speech Howard Dean gave in Iowa Monday night? And if so, what were you thinking?
SHARPTON: You know, I saw a repeat, and I honestly thought it was a spoof somebody was doing. It took like two or three re- broadcasts for me to honestly believe that that was Dean.
COOPER: Were you surprised at Dean's third-place finish?
SHARPTON: I was. I was.
COOPER: So you bought into the media hype yourself?
SHARPTON: I'm going to stop listening to you guys.
COOPER: OK.
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COOPER: We're going to have more from Reverend Al Sharpton later on in the program, find out how long he'll stay in the race and who he thinks might drop out next. I'm going to give you a little bit of a hint -- it's not him.
Right now we're following a number of developing stories "Cross Country." Let's take a look.
New York: Halliburton's new headache. Remember that no-bid contract in Iraq where a Pentagon audit found a Halliburton subsidiary overcharged taxpayers millions of dollars for fuel? Well the company now admits some officials may have taken kickbacks in a deal to supply U.S. troops. Halliburton says the officials in question have been fired and that $6.3 million in possible overcharges have been refunded.
Eagle, Colorado: medical records mixed up. The lawyers for Kobe Bryant say they were given medical records about the alleged victim that they probably weren't supposed to get. The judge in the case hasn't decided if he'll allow the information to be used in court. We're going to go live to Eagle County later in the program for an update.
Miami, Florida: no deal for rush Limbaugh, at least not yet. Letters indicate his attorney suggested a plea deal last year to resolve allegations Limbaugh went doctor shopping for prescription painkillers. The prosecutor rejected it, but offered three years probation if Limbaugh would plead guilty to one count.
His lawyers said no thanks. Limbaugh has not been formally charged with anything, but some prosecutors now say they have enough evidence to support 10 felony counts.
Montpelier, Vermont: Captain Kangaroo passes away. Bob Keeshan, the rumpled, easy-going television actor who played Captain Kangaroo for over 40 years, died today after a long illness. He was 76 years old.
Millions of American kids grew up watching his gentle character on morning TV, surrounded by sidekicks, bunny rabbit, Mr. Moose and Mr. Green Jeans. We'll have more on the captain later on tonight.
And that's a look at stories "Cross Country" for you right now.
A string of attacks on Israelis carried out by women. We're going to have a report on female suicide bombers coming up. What makes them do it?
And is the Mars rover roving again? We'll take a look at what we know from NASA.
And are the Golden Globes hiding a dirty little secret? We'll go behind the scenes with a documentary filmmaker who says the awards aren't what they're quite made out to be.
First, let's take a look "Inside the Box" at the top stories on tonight's network newscasts.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK) COOPER: Well, signs of life on Mars again today. The Mars Spirit rover began sending signals back to Earth after two pretty worrying days in the dark. And just in the last hour, NASA scientists received a huge chunk of data, suggesting its power supply is still intact.
Good news. All these complications as controllers try to focus on another Martian landing. That's for tomorrow.
Space correspondent, Miles O'Brien, has the latest.
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MILES O'BRIEN, CNN SPACE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's not over for the rover, but it's no longer a pretty picture either.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We do not know to what extent we can restore functionality to the system, because we don't know what's broke.
O'BRIEN: This from the man in charge of Spirit's ground team after a frustrating pair of days on Mars. The trouble began on Wednesday morning Mars time, when the team radioed commands for Spirit to get to work. It sent back a little more than gobbledygook.
As it turns out, Spirit was in the midst of a mysterious software crisis, rebooting and crashing no less than 60 times on Wednesday. The good news, Spirit is still communicating.
JAMES GARVIN, MARS SCIENTIST: Our spacecraft decided to turn itself on as the odyssey was going over. And instead of dumping a few hundred bits, it dumped 76 or 80 megabits of data. Most of it was garbage, but some of it was really important.
O'BRIEN: Perhaps the best news is Spirit is stable, and the team can safely focus on Opportunity, Spirit's twin, headed for a Saturday night impact on the other side of Mars.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A choice was made at NASA to fly two Mars exploration rovers to Mars not just for science, but to be able to handle what Mars could throw at us.
O'BRIEN (on camera): The Opportunity rover is headed for a plane that is 1,000 feet higher than Spirit's crater. Since its breaking rockets fired only 28 feet above the surface, the team here has decided to open Opportunity's parachute a little sooner. Not a lot of margin for error in this business.
Miles O'Brien, CNN, Pasadena, California.
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COOPER: Well, we're tracking a number of developing stories around the globe right now. Let's check the "UpLink."
Mosul, Iraq: another deadly chopper crash. Two U.S. pilots died when their Kayawa (ph) warrior helicopter crashed in northern Iraq. The cause of the crash not yet known. This is the sixth fatal chopper crash in Iraq since the beginning of November.
The U.N. is taking a small step back into Iraq. A two-person security advance team has arrived there. A larger group could follow to study the possibility of holding direct elections before June 30. That's when the U.S is set to hand over authority to the Iraqi Governing Council.
Bangkok, Thailand: another bird flu death. A Thai man is believed to be the latest fatality in the outbreak. Thai officials had been denying the illness even existed there. Well, now health ministry officials say two young boys have been hospitalized, probably with bird flu. The EU today banned all imports of poultry from Thailand.
London: paying the lawyers. A high court in the U.K. ruled that "Hello" Magazine will have to pick up at least part of the legal fees incurred by these two, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas. The couple sued for unauthorized publication of their wedding pictures. They were awarded about $27,000 in damages, a pretty small sum compared to the millions in legal bills they're said to have racked up during the lawsuit.
And that's a look at the "UpLink" tonight.
Well, a troubling new tactic is being used by Palestinian militants. We're going to have part two of our report on suicide bombings being carried out by women.
Plus, heading into New Hampshire primary. We'll talk with Al Sharpton about his competition and his campaign. How long will he run?
First, take a look at "The Buzz." Will Howard Dean's PR offensive help or hurt his campaign? What do you think? Vote now, cnn.com/360. We'll have results at the end of the program.
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COOPER: That is a glimpse of the chilling suicide video Rym Riashi (ph), of a 22-year-old woman who left behind her two young children to blow herself up at a checkpoint in Gaza. She took four Israeli lives with her own.
Last night, Matthew Chance gave us a glimpse at this relatively new phenomenon, the female suicide bomber. Tonight, in part two of his report, he shows us that the reason women are taking their lives may have less to do with political martyrdom and more to do with their desperately unhappy lives.
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MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): What could drive a mother to abandon her two children and to kill? Ryn Riashi (ph) was just 22. She killed four Israelis and herself at a Gaza checkpoint. A mother shattering another taboo in this conflict. She told the soldiers here she needed help before exploding. Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that sent her, says tactics have changed. More mothers and sisters and daughters are on their way.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): Jihad is an obligation on the women just like prayer. It's an obligation. In the past, we feel that women should be spared until the time of need arose. When the brothers in the military wing saw the need to operate in such a way as this, they did just that.
HALA SARAJ, PSYCHOLOGIST: This woman and thousands of our women are looking to the day that they can sacrifice for the sake of children, women (UNINTELLIGIBLE) who kill daily for the sake of Jerusalem and al-Aqsa.
CHANCE: To gauge the strength of feeling, we came to Gaza on the first day of school after the holidays. The teenage girls of Amid Shauti High (ph) assemble to salute the Palestinian flag. In the English class afterwards, talk is of political struggle and the role they'll play in years to come. The lawyers and doctors and suicide bombers of the future could be among them.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We don't think that the world are looking for us. And we believe one day we will die. If I have to die, I will make them die with me. Just disappointed.
This is a way of our study. We don't have another way.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is the only way to get our freedom.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I don't agree what this woman did for days. Because she had two small children. How can she leave them alone?
CHANCE: It's a question many Palestinians are struggling to answer. The whole issue of using women as bombers is new for them as well, and not everyone here supports it. Officials, like Um Jihad (ph), with long-standing links to the armed Palestinian struggle refuse to endorse it.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): In the past, the women's role in military activities was limited. We mostly took part in supporting jobs such as communication, and helping the wounded and their families. I did feel sorry for this woman who sacrificed herself. She should have lived and taken care of her children. This kind of mission will not help the Palestinian people.
CHANCE: Some opposed to violence say the use of women could be a watershed.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Families have come out openly and said, we don't want our daughters or our children to be part of this. Not only do we not want to pay the price, as some Israelis say is our motivation, but we don't want to lose our children.
CHANCE Still, many Palestinians embrace their new martyrs. At a funeral in Gaza, the belief among the gunmen is that Rym Riashi (ph) has earned a privileged place, both in heaven and on the Palestinian streets.
(on camera): Across Gaza, images of suicide bombers, gunmen, even innocent civilians killed in the conflict, stare out at passersby from virtually every street corner. There is an undeniable cult of martyrdom here that makes popular heroes of the dead. Little wonder then, women, as well as men, are willing to kill and be killed just like them.
Matthew Chance, CNN, Gaza.
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COOPER (voice-over): We talked with the reverend Al Sharpton about new polls, New Hampshire and how long he'll stay in the race.
And do the Golden Globe Awards have a dirty little secret?
360 continues.
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COOPER: Here's what's happening in the next 30 minutes on 360. It has happened again another Columbus, Ohio, highway shooting. The 20th case. We're going to get the latest on the investigation.
Also tonight, I talk with Democratic presidential candidate, Reverend Al Sharpton. Who does he think will drop out of the race next? Again, I'm going to give you that hint. It is not him.
And this Sunday's Golden Globes, the stars turn out. But is there a dirty secret behind the hoopla? All that ahead.
Right now let's check our top stories in "The Reset."
Here's what's going on, Buckeye, Arizona, still a standoff. Two corrections officers are still being held by two prisoners in a guard tower at a nearby state prison. That's the guard tower right there. Both guards, a man and woman, appear unharmed. A spokesman describes the negotiations as tense but positive.
Washington, supreme conflict? Two U.S. Senators have written Chief Justice William Rehnquist, raising concerns about the impartiality of Justice Antonin Scalia in an upcoming case. Scalia is a close friend of the vice president and the court is soon to hear a case regarding Cheney and the energy records from his office. Cheney wants to keep them secret. Scalia says there's no reason to question his ability to be fair.
Brunswick, Georgia, cult leader convicted. 58-year-old Malachi York, the leader of a quasireligious sect called the New Wabians (ph). Well, he was convicted on ten counts of child molestation and racketeering. 14 boys and girls testified that York molested them over a four-year period. He faces up to 80 years in prison. Los Angeles, famed photographer remembered. CNN has just learned that Helmut Newton was killed today in a car accident. The 83-year- old lost control of his Cadillac, hit a wall, apparently. The fashion photographer is well known for taking black and white photos of nude models, a lot of famous people. His work has appeared in "Elle" and "Vogue" magazines among hundreds of others.
That's a look at tonight's "Reset."
Back to the political battle going on right now in New Hampshire. The latest CNN poll shows John Kerry leading Howard Dean by 12 points, Al Sharpton trailing. I spoke to him today about the fight he's in and asked him how long he'll stay in.
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AL SHARPTON, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Well first of all, we're confident that we're going to be picking up delegates every state. The polls have always underestimated candidates like me. For example, in the primary we just had in Washington, D.C., they said that Dean would beat me four to one. He had to etch out an 8 percent victory and I beat him 3 to 1 in the black ward.
COOPER: If the point is for the Democrats to get rid of George Bush out of the White House, isn't it sort of bad for the party for you to just stay in the race? The debates are not particularly effective.
SHARPTON: No, not at all. In fact, the only way the party is going rid of George Bush is the party must expand. For example how, did we get Bush in the first place? Because I think that we did not maximize turnout. We did not protect our vote in Florida.
Bush didn't come out of outer space. Bush came out of, in my judgment, mistakes the Democratic party made, party mistakes I want to correct. We had the White House for eight years. There's no reason we should have lost it. I think we must be real about that.
Secondly, there are people that will vote for me that would not necessarily vote for other candidates. If I pull out, it's not going to energize those voters to come out. It's going to energize maybe other voters. It will not energize the base that we need. And we're going to need all voters to beat Bush. You can't beat him if all you come back to the table with is what he beat you with last time.
COOPER: People calling the sort of the kinder gentler debate last night. The kindler gentler Democrats right now, everyone sort of dealing with kid gloves, how long can that last?
SHARPTON: I'm sure we'll have some kind of give and take before it's over, maybe as early as South Carolina this week, because a lot of us disagree. I disagree with John Edwards on the PATRIOT act. I think the PATRIOT Act is a terrible thing for civil liberties. I'm sure we'll talk about the war. The war costs jobs in South Carolina and Missouri and Delaware. I disagree with Dean on the appointment of judges. One of the things that we never got to is the appointment of conservative judges in Vermont. And what kind of judges would you appoint to the Supreme Court? So, I'm sure there will be some give and take before it over. I think last night, people were trying to get over Iowa, get over the holler screaming thing and make whatever points they had to make before New Hampshire.
COOPER: Let's talk about South Carolina. It's the Tuesday after New Hampshire, you spend a fair amount of time down there. How important for you personally, is it to do well out there. I ask the question, because a large African-American population. A lot of them come out to vote. Jesse Jackson won there in 1984 and 1988, he won as well. How important is it?
SHARPTON: It's an important state for all of us. I think that it's the first primary there. It's a difference in the primary and caucuses that Reverend Jackson ran. It's not a caucus, it's a primary and Reverend Jackson was from South Carolina. I lived there, but I was not born and raised there.
It's important for Clark. It's important for Edwards, because they are southern candidates. So it's important for a lot of us. But it's important for me because it clearly represents more of the demographics are of the Democratic party and I think we all will have to sell ourselves to more of what the party looks like. That's why I wish all of them had been in Washington, because that looked more like the party and more like America than Iowa or New Hampshire does.
COOPER: Who do you think is going to drop out next?
SHARPTON: I have no idea. I mean, I think Lieberman's got to show something in New Hampshire. And I think that he's probably the one I would watch more than anything Tuesday night.
COOPER: All right. Reverend Al Sharpton, thank you very much?
SHARPTON: All right, thank you.
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COOPER: Well, late word today of another shooting on a freeway outside of Columbus, Ohio. And the police think this is the work of a serial sniper.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The task force today is announcing that the incident on I-71 on Lambert Road, approximately 7 1/2 miles south of I-270 that occurred on January 22 around 12:45 a.m. is being linked to the 19 shooting cases already linked in this investigation.
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COOPER: This is the 20th shooting that occurred since last May in this area. One person, you'll remember, was killed last November. Investigators still puzzled, though, as to whom is the shooter as Angela Ahn of our affiliate WBNS reports.
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ANGELA AHN, WBNS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A simple drive home turned into a near brush with death for Michael Thomas.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It really shook me up.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Did it hit you at all?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, it didn't hit me, but the evidence is on my car.
AHN: On the hood of his car, a dent the size of an orange where the bullet hit and ricocheted into the windshield.
Did you think highway shooter?
CHERYL THOMAS, VICTIM'S WIFE: Well, he saw a car and a figure of a person, but that's all he saw. And then he heard the thud hit the car, and that's what he thought, I've been shot. My car's been shot and he just took off.
AHN: Thomas' wife, Cheryl, says she never thought the highway shooter would hit so close to home.
C. THOMAS: He almost didn't go to work today, knowing that he has to come home the same exact way.
AHN: Task force investigators canvassed the overpass near Route 665 where Thomas says he saw someone standing next to a car.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I just passed the sign for the Orient exit, and the guy, I saw him, and there was a car parked on the overpass.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Is it still there?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, he -- as soon as he shot, he got in his car and left.
AHN: Investigators found shell casings and took Thomas' car for evidence.
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COOPER: Strange case there.
A murder spree in New York also this week is now being blamed on a convicted rapist recently released from prison. Within a span of 13 hours, Andre Shobey (ph) is accused of killing a 19-year-old man who was baby-sitting an autistic 4-year-old girl. Police say he also robbed and sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl. Shortly after that alleged attack, he was arrested with a loaded gun and a knife.
Now Shobey (ph) was released from prison last August. He had served the maximum time on his original sentence. And this crime as renewed questions about how effective treatment of violent sexual predators really is and what, if anything, the law can do to deal with them. Jason Carroll has more.
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JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In 1999, Stephen Simmons was convicted of sexually molesting a teenage boy whom he had met on the Internet, then 14-year-old Samuel Manzie. Simmons said his contact with Manzie lasted about a year. Once it ended, Manzie found a victim.
A jury convicted the teenager for sexually assaulting and murdering Eddie Werner (ph), an 11-year-old boy, who came to Manzie's door selling candy. Many involved in the case blamed Simmons. He now says he bears some responsibility.
STEPHEN SIMMONS, CONVICTED CHILD MOLESTER: Whatever the law is, as long as you put that child in a position where they can be hurt, you're hurting that child and you are wrong.
CARROLL: Before his arrest in the Manzie case, Simmons had two prior convictions involving sexual activities with minors, but he says he received little treatment during or after his previous incarceration. A recent study shows 17 percent of sex offenders were not treated after being released were rearrested for sex crimes. Counselors like Will Ford have had the most success with low level offenders. But he says the most serious cases don't respond to therapy or medication.
WILL FORD, COUNSELOR: I believe that there are some people who just won't make it on the street. Some folks who cannot control their behavior. And in those situations if you can't keep them incarcerated, you have to look at another avenue of managing these individuals.
CARROLL: Lawmakers in more than a dozen states have found a another avenue. It's called civil commitment. It allows courts to keep offenders like Simmons who has already served his maximum sentence, in treatment centers, like this one. Simmons says it's an extended prison sentence.
SIMMONS: Because you just can't take a person and throw their life away.
CARROLL: Simmons has been here for two years and will stay undergoing treatment, until a court determines he's well enough to be let out. Some legal experts say tougher sentencing is the answer. Not civil commitment.
LARRY FITCH, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: What states should really do is recognize that these are criminals and not patients and change the sentencing laws.
CARROLL: Simmons says the treatment he's received since being civilly committed has made him well enough to be released, but he wouldn't say cured. SIMMONS: I'd be lying if I sat and said I'm no threat, I'll never be a threat again there's no chance of it ever happening, because there's always, even if it's that little chance.
CARROLL: It's a chance many are not willing to take. Jason Carroll, CNN, Carney, New Jersey.
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COOPER: We are hearing Kobe Bryant has just left the courtroom out in Eagle, Colorado. It's certainly been quite a day in court. Some of the accusers' medical records have wrongly found their way into the case. We're going to take a look at what that means coming up.
Plus, those Golden Globes awards are coming up this weekend. We're going to talk to a filmmaker who may change the way you look at them.
Saying good-bye to a legend of children's television. We'll be right back.
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In Eagle, Colorado today, a surprising revelation at a pretrial hearing for Kobe Bryant. His attorneys say a hospital sent the defense team some of the accuser's medical records, records that have nothing to do with her rape allegations. Gary Tuchman is covering the case right now. We go to him live. Gary, what's the latest?
GARY TUCHMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Anderson, hello. Kobe Bryant left the building about 30 minutes ago. The court day is over. No major decisions made, but lots of interesting information. Bryant, his attorneys and prosecutors met for much of the afternoon in camera, that's a latin phrase meaning in chambers without the news media, without the public.
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TUCHMAN (voice-over): The discussion underway, was should the accuser's personal medical and psychological records, which reportedly have two suicide attempts in them be left confidential or be allowed to be used in a trial? What was disclosed in court today, the defense already has some of the records. The hospital where this woman went for her rape exam, accidentally sent records from a month earlier when she went there for an emergency room visit.
The hospital was supposed to send the rape records to the prosecution. They instead sent the other records. The prosecution also mistakenly sent the personal records to the defense and that's how the defense ended up with the records. The judge said defense, you must destroy the records and try to forget you ever had them. Obviously, it was a big mistake. CRAIG SILVERMAN, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: The defense has had that two-page report for months, and now the judge says destroy those records. Well, if he wanted to be thorough, the judge would order the defense attorneys to undergo a partial lobotomy because they know what that report says and they'll always know it and it will be to team Kobe's advantage.
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TUCHMAN: The defense wants a jury to hear about this woman's erratic medical and psychological history. To demonstrate their theory that she seeks attention and has a motive to lie. The judge hasn't made a decision about the medical records. Anderson, back to you.
COOPER: Gary Tuchman, thanks very much.
Time to check on some pop news in tonight's "Current. Let's check on pop news in the world of the ridiculous. The Clonaid people are at it again. You remember them, white outfits, they claim they clone kids. Now the costumed cloners say, eureka, they've done it again. They claim a cloned baby is due any day in Australia. We would have called the Clonaid people for an interview, but we've been in meetings all day with leprechauns and the Loch Ness monster.
Speaking of outrageous claims, Paris Hilton says she's written a book or at least wants to slap her name on one. Hilton wants a million dollars for her memoirs, which she intends to call "Tongue in Chic, Confessions of an Heiress." Publishers will no doubt be interested because Paris Hilton's tongue is about the only part we haven't already seen too much of.
A British hiking magazine is apologizing for mistakenly publishing a route plan that would send hikers right off a cliff on Britain's largest mountain. "Trail" magazine's editors say two crucial bearings were accidentally deleted during editing. So far, however, they haven't gotten complaints from people who've actually followed the directions.
Ben and Jerry's has created a new election themed ice cream flavor. Primary Berry Graham. The inaugural pint will be sold in the spring. Now it's only a matter of time before each candidate gets their own flavor. My favorite, Kerry Garcia and Howard's Super Nutty Iowa Meltdown. Democracy.
You've got to love movies that have an exclamation point in the title. "Win a date with Tad Hamilton" opens today. We'll look at that and other options coming up in "The Weekender."
Plus, a look at what made Bob Keeshan the captain.
We'll be right back.
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COOPER: Wondering what to do this weekend? A couple of new choices if you're heading to the movies or staying home watching TV, provided you're a fan of the cast of "That '70s Show." Here's tonight's edition of "The Weekender."
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COOPER (voice-over): In movies, Ashton Kutcher stars in "The Butterfly Effect."
ASHTON KUTCHER, ACTOR: Just writing about it gives me the shivers.
COOPER: Kutcher can travel back in time, but when he tries to improve his present by altering the past, well, let's just say it's like "Punk'd," only painful.
Topher Grace, also from "That '70s Show" co-stars in "Win a Date With Tad Hamilton." You know the drill, boy secretly loves girl; girl meets actor; boy and actor vie for girl.
TOPHER GRACE, ACTOR: So do you work out?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No.
COOPER: Who gets the girl? Well, you figure it out.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I wonder who is here.
COOPER: New on DVD, a two-disk set of 1951's "Alice in Wonderland." Extras include a newly discovered Cheshire Cat song called "I'm Odd." Apparently, the Disney people finally settled the rights issue with the Cheshire Cat's lawyers after he embarked on his solo singing contrary.
Also on DVD, a two-disk set of "Capturing the Friedmans." Talk about going through the looking glass.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We lived with her for two months while you were in jail.
COOPER: The documentary tells the story of a family's unraveling, complete with meticulously recorded home movies.
And on TV this weekend, awards season finally gets under way. Plenty of pomp and pomposity on display Sunday when the Golden Globes air at 8:00 Eastern time.
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COOPER: Well, a documentary is also airing on Sunday on Trio called "The Golden Globes: Hollywood's Dirty Little Secret." We didn't want to wait to find out what the dirty little secret is, so here to reveal it all is documentary filmmaker Vikram Jayanti. He joins us now from Park City, Utah. Vikram, good to see you. Let's get right to it. What's the dirty little secret?
VIKRAM JAYANTI, DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER: Well, the dirty little secret is something that everyone in Hollywood knows. It's actually an open secret, but the rest of the world doesn't really know, that the Golden Globes is put on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which sounds like it's the press and that it's foreign. And probably that it's a big group, like the Academy Awards are. But, in fact, there are only 96 members.
COOPER: And who makes up the Hollywood Foreign Press? I mean, are they legitimate media?
JAYANTI: Most of them are like stringers for obscure journals around the world. Very few of them actually make a full-time living as journalists, and certainly in the journalist community, they're not taken seriously at all.
COOPER: So what do they get out of it? I mean, I understand in your documentary, they're sort of plied with gifts at times from, you know, big studios.
JAYANTI: Historically, they've always had lots of gifts. In fact, a few years ago, Sharon Stone sent all the members very expensive Coach watches. There was some film of hers that was up for a nomination. And they were forced to return them when the scandal hit the news. So they make out with studio gifts. They all get a photo op, one by one, with the stars. Some of those pictures show up on Ebay.
COOPER: It's interesting, because they're working for sort of obscure newspapers, you know, in Estonia, I guess, and the like, or Germany or France, and yet they get an awful lot of attention from celebrities. I want to play a little bit of a clip from your film of some -- what some celebrities have said about the Golden Globe Awards. Let's play that.
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ROBIN WILLIAMS, ACTOR: It's kind of like foreplay for the Oscars.
MICHAEL CAINE, ACTOR: Drinking and job searching tonight. That's what we're doing.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's just basically who kisses butt best.
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COOPER: You actually have somebody who got a Golden Globe speaking in silhouette. Why are they afraid to speak on camera, saying, sort of poking fun at the Golden Globes?
JAYANTI: Well, that's the whole thing about the Globes. She was a nominee and she didn't win, but she -- everyone is scared that they may get cut out of the Golden Globe process. Even though she's an A- list star, she is probably invulnerable to getting black-listed by them. Everyone is scared of pissing them off. Everyone in Hollywood has an investment in pretending that the emperor has actually got clothes on. And everyone knows the emperor doesn't. COOPER: I want to play a clip from what John Powers, a film critical from "L.A. Weekly," said about the Golden Globes. Let's play that and then quickly talk about it.
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JOHN POWERS, FILM CRITIC: Even though the Golden Globes people are by and large idiots, they often make better choices than the Oscars.
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COOPER: So if he's right and that's true, what's so bad about the Golden Globes?
JAYANTI: Well, there's nothing bad about it per se, except in the cosmic terms, the great cosmic injustice, the metaphysical injustice that we all take this very, very seriously, and 250 million people around the world watch it. And in fact, it's being put on by a group who are a secretive group that aren't really journalists, aren't really reporters, and have an incredible amount of power.
COOPER: Vikram, it's good to talk to you. I enjoy your work. And it's going to be on Trio on Sunday, and we'll watch it. Thanks very much, Vikram.
JAYANTI: Thanks a lot.
COOPER: All right. Well, to kids spanning generations he was The Captain. We're going to have a closer look at "Captain Kangaroo" host Bob Keeshan when we come back.
Plus, all of next week, from betting on a game to rolling the dice in Vegas, we are a gambling nation. Tune in for our weeklong series on culture and potential problems of gambles.
First, today's "Buzz," will Howard Dean's PR offensive help or hurt his campaign? What do you think? Vote now, cnn.com/360. We'll see you in a few moments. Results when we come back.
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COOPER: Time for "The Buzz." We asked you, will Howard Dean's PR offensive help or hurt his campaign? Here's what you said, 50 percent of you said yes, and 50 percent of you said no. Split. This is not a scientific poll, just your buzz. We appreciate it.
Tonight, taking The Captain to "The Nth Degree." For 30 years, Bob Keeshan delighted kids as Captain Kangaroo. So much so, they almost didn't notice that they were learning about science, literature and music. Keeshan created characters that soon became household names. Mr. Moose, Bunny Rabbit, Mr. Green Jeans.
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BOB KEESHAN, CAPTAIN KANGAROO: Don't you worry, Mr. Green Jeans, they're safe with me.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Heard that one before.
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COOPER: And the poetry-reading Grandfather Clock.
Rejecting the commercialization of children's programming, Keeshan personally supervised which commercials could run during his show, rejecting products he felt exploited it.
There was no studio audience on "Captain Kangaroo," no kids in the cast. Keeshan spoke directly into the camera, directly into the eyes and hearts of young viewers. Truly, he earned that adjective so rarely applicable but now ubiquitous in descriptions of TV personalities. Beloved. Bob Keeshan loved kids, and we loved him back.
That's all the time we have for now. Coming up next, "PAULA ZAHN NOW."
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ANDERSON COOPER, HOST (voice-over): The Dean machine's media blitz: will the rush to reinvigorate his campaign pay off?
Outrageous, outspoken, the Reverend Al Sharpton. We'll talk to the candidate about why he came to Dean's defense.
A mother turned murderer: why are more and more women becoming suicide bombers?
Kobe Bryant back in court. Are sealed medical records really crucial to his case?
And do the Golden Globe Awards have a dirty little secret?
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ANNOUNCER: Live from the CNN Broadcast Center in New York, this is ANDERSON COOPER 360.
COOPER: Good evening. Thanks for joining us.
For Democratic John Kerry tonight, the news is good. His bounce in New Hampshire, even bigger. The latest CNN tracking poll shows a slight lead for John Kerry. We're going to have that story in a moment.
But first, we want to go to Jamie McIntyre, in Washington, for some dramatic information about David Kay and what he has now saying about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Jamie, what do you know?
JAMIE MCINTYRE, CNN SR. PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Well, Anderson, David Kay may not have found any banned weapons, but he did drop a bombshell today, saying that he doesn't believe that any chemical or biological weapons exist in Iraq. In an interview with the Reuters News Agency, by telephone, Kay said, "I don't think they existed."
He said what everyone was talking about was stockpiles produced after the end of the last Gulf War. And he said, "I think the best evidence is that they did not resume large-scale production, and that's what we're really talking about."
This can only be seen as a setback for the Bush administration, which cited the existence of weapons of mass destruction as the chief justification for going to war. Kay, of course, now stepping down as the chief inspector.
He's been replaced by the former U.N. weapons inspector Charles Duelfer, whose appointment was announced by the CIA. Duelfer conducted a conference call today with news reporters. He himself had expressed some doubts that any unconventional weapons would be found in Iraq.
Today, he said that those comments that he made before were as an academic and a scholar. He called them the "judgments and prognostications of an outsider." But he also said that "I've now been given the responsibility of being in charge of the investigation, and I don't know what the outcome will be" -- Anderson.
COOPER: It is an amazing development, Jamie McIntyre. Also, I understand we are just getting in some information into CNN about a new arrest, a possible al Qaeda member under arrest. What do you know?
MCINTYRE: Well, earlier today, we reported on the arrest of a suspected man with al Qaeda links who is part of the Ansar al-Islam organization. But apparently they got a bigger fish yesterday.
According to sources at the Pentagon, a man called Hassan Ghul, who is described as a key operator, a significant operator with al Qaeda, was arrested by friendly forces in Iraq and turned over to U.S. authorities. Apparently, he had just arrived, and the U.S. believes that he was there to look at possible missions that could be launched against the U.S. forces in Iraq. But again, they believe it was a key al Qaeda operative nabbed in Iraq yesterday by friendly forces.
COOPER: And Jamie, I know a lot of this information is just coming in now. Any sense of how long this man was inside Iraq? And where did he come from?
MCINTYRE: Well, it looks like he was only there for a short time. Again, this fits a pattern that we've been hearing from U.S. commanders over the past couple of days, where they've been talking about the infiltration of foreign fighters. And just this morning, the senior commander in -- on the ground in Iraq, General Sanchez, told CNN's Sheila MacVicar that he saw "the fingerprints of al Qaeda" on some of the attacks against U.S. forces. So the U.S. does believe that it is facing an attempt by al Qaeda to infiltrate Iraq and instigate attacks against the U.S.
COOPER: Do we know where this guy is now?
MCINTYRE: He's in U.S. custody, but we don't know exactly where he is in Iraq.
COOPER: All right. Jamie McIntyre, live at the Pentagon. A lot going on tonight. Thanks, Jamie.
For Democratic candidate, as we mentioned, John Kerry, the news is good. His bounce in New Hampshire even bigger. The latest CNN tracking poll shows Kerry now leading Howard Dean by 12 points, 34 percent to 22 percent. Wesley Clark is third, 17 percent. John Edwards, 12 percent.
Now, keep in mind, this poll, taken Tuesday through Thursday, is the first to reflect the full impact of the Iowa caucuses. We are, of course, just four days away from the primary, and our team of reporters is following the campaigns right now.
CNN's Jeanne Meserve with the Kerry camp. Senior political correspondent, Candy Crowley, with Dean. And CNN's Dan Lothian following both the Edwards and Clark campaigns.
Let's start right now in Kerry country.
Jeanne, how confident is the candidate this lead is for real?
JEANNE MESERVE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, with all the polls showing the same thing, I think he's confident, indeed. But to keep his lead growing, Kerry wants to meet as many New Hampshire voters as he possibly can. And there's only way to do that: campaign, campaign, and then campaign some more.
The message the senator started the day, greeting voters at a diner in Derry, though he ad to make his way through a swarm of reporters and cameras to do it -- and then he was joined at a rally for veterans by South Carolina senator, Fritz Hollings, who him endorsed him yesterday, and former Georgia senator, Max Cleland. Like Kerry, they are veterans.
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SEN. JOHN KERRY (D-MA), DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We have the money for tax cuts for people who earn more than $200,000 a year, but we don't have the money for our veterans. So ladies and gentlemen, this campaign is about making it clear not just to veterans, but to everybody in this country, that we're not going to take any lessons in patriotism from those who don't understand that the first definition of patriotism is keeping faith with those who wore the uniform of our country.
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MESERVE: The Kerry campaign says it has raised $800,000 on the Internet since the Iowa caucuses. And today, Kerry was endorsed by former vice president and Democratic presidential nominee, Walter Mondale.
But perhaps the clearest sign of Kerry's front-runner status, an attack today from the chairman of the Republican National Committee. Ed Gillespie called Kerry out of sync with most voters and more liberal than Ted Kennedy. The Kerry campaign responded that President Bush's record on taxes, health care and the economy shows that Bush is the one who is out of touch.
Anderson, back to you.
COOPER: Interesting. All right. Jeanne Meserve, thanks very much from New Hampshire tonight.
Now, Howard Dean kept busy on the campaign trail today with two town hall meetings, and he stepped into more criticism with some outspoken words.
The latest now from CNN's senior political correspondent, Candy Crowley.
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CANDY CROWLEY, CNN SR. POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Howard Dean, unplugged. It's hard to be normal when everything has changed. Now, even spontaneity is guarded.
HOWARD DEAN (D), DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: It's a tune called "Come Back Baby."
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, OK.
DEAN: I would have played "Cocaine Blues," but I figured that would cause these guys a lot of trouble.
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CROWLEY: Looking to halt the downward slide of his campaign, Dean walks the trail cautiously now, trying not to make new waves while calming the old ones. A sedate debate Thursday night was followed by a hand-holding, sweater-wearing, just normal folks interview with his wife, her first TV appearance of the campaign. And then, the requisite, "I can laugh at myself" late night appearance, with the top 10 ways to turn his campaign around.
DEAN: Oh, I don't know, maybe fewer crazy, red-faced rants?
From the feedback I've gotten this morning, I think we've turned the corner and we're going to come back up. And then the question is, can we close the gap between now and Tuesday?
CROWLEY: For Dean, who prides himself on passion and off-the- cuff talk, this re-tooling is an awkward fit. But this is politics; even apples can be dangerous.
DEAN: These are wonderful apples. I'd make a catty remark about them in Vermont. But since I'm running in the New Hampshire primary just four days away, I don't think I will.
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CROWLEY: Though his campaign is scrambling in the polls, they are consoling themselves with some fund-raising numbers. Since the close of the polls in Iowa Monday, the campaign has raked in almost $1 million on the Internet -- Anderson.
COOPER: Interesting. All right. Candy Crowley, thanks very much. Clark and Edwards are trailing the polls, but neither seem too worried about numbers right now. At least that's what they're saying publicly.
With the latest on both camps, here's CNN's Dan Lothian.
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DAN LOTHIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Still dogged by questions about his credentials as a Democrat, retired General Wesley Clark implied a Fox News Channel moderator at Thursday's debate was biased when he pressed Clark on the issue.
WESLEY CLARK (D), DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I looked at who asked the questions, and I think that that's part of a Republican Party agenda in the debate.
LOTHIAN: Earlier, a lighter moment on the trail in Nashua, new Hampshire, as the general, a bit off-key, joined kindergartners in a sing-along.
CLARK: God bless America, my home sweet home
LOTHIAN: Clark, who released a new TV ad, says he wants to maintain a positive message, as does John Edwards, who, while trailing Clark in the polls, says he has momentum in the Granite State. He reached out to voters at a belt factory in Concord.
SEN. JOHN EDWARDS (D-NC), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: And I believe that together, you and I are going to change this country.
LOTHIAN: Edwards says, compared to Clark, he best appeals to crucial southern voters.
EDWARDS: I've dealt with the day-to-day problems that southerners face.
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LOTHIAN: The Edwards campaign says since his impressive showing in Iowa, they've been able to raise more than $500,000. They said that at this point they've also seen an up-tick in their direct mailing that they've been sending out.
As for the Clark campaign, they said they continue to get some key endorsements. Today, they got the former attorney general of Florida, Bob Butterworth, and say they expect some more endorsements in the next couple of days -- Anderson.
COOPER: All right. Dan Lothian, thanks very much.
Now Reverend Al Sharpton not exactly a contender in New Hampshire, but I spoke to him earlier today about last night's debate and about a lot of other things. I started by asking him about the tone of last night's debate.
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AL SHARPTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I think that the tone didn't surprise me, because the only way it would have gotten combative is if Dean made it combative. And -- because there was no reason for Kerry to be combative; there certainly was no reason for Edwards to be combative. And by Dean having to respond to his own performance in the concession speech, he wanted to do the opposite of being combative. So I wasn't surprised at all.
The irony of this, when I started hearing Dean plead to Chairman McAuliffe and others, why don't you tell the guys to stop taking shots at me, he was the guy that usually was on the attack. In the early debates, Dean would come in almost like a pit bull. And then when he became front-runner and everybody started going after him, he started calling for mercy. It was always a strange irony to me.
COOPER: I want to ask you about what you said to him last night.
SHARPTON: I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don't be hard on yourself about hootin' and hollering. If I spent the money you did and only got 18 percent, I'd still be hollering in Iowa.
COOPER: It's interesting, because some people on my staff interpreted that as you kind of giving him a break, saying all right, it's no problem, let's move on. I saw it and I thought, you know what, you're smiling there, but you're also kind of twisting the knife a little bit.
SHARPTON: Well, I don't know. I didn't mean to do it as twisting the knife. I can see your point of view. But I did want to say, come on, let's move on, let's not talk about this all night.
DEAN: We will not give up in Arizona or New Mexico.
COOPER: I got to ask you, were you watching that speech Howard Dean gave in Iowa Monday night? And if so, what were you thinking?
SHARPTON: You know, I saw a repeat, and I honestly thought it was a spoof somebody was doing. It took like two or three re- broadcasts for me to honestly believe that that was Dean.
COOPER: Were you surprised at Dean's third-place finish?
SHARPTON: I was. I was.
COOPER: So you bought into the media hype yourself?
SHARPTON: I'm going to stop listening to you guys.
COOPER: OK.
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COOPER: We're going to have more from Reverend Al Sharpton later on in the program, find out how long he'll stay in the race and who he thinks might drop out next. I'm going to give you a little bit of a hint -- it's not him.
Right now we're following a number of developing stories "Cross Country." Let's take a look.
New York: Halliburton's new headache. Remember that no-bid contract in Iraq where a Pentagon audit found a Halliburton subsidiary overcharged taxpayers millions of dollars for fuel? Well the company now admits some officials may have taken kickbacks in a deal to supply U.S. troops. Halliburton says the officials in question have been fired and that $6.3 million in possible overcharges have been refunded.
Eagle, Colorado: medical records mixed up. The lawyers for Kobe Bryant say they were given medical records about the alleged victim that they probably weren't supposed to get. The judge in the case hasn't decided if he'll allow the information to be used in court. We're going to go live to Eagle County later in the program for an update.
Miami, Florida: no deal for rush Limbaugh, at least not yet. Letters indicate his attorney suggested a plea deal last year to resolve allegations Limbaugh went doctor shopping for prescription painkillers. The prosecutor rejected it, but offered three years probation if Limbaugh would plead guilty to one count.
His lawyers said no thanks. Limbaugh has not been formally charged with anything, but some prosecutors now say they have enough evidence to support 10 felony counts.
Montpelier, Vermont: Captain Kangaroo passes away. Bob Keeshan, the rumpled, easy-going television actor who played Captain Kangaroo for over 40 years, died today after a long illness. He was 76 years old.
Millions of American kids grew up watching his gentle character on morning TV, surrounded by sidekicks, bunny rabbit, Mr. Moose and Mr. Green Jeans. We'll have more on the captain later on tonight.
And that's a look at stories "Cross Country" for you right now.
A string of attacks on Israelis carried out by women. We're going to have a report on female suicide bombers coming up. What makes them do it?
And is the Mars rover roving again? We'll take a look at what we know from NASA.
And are the Golden Globes hiding a dirty little secret? We'll go behind the scenes with a documentary filmmaker who says the awards aren't what they're quite made out to be.
First, let's take a look "Inside the Box" at the top stories on tonight's network newscasts.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK) COOPER: Well, signs of life on Mars again today. The Mars Spirit rover began sending signals back to Earth after two pretty worrying days in the dark. And just in the last hour, NASA scientists received a huge chunk of data, suggesting its power supply is still intact.
Good news. All these complications as controllers try to focus on another Martian landing. That's for tomorrow.
Space correspondent, Miles O'Brien, has the latest.
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MILES O'BRIEN, CNN SPACE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's not over for the rover, but it's no longer a pretty picture either.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We do not know to what extent we can restore functionality to the system, because we don't know what's broke.
O'BRIEN: This from the man in charge of Spirit's ground team after a frustrating pair of days on Mars. The trouble began on Wednesday morning Mars time, when the team radioed commands for Spirit to get to work. It sent back a little more than gobbledygook.
As it turns out, Spirit was in the midst of a mysterious software crisis, rebooting and crashing no less than 60 times on Wednesday. The good news, Spirit is still communicating.
JAMES GARVIN, MARS SCIENTIST: Our spacecraft decided to turn itself on as the odyssey was going over. And instead of dumping a few hundred bits, it dumped 76 or 80 megabits of data. Most of it was garbage, but some of it was really important.
O'BRIEN: Perhaps the best news is Spirit is stable, and the team can safely focus on Opportunity, Spirit's twin, headed for a Saturday night impact on the other side of Mars.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A choice was made at NASA to fly two Mars exploration rovers to Mars not just for science, but to be able to handle what Mars could throw at us.
O'BRIEN (on camera): The Opportunity rover is headed for a plane that is 1,000 feet higher than Spirit's crater. Since its breaking rockets fired only 28 feet above the surface, the team here has decided to open Opportunity's parachute a little sooner. Not a lot of margin for error in this business.
Miles O'Brien, CNN, Pasadena, California.
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COOPER: Well, we're tracking a number of developing stories around the globe right now. Let's check the "UpLink."
Mosul, Iraq: another deadly chopper crash. Two U.S. pilots died when their Kayawa (ph) warrior helicopter crashed in northern Iraq. The cause of the crash not yet known. This is the sixth fatal chopper crash in Iraq since the beginning of November.
The U.N. is taking a small step back into Iraq. A two-person security advance team has arrived there. A larger group could follow to study the possibility of holding direct elections before June 30. That's when the U.S is set to hand over authority to the Iraqi Governing Council.
Bangkok, Thailand: another bird flu death. A Thai man is believed to be the latest fatality in the outbreak. Thai officials had been denying the illness even existed there. Well, now health ministry officials say two young boys have been hospitalized, probably with bird flu. The EU today banned all imports of poultry from Thailand.
London: paying the lawyers. A high court in the U.K. ruled that "Hello" Magazine will have to pick up at least part of the legal fees incurred by these two, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas. The couple sued for unauthorized publication of their wedding pictures. They were awarded about $27,000 in damages, a pretty small sum compared to the millions in legal bills they're said to have racked up during the lawsuit.
And that's a look at the "UpLink" tonight.
Well, a troubling new tactic is being used by Palestinian militants. We're going to have part two of our report on suicide bombings being carried out by women.
Plus, heading into New Hampshire primary. We'll talk with Al Sharpton about his competition and his campaign. How long will he run?
First, take a look at "The Buzz." Will Howard Dean's PR offensive help or hurt his campaign? What do you think? Vote now, cnn.com/360. We'll have results at the end of the program.
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COOPER: That is a glimpse of the chilling suicide video Rym Riashi (ph), of a 22-year-old woman who left behind her two young children to blow herself up at a checkpoint in Gaza. She took four Israeli lives with her own.
Last night, Matthew Chance gave us a glimpse at this relatively new phenomenon, the female suicide bomber. Tonight, in part two of his report, he shows us that the reason women are taking their lives may have less to do with political martyrdom and more to do with their desperately unhappy lives.
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MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): What could drive a mother to abandon her two children and to kill? Ryn Riashi (ph) was just 22. She killed four Israelis and herself at a Gaza checkpoint. A mother shattering another taboo in this conflict. She told the soldiers here she needed help before exploding. Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that sent her, says tactics have changed. More mothers and sisters and daughters are on their way.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): Jihad is an obligation on the women just like prayer. It's an obligation. In the past, we feel that women should be spared until the time of need arose. When the brothers in the military wing saw the need to operate in such a way as this, they did just that.
HALA SARAJ, PSYCHOLOGIST: This woman and thousands of our women are looking to the day that they can sacrifice for the sake of children, women (UNINTELLIGIBLE) who kill daily for the sake of Jerusalem and al-Aqsa.
CHANCE: To gauge the strength of feeling, we came to Gaza on the first day of school after the holidays. The teenage girls of Amid Shauti High (ph) assemble to salute the Palestinian flag. In the English class afterwards, talk is of political struggle and the role they'll play in years to come. The lawyers and doctors and suicide bombers of the future could be among them.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We don't think that the world are looking for us. And we believe one day we will die. If I have to die, I will make them die with me. Just disappointed.
This is a way of our study. We don't have another way.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is the only way to get our freedom.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I don't agree what this woman did for days. Because she had two small children. How can she leave them alone?
CHANCE: It's a question many Palestinians are struggling to answer. The whole issue of using women as bombers is new for them as well, and not everyone here supports it. Officials, like Um Jihad (ph), with long-standing links to the armed Palestinian struggle refuse to endorse it.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): In the past, the women's role in military activities was limited. We mostly took part in supporting jobs such as communication, and helping the wounded and their families. I did feel sorry for this woman who sacrificed herself. She should have lived and taken care of her children. This kind of mission will not help the Palestinian people.
CHANCE: Some opposed to violence say the use of women could be a watershed.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Families have come out openly and said, we don't want our daughters or our children to be part of this. Not only do we not want to pay the price, as some Israelis say is our motivation, but we don't want to lose our children.
CHANCE Still, many Palestinians embrace their new martyrs. At a funeral in Gaza, the belief among the gunmen is that Rym Riashi (ph) has earned a privileged place, both in heaven and on the Palestinian streets.
(on camera): Across Gaza, images of suicide bombers, gunmen, even innocent civilians killed in the conflict, stare out at passersby from virtually every street corner. There is an undeniable cult of martyrdom here that makes popular heroes of the dead. Little wonder then, women, as well as men, are willing to kill and be killed just like them.
Matthew Chance, CNN, Gaza.
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COOPER (voice-over): We talked with the reverend Al Sharpton about new polls, New Hampshire and how long he'll stay in the race.
And do the Golden Globe Awards have a dirty little secret?
360 continues.
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COOPER: Here's what's happening in the next 30 minutes on 360. It has happened again another Columbus, Ohio, highway shooting. The 20th case. We're going to get the latest on the investigation.
Also tonight, I talk with Democratic presidential candidate, Reverend Al Sharpton. Who does he think will drop out of the race next? Again, I'm going to give you that hint. It is not him.
And this Sunday's Golden Globes, the stars turn out. But is there a dirty secret behind the hoopla? All that ahead.
Right now let's check our top stories in "The Reset."
Here's what's going on, Buckeye, Arizona, still a standoff. Two corrections officers are still being held by two prisoners in a guard tower at a nearby state prison. That's the guard tower right there. Both guards, a man and woman, appear unharmed. A spokesman describes the negotiations as tense but positive.
Washington, supreme conflict? Two U.S. Senators have written Chief Justice William Rehnquist, raising concerns about the impartiality of Justice Antonin Scalia in an upcoming case. Scalia is a close friend of the vice president and the court is soon to hear a case regarding Cheney and the energy records from his office. Cheney wants to keep them secret. Scalia says there's no reason to question his ability to be fair.
Brunswick, Georgia, cult leader convicted. 58-year-old Malachi York, the leader of a quasireligious sect called the New Wabians (ph). Well, he was convicted on ten counts of child molestation and racketeering. 14 boys and girls testified that York molested them over a four-year period. He faces up to 80 years in prison. Los Angeles, famed photographer remembered. CNN has just learned that Helmut Newton was killed today in a car accident. The 83-year- old lost control of his Cadillac, hit a wall, apparently. The fashion photographer is well known for taking black and white photos of nude models, a lot of famous people. His work has appeared in "Elle" and "Vogue" magazines among hundreds of others.
That's a look at tonight's "Reset."
Back to the political battle going on right now in New Hampshire. The latest CNN poll shows John Kerry leading Howard Dean by 12 points, Al Sharpton trailing. I spoke to him today about the fight he's in and asked him how long he'll stay in.
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AL SHARPTON, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Well first of all, we're confident that we're going to be picking up delegates every state. The polls have always underestimated candidates like me. For example, in the primary we just had in Washington, D.C., they said that Dean would beat me four to one. He had to etch out an 8 percent victory and I beat him 3 to 1 in the black ward.
COOPER: If the point is for the Democrats to get rid of George Bush out of the White House, isn't it sort of bad for the party for you to just stay in the race? The debates are not particularly effective.
SHARPTON: No, not at all. In fact, the only way the party is going rid of George Bush is the party must expand. For example how, did we get Bush in the first place? Because I think that we did not maximize turnout. We did not protect our vote in Florida.
Bush didn't come out of outer space. Bush came out of, in my judgment, mistakes the Democratic party made, party mistakes I want to correct. We had the White House for eight years. There's no reason we should have lost it. I think we must be real about that.
Secondly, there are people that will vote for me that would not necessarily vote for other candidates. If I pull out, it's not going to energize those voters to come out. It's going to energize maybe other voters. It will not energize the base that we need. And we're going to need all voters to beat Bush. You can't beat him if all you come back to the table with is what he beat you with last time.
COOPER: People calling the sort of the kinder gentler debate last night. The kindler gentler Democrats right now, everyone sort of dealing with kid gloves, how long can that last?
SHARPTON: I'm sure we'll have some kind of give and take before it's over, maybe as early as South Carolina this week, because a lot of us disagree. I disagree with John Edwards on the PATRIOT act. I think the PATRIOT Act is a terrible thing for civil liberties. I'm sure we'll talk about the war. The war costs jobs in South Carolina and Missouri and Delaware. I disagree with Dean on the appointment of judges. One of the things that we never got to is the appointment of conservative judges in Vermont. And what kind of judges would you appoint to the Supreme Court? So, I'm sure there will be some give and take before it over. I think last night, people were trying to get over Iowa, get over the holler screaming thing and make whatever points they had to make before New Hampshire.
COOPER: Let's talk about South Carolina. It's the Tuesday after New Hampshire, you spend a fair amount of time down there. How important for you personally, is it to do well out there. I ask the question, because a large African-American population. A lot of them come out to vote. Jesse Jackson won there in 1984 and 1988, he won as well. How important is it?
SHARPTON: It's an important state for all of us. I think that it's the first primary there. It's a difference in the primary and caucuses that Reverend Jackson ran. It's not a caucus, it's a primary and Reverend Jackson was from South Carolina. I lived there, but I was not born and raised there.
It's important for Clark. It's important for Edwards, because they are southern candidates. So it's important for a lot of us. But it's important for me because it clearly represents more of the demographics are of the Democratic party and I think we all will have to sell ourselves to more of what the party looks like. That's why I wish all of them had been in Washington, because that looked more like the party and more like America than Iowa or New Hampshire does.
COOPER: Who do you think is going to drop out next?
SHARPTON: I have no idea. I mean, I think Lieberman's got to show something in New Hampshire. And I think that he's probably the one I would watch more than anything Tuesday night.
COOPER: All right. Reverend Al Sharpton, thank you very much?
SHARPTON: All right, thank you.
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COOPER: Well, late word today of another shooting on a freeway outside of Columbus, Ohio. And the police think this is the work of a serial sniper.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The task force today is announcing that the incident on I-71 on Lambert Road, approximately 7 1/2 miles south of I-270 that occurred on January 22 around 12:45 a.m. is being linked to the 19 shooting cases already linked in this investigation.
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COOPER: This is the 20th shooting that occurred since last May in this area. One person, you'll remember, was killed last November. Investigators still puzzled, though, as to whom is the shooter as Angela Ahn of our affiliate WBNS reports.
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ANGELA AHN, WBNS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A simple drive home turned into a near brush with death for Michael Thomas.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It really shook me up.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Did it hit you at all?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, it didn't hit me, but the evidence is on my car.
AHN: On the hood of his car, a dent the size of an orange where the bullet hit and ricocheted into the windshield.
Did you think highway shooter?
CHERYL THOMAS, VICTIM'S WIFE: Well, he saw a car and a figure of a person, but that's all he saw. And then he heard the thud hit the car, and that's what he thought, I've been shot. My car's been shot and he just took off.
AHN: Thomas' wife, Cheryl, says she never thought the highway shooter would hit so close to home.
C. THOMAS: He almost didn't go to work today, knowing that he has to come home the same exact way.
AHN: Task force investigators canvassed the overpass near Route 665 where Thomas says he saw someone standing next to a car.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I just passed the sign for the Orient exit, and the guy, I saw him, and there was a car parked on the overpass.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Is it still there?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, he -- as soon as he shot, he got in his car and left.
AHN: Investigators found shell casings and took Thomas' car for evidence.
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COOPER: Strange case there.
A murder spree in New York also this week is now being blamed on a convicted rapist recently released from prison. Within a span of 13 hours, Andre Shobey (ph) is accused of killing a 19-year-old man who was baby-sitting an autistic 4-year-old girl. Police say he also robbed and sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl. Shortly after that alleged attack, he was arrested with a loaded gun and a knife.
Now Shobey (ph) was released from prison last August. He had served the maximum time on his original sentence. And this crime as renewed questions about how effective treatment of violent sexual predators really is and what, if anything, the law can do to deal with them. Jason Carroll has more.
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JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In 1999, Stephen Simmons was convicted of sexually molesting a teenage boy whom he had met on the Internet, then 14-year-old Samuel Manzie. Simmons said his contact with Manzie lasted about a year. Once it ended, Manzie found a victim.
A jury convicted the teenager for sexually assaulting and murdering Eddie Werner (ph), an 11-year-old boy, who came to Manzie's door selling candy. Many involved in the case blamed Simmons. He now says he bears some responsibility.
STEPHEN SIMMONS, CONVICTED CHILD MOLESTER: Whatever the law is, as long as you put that child in a position where they can be hurt, you're hurting that child and you are wrong.
CARROLL: Before his arrest in the Manzie case, Simmons had two prior convictions involving sexual activities with minors, but he says he received little treatment during or after his previous incarceration. A recent study shows 17 percent of sex offenders were not treated after being released were rearrested for sex crimes. Counselors like Will Ford have had the most success with low level offenders. But he says the most serious cases don't respond to therapy or medication.
WILL FORD, COUNSELOR: I believe that there are some people who just won't make it on the street. Some folks who cannot control their behavior. And in those situations if you can't keep them incarcerated, you have to look at another avenue of managing these individuals.
CARROLL: Lawmakers in more than a dozen states have found a another avenue. It's called civil commitment. It allows courts to keep offenders like Simmons who has already served his maximum sentence, in treatment centers, like this one. Simmons says it's an extended prison sentence.
SIMMONS: Because you just can't take a person and throw their life away.
CARROLL: Simmons has been here for two years and will stay undergoing treatment, until a court determines he's well enough to be let out. Some legal experts say tougher sentencing is the answer. Not civil commitment.
LARRY FITCH, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: What states should really do is recognize that these are criminals and not patients and change the sentencing laws.
CARROLL: Simmons says the treatment he's received since being civilly committed has made him well enough to be released, but he wouldn't say cured. SIMMONS: I'd be lying if I sat and said I'm no threat, I'll never be a threat again there's no chance of it ever happening, because there's always, even if it's that little chance.
CARROLL: It's a chance many are not willing to take. Jason Carroll, CNN, Carney, New Jersey.
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COOPER: We are hearing Kobe Bryant has just left the courtroom out in Eagle, Colorado. It's certainly been quite a day in court. Some of the accusers' medical records have wrongly found their way into the case. We're going to take a look at what that means coming up.
Plus, those Golden Globes awards are coming up this weekend. We're going to talk to a filmmaker who may change the way you look at them.
Saying good-bye to a legend of children's television. We'll be right back.
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COOPER: Send us an e-mail at any time. CNN.com/360.
In Eagle, Colorado today, a surprising revelation at a pretrial hearing for Kobe Bryant. His attorneys say a hospital sent the defense team some of the accuser's medical records, records that have nothing to do with her rape allegations. Gary Tuchman is covering the case right now. We go to him live. Gary, what's the latest?
GARY TUCHMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Anderson, hello. Kobe Bryant left the building about 30 minutes ago. The court day is over. No major decisions made, but lots of interesting information. Bryant, his attorneys and prosecutors met for much of the afternoon in camera, that's a latin phrase meaning in chambers without the news media, without the public.
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TUCHMAN (voice-over): The discussion underway, was should the accuser's personal medical and psychological records, which reportedly have two suicide attempts in them be left confidential or be allowed to be used in a trial? What was disclosed in court today, the defense already has some of the records. The hospital where this woman went for her rape exam, accidentally sent records from a month earlier when she went there for an emergency room visit.
The hospital was supposed to send the rape records to the prosecution. They instead sent the other records. The prosecution also mistakenly sent the personal records to the defense and that's how the defense ended up with the records. The judge said defense, you must destroy the records and try to forget you ever had them. Obviously, it was a big mistake. CRAIG SILVERMAN, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: The defense has had that two-page report for months, and now the judge says destroy those records. Well, if he wanted to be thorough, the judge would order the defense attorneys to undergo a partial lobotomy because they know what that report says and they'll always know it and it will be to team Kobe's advantage.
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TUCHMAN: The defense wants a jury to hear about this woman's erratic medical and psychological history. To demonstrate their theory that she seeks attention and has a motive to lie. The judge hasn't made a decision about the medical records. Anderson, back to you.
COOPER: Gary Tuchman, thanks very much.
Time to check on some pop news in tonight's "Current. Let's check on pop news in the world of the ridiculous. The Clonaid people are at it again. You remember them, white outfits, they claim they clone kids. Now the costumed cloners say, eureka, they've done it again. They claim a cloned baby is due any day in Australia. We would have called the Clonaid people for an interview, but we've been in meetings all day with leprechauns and the Loch Ness monster.
Speaking of outrageous claims, Paris Hilton says she's written a book or at least wants to slap her name on one. Hilton wants a million dollars for her memoirs, which she intends to call "Tongue in Chic, Confessions of an Heiress." Publishers will no doubt be interested because Paris Hilton's tongue is about the only part we haven't already seen too much of.
A British hiking magazine is apologizing for mistakenly publishing a route plan that would send hikers right off a cliff on Britain's largest mountain. "Trail" magazine's editors say two crucial bearings were accidentally deleted during editing. So far, however, they haven't gotten complaints from people who've actually followed the directions.
Ben and Jerry's has created a new election themed ice cream flavor. Primary Berry Graham. The inaugural pint will be sold in the spring. Now it's only a matter of time before each candidate gets their own flavor. My favorite, Kerry Garcia and Howard's Super Nutty Iowa Meltdown. Democracy.
You've got to love movies that have an exclamation point in the title. "Win a date with Tad Hamilton" opens today. We'll look at that and other options coming up in "The Weekender."
Plus, a look at what made Bob Keeshan the captain.
We'll be right back.
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COOPER: Wondering what to do this weekend? A couple of new choices if you're heading to the movies or staying home watching TV, provided you're a fan of the cast of "That '70s Show." Here's tonight's edition of "The Weekender."
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COOPER (voice-over): In movies, Ashton Kutcher stars in "The Butterfly Effect."
ASHTON KUTCHER, ACTOR: Just writing about it gives me the shivers.
COOPER: Kutcher can travel back in time, but when he tries to improve his present by altering the past, well, let's just say it's like "Punk'd," only painful.
Topher Grace, also from "That '70s Show" co-stars in "Win a Date With Tad Hamilton." You know the drill, boy secretly loves girl; girl meets actor; boy and actor vie for girl.
TOPHER GRACE, ACTOR: So do you work out?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No.
COOPER: Who gets the girl? Well, you figure it out.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I wonder who is here.
COOPER: New on DVD, a two-disk set of 1951's "Alice in Wonderland." Extras include a newly discovered Cheshire Cat song called "I'm Odd." Apparently, the Disney people finally settled the rights issue with the Cheshire Cat's lawyers after he embarked on his solo singing contrary.
Also on DVD, a two-disk set of "Capturing the Friedmans." Talk about going through the looking glass.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We lived with her for two months while you were in jail.
COOPER: The documentary tells the story of a family's unraveling, complete with meticulously recorded home movies.
And on TV this weekend, awards season finally gets under way. Plenty of pomp and pomposity on display Sunday when the Golden Globes air at 8:00 Eastern time.
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COOPER: Well, a documentary is also airing on Sunday on Trio called "The Golden Globes: Hollywood's Dirty Little Secret." We didn't want to wait to find out what the dirty little secret is, so here to reveal it all is documentary filmmaker Vikram Jayanti. He joins us now from Park City, Utah. Vikram, good to see you. Let's get right to it. What's the dirty little secret?
VIKRAM JAYANTI, DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER: Well, the dirty little secret is something that everyone in Hollywood knows. It's actually an open secret, but the rest of the world doesn't really know, that the Golden Globes is put on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which sounds like it's the press and that it's foreign. And probably that it's a big group, like the Academy Awards are. But, in fact, there are only 96 members.
COOPER: And who makes up the Hollywood Foreign Press? I mean, are they legitimate media?
JAYANTI: Most of them are like stringers for obscure journals around the world. Very few of them actually make a full-time living as journalists, and certainly in the journalist community, they're not taken seriously at all.
COOPER: So what do they get out of it? I mean, I understand in your documentary, they're sort of plied with gifts at times from, you know, big studios.
JAYANTI: Historically, they've always had lots of gifts. In fact, a few years ago, Sharon Stone sent all the members very expensive Coach watches. There was some film of hers that was up for a nomination. And they were forced to return them when the scandal hit the news. So they make out with studio gifts. They all get a photo op, one by one, with the stars. Some of those pictures show up on Ebay.
COOPER: It's interesting, because they're working for sort of obscure newspapers, you know, in Estonia, I guess, and the like, or Germany or France, and yet they get an awful lot of attention from celebrities. I want to play a little bit of a clip from your film of some -- what some celebrities have said about the Golden Globe Awards. Let's play that.
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ROBIN WILLIAMS, ACTOR: It's kind of like foreplay for the Oscars.
MICHAEL CAINE, ACTOR: Drinking and job searching tonight. That's what we're doing.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's just basically who kisses butt best.
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COOPER: You actually have somebody who got a Golden Globe speaking in silhouette. Why are they afraid to speak on camera, saying, sort of poking fun at the Golden Globes?
JAYANTI: Well, that's the whole thing about the Globes. She was a nominee and she didn't win, but she -- everyone is scared that they may get cut out of the Golden Globe process. Even though she's an A- list star, she is probably invulnerable to getting black-listed by them. Everyone is scared of pissing them off. Everyone in Hollywood has an investment in pretending that the emperor has actually got clothes on. And everyone knows the emperor doesn't. COOPER: I want to play a clip from what John Powers, a film critical from "L.A. Weekly," said about the Golden Globes. Let's play that and then quickly talk about it.
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JOHN POWERS, FILM CRITIC: Even though the Golden Globes people are by and large idiots, they often make better choices than the Oscars.
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COOPER: So if he's right and that's true, what's so bad about the Golden Globes?
JAYANTI: Well, there's nothing bad about it per se, except in the cosmic terms, the great cosmic injustice, the metaphysical injustice that we all take this very, very seriously, and 250 million people around the world watch it. And in fact, it's being put on by a group who are a secretive group that aren't really journalists, aren't really reporters, and have an incredible amount of power.
COOPER: Vikram, it's good to talk to you. I enjoy your work. And it's going to be on Trio on Sunday, and we'll watch it. Thanks very much, Vikram.
JAYANTI: Thanks a lot.
COOPER: All right. Well, to kids spanning generations he was The Captain. We're going to have a closer look at "Captain Kangaroo" host Bob Keeshan when we come back.
Plus, all of next week, from betting on a game to rolling the dice in Vegas, we are a gambling nation. Tune in for our weeklong series on culture and potential problems of gambles.
First, today's "Buzz," will Howard Dean's PR offensive help or hurt his campaign? What do you think? Vote now, cnn.com/360. We'll see you in a few moments. Results when we come back.
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COOPER: Time for "The Buzz." We asked you, will Howard Dean's PR offensive help or hurt his campaign? Here's what you said, 50 percent of you said yes, and 50 percent of you said no. Split. This is not a scientific poll, just your buzz. We appreciate it.
Tonight, taking The Captain to "The Nth Degree." For 30 years, Bob Keeshan delighted kids as Captain Kangaroo. So much so, they almost didn't notice that they were learning about science, literature and music. Keeshan created characters that soon became household names. Mr. Moose, Bunny Rabbit, Mr. Green Jeans.
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BOB KEESHAN, CAPTAIN KANGAROO: Don't you worry, Mr. Green Jeans, they're safe with me.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Heard that one before.
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COOPER: And the poetry-reading Grandfather Clock.
Rejecting the commercialization of children's programming, Keeshan personally supervised which commercials could run during his show, rejecting products he felt exploited it.
There was no studio audience on "Captain Kangaroo," no kids in the cast. Keeshan spoke directly into the camera, directly into the eyes and hearts of young viewers. Truly, he earned that adjective so rarely applicable but now ubiquitous in descriptions of TV personalities. Beloved. Bob Keeshan loved kids, and we loved him back.
That's all the time we have for now. Coming up next, "PAULA ZAHN NOW."
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