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Bush Hails Libya's Rejection of WMD as Key American Victory

Aired July 12, 2004 - 14:00   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Up first this hour, follow Gadhafi,. That's President Bush's advice. Unthinkable just a year ago. To countries that may harbor WMD or terror groups or both.
In a speech today at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Mr. Bush hailed Libya's rejection of weapons of mass destruction as a key American victory in the war against terror. CNN's Elaine Quijano has more now from the White House -- Elaine.

ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good afternoon, Kyra. "America is safer," that was the message today, the phrase that President Bush repeated, in some form or another, about half a dozen times during his speech in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. As you said, the president toured the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. That is a site where materials from Libya, materials that were seized as part of Libya's agreement to dismantle its weapons of mass destruction, have been gathered.

Now, President Bush also used the opportunity to make his case that there's been steady progress in the war on terrorism, and he pointed to a long list of what he says are successes internationally and domestically, Libya, of course, among them. But he says domestically, there is better intelligence-sharing now and a transformed mission for the FBI, now more focused, he says, on terrorism.

The president's trip, though, comes at a time when the White House is facing harsh criticism over that Senate committee report last week citing flawed intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq War. President Bush acknowledged that report today, saying it would help his administration in the work of reform. But he also defended, once again, his decision to go to war in Iraq.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Although we have not found stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, we were right to go into Iraq. We removed a declared enemy of America, who had the capability of producing weapons of mass murder, and could have passed that capability to terrorists bent on acquiring them.

In the world after September the 11th, that was a risk that we could not afford to take.

(END VIDEO CLIP) QUIJANO: Now, as I said, the president holding up Libya as an example, and suggested that it was the Bush administration's tough stance in Iraq, combined with diplomacy, that pressured Libya to dismantle its WMDs. But President Bush's opponents, namely the John Kerry campaign, say the president shouldn't take all of the credit for Libya, that the real groundwork was laid long before President Bush ever took office.

Still, the Bush campaign insists that the Kerry camp is simply playing politics with what they say is an important security development. Kyra?

PHILLIPS: Elaine Quijano, live from the White House. Thank you.

Defense and dissent from the Democrats. Nominee-to-be John Kerry says his and 76 other Senate voters authorizing a potential war in Iraq were wrongly taken as a blank check by the Bush administration.

Live pictures now as he speaks from Massachusetts. The Senator is in Boston, where, speaking of checks, he introduced a million- dollar series of TV spots aimed at Hispanics. Last night, he and running mate John Edwards looked back on the war resolutions on "60 Minutes."

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SEN. JOHN KERRY (D-MA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: What I voted for was an authority for the president to go to war as a last resort if Saddam Hussein did not disarm and we need to go to war. I think the way he went to war was a mistake.

SEN. JOHN EDWARDS (D-NC), VICE-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I mean, I know you want to make this black and white, so...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No...

EDWARDS: ... I want to finish this. The difference is, if John Kerry were president of the United States, we would never be in this place. He would never have done what George Bush did. He would have done the hard work to build the alliances and the support system.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

PHILLIPS: Edwards plans meetings with his own support system campaign staff before heading out for some solo speeches for the Democratic ticket.

Election officials are entertaining a nightmare scenario. What would happen if terrorists attempted to smash a pillar of constitutional democracy, namely this presidential election? CNN's Tom Foreman reports.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): If a terrorist attack came in the final days of the campaign or on election day itself, could the voting be postponed? That question is being raised by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, and taken up by Homeland Security and the Justice Department too.

GRACIA HILLMAN, ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION: I think that we've been lucky so far that nothing has ever occurred to disrupt a presidential election. But that doesn't mean that something couldn't happen. And we believe prudent planning is the thing that should be done.

FOREMAN: These government officials are mindful of the Spanish train attack, which killed nearly 200 people. Three days later, Spain's prime minister, who supported the war in Iraq, was voted out. Now officials say intelligence suggests something like that could happen here.

TOM RIDGE, HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY: Al Qaeda is moving forward with its plans to carry out a large-scale attack in the United States, in an effort to disrupt our democratic process.

FOREMAN: The political fallout from such an attack is wildly uncertain. After 9/11, support for President Bush rose. But it is also unclear whether the election can be moved. Homeland Security says it would take an act of Congress to amend the constitution, possibly amendments to 50 state constitutions, and maybe changes to voting rules in thousands of counties and towns.

In other words, federal officials see the possibility of delaying the election as very remote. And some lawmakers are calling it a pure doomsday scenario.

SEN. JAY ROCKEFELLER (D), WEST VIRGINIA: It would be a terrible mistake, a terrible mistake.

FOREMAN: Others believe developing a plan may be wise if it sends a message.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No matter what happens, no matter what terrorists do to our country, democracy's going to go on.

FOREMAN: Yet in the end, even those who support a plan for delaying the election say it's something they want to have and never have to use.

Tom Foreman, CNN, Washington.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

PHILLIPS: Get more campaign news and the latest poll numbers today, 3:30 Eastern on Judy Woodruff's "INSIDE POLITICS," only here on CNN.

The new Iraqi government has a stern warning for insurgents in that country. Interim President Ghazi al-Yawer threatened today to wield a very sharp sword against anyone threatening Iraq's security. He says violent groups should not use the 160,000 coalition forces still in the country as an excuse to continue attacking troops and civilians.

The prime minister's warnings came on a day of unabated rebel resistance. Three explosions hit a Baghdad square, no injuries reported. A roadside bombing Sunday killed two U.S. soldiers, wounding three riding in a convoy near Samara. Al-Jazeera reports the Philippine truck driver's kidnappers extended a deadline for the country to agree to pull its troops from Iraq.

Banished in Iraq, then he makes it all the way to Lebanon. The mystery of the once missing marine deepens. Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr is learning what Corporal Wassef Ali Hassoun is saying about his ordeal. Is he talking yet?

BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Well, a bit, Kyra, but the mystery deepens, another twist in this ongoing saga today. Military sources now confirming that Corporal Wassef Ali Hassoun has told people working to help repatriate him, those medical and psychological specialists at Landstuhl Hospital in Germany, telling them he was abducted from his Marine base near Fallujah, Iraq, back on June 19, when he failed to show up for duty.

He was last seen there on June 19, failed to show up the morning of June 20, and then about eight days later, appeared on this videotape, apparently held captive, blindfolded, a sword to his head, being held by insurgents. He somehow, still, mysteriously, made his way from Iraq, Fallujah where his Marine unit was based, all the way to Tripoli, Lebanon, where he was picked up by embassy officials last week and returned to the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon, and then flown on to Germany.

Now, he says he was abducted. This doesn't yet square with the military's working theory of events, because originally, Corporal Hassoun was listed as a deserter. It was believed that he left his Fallujah base of his own free will. Then his status was changed to captured once he appeared on that videotape.

Still, investigators want to talk to him, find out exactly what happened. But at least earlier today, members of his repatriation team spoke a bit about how the corporal is doing.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

LT. COL. SALLY HARVEY, PSYCHOLOGIST FOR CPL. HASSOUN: Corporal Hassoun had been sleeping only several hours a night. That's what he told us. He has since restored his sleep. He is getting a considerable amount of sleep and eating well. His spirits are good, and he's involved in the repatriation process.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

STARR: So the experts say the corporal is in good shape. But still, investigators and intelligence specialists have not begun their process of talking to him, interviewing him about exactly what happened and getting his full story -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Barbara Starr, live from the Pentagon. Thank you. Stem cell research in the spotlight.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

RON REAGAN, SON OF FRM. PRES. REAGAN: They're playing politics with it, and it's shameful -- it is shameful.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

PHILLIPS: Ron Reagan about to make an even bigger political statement about the controversial research.

Are we teaching our kids to tell lies? Coming up, some interesting research reveals the truth about lying.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We're waiting to catch some human miscreant in the act of, you know, a larceny.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

PHILLIPS: But a hidden camera reveals the real culprit isn't even human after all. That story ahead on LIVE FROM.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

PHILLIPS: News across America now. Actress Isabel Sanford, best known for her role as "Weezie" in the long-running sitcom "The Jeffersons," has died. Sanford was 86-years-old. She died of natural causes Friday at a Los Angeles hospital.

There are signs that low carbs may be heading the way of flash in the pan diet fads. "The Wall Street Journal" reports sales of low carb foods are still climbing, but they grew at less than half the rate in the quarter that ended June 12 than the previous quarter.

A New Mexico man, whose claim of heroism at New York's Ground Zero led to a pay out of almost $650,000 from the 9/11 Victims' Compensation Fund, now faces suspicions of fraud. An Albuquerque newspaper is raising questions about Doug Copp's story that he developed 41 medical problems wading through toxic rubble for six days to help find bodies.

Has America become a society of pathological liars? This week, CNN's "AMERICAN MORNING" is exploring the truth about lying. This excerpt from the five-part series, Heidi Collins looks at why we lie.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): The headlines never end. Swindle, scams and deception at the top. But in America today, could the truth be...

RICHARD NIXON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 1969-1974: I had no prior knowledge. COLLINS: ... that lying comes easily to most of us.

BILL CLINTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 1993-2000: I did not have sexual relations.

COLLINS: One recent study concluded the majority of people told at least three lies during every 10 minutes of conversation.

DR. MICHAEL LEWIS, ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL: All people everywhere do it. It keeps the social fabric connected.

COLLINS: According to Dr. Lewis, innocent little white lies, not the lies that hurt people or cheat them out of money, may be something that we are programmed to tell at an early age to help protect ourselves from punishment and protect the feelings of others.

LEWIS: How many of us would say to our arthritic grandmothers who have knitted us a sweater that we really don't like the color, and we really don't like the style and we wish you wouldn't ever knit us another sweater.

In fact, there was a movie called "Liar, Liar," when, in fact, the truth was told and it was a disaster.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE, "LIAR LIAR": Everybody has been real nice.

JIM CARREY, ACTOR, "LIAR, LIAR": Well, that's because you have big...

COLLINS: Dr. Lewis' studies show that 65 percent of children by the age two and a half lie and lie well. He performed a set of experiments for our camera. So meet the newest group of potential perjurers.

The kids were told not to peek at a toy placed behind their back. Dr. Lewis watched on a hidden camera. Would they tell the truth when asked if they looked?

Three and a half year old Rowan peeked before the tester even left the room.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Did you peek? Don't peek.

COLLINS: Olivia age three and a half tried hard not to look, but it doesn't seem to be working.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm back. Did you peek?

OLIVIA: No.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No? OK.

LEWIS: They quickly learn that not telling the truth means that they won't get punished. What we tell the parents all the time is, look they are going to lie. That doesn't mean that they should get off the hook. COLLINS: Dr. Lewis' advice? Focus on the offense not the lie they told to cover it up.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

PHILLIPS: Well, tomorrow on "AMERICAN MORNING," a reformed Wall Street crook ponders how to succeed in business without really lying. Of course, if that's too early for you, we'll run it again on LIVE FROM.

Well, do you work for a snake, a screamer, or a nitpicker? What you can do if your boss is a bully.

And to catch a thief when the gnome went missing. The cops knew that they were not dealing with your typical felon, and they caught their culprit -- later on LIVE FROM.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

PHILLIPS: Bosses who bully. Do you know one? Well, they can make your day on the job a nightmare. But there are things you can do to make the situation better, and it does not involve a trip to HR. Gary Namie has written a new book on how to stop workplace bullies. He explained the basic types to our Heidi Collins earlier today on CNN's "AMERICAN MORNING."

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

COLLINS: You have come up with four types of bullies, though. I want to quickly run through that list, the first one being the snake. Tell us about that.

GARY NAMIE, WORKPLACE BULLYING AND TRAUMA INSTITUTE: The snake, oh, Jekyll and Hyde, back stabbing, duplicitous, one who hugs you and loves you and tells you that to your face but is out to destroy your reputation in the rest of the organization.

COLLINS: Thanks.

The screamer?

NAMIE: The screamer...

COLLINS: It seems obvious.

NAMIE: Well, but -- and that's not a poster boy or a girl, that's the and, don't forget, 58 percent of bullies are women. So it's the Bobby Knight syndrome. It's the yelling, screaming, fist pounding, vein bulging maniac. And they're trying to control the emotions of the place and instill fear.

COLLINS: I bet they do it, too.

The nitpicker.

NAMIE: Well, the nitpicker is a constant critic. They get you behind closed doors and they erode your confidence and your competence. You've got a long career, a stellar career, and suddenly you get a new boss and they're going to try and convince you you're stupid. Outrageous as it sounds, but potentially traumatizing.

COLLINS: Oh, I'm sure.

And the gate keeper?

NAMIE: The gate keeper is the controlling person who messes with your schedule, denies you vacation time, gives you that horrible task assignment. They control you by withholding the things you need to succeed.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

PHILLIPS: OK, so you say your boss fits into one of these categories. So now, go slash their tires. Just kidding. Here's what you do.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

NAMIE: Document if you want, but who's going to read the notes? And, no, you don't go to H.R.., I'm sorry to say. You've got to go high up the ladder, three steps. Easy to say, incredibly hard to do.

Naming it is powerful and it's a first step to making it legitimate so you don't blame yourself. Call it bullying, call it psychological harassment.

Step two, get time off from work and while you're off, what you've got to do is check your legal options, check your health and start building the case. Gather some data.

For step three, which is expose the bully, go bully busting, you've got to go as high up as you can, not H.R., and make the business case the bully's too expensive to keep. And you've got to show the turnover and every, all the other incidental things that the bully causes in terms of disruption, absenteeism, lost productivity. And if that company doesn't want to listen to you, you get out for your health's sake.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

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Aired July 12, 2004 - 14:00   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Up first this hour, follow Gadhafi,. That's President Bush's advice. Unthinkable just a year ago. To countries that may harbor WMD or terror groups or both.
In a speech today at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Mr. Bush hailed Libya's rejection of weapons of mass destruction as a key American victory in the war against terror. CNN's Elaine Quijano has more now from the White House -- Elaine.

ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good afternoon, Kyra. "America is safer," that was the message today, the phrase that President Bush repeated, in some form or another, about half a dozen times during his speech in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. As you said, the president toured the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. That is a site where materials from Libya, materials that were seized as part of Libya's agreement to dismantle its weapons of mass destruction, have been gathered.

Now, President Bush also used the opportunity to make his case that there's been steady progress in the war on terrorism, and he pointed to a long list of what he says are successes internationally and domestically, Libya, of course, among them. But he says domestically, there is better intelligence-sharing now and a transformed mission for the FBI, now more focused, he says, on terrorism.

The president's trip, though, comes at a time when the White House is facing harsh criticism over that Senate committee report last week citing flawed intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq War. President Bush acknowledged that report today, saying it would help his administration in the work of reform. But he also defended, once again, his decision to go to war in Iraq.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Although we have not found stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, we were right to go into Iraq. We removed a declared enemy of America, who had the capability of producing weapons of mass murder, and could have passed that capability to terrorists bent on acquiring them.

In the world after September the 11th, that was a risk that we could not afford to take.

(END VIDEO CLIP) QUIJANO: Now, as I said, the president holding up Libya as an example, and suggested that it was the Bush administration's tough stance in Iraq, combined with diplomacy, that pressured Libya to dismantle its WMDs. But President Bush's opponents, namely the John Kerry campaign, say the president shouldn't take all of the credit for Libya, that the real groundwork was laid long before President Bush ever took office.

Still, the Bush campaign insists that the Kerry camp is simply playing politics with what they say is an important security development. Kyra?

PHILLIPS: Elaine Quijano, live from the White House. Thank you.

Defense and dissent from the Democrats. Nominee-to-be John Kerry says his and 76 other Senate voters authorizing a potential war in Iraq were wrongly taken as a blank check by the Bush administration.

Live pictures now as he speaks from Massachusetts. The Senator is in Boston, where, speaking of checks, he introduced a million- dollar series of TV spots aimed at Hispanics. Last night, he and running mate John Edwards looked back on the war resolutions on "60 Minutes."

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SEN. JOHN KERRY (D-MA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: What I voted for was an authority for the president to go to war as a last resort if Saddam Hussein did not disarm and we need to go to war. I think the way he went to war was a mistake.

SEN. JOHN EDWARDS (D-NC), VICE-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I mean, I know you want to make this black and white, so...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No...

EDWARDS: ... I want to finish this. The difference is, if John Kerry were president of the United States, we would never be in this place. He would never have done what George Bush did. He would have done the hard work to build the alliances and the support system.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

PHILLIPS: Edwards plans meetings with his own support system campaign staff before heading out for some solo speeches for the Democratic ticket.

Election officials are entertaining a nightmare scenario. What would happen if terrorists attempted to smash a pillar of constitutional democracy, namely this presidential election? CNN's Tom Foreman reports.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): If a terrorist attack came in the final days of the campaign or on election day itself, could the voting be postponed? That question is being raised by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, and taken up by Homeland Security and the Justice Department too.

GRACIA HILLMAN, ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION: I think that we've been lucky so far that nothing has ever occurred to disrupt a presidential election. But that doesn't mean that something couldn't happen. And we believe prudent planning is the thing that should be done.

FOREMAN: These government officials are mindful of the Spanish train attack, which killed nearly 200 people. Three days later, Spain's prime minister, who supported the war in Iraq, was voted out. Now officials say intelligence suggests something like that could happen here.

TOM RIDGE, HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY: Al Qaeda is moving forward with its plans to carry out a large-scale attack in the United States, in an effort to disrupt our democratic process.

FOREMAN: The political fallout from such an attack is wildly uncertain. After 9/11, support for President Bush rose. But it is also unclear whether the election can be moved. Homeland Security says it would take an act of Congress to amend the constitution, possibly amendments to 50 state constitutions, and maybe changes to voting rules in thousands of counties and towns.

In other words, federal officials see the possibility of delaying the election as very remote. And some lawmakers are calling it a pure doomsday scenario.

SEN. JAY ROCKEFELLER (D), WEST VIRGINIA: It would be a terrible mistake, a terrible mistake.

FOREMAN: Others believe developing a plan may be wise if it sends a message.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No matter what happens, no matter what terrorists do to our country, democracy's going to go on.

FOREMAN: Yet in the end, even those who support a plan for delaying the election say it's something they want to have and never have to use.

Tom Foreman, CNN, Washington.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

PHILLIPS: Get more campaign news and the latest poll numbers today, 3:30 Eastern on Judy Woodruff's "INSIDE POLITICS," only here on CNN.

The new Iraqi government has a stern warning for insurgents in that country. Interim President Ghazi al-Yawer threatened today to wield a very sharp sword against anyone threatening Iraq's security. He says violent groups should not use the 160,000 coalition forces still in the country as an excuse to continue attacking troops and civilians.

The prime minister's warnings came on a day of unabated rebel resistance. Three explosions hit a Baghdad square, no injuries reported. A roadside bombing Sunday killed two U.S. soldiers, wounding three riding in a convoy near Samara. Al-Jazeera reports the Philippine truck driver's kidnappers extended a deadline for the country to agree to pull its troops from Iraq.

Banished in Iraq, then he makes it all the way to Lebanon. The mystery of the once missing marine deepens. Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr is learning what Corporal Wassef Ali Hassoun is saying about his ordeal. Is he talking yet?

BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Well, a bit, Kyra, but the mystery deepens, another twist in this ongoing saga today. Military sources now confirming that Corporal Wassef Ali Hassoun has told people working to help repatriate him, those medical and psychological specialists at Landstuhl Hospital in Germany, telling them he was abducted from his Marine base near Fallujah, Iraq, back on June 19, when he failed to show up for duty.

He was last seen there on June 19, failed to show up the morning of June 20, and then about eight days later, appeared on this videotape, apparently held captive, blindfolded, a sword to his head, being held by insurgents. He somehow, still, mysteriously, made his way from Iraq, Fallujah where his Marine unit was based, all the way to Tripoli, Lebanon, where he was picked up by embassy officials last week and returned to the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon, and then flown on to Germany.

Now, he says he was abducted. This doesn't yet square with the military's working theory of events, because originally, Corporal Hassoun was listed as a deserter. It was believed that he left his Fallujah base of his own free will. Then his status was changed to captured once he appeared on that videotape.

Still, investigators want to talk to him, find out exactly what happened. But at least earlier today, members of his repatriation team spoke a bit about how the corporal is doing.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

LT. COL. SALLY HARVEY, PSYCHOLOGIST FOR CPL. HASSOUN: Corporal Hassoun had been sleeping only several hours a night. That's what he told us. He has since restored his sleep. He is getting a considerable amount of sleep and eating well. His spirits are good, and he's involved in the repatriation process.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

STARR: So the experts say the corporal is in good shape. But still, investigators and intelligence specialists have not begun their process of talking to him, interviewing him about exactly what happened and getting his full story -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Barbara Starr, live from the Pentagon. Thank you. Stem cell research in the spotlight.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

RON REAGAN, SON OF FRM. PRES. REAGAN: They're playing politics with it, and it's shameful -- it is shameful.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

PHILLIPS: Ron Reagan about to make an even bigger political statement about the controversial research.

Are we teaching our kids to tell lies? Coming up, some interesting research reveals the truth about lying.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We're waiting to catch some human miscreant in the act of, you know, a larceny.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

PHILLIPS: But a hidden camera reveals the real culprit isn't even human after all. That story ahead on LIVE FROM.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

PHILLIPS: News across America now. Actress Isabel Sanford, best known for her role as "Weezie" in the long-running sitcom "The Jeffersons," has died. Sanford was 86-years-old. She died of natural causes Friday at a Los Angeles hospital.

There are signs that low carbs may be heading the way of flash in the pan diet fads. "The Wall Street Journal" reports sales of low carb foods are still climbing, but they grew at less than half the rate in the quarter that ended June 12 than the previous quarter.

A New Mexico man, whose claim of heroism at New York's Ground Zero led to a pay out of almost $650,000 from the 9/11 Victims' Compensation Fund, now faces suspicions of fraud. An Albuquerque newspaper is raising questions about Doug Copp's story that he developed 41 medical problems wading through toxic rubble for six days to help find bodies.

Has America become a society of pathological liars? This week, CNN's "AMERICAN MORNING" is exploring the truth about lying. This excerpt from the five-part series, Heidi Collins looks at why we lie.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): The headlines never end. Swindle, scams and deception at the top. But in America today, could the truth be...

RICHARD NIXON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 1969-1974: I had no prior knowledge. COLLINS: ... that lying comes easily to most of us.

BILL CLINTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 1993-2000: I did not have sexual relations.

COLLINS: One recent study concluded the majority of people told at least three lies during every 10 minutes of conversation.

DR. MICHAEL LEWIS, ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL: All people everywhere do it. It keeps the social fabric connected.

COLLINS: According to Dr. Lewis, innocent little white lies, not the lies that hurt people or cheat them out of money, may be something that we are programmed to tell at an early age to help protect ourselves from punishment and protect the feelings of others.

LEWIS: How many of us would say to our arthritic grandmothers who have knitted us a sweater that we really don't like the color, and we really don't like the style and we wish you wouldn't ever knit us another sweater.

In fact, there was a movie called "Liar, Liar," when, in fact, the truth was told and it was a disaster.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE, "LIAR LIAR": Everybody has been real nice.

JIM CARREY, ACTOR, "LIAR, LIAR": Well, that's because you have big...

COLLINS: Dr. Lewis' studies show that 65 percent of children by the age two and a half lie and lie well. He performed a set of experiments for our camera. So meet the newest group of potential perjurers.

The kids were told not to peek at a toy placed behind their back. Dr. Lewis watched on a hidden camera. Would they tell the truth when asked if they looked?

Three and a half year old Rowan peeked before the tester even left the room.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Did you peek? Don't peek.

COLLINS: Olivia age three and a half tried hard not to look, but it doesn't seem to be working.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm back. Did you peek?

OLIVIA: No.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No? OK.

LEWIS: They quickly learn that not telling the truth means that they won't get punished. What we tell the parents all the time is, look they are going to lie. That doesn't mean that they should get off the hook. COLLINS: Dr. Lewis' advice? Focus on the offense not the lie they told to cover it up.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

PHILLIPS: Well, tomorrow on "AMERICAN MORNING," a reformed Wall Street crook ponders how to succeed in business without really lying. Of course, if that's too early for you, we'll run it again on LIVE FROM.

Well, do you work for a snake, a screamer, or a nitpicker? What you can do if your boss is a bully.

And to catch a thief when the gnome went missing. The cops knew that they were not dealing with your typical felon, and they caught their culprit -- later on LIVE FROM.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

PHILLIPS: Bosses who bully. Do you know one? Well, they can make your day on the job a nightmare. But there are things you can do to make the situation better, and it does not involve a trip to HR. Gary Namie has written a new book on how to stop workplace bullies. He explained the basic types to our Heidi Collins earlier today on CNN's "AMERICAN MORNING."

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

COLLINS: You have come up with four types of bullies, though. I want to quickly run through that list, the first one being the snake. Tell us about that.

GARY NAMIE, WORKPLACE BULLYING AND TRAUMA INSTITUTE: The snake, oh, Jekyll and Hyde, back stabbing, duplicitous, one who hugs you and loves you and tells you that to your face but is out to destroy your reputation in the rest of the organization.

COLLINS: Thanks.

The screamer?

NAMIE: The screamer...

COLLINS: It seems obvious.

NAMIE: Well, but -- and that's not a poster boy or a girl, that's the and, don't forget, 58 percent of bullies are women. So it's the Bobby Knight syndrome. It's the yelling, screaming, fist pounding, vein bulging maniac. And they're trying to control the emotions of the place and instill fear.

COLLINS: I bet they do it, too.

The nitpicker.

NAMIE: Well, the nitpicker is a constant critic. They get you behind closed doors and they erode your confidence and your competence. You've got a long career, a stellar career, and suddenly you get a new boss and they're going to try and convince you you're stupid. Outrageous as it sounds, but potentially traumatizing.

COLLINS: Oh, I'm sure.

And the gate keeper?

NAMIE: The gate keeper is the controlling person who messes with your schedule, denies you vacation time, gives you that horrible task assignment. They control you by withholding the things you need to succeed.

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PHILLIPS: OK, so you say your boss fits into one of these categories. So now, go slash their tires. Just kidding. Here's what you do.

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NAMIE: Document if you want, but who's going to read the notes? And, no, you don't go to H.R.., I'm sorry to say. You've got to go high up the ladder, three steps. Easy to say, incredibly hard to do.

Naming it is powerful and it's a first step to making it legitimate so you don't blame yourself. Call it bullying, call it psychological harassment.

Step two, get time off from work and while you're off, what you've got to do is check your legal options, check your health and start building the case. Gather some data.

For step three, which is expose the bully, go bully busting, you've got to go as high up as you can, not H.R., and make the business case the bully's too expensive to keep. And you've got to show the turnover and every, all the other incidental things that the bully causes in terms of disruption, absenteeism, lost productivity. And if that company doesn't want to listen to you, you get out for your health's sake.

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