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Fmr. Natl. Sec. Advisor Under Fire; Detectives Testify in Peterson Case; NASA Celebrates Apollo 11 Landing

Aired July 20, 2004 - 14:59   ET

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

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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Under investigation: Former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger insists he did not deliberately remove sensitive documents about the Clinton-era war on terror from the National Archive. A criminal investigation is underway, though. Full details in one minute.
Looking for Lori: Hundreds of volunteers scouring an area near Salt Lake City, Utah, for a woman who disappeared yesterday while jogging. The mother of 27-year-old Lori Hacking says that she's amazed and thankful that so many people are lending a hand.

Moon memories: The nation is remembering the moment a human being first set foot on the moon 35 years ago. CNN's Miles O'Brien is covering the celebrations at the National Air & Space Museum in Washington. He'll join us live in just a few minutes.

Handle with care: Good advice when you dig through some of the government's most tightly guarded secrets in the war on terror, advice seemingly unheeded by former national security advisor and former Kerry campaign advisor and de facto 9/11 panel researcher Sandy Berger.

Berger says he didn't mean to take classified documents from the National Archives, and he quickly gave back what he didn't accidentally throw away. But the feds aren't ready to forgive and forget.

CNN's Bob Franken in on the case in Washington -- Bob.

BOB FRANKEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This is under investigation. This is a serious matter, Kyra.

The FBI in February went to the home of Sandy Berger with a warrant and searched for material. Berger claims that he was sloppy when he took materials from the National Archives, where he was accumulating documents for the presentations to the 9/11 Commission, partly at the behest of his former boss, President Clinton. Berger was, as you pointed out, the national security advisor to Clinton, as well as now an informal advisor to the Kerry campaign.

He says that when he went there, he brought documents out because he wanted to make sure that he understood some very, very heavy reading. He did not mean to bring out the documents that are in question and he, as a matter of fact, discarded them, he says.

And he goes on to say, quote, "I deeply regard the sloppiness involved, but had no intention of withholding documents from the commission. And to the contrary, to my knowledge, every document requested by the commission from the Clinton administration was produced."

But as members of this administration, the Bush administration, are quick to point out, the handling and mishandling of intelligence matters is serious business.

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JAMES COMEY, DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL: As a general matter, we take issues of classified information very, very seriously. And as you know, we have prosecuted or sought administrative sanctions against any number of people throughout the years for mishandling of classified information.

So, it's our lifeblood, those secrets.

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FRANKEN: And there's a very, very strong political element to all of this. There's a statement from the Republican House speaker, Dennis Hastert, who asks, did these documents detail simple negligence or did they contain something more sinister? Was this a bungled attempt to rewrite history and keep critical information from the 9/11 Commission and potentially put their report under a cloud?

On the other side, the Democratic Senate leader, Tom Daschle, had a different perspective.

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SEN. TOM DASCHLE (D-SD), MINORITY LEADER: He deserves certainly the benefit of the doubt here. He's cooperating. But I do think the timing is very curious, given this has been underway now for this long. Somebody leaked it obviously with an intent, I think, to do damage to Mr. Berger and I think that's unfortunate.

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FRANKEN: An administration source told CNN that there's absolutely no truth to any arguments that this was an intentional administration leak to embarrass Sandy Berger or, as some have suggested, to somehow obscure the 9/11 Commission report, which is expected to be quite critical of this administration and the past one that comes out later this week -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Bob, have you been able to define documents yet? Ann Lewis, who's chairwoman of the DNC's Women's Vote Center was on earlier saying these were handwritten personal notes. Do we know if that indeed is what was taken? Was that the type of note that was taken or do we know if these were more classified, typed-up, official documents?

FRANKEN: Well, first of all, we don't know. Chances are she doesn't know, because these are the most highly classified documents in the arsenal of classifications. These were called code-name documents. That's higher than the famous Q-rated documents. These are extremely classified.

We do know by descriptions by Berger and others that these were so-called after-action reports after the successful efforts to stop an attack on the United States on the millennium. But we really don't know much more about them because as we heard earlier this secrecy is taken very seriously.

PHILLIPS: Bob Franken, thanks.

Sandy Berger's attorney, Lanny Breuer, will be Wolf Blitzer's guest. That's 5:00 p.m. Eastern right here on CNN.

In Iraq, a Filipino hostage is set free. It's the second time this week that militants in Iraq have released a hostage after getting what they wanted. Does it send a dangerous message?

Our Matthew Chance is in Baghdad with the latest.

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MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For two weeks, he had the threat of brutal execution hanging over him.

Now this Filipino truck driver looking tired and worn is in safe hands delivered by his captives to the embassy of the United Arab Emirates in Baghdad.

HAMID AL SHAMISI, UAE AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ: (through translator): At 10:30 this morning, we were surprised of the handing over of the Filipino hostage and the kidnappers ran away. He is in good health, and we have agreed to move him to Abu Dhabi for medical checks.

CHANCE: But this is a freedom at a price. Angelo de la Cruz was abducted on July the 7th, one of many kidnappings of foreigners in recent months. His captors vowed to behead him unless Filipino troops in Iraq were withdrawn early. He believed they would accept.

But first, the government in Manila resisted. But on Monday the last of their small contingent of 51 soldiers on a humanitarian mission was pulled out. It was a blow for the U.S.-led coalition and a setback for the Iraqi government it supports.

HOSHYAR ZEBARI, INTERIM IRAQI FOREIGN MINISTER (through translator): This could repeat itself.

CHANCE: It is a bad precedent, said Iraq's interim foreign minister and it sends the wrong message and rewards the terrorists.

It's not the first time, though, that meeting kidnappers' demands has secured a release in Iraq. Earlier this week, an Egyptian worker was set free after the company that employs him, a Saudi Arabian transport firm, ended its operations in the country. Others have done the same. (on camera): There's always relief when even one hostage is released. Others have met such brutal deaths. But here in Iraq, there is mounting concern that concessions to the hostage-takers may be encouraging kidnappings and the scourge which the Iraqi governments and their coalition backers are anxious to stamp out.

Matthew Chance, CNN, Baghdad.

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PHILLIPS: Other news across America now.

Favorable weather is helping firefighters gain ground on a ferocious wildfire in Southern California. The 6,000-acre fire chased hundreds of people from their homes in Santa Clarita. Many are being allowed to return now. The fire crews say the blaze is 65 percent contained.

Former President Bill Clinton in Denver, Colorado, signing copies of his memoir, "My Life." Clinton plans to speak tonight at a fund- raiser for Columbine High School. He'll meet privately with the families of the people killed in that massacre.

And Shaq is back.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SHAQUILLE O'NEAL, NBA PLAYER: I was looking for cities to come to. Miami was one of my choices for one reason and one reason only. They didn't have a lot of talent on that team, but they had a great team.

I saw that they played good together. I saw that the guys got along together and I saw that they were a great team. And I just wanted to be part of a team, because I know in basketball you can't do it by yourself, no matter how great you are.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

PHILLIPS: Shaquille O'Neal returns to the state where his NBA career began. The former Orlando Magic star turned L.A. Laker was formally introduced as Miami Heat's newest player. O'Neal also received a key to Miami Dade County.

In California, a police detective who admitting questioning, but not eliminating suspects in the Scott Peterson case is back on the stand today.

More now from CNN's Rusty Dornin outside the courthouse in Redwood City -- Rusty.

RUSTY DORNIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kyra, Detective Ray Coyle spent most of the morning on the stand. You might say the defense might had a field day with much of his testimony.

He was tasked with following up on some 300 sex offenders and parolees in connection with the Laci Peterson case. Geragos on cross- examination went through a list one by one of about 30 of the mostly sex offenders talking about that police never confirmed their alibis, perhaps they didn't contact them, or they never really followed up or completed the investigation, again driving home the message to the jury that someone else might have killed Laci Peterson and prosecutors and police never followed up on that.

But on redirect, prosecutors were able to clarify some things, saying that this was, look, this was a round up the usual suspects kind of thing. Some of these people were seriously mentally ill. In fact, Geragos had pointed out one who claimed he killed someone named Lisa Peterson.

Prosecutors and the detective pointed thought this person suffered serious mental illness, and both his sister and his mother said that he was with them on Christmas Eve, the night Laci Peterson disappeared.

Prosecutors also brought out that many of these people were either elderly, dead, still incarcerated or, again, suffering from mental illness and that they properly followed up on each and every one of them. Geragos did have a chance, however, to point out on recross that some 200 sex offenders live within one square mile of Scott and Laci Peterson's home.

Now on the stand is Detective Darren Ruskamp. He was involved in several searches, also talking about Conner's room, the baby that was soon to be Laci Peterson's unborn son, claiming that it was used for a storage room when they went in there in February.

However, Mark Geragos came back and showed pictures showing Laci and Scott together, showing Conner's room, saying that Peterson was forced to use that room as storage partly because there had been a break-in at the warehouse. Ruskamp will be taking the stand again some time this afternoon -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Rusty Dornin, thanks.

Well, where were you 35 years ago? These guys were making history on the moon. Celebrating that Apollo landing with some new views ahead on LIVE FROM. Some things that happen in Vegas do not stay in Vegas. A casino tells singer Linda Ronstadt to get out of town after she goes public with her politics.

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PHILLIPS: Neil Armstrong called his one small step on the surface of the moon a giant leap for mankind. Hard to imagine it was 35 years ago today. That achievement is being honored at the National Air & Space Museum in Washington.

That's of course, where we find our space whiz, Miles O'Brien. Hi, Miles.

MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Space whiz. I like that. How about Mr. Whiz to you maybe? I don't know.

PHILLIPS: Sir Whiz.

O'BRIEN:: Kyra, good to see you.

Of course, you were too young to remember this, but you've seen the film of what happened as Neil Armstrong walked down those steps and landed his feet on the moon on 35 years ago today, July 20, 1969.

Now, what's interesting about that, of course, is the pictures we all saw and remember were incredibly scratchy, grainy, black and white. You could barely make out the whole thing. Of course, the fact that we were all watching this event collectively globally was significant in its own right.

But the thing about it is, 35 years later, all the people of this generation can appreciate the moon landing not live, of course, but in really much better detail.

And joining us to talk a little bit about that is Andy Chaikin, who is the author -- he's a friend of LIVE FROM. You've seen him many times, amateur astronomer who has shared pictures with us, author of "A Man on the Moon," which is the seminal work on the Apollo era. If you want to know about what happened on Apollo, if you weren't born then, this is the book to read.

And he's here to give us -- he's going to tell you, of course, to read this book. But beyond that, Andy is going to us sort of a viewing and reading guide for those of you who want to brush up on what happened 35 years ago.

Andy good to have you with us.

ANDY CHAIKIN, AUTHOR, "A MAN ON THE MOON": Miles, thank you. And it's nice to be here. And happy anniversary.

O'BRIEN: Yes. Happy anniversary.

Now, this first thing we're going to talk about is the DVD. This is something.

CHAIKIN: That's right.

This is from a wonderful group called Spacecraft Films. And they have with Fox Home Video put out a series of DVDs on every Apollo mission, including Apollo 11. And the really cool thing about this is that they have gotten diligent research. They have tracked down footage that I never even saw after all these years

O'BRIEN: And you've done your homework.

CHAIKIN: And I have done my homework, as I did when I wrote "A Man on the Moon." But we're talking launch footage where the camera is right next to the engines, and you see the fury of the Saturn 5. They've gone back and cleaned up the footage that was taken inside the spacecraft, the footage of the landing, all of the video that the astronauts -- remember the video transmissions that they did with that crude color camera?

O'BRIEN: It's terrible, scratchy...

CHAIKIN: But it's wonderful. It's like a time capsule.

And the point is that you can experience Apollo 11 now better than we could 35 years ago.

O'BRIEN: OK, DVD set by Spacecraft Films.

CHAIKIN: Spacecraft Films. Amazon has it, as well as Barnes and Noble or any of the other stores. Amazon has it online.

O'BRIEN: Now, speaking of online...

CHAIKIN: Online...

O'BRIEN: ... tell us about the Web site.

CHAIKIN: There is a Web site that has new scans of the Apollo 11 photographs that were gotten from NASA. They actually took the flight film out of storage and scanned them. The Web site is apolloarchive.com.

O'BRIEN: That's singular, apolloarchive -- all one word -- .com.

CHAIKIN: Apolloarchive -- one word -- .com

And on that Web site is an image gallery, the Apollo image gallery. And go to the Apollo 11 page and you will see the photographs that Neil and Buzz snapped on the moon, by the way, including one of the only good photographs of Neil on the moon. And I think the viewers are probably seeing that.

O'BRIEN: Well, and let's point out, because Neil was the photographer. He had the Hasselblad attached to his suit.

CHAIKIN: Right.

O'BRIEN: And so almost every shot you see, including that iconic shot, is of Buzz Aldrin.

CHAIKIN: Of Buzz. That's right. And there was only a few minutes in the moon walk where Neil gave the camera to Buzz, went off and did other things like collect moon rocks. And Buzz took documentary photographs, some of which happened to have Neil in the shot.

So, there's this great shot of Neil standing at the rock box while he's collecting these lunar samples. And it's better detail, better quality than you've ever seen before on that Web site, apolloarchive.com.

O'BRIEN: Does it cost you to download these?

CHAIKIN: Not at all. It's NASA photographs. It's free. There's no copyright. It's for everybody to enjoy.

O'BRIEN: All right, now, the Apogee book series is really fascinating. If you're a space geek and really want to get into it.

CHAIKIN: If you're a real space geek -- and even if you're not, last, but not least, Apogee Books has done a wonderful series of books called the Apollo mission reports. And they include not only the press kits that were prized items back at that time if you were a collector, but also they went and got the actual debriefings that the astronauts gave after the flights.

So, you go to these missions, you see exactly what the astronauts told NASA when they came back from the moon. Plus, in the back, there is a -- or there was -- well, Miles has already been looking at it.

O'BRIEN: There's a DVD.

CHAIKIN: There is a DVD in there which they did some amazing work in syncing up the audio from the spacecraft with the on-board voice recorder and the mission control. You'll love it.

O'BRIEN: And this is audio you didn't hear because it's the stuff that didn't just go over the air, the stuff that was on board.

CHAIKIN: Right. Right.

O'BRIEN: All right, Andy Chaikin, that is a good viewing, reading guide.

CHAIKIN: That will keep you busy.

O'BRIEN: And that will keep you busy. And by the time you're done...

CHAIKIN: And my book is available on Amazon, too, by the way.

` O'BRIEN: And you, too, could write a book.

CHAIKIN: You can't get the hard-cover anymore, but paperback on Amazon. I need a bump in the sales.

(LAUGHTER)

O'BRIEN: All right, I think you've now reached the plug limit.

CHAIKIN: I have.

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O'BRIEN: Andy Chaikin, thank you very much, friend of LIVE FROM, getting numerous plugs, Kyra, today on the 35th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Are you going to get me a signed copy from Andy?

O'BRIEN: Yes, I can do that from you.

PHILLIPS: OK. Thank you.

O'BRIEN: Yes. Absolutely. I'll take care of you.

PHILLIPS: Hook me up. Thank you, Miles.

O'BRIEN: All right.

PHILLIPS: Tell Andy I said hello.

O'BRIEN: I will.

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PHILLIPS: We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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PHILLIPS: Checking entertainment headlines this Tuesday, we should have known it from his green wardrobe in the music video "Hey Ya." Now we find out Andre 3000 is a vegetarian. Since meat is the outcast in his diet, Andre was eligible in PETA's annual sexiest vegetarian poll and shares top honors with actress Alicia Silverstone.

A new strain of "Idol" mania poised to infect the nation. Auditions begin next month for the fourth season of the talent reality show. Geezers still need not apply. Applicants may be no older than 28 to compete and no younger than 16. Tryouts will be held in eight U.S. cities, including Anchorage and Las Vegas.

Speaking of which, you can forget the slogan "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas," at least if you're Linda Ronstadt. A lot of spilling today after she was booed and booted from the Aladdin Hotel. Her crime? Not aces up her sleeve or loaded dice. She dedicated a song to "Fahrenheit 9/11" director Michael Moore.

Budweiser calls itself the King of Beers. And after a huge controversial sponsorship deal, it may start calling itself kaiser, as well.

CNN's Chris Burns has more now from Berlin on the brewing battle over beer.

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CHRIS BURNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's almost enough to make some here cry in their beer. What's a 2006 World Cup in Germany without the country's strong beer, greasy sausage, or fast cars?

"There are enough Berlin beers," she says. "It's not nice. It's also not good for the German economy."

In the stadiums, America's Anheuser-Busch will supply the only brew on tap, Budweiser.

(on camera): So, you're not going to drink it?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I would drink it if I don't have to pay for it, but...

BURNS (voice-over): That's if they want to wash down their McDonald's Big Macs. And the official cars will be South Korean Hyundais -- like Anheuser-Busch, company sponsors of the games.

"Outraged, no," he says, "but I think German culture, like beer and sausage, should be shown more to the world public."

The International Soccer Federation, FIFA, argues the sponsors pay big money for World Cup rights.

GERD GRAUS, FIFA: FIFA has 15 global partners, years ago, even before Germany would get the right to host the World Cup.

BURNS (on camera): So rules is rules?

GRAUS: Rules is rules.

BURNS: How does that feel?

HERBERT FRANKENHAUSER, BAVARIAN MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT: Horrible. It feels horrible.

BURNS (voice-over): Herbert Frankenhauser, a Bavarian member of parliament, heads Germany's Beer Purity Association, defending century's old brewing rules Bud isn't held to.

FRANKENHAUSER: We hope that the most visitors don't drink anything in the stadium and do it after the game.

BURNS: Not the thing FIFA wants to hear. Sponsors are paying over $650 million for the 2006 events. Some are homegrown, like Deutsche Telekom and Adidas. Some beer drinkers say they understand.

You have to think internationally, not so nationally, he says.

But for others, it's not an idea they are exactly gulping down.

Chris Burns, CNN, Berlin.

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PHILLIPS: Well, that wraps it up for LIVE FROM. Take us through the next hour, political headlines, Judy Woodruff's "INSIDE POLITICS" -- Judy?

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Aired July 20, 2004 - 14:59   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Under investigation: Former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger insists he did not deliberately remove sensitive documents about the Clinton-era war on terror from the National Archive. A criminal investigation is underway, though. Full details in one minute.
Looking for Lori: Hundreds of volunteers scouring an area near Salt Lake City, Utah, for a woman who disappeared yesterday while jogging. The mother of 27-year-old Lori Hacking says that she's amazed and thankful that so many people are lending a hand.

Moon memories: The nation is remembering the moment a human being first set foot on the moon 35 years ago. CNN's Miles O'Brien is covering the celebrations at the National Air & Space Museum in Washington. He'll join us live in just a few minutes.

Handle with care: Good advice when you dig through some of the government's most tightly guarded secrets in the war on terror, advice seemingly unheeded by former national security advisor and former Kerry campaign advisor and de facto 9/11 panel researcher Sandy Berger.

Berger says he didn't mean to take classified documents from the National Archives, and he quickly gave back what he didn't accidentally throw away. But the feds aren't ready to forgive and forget.

CNN's Bob Franken in on the case in Washington -- Bob.

BOB FRANKEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This is under investigation. This is a serious matter, Kyra.

The FBI in February went to the home of Sandy Berger with a warrant and searched for material. Berger claims that he was sloppy when he took materials from the National Archives, where he was accumulating documents for the presentations to the 9/11 Commission, partly at the behest of his former boss, President Clinton. Berger was, as you pointed out, the national security advisor to Clinton, as well as now an informal advisor to the Kerry campaign.

He says that when he went there, he brought documents out because he wanted to make sure that he understood some very, very heavy reading. He did not mean to bring out the documents that are in question and he, as a matter of fact, discarded them, he says.

And he goes on to say, quote, "I deeply regard the sloppiness involved, but had no intention of withholding documents from the commission. And to the contrary, to my knowledge, every document requested by the commission from the Clinton administration was produced."

But as members of this administration, the Bush administration, are quick to point out, the handling and mishandling of intelligence matters is serious business.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

JAMES COMEY, DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL: As a general matter, we take issues of classified information very, very seriously. And as you know, we have prosecuted or sought administrative sanctions against any number of people throughout the years for mishandling of classified information.

So, it's our lifeblood, those secrets.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

FRANKEN: And there's a very, very strong political element to all of this. There's a statement from the Republican House speaker, Dennis Hastert, who asks, did these documents detail simple negligence or did they contain something more sinister? Was this a bungled attempt to rewrite history and keep critical information from the 9/11 Commission and potentially put their report under a cloud?

On the other side, the Democratic Senate leader, Tom Daschle, had a different perspective.

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SEN. TOM DASCHLE (D-SD), MINORITY LEADER: He deserves certainly the benefit of the doubt here. He's cooperating. But I do think the timing is very curious, given this has been underway now for this long. Somebody leaked it obviously with an intent, I think, to do damage to Mr. Berger and I think that's unfortunate.

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FRANKEN: An administration source told CNN that there's absolutely no truth to any arguments that this was an intentional administration leak to embarrass Sandy Berger or, as some have suggested, to somehow obscure the 9/11 Commission report, which is expected to be quite critical of this administration and the past one that comes out later this week -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Bob, have you been able to define documents yet? Ann Lewis, who's chairwoman of the DNC's Women's Vote Center was on earlier saying these were handwritten personal notes. Do we know if that indeed is what was taken? Was that the type of note that was taken or do we know if these were more classified, typed-up, official documents?

FRANKEN: Well, first of all, we don't know. Chances are she doesn't know, because these are the most highly classified documents in the arsenal of classifications. These were called code-name documents. That's higher than the famous Q-rated documents. These are extremely classified.

We do know by descriptions by Berger and others that these were so-called after-action reports after the successful efforts to stop an attack on the United States on the millennium. But we really don't know much more about them because as we heard earlier this secrecy is taken very seriously.

PHILLIPS: Bob Franken, thanks.

Sandy Berger's attorney, Lanny Breuer, will be Wolf Blitzer's guest. That's 5:00 p.m. Eastern right here on CNN.

In Iraq, a Filipino hostage is set free. It's the second time this week that militants in Iraq have released a hostage after getting what they wanted. Does it send a dangerous message?

Our Matthew Chance is in Baghdad with the latest.

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MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For two weeks, he had the threat of brutal execution hanging over him.

Now this Filipino truck driver looking tired and worn is in safe hands delivered by his captives to the embassy of the United Arab Emirates in Baghdad.

HAMID AL SHAMISI, UAE AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ: (through translator): At 10:30 this morning, we were surprised of the handing over of the Filipino hostage and the kidnappers ran away. He is in good health, and we have agreed to move him to Abu Dhabi for medical checks.

CHANCE: But this is a freedom at a price. Angelo de la Cruz was abducted on July the 7th, one of many kidnappings of foreigners in recent months. His captors vowed to behead him unless Filipino troops in Iraq were withdrawn early. He believed they would accept.

But first, the government in Manila resisted. But on Monday the last of their small contingent of 51 soldiers on a humanitarian mission was pulled out. It was a blow for the U.S.-led coalition and a setback for the Iraqi government it supports.

HOSHYAR ZEBARI, INTERIM IRAQI FOREIGN MINISTER (through translator): This could repeat itself.

CHANCE: It is a bad precedent, said Iraq's interim foreign minister and it sends the wrong message and rewards the terrorists.

It's not the first time, though, that meeting kidnappers' demands has secured a release in Iraq. Earlier this week, an Egyptian worker was set free after the company that employs him, a Saudi Arabian transport firm, ended its operations in the country. Others have done the same. (on camera): There's always relief when even one hostage is released. Others have met such brutal deaths. But here in Iraq, there is mounting concern that concessions to the hostage-takers may be encouraging kidnappings and the scourge which the Iraqi governments and their coalition backers are anxious to stamp out.

Matthew Chance, CNN, Baghdad.

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PHILLIPS: Other news across America now.

Favorable weather is helping firefighters gain ground on a ferocious wildfire in Southern California. The 6,000-acre fire chased hundreds of people from their homes in Santa Clarita. Many are being allowed to return now. The fire crews say the blaze is 65 percent contained.

Former President Bill Clinton in Denver, Colorado, signing copies of his memoir, "My Life." Clinton plans to speak tonight at a fund- raiser for Columbine High School. He'll meet privately with the families of the people killed in that massacre.

And Shaq is back.

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SHAQUILLE O'NEAL, NBA PLAYER: I was looking for cities to come to. Miami was one of my choices for one reason and one reason only. They didn't have a lot of talent on that team, but they had a great team.

I saw that they played good together. I saw that the guys got along together and I saw that they were a great team. And I just wanted to be part of a team, because I know in basketball you can't do it by yourself, no matter how great you are.

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PHILLIPS: Shaquille O'Neal returns to the state where his NBA career began. The former Orlando Magic star turned L.A. Laker was formally introduced as Miami Heat's newest player. O'Neal also received a key to Miami Dade County.

In California, a police detective who admitting questioning, but not eliminating suspects in the Scott Peterson case is back on the stand today.

More now from CNN's Rusty Dornin outside the courthouse in Redwood City -- Rusty.

RUSTY DORNIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kyra, Detective Ray Coyle spent most of the morning on the stand. You might say the defense might had a field day with much of his testimony.

He was tasked with following up on some 300 sex offenders and parolees in connection with the Laci Peterson case. Geragos on cross- examination went through a list one by one of about 30 of the mostly sex offenders talking about that police never confirmed their alibis, perhaps they didn't contact them, or they never really followed up or completed the investigation, again driving home the message to the jury that someone else might have killed Laci Peterson and prosecutors and police never followed up on that.

But on redirect, prosecutors were able to clarify some things, saying that this was, look, this was a round up the usual suspects kind of thing. Some of these people were seriously mentally ill. In fact, Geragos had pointed out one who claimed he killed someone named Lisa Peterson.

Prosecutors and the detective pointed thought this person suffered serious mental illness, and both his sister and his mother said that he was with them on Christmas Eve, the night Laci Peterson disappeared.

Prosecutors also brought out that many of these people were either elderly, dead, still incarcerated or, again, suffering from mental illness and that they properly followed up on each and every one of them. Geragos did have a chance, however, to point out on recross that some 200 sex offenders live within one square mile of Scott and Laci Peterson's home.

Now on the stand is Detective Darren Ruskamp. He was involved in several searches, also talking about Conner's room, the baby that was soon to be Laci Peterson's unborn son, claiming that it was used for a storage room when they went in there in February.

However, Mark Geragos came back and showed pictures showing Laci and Scott together, showing Conner's room, saying that Peterson was forced to use that room as storage partly because there had been a break-in at the warehouse. Ruskamp will be taking the stand again some time this afternoon -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Rusty Dornin, thanks.

Well, where were you 35 years ago? These guys were making history on the moon. Celebrating that Apollo landing with some new views ahead on LIVE FROM. Some things that happen in Vegas do not stay in Vegas. A casino tells singer Linda Ronstadt to get out of town after she goes public with her politics.

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PHILLIPS: Neil Armstrong called his one small step on the surface of the moon a giant leap for mankind. Hard to imagine it was 35 years ago today. That achievement is being honored at the National Air & Space Museum in Washington.

That's of course, where we find our space whiz, Miles O'Brien. Hi, Miles.

MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Space whiz. I like that. How about Mr. Whiz to you maybe? I don't know.

PHILLIPS: Sir Whiz.

O'BRIEN:: Kyra, good to see you.

Of course, you were too young to remember this, but you've seen the film of what happened as Neil Armstrong walked down those steps and landed his feet on the moon on 35 years ago today, July 20, 1969.

Now, what's interesting about that, of course, is the pictures we all saw and remember were incredibly scratchy, grainy, black and white. You could barely make out the whole thing. Of course, the fact that we were all watching this event collectively globally was significant in its own right.

But the thing about it is, 35 years later, all the people of this generation can appreciate the moon landing not live, of course, but in really much better detail.

And joining us to talk a little bit about that is Andy Chaikin, who is the author -- he's a friend of LIVE FROM. You've seen him many times, amateur astronomer who has shared pictures with us, author of "A Man on the Moon," which is the seminal work on the Apollo era. If you want to know about what happened on Apollo, if you weren't born then, this is the book to read.

And he's here to give us -- he's going to tell you, of course, to read this book. But beyond that, Andy is going to us sort of a viewing and reading guide for those of you who want to brush up on what happened 35 years ago.

Andy good to have you with us.

ANDY CHAIKIN, AUTHOR, "A MAN ON THE MOON": Miles, thank you. And it's nice to be here. And happy anniversary.

O'BRIEN: Yes. Happy anniversary.

Now, this first thing we're going to talk about is the DVD. This is something.

CHAIKIN: That's right.

This is from a wonderful group called Spacecraft Films. And they have with Fox Home Video put out a series of DVDs on every Apollo mission, including Apollo 11. And the really cool thing about this is that they have gotten diligent research. They have tracked down footage that I never even saw after all these years

O'BRIEN: And you've done your homework.

CHAIKIN: And I have done my homework, as I did when I wrote "A Man on the Moon." But we're talking launch footage where the camera is right next to the engines, and you see the fury of the Saturn 5. They've gone back and cleaned up the footage that was taken inside the spacecraft, the footage of the landing, all of the video that the astronauts -- remember the video transmissions that they did with that crude color camera?

O'BRIEN: It's terrible, scratchy...

CHAIKIN: But it's wonderful. It's like a time capsule.

And the point is that you can experience Apollo 11 now better than we could 35 years ago.

O'BRIEN: OK, DVD set by Spacecraft Films.

CHAIKIN: Spacecraft Films. Amazon has it, as well as Barnes and Noble or any of the other stores. Amazon has it online.

O'BRIEN: Now, speaking of online...

CHAIKIN: Online...

O'BRIEN: ... tell us about the Web site.

CHAIKIN: There is a Web site that has new scans of the Apollo 11 photographs that were gotten from NASA. They actually took the flight film out of storage and scanned them. The Web site is apolloarchive.com.

O'BRIEN: That's singular, apolloarchive -- all one word -- .com.

CHAIKIN: Apolloarchive -- one word -- .com

And on that Web site is an image gallery, the Apollo image gallery. And go to the Apollo 11 page and you will see the photographs that Neil and Buzz snapped on the moon, by the way, including one of the only good photographs of Neil on the moon. And I think the viewers are probably seeing that.

O'BRIEN: Well, and let's point out, because Neil was the photographer. He had the Hasselblad attached to his suit.

CHAIKIN: Right.

O'BRIEN: And so almost every shot you see, including that iconic shot, is of Buzz Aldrin.

CHAIKIN: Of Buzz. That's right. And there was only a few minutes in the moon walk where Neil gave the camera to Buzz, went off and did other things like collect moon rocks. And Buzz took documentary photographs, some of which happened to have Neil in the shot.

So, there's this great shot of Neil standing at the rock box while he's collecting these lunar samples. And it's better detail, better quality than you've ever seen before on that Web site, apolloarchive.com.

O'BRIEN: Does it cost you to download these?

CHAIKIN: Not at all. It's NASA photographs. It's free. There's no copyright. It's for everybody to enjoy.

O'BRIEN: All right, now, the Apogee book series is really fascinating. If you're a space geek and really want to get into it.

CHAIKIN: If you're a real space geek -- and even if you're not, last, but not least, Apogee Books has done a wonderful series of books called the Apollo mission reports. And they include not only the press kits that were prized items back at that time if you were a collector, but also they went and got the actual debriefings that the astronauts gave after the flights.

So, you go to these missions, you see exactly what the astronauts told NASA when they came back from the moon. Plus, in the back, there is a -- or there was -- well, Miles has already been looking at it.

O'BRIEN: There's a DVD.

CHAIKIN: There is a DVD in there which they did some amazing work in syncing up the audio from the spacecraft with the on-board voice recorder and the mission control. You'll love it.

O'BRIEN: And this is audio you didn't hear because it's the stuff that didn't just go over the air, the stuff that was on board.

CHAIKIN: Right. Right.

O'BRIEN: All right, Andy Chaikin, that is a good viewing, reading guide.

CHAIKIN: That will keep you busy.

O'BRIEN: And that will keep you busy. And by the time you're done...

CHAIKIN: And my book is available on Amazon, too, by the way.

` O'BRIEN: And you, too, could write a book.

CHAIKIN: You can't get the hard-cover anymore, but paperback on Amazon. I need a bump in the sales.

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O'BRIEN: All right, I think you've now reached the plug limit.

CHAIKIN: I have.

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O'BRIEN: Andy Chaikin, thank you very much, friend of LIVE FROM, getting numerous plugs, Kyra, today on the 35th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Are you going to get me a signed copy from Andy?

O'BRIEN: Yes, I can do that from you.

PHILLIPS: OK. Thank you.

O'BRIEN: Yes. Absolutely. I'll take care of you.

PHILLIPS: Hook me up. Thank you, Miles.

O'BRIEN: All right.

PHILLIPS: Tell Andy I said hello.

O'BRIEN: I will.

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PHILLIPS: Checking entertainment headlines this Tuesday, we should have known it from his green wardrobe in the music video "Hey Ya." Now we find out Andre 3000 is a vegetarian. Since meat is the outcast in his diet, Andre was eligible in PETA's annual sexiest vegetarian poll and shares top honors with actress Alicia Silverstone.

A new strain of "Idol" mania poised to infect the nation. Auditions begin next month for the fourth season of the talent reality show. Geezers still need not apply. Applicants may be no older than 28 to compete and no younger than 16. Tryouts will be held in eight U.S. cities, including Anchorage and Las Vegas.

Speaking of which, you can forget the slogan "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas," at least if you're Linda Ronstadt. A lot of spilling today after she was booed and booted from the Aladdin Hotel. Her crime? Not aces up her sleeve or loaded dice. She dedicated a song to "Fahrenheit 9/11" director Michael Moore.

Budweiser calls itself the King of Beers. And after a huge controversial sponsorship deal, it may start calling itself kaiser, as well.

CNN's Chris Burns has more now from Berlin on the brewing battle over beer.

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CHRIS BURNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's almost enough to make some here cry in their beer. What's a 2006 World Cup in Germany without the country's strong beer, greasy sausage, or fast cars?

"There are enough Berlin beers," she says. "It's not nice. It's also not good for the German economy."

In the stadiums, America's Anheuser-Busch will supply the only brew on tap, Budweiser.

(on camera): So, you're not going to drink it?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I would drink it if I don't have to pay for it, but...

BURNS (voice-over): That's if they want to wash down their McDonald's Big Macs. And the official cars will be South Korean Hyundais -- like Anheuser-Busch, company sponsors of the games.

"Outraged, no," he says, "but I think German culture, like beer and sausage, should be shown more to the world public."

The International Soccer Federation, FIFA, argues the sponsors pay big money for World Cup rights.

GERD GRAUS, FIFA: FIFA has 15 global partners, years ago, even before Germany would get the right to host the World Cup.

BURNS (on camera): So rules is rules?

GRAUS: Rules is rules.

BURNS: How does that feel?

HERBERT FRANKENHAUSER, BAVARIAN MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT: Horrible. It feels horrible.

BURNS (voice-over): Herbert Frankenhauser, a Bavarian member of parliament, heads Germany's Beer Purity Association, defending century's old brewing rules Bud isn't held to.

FRANKENHAUSER: We hope that the most visitors don't drink anything in the stadium and do it after the game.

BURNS: Not the thing FIFA wants to hear. Sponsors are paying over $650 million for the 2006 events. Some are homegrown, like Deutsche Telekom and Adidas. Some beer drinkers say they understand.

You have to think internationally, not so nationally, he says.

But for others, it's not an idea they are exactly gulping down.

Chris Burns, CNN, Berlin.

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