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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: More troops in Iraq, protests in Ukraine, and a growing United Nations scandal. President Bush speaks out on all of them. We're live from the White House.
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Steroids in sports. A reported stunning admission from a Major Leaguer. We'll have a live report.

DANIEL SIEBERG, CNN TECHNOLOGY CORRESPONDENT: I'm technology correspondent Daniel Sieberg. Feeling a little paranoid? Well, your employer is probably watching everything you do at work. Coming up, we'll show you what one man decided to do in response.

PHILLIPS: Remembering the legacy of golfer Payne Stewart. His son Aaron hits the links today and joins us live to talk about fulfilling a dream.

From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Kyra Phillips.

WHITFIELD: And I'm Fredricka Whitfield, in for Miles O'Brien. This hour of CNN's LIVE FROM begins right now.

PHILLIPS: Up first this hour, President Bush sets the date in stone. Iraqi elections should and will take place January 30. The president says that's 59 days from now, but in remarks to reporters in the Oval Office, Mr. Bush declined to say whether he considered Kofi Annan's days numbered at the U.N.

We get the latest on the "vote or else" and the Oil-for-Food controversy from CNN's Elaine Quijano. She's at the White House.

Hi, Elaine.

ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi there to you, Kyra.

First on the Iraqi elections, you're right, President Bush does not want to see any kind of delay. He would like to see the elections move forward as scheduled at the end of January.

Now, the president, despite some calls from those inside Iraq, some political parties in Iraq, the president remaining firm. He believes those elections should go ahead.

Now, some have expressed concern inside Iraq because of the security situation there. But the president making his views clear during an appearance this morning with the president of Nigeria. Now, clearly, the administration has a lot at stake when it comes to Iraq's future. Mr. Bush has steadily maintained that success in Iraq, the establishment of a democracy there can be an example for other countries to follow in that region. And today, Mr. Bush repeated his view. He believes sticking with the original timetable is the best course of action.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Well, first of all, the elections should not be postponed. It's time for the Iraqi citizens to go to the polls. And that's why we are very firm on the January 30 date.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

QUIJANO: Now, the president was also asked a question about the U.N. Oil-for-Food program, and specifically whether he thinks that U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan should resign. The president side stepped that question, declined to answer it.

As you know, investigations are under way into whether billions of dollars illegally went to Saddam Hussein's government and whether or not Kofi Annan's own son had a role in that. On the resignation question, the president was very careful not to answer it one way or the other, instead saying that he believes the investigation should move forward, that there should be a full and fair and open accounting of that program.

But Kyra, the president being very careful in choosing his words and how he answers the question about Kofi Annan's future -- Fred. PHILLIPS: All right. Elaine Quijano live from the White House. Thanks so much -- Fred.

WHITFIELD: Well, a day after the Republican chairman of the Senate panel on investigations called on Kofi Annan to take the fall in the Oil-for-Food scandal, a Democratic colleague says not so fast. Carl Levin spoke today on CNN's "AMERICAN MORNING."

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SEN. CARL LEVIN (D), MICHIGAN: I haven't heard any voices of any government, including our own, that are calling for Kofi Annan's resignation. There may be voices in some of the columns in some of the newspapers, plus one senator or two, but that is not a significant call for a resignation of a head of an organization that is of global significance and so important to us.

There's no evidence that our subcommittee has seen that shows any impropriety on the part of Kofi Annan. That's what it comes down to.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

WHITFIELD: Well, it was supposed to be a means of allowing Iraqis to survive under suffocating international sanctions. Instead, Oil- for-Food allegedly became a free-for-all of corruption, with Saddam Hussein benefiting the most.

CNN's Richard Roth joins us now with the latest on the flap and the fallout.

RICHARD ROTH, CNN UNITED NATIONS CORRESPONDENT: Fredricka, President Bush may be silent on Annan's fate because, one, he's got huge support around the world; two, there's no formal proof of anything yet; and maybe three, the U.S. is always going to need the U.N., probably in places like Iraq eventually.

Today, Annan was receiving what he would have liked to have been the highlight of this week, if not year, for the U.N., a major year- and-a-half report on how to change the United Nations, how to improve it, how to react if one country wants to preemptively strike against another, how to expand the Security Council and still have everybody making sense in the world. Unfortunately, for Mr. Annan, the focus is on him and his son.

One newspaper reported today his son used his father's name wheeling and dealing for business. The U.N. won't comment on it. Oil- for-Food is not going away anytime soon.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

RICHARD ROTH, CNN U.N. CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Kofi Annan once said he could do business with Saddam Hussein, a remark he later regretted. Now the question is, did anyone on Annan's staff, international diplomats or businessmen, conduct illegal business with Saddam's government? While Iraqis got food handouts, Saddam Hussein allegedly pocketed $20 billion through oil and food-related kickbacks and smuggling.

American newspaper columnists demanding Kofi Annan's resignation barely caused a stir. But people began noticing when a U.S. senator chairing a committee probing Oil-for-Food called for Annan's ouster.

SEN. NORM COLEMAN (R), MINNESOTA: The bottom line is that there was one man in charge of the United Nations during the period of time of the Oil-for-Food program, and that's Kofi Annan.

ROTH: Annan wouldn't comment. Talk of resignation is meaningless for now at the U.N. unless a country itself raises the issue.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A few voices doesn't make a chorus.

ROTH: The U.N. deals with governments, not individual senators. And so far the Bush administration is being very cautious on Annan.

ADAM ERELI, STATE DEPT. SPOKESMAN: Secretary Annan, as I said, is a valued interlocutor and has been working, I think, positively and cooperatively in trying to get to the bottom of this Oil-for-Food program.

ROTH: Annan's son didn't help matters. Kojo Annan apparently failed to admit that he was on the payroll of a Swiss firm now being investigated as part of Oil-for-Food. But the scandal is global. Why all the heat on Annan?

THOMAS WEISS, U.N. EXPERT: I think it's because people can understand personal scandal much more easily than they can understand institutional scandal.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

ROTH: Ambassador after ambassador praising Kofi Annan. The African group yesterday coming up with a formal response. Today it might be the turn of the Europeans later today -- Fredricka.

WHITFIELD: All right. We'll be watching for that. Thanks very much -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Live now to Newark, New Jersey. Announcement in the making right now.

Jon Corzine, the multimillionaire, investment banker-turned-U.S. senator, has decided he's going to run for governor of New Jersey. The 57-year-old serving his first term in the Senate is making the announcement right now.

He was elected in 2000 after spending $62 million of his own fortune to first run for the office. Corzine will become the first front-runner to win the Democratic nomination, or did, rather, in the race next -- or he will be, rather, next November. We're following what he has to say. We'll bring you more if we need to.

Another new face tapped for the second term. President Bush nominates Nebraska Governor Mike Johanns has his new secretary of Agriculture. Johanns is nominated to replace Ann Veneman, who resigned last month.

And Mr. Bush called the governor a man of action and of complete integrity. Johanns was reelected as Nebraska's governor in 2002. If confirmed in the new post, he would oversee the country's food and farm programs.

WHITFIELD: A slugger and steroids. New York Yankee Jason Giambi has reportedly testified to using banned drugs. It's all part of the continuing BALCO investigation. CNN sports reporter Steve Overmyer joins us now with some of the details.

STEVE OVERMYER, CNN SPORTS: Yes, this could be the new shock heard around the baseball world. And this shot, it would be injectable. A surprising revelation.

According to a Bay Area paper, New York Yankee Jason Giambi is the first active player to admit he knowingly took steroids. A report in today's "San Francisco Chronicle" says that during his testimony in the BALCO investigation, Giambi admitted to using steroids for the better part of three seasons, including the 2003 season, when he hit 41 home runs. The 2000 AL MVP, however, did not start using this undetectable steroid until 2001.

The "Chronicle" also reports that Giambi told investigators he obtained different types of steroids from Greg Anderson, who at the time was the personal trainer for Barry Bonds and was also at the focal point of this BALCO case. Giambi also testified that Anderson never toll him Bonds himself used performance-enhancing drugs.

About 40 athletes were asked to testify in the steroids scandal, including fellow Yankee Gary Sheffield, who, by the way, earlier this year admitted to use the cream and the clear, but said he didn't know they were steroids. The New York Yankees have no comment on this matter.

Fredricka, Giambi has never publicly admitted to using steroids. In fact, in spring training, when this was brought up about performance-enhancing drugs, he said, "Steroids? No."

WHITFIELD: OK. But now in front of a grand jury, he did. It's considered a banned substance. So then why is it the MLB would not be able to punish him?

OVERMYER: It's amazing. Major League Baseball officially cannot punish Jason Giambi for using steroids from the years 2003 to 2004 -- 2001 to 2003. Because steroid use wasn't illegal and until the year 2004. As a matter of fact, and still now, human growth hormone, which he admitted he used well, is not illegal in baseball either.

WHITFIELD: He might be able to avoid prosecution altogether, even if he were to continue, perhaps, the use of these banned substances. And that's because of a deal that he cut in order to testify before the grand jury?

OVERMYER: Right, he cut -- he had an immunity. He got immunity for -- for his testimony, and he will not be able to -- or he will not be indicted, I should say, on these charges. However, he cannot use these substances anymore in baseball because, again, they are banned, except for human growth hormone, which still has not been banned from baseball.

WHITFIELD: As of 2004?

OVERMYER: Yes.

WHITFIELD: All right. Steve, thanks so much.

OVERMYER: Sure.

WHITFIELD: Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Well, straight ahead, a serial killer reemerges. And now authorities may be on to a big clue to tracking him down. We're going to sort out the latest in the case straight ahead.

And living proof that sometimes your luck runs out. A big lottery winner finds himself in some big trouble.

WHITFIELD: And later, what can you do to safeguard your privacy in the workplace? We'll talk with a legal expert on LIVE FROM.

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PHILLIPS: Three decades ago, a serial killer began a rampage in Wichita, Kansas, that left eight people dead. Now the BTK killer has resurfaced in messages. Police are checking all the leads, and authorities today are testing a man's DNA in hopes of finding the killer.

CNN law enforcement analyst Mike Brooks joins us now live with some insight into this case.

And this is what I was wanting to know: what do we know about him? And after all these years, you have a list of personal information he's given up, such as...

MIKE BROOKS, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST: This is a fascinating case, and it's amazing the amount of information that beginning in March 2004 that he has started to give the media and law enforcement. We have not heard from him since 1986. He apparently had killed eight people between 1979 and 1986, then all of a sudden he vanished.

No one heard from him. And no one's -- there was no murders that were close to this. So where has he been for all this time? But we look at his background.

Just the other day, Kyra, the Wichita Police Department put out a press release with all these different things that he has been giving to them. You look.

It says he claims he was born in 1939, which would make him current age 64, 65. The police arrested a guy yesterday, 64 years old, that they believe fits the profile of this guy.

He lives near railroad tracks. They're holing him on two holding charges of -- a trespass charge and housing code violations. But they put a very, very high bond on him, which to me says these are holding charges. And they're planning a press conference for tomorrow, which to me, again, says they're trying to cross all their Ts, dot all there Is, and get a good strong case against this guy, waiting for the DNA to come back.

PHILLIPS: So let's talk about the mind of a serial killer. And you look at all these facts that he gave up.

BROOKS: Yes.

PHILLIPS: In the 1950s, he built and operated a ham radio. As a youth he attended church and Sunday school. His first job was an electromechanic, requiring some travel.

He admits to soliciting prostitutes. Has a fascination with railroads and trains.

Does a serial killer always want to get caught? Is it just a game for this person?

BROOKS: It's a very sick game for some of these people. The detailed information you've given to me is amazing. We haven't heard from him since 1986. So where has he been?

Has he been in Wichita, has he been somewhere else? Has this person been in prison? Is their health issues?

Why reemerge now? Kind of get the ball rolling again, kind of stirring the pot again, because they live by their identity.

He's living by the identity of the BTK killer. So maybe there are some health issues. Talking to some other profilers, some former colleagues of mine, we agreed that there could -- he might have health issues but he wants to get the ball rolling again, wants to get back out into public again.

PHILLIPS: So is he a suspect or not, this man taken into custody yesterday?

BROOKS: They're not calling him a suspect in the BTK killings, but it looks like there are holding charges for right now. They're planning a news conference for tomorrow. It should be very, very interesting to see exactly what they're going to charge him with.

I think that's what they're doing. This is a holding charge with a very, very high bond.

A trespassing charge, housing code violations, you don't have a high bond like he has now. This looks like it. But again, it's -- you know, 64 years old. Where has he been?

Many times serial killers, to keep themselves going, if he has been in prison or if he has had health issues or been somewhere else in the country, they usually either leave something or take something from the crime scene. We know that the BTK killer used to take pictures, Polaroids of the victim.

PHILLIPS: It will be interesting to see if they found anything in that home.

BROOKS: Exactly. And with these Polaroids, maybe that kept him going for all these years, recreating some of the scenes. Because that's how their sick minds work.

PHILLIPS: Interesting. Mike Brooks, thank you so much.

BROOKS: Good to be with you.

PHILLIPS: All right.

WHITFIELD: Now in other news "Across America," a secret source comes forward in a reporter's contempt case. A defense lawyer now admits he leaked an FBI videotape to Rhode Island TV reporter Jim Taricani. Taricani is to be sentenced next week for criminal contempt for not revealing his source. It's not clear whether charges will now be dropped in that case.

He won a record Powerball jackpot, but Jack Whittaker is not so lucky with the law. West Virginia state police charged Whittaker with DUI and carrying a concealed weapons without a license. Whittaker had other brushes with the law since winning his nearly $315 million jackpot back in 2002.

Mount St. Helens has been named Washington State's worst air polluter. The U.S. Geological Survey says Mount St. Helens can produce more tons of sulfur dioxide daily than all the state's industries combined.

PHILLIPS: Accusations that the Pentagon used the media to put out a little disinformation on the war in Iraq. Details on that straight ahead.

RHONDA SCHAFFLER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Health insurance may now be out of reach for even more Americans. I'll tell you why coming up on LIVE FROM.

Stay tuned for that.

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PHILLIPS: News "Around the World" now.

After more than a week of protests, Ukraine and the world waits. The country's supreme court began a fourth day of deliberations on allegations of voter fraud in the recent presidential election. Both candidates say they will abide by any court decision.

The main Palestinian party, Fatah, says it's astonished by the decision by jailed activist Marwan Barghouti to run for president. Barghouti reversed an earlier decision to stay out of the election. Egypt has also condemned Barghouti's candidacy as divisive.

Vice President Dick Cheney will lead the U.S. delegation at the inauguration of Afghan President Hamid Karzai next week. Cheney will be accompanied by his wife. Karzai served as interim president after U.S.-led forces toppled the Taliban. He was elected in October.

WHITFIELD: It's a military tactic that is as old as war itself. Some call it misinformation or disinformation. To others, it's plain simple deception.

CNN's Barbara Starr reports on what may have been an elaborate scheme by the Pentagon to confuse Iraqi militants and the media before the recent assault on Falluja.

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1ST LT. LYLE GILBERT, 1ST MARINE EXPEDITIONARY UNIT: The troops crossed the line of departure. We had artillery fire, prep fire going out. Aircraft had been moving through the area all day, helicopters providing transport. It's been a pretty uncomfortable time.

BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Marine Corps Lieutenant Lyle Gilbert from the 1st Marine Expeditionary Unit outside Falluja appeared on CNN October 14, offering words that sounded like the invasion of Falluja had begun. But further reporting indicated that the long-expected large-scale ground offensive against Falluja had not started. It would be another three weeks before that would happen.

So was Lieutenant Gilbert just wrong? Or was the U.S. military using CNN to convince viewers in the battle zone that the attack was already under way? The chief spokesman for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld insists deception of the news media is never allowed.

LAWRENCE DI RITA, CHIEF SPOKESMAN FOR DONALD RUMSFELD: Never. It's just not.

STARR: Di Rita says he is reviewing the circumstances of the Gilbert interview.

DI RITA: And we're looking into specific reports where people may have gotten more creative than they should have.

STARR: A senior Pentagon official told CNN Gilbert's remarks were technically true, but misleading. That there was an attempt to get CNN to report something not true. And CNN management is asking the Pentagon for an official response to this report that there was possible deliberate misinformation.

The "Los Angeles Times," which first reported this story, says it's all part of a broader effort to manipulate the media to achieve U.S. goals in Iraq. It was an unusual interview. Gilbert, a junior public affairs officer dealing with the media, appeared only because the military contacted CNN saying they had someone ready on the scene to discuss major unfolding developments that night.

A CNN spokesman said, "As the story developed, we quickly made it clear to our viewers exactly what was going on in and around Falluja."

Whatever conflicting information was out there, behind the scenes at the Pentagon there is now a raging debate about the use of information as a weapon, and whether a single battlefield commander should be in charge of both psychological operations and media operations at the same time. At the core, concerns that the military is blurring clear distinctions among three goals: psychological operations against enemy forces, offering timely and accurate information to reporters, and influencing foreign audiences.

A Pentagon advisory panel warns the military must make an effort to communicate better with the Muslim world. But critics worry it is becoming a Madison Avenue-type campaign, full of leaflets, broadcasts and government-sponsored influence that crosses the line. A proposal circulated within the Pentagon calls for a new director of central information, all part of an acknowledged, deeper Pentagon effort to counter ideological support to terrorism.

(on camera): All of this began months ago when Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the military had to do a better job of communicating. But now the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is warning commanders not to mix up information operations with the dissemination of news to reporters. But the news media will have to be watchful as well. Barbara Starr, CNN, the Pentagon.

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PHILLIPS: Soaring medical costs are pushing health insurance out of the reach for more Americans now.

WHITFIELD: Rhonda Schaffler with more on that -- Rhonda.

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Aired December 2, 2004 - 13:59   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: More troops in Iraq, protests in Ukraine, and a growing United Nations scandal. President Bush speaks out on all of them. We're live from the White House.
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Steroids in sports. A reported stunning admission from a Major Leaguer. We'll have a live report.

DANIEL SIEBERG, CNN TECHNOLOGY CORRESPONDENT: I'm technology correspondent Daniel Sieberg. Feeling a little paranoid? Well, your employer is probably watching everything you do at work. Coming up, we'll show you what one man decided to do in response.

PHILLIPS: Remembering the legacy of golfer Payne Stewart. His son Aaron hits the links today and joins us live to talk about fulfilling a dream.

From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Kyra Phillips.

WHITFIELD: And I'm Fredricka Whitfield, in for Miles O'Brien. This hour of CNN's LIVE FROM begins right now.

PHILLIPS: Up first this hour, President Bush sets the date in stone. Iraqi elections should and will take place January 30. The president says that's 59 days from now, but in remarks to reporters in the Oval Office, Mr. Bush declined to say whether he considered Kofi Annan's days numbered at the U.N.

We get the latest on the "vote or else" and the Oil-for-Food controversy from CNN's Elaine Quijano. She's at the White House.

Hi, Elaine.

ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi there to you, Kyra.

First on the Iraqi elections, you're right, President Bush does not want to see any kind of delay. He would like to see the elections move forward as scheduled at the end of January.

Now, the president, despite some calls from those inside Iraq, some political parties in Iraq, the president remaining firm. He believes those elections should go ahead.

Now, some have expressed concern inside Iraq because of the security situation there. But the president making his views clear during an appearance this morning with the president of Nigeria. Now, clearly, the administration has a lot at stake when it comes to Iraq's future. Mr. Bush has steadily maintained that success in Iraq, the establishment of a democracy there can be an example for other countries to follow in that region. And today, Mr. Bush repeated his view. He believes sticking with the original timetable is the best course of action.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Well, first of all, the elections should not be postponed. It's time for the Iraqi citizens to go to the polls. And that's why we are very firm on the January 30 date.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

QUIJANO: Now, the president was also asked a question about the U.N. Oil-for-Food program, and specifically whether he thinks that U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan should resign. The president side stepped that question, declined to answer it.

As you know, investigations are under way into whether billions of dollars illegally went to Saddam Hussein's government and whether or not Kofi Annan's own son had a role in that. On the resignation question, the president was very careful not to answer it one way or the other, instead saying that he believes the investigation should move forward, that there should be a full and fair and open accounting of that program.

But Kyra, the president being very careful in choosing his words and how he answers the question about Kofi Annan's future -- Fred. PHILLIPS: All right. Elaine Quijano live from the White House. Thanks so much -- Fred.

WHITFIELD: Well, a day after the Republican chairman of the Senate panel on investigations called on Kofi Annan to take the fall in the Oil-for-Food scandal, a Democratic colleague says not so fast. Carl Levin spoke today on CNN's "AMERICAN MORNING."

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SEN. CARL LEVIN (D), MICHIGAN: I haven't heard any voices of any government, including our own, that are calling for Kofi Annan's resignation. There may be voices in some of the columns in some of the newspapers, plus one senator or two, but that is not a significant call for a resignation of a head of an organization that is of global significance and so important to us.

There's no evidence that our subcommittee has seen that shows any impropriety on the part of Kofi Annan. That's what it comes down to.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

WHITFIELD: Well, it was supposed to be a means of allowing Iraqis to survive under suffocating international sanctions. Instead, Oil- for-Food allegedly became a free-for-all of corruption, with Saddam Hussein benefiting the most.

CNN's Richard Roth joins us now with the latest on the flap and the fallout.

RICHARD ROTH, CNN UNITED NATIONS CORRESPONDENT: Fredricka, President Bush may be silent on Annan's fate because, one, he's got huge support around the world; two, there's no formal proof of anything yet; and maybe three, the U.S. is always going to need the U.N., probably in places like Iraq eventually.

Today, Annan was receiving what he would have liked to have been the highlight of this week, if not year, for the U.N., a major year- and-a-half report on how to change the United Nations, how to improve it, how to react if one country wants to preemptively strike against another, how to expand the Security Council and still have everybody making sense in the world. Unfortunately, for Mr. Annan, the focus is on him and his son.

One newspaper reported today his son used his father's name wheeling and dealing for business. The U.N. won't comment on it. Oil- for-Food is not going away anytime soon.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

RICHARD ROTH, CNN U.N. CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Kofi Annan once said he could do business with Saddam Hussein, a remark he later regretted. Now the question is, did anyone on Annan's staff, international diplomats or businessmen, conduct illegal business with Saddam's government? While Iraqis got food handouts, Saddam Hussein allegedly pocketed $20 billion through oil and food-related kickbacks and smuggling.

American newspaper columnists demanding Kofi Annan's resignation barely caused a stir. But people began noticing when a U.S. senator chairing a committee probing Oil-for-Food called for Annan's ouster.

SEN. NORM COLEMAN (R), MINNESOTA: The bottom line is that there was one man in charge of the United Nations during the period of time of the Oil-for-Food program, and that's Kofi Annan.

ROTH: Annan wouldn't comment. Talk of resignation is meaningless for now at the U.N. unless a country itself raises the issue.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A few voices doesn't make a chorus.

ROTH: The U.N. deals with governments, not individual senators. And so far the Bush administration is being very cautious on Annan.

ADAM ERELI, STATE DEPT. SPOKESMAN: Secretary Annan, as I said, is a valued interlocutor and has been working, I think, positively and cooperatively in trying to get to the bottom of this Oil-for-Food program.

ROTH: Annan's son didn't help matters. Kojo Annan apparently failed to admit that he was on the payroll of a Swiss firm now being investigated as part of Oil-for-Food. But the scandal is global. Why all the heat on Annan?

THOMAS WEISS, U.N. EXPERT: I think it's because people can understand personal scandal much more easily than they can understand institutional scandal.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

ROTH: Ambassador after ambassador praising Kofi Annan. The African group yesterday coming up with a formal response. Today it might be the turn of the Europeans later today -- Fredricka.

WHITFIELD: All right. We'll be watching for that. Thanks very much -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Live now to Newark, New Jersey. Announcement in the making right now.

Jon Corzine, the multimillionaire, investment banker-turned-U.S. senator, has decided he's going to run for governor of New Jersey. The 57-year-old serving his first term in the Senate is making the announcement right now.

He was elected in 2000 after spending $62 million of his own fortune to first run for the office. Corzine will become the first front-runner to win the Democratic nomination, or did, rather, in the race next -- or he will be, rather, next November. We're following what he has to say. We'll bring you more if we need to.

Another new face tapped for the second term. President Bush nominates Nebraska Governor Mike Johanns has his new secretary of Agriculture. Johanns is nominated to replace Ann Veneman, who resigned last month.

And Mr. Bush called the governor a man of action and of complete integrity. Johanns was reelected as Nebraska's governor in 2002. If confirmed in the new post, he would oversee the country's food and farm programs.

WHITFIELD: A slugger and steroids. New York Yankee Jason Giambi has reportedly testified to using banned drugs. It's all part of the continuing BALCO investigation. CNN sports reporter Steve Overmyer joins us now with some of the details.

STEVE OVERMYER, CNN SPORTS: Yes, this could be the new shock heard around the baseball world. And this shot, it would be injectable. A surprising revelation.

According to a Bay Area paper, New York Yankee Jason Giambi is the first active player to admit he knowingly took steroids. A report in today's "San Francisco Chronicle" says that during his testimony in the BALCO investigation, Giambi admitted to using steroids for the better part of three seasons, including the 2003 season, when he hit 41 home runs. The 2000 AL MVP, however, did not start using this undetectable steroid until 2001.

The "Chronicle" also reports that Giambi told investigators he obtained different types of steroids from Greg Anderson, who at the time was the personal trainer for Barry Bonds and was also at the focal point of this BALCO case. Giambi also testified that Anderson never toll him Bonds himself used performance-enhancing drugs.

About 40 athletes were asked to testify in the steroids scandal, including fellow Yankee Gary Sheffield, who, by the way, earlier this year admitted to use the cream and the clear, but said he didn't know they were steroids. The New York Yankees have no comment on this matter.

Fredricka, Giambi has never publicly admitted to using steroids. In fact, in spring training, when this was brought up about performance-enhancing drugs, he said, "Steroids? No."

WHITFIELD: OK. But now in front of a grand jury, he did. It's considered a banned substance. So then why is it the MLB would not be able to punish him?

OVERMYER: It's amazing. Major League Baseball officially cannot punish Jason Giambi for using steroids from the years 2003 to 2004 -- 2001 to 2003. Because steroid use wasn't illegal and until the year 2004. As a matter of fact, and still now, human growth hormone, which he admitted he used well, is not illegal in baseball either.

WHITFIELD: He might be able to avoid prosecution altogether, even if he were to continue, perhaps, the use of these banned substances. And that's because of a deal that he cut in order to testify before the grand jury?

OVERMYER: Right, he cut -- he had an immunity. He got immunity for -- for his testimony, and he will not be able to -- or he will not be indicted, I should say, on these charges. However, he cannot use these substances anymore in baseball because, again, they are banned, except for human growth hormone, which still has not been banned from baseball.

WHITFIELD: As of 2004?

OVERMYER: Yes.

WHITFIELD: All right. Steve, thanks so much.

OVERMYER: Sure.

WHITFIELD: Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Well, straight ahead, a serial killer reemerges. And now authorities may be on to a big clue to tracking him down. We're going to sort out the latest in the case straight ahead.

And living proof that sometimes your luck runs out. A big lottery winner finds himself in some big trouble.

WHITFIELD: And later, what can you do to safeguard your privacy in the workplace? We'll talk with a legal expert on LIVE FROM.

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PHILLIPS: Three decades ago, a serial killer began a rampage in Wichita, Kansas, that left eight people dead. Now the BTK killer has resurfaced in messages. Police are checking all the leads, and authorities today are testing a man's DNA in hopes of finding the killer.

CNN law enforcement analyst Mike Brooks joins us now live with some insight into this case.

And this is what I was wanting to know: what do we know about him? And after all these years, you have a list of personal information he's given up, such as...

MIKE BROOKS, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST: This is a fascinating case, and it's amazing the amount of information that beginning in March 2004 that he has started to give the media and law enforcement. We have not heard from him since 1986. He apparently had killed eight people between 1979 and 1986, then all of a sudden he vanished.

No one heard from him. And no one's -- there was no murders that were close to this. So where has he been for all this time? But we look at his background.

Just the other day, Kyra, the Wichita Police Department put out a press release with all these different things that he has been giving to them. You look.

It says he claims he was born in 1939, which would make him current age 64, 65. The police arrested a guy yesterday, 64 years old, that they believe fits the profile of this guy.

He lives near railroad tracks. They're holing him on two holding charges of -- a trespass charge and housing code violations. But they put a very, very high bond on him, which to me says these are holding charges. And they're planning a press conference for tomorrow, which to me, again, says they're trying to cross all their Ts, dot all there Is, and get a good strong case against this guy, waiting for the DNA to come back.

PHILLIPS: So let's talk about the mind of a serial killer. And you look at all these facts that he gave up.

BROOKS: Yes.

PHILLIPS: In the 1950s, he built and operated a ham radio. As a youth he attended church and Sunday school. His first job was an electromechanic, requiring some travel.

He admits to soliciting prostitutes. Has a fascination with railroads and trains.

Does a serial killer always want to get caught? Is it just a game for this person?

BROOKS: It's a very sick game for some of these people. The detailed information you've given to me is amazing. We haven't heard from him since 1986. So where has he been?

Has he been in Wichita, has he been somewhere else? Has this person been in prison? Is their health issues?

Why reemerge now? Kind of get the ball rolling again, kind of stirring the pot again, because they live by their identity.

He's living by the identity of the BTK killer. So maybe there are some health issues. Talking to some other profilers, some former colleagues of mine, we agreed that there could -- he might have health issues but he wants to get the ball rolling again, wants to get back out into public again.

PHILLIPS: So is he a suspect or not, this man taken into custody yesterday?

BROOKS: They're not calling him a suspect in the BTK killings, but it looks like there are holding charges for right now. They're planning a news conference for tomorrow. It should be very, very interesting to see exactly what they're going to charge him with.

I think that's what they're doing. This is a holding charge with a very, very high bond.

A trespassing charge, housing code violations, you don't have a high bond like he has now. This looks like it. But again, it's -- you know, 64 years old. Where has he been?

Many times serial killers, to keep themselves going, if he has been in prison or if he has had health issues or been somewhere else in the country, they usually either leave something or take something from the crime scene. We know that the BTK killer used to take pictures, Polaroids of the victim.

PHILLIPS: It will be interesting to see if they found anything in that home.

BROOKS: Exactly. And with these Polaroids, maybe that kept him going for all these years, recreating some of the scenes. Because that's how their sick minds work.

PHILLIPS: Interesting. Mike Brooks, thank you so much.

BROOKS: Good to be with you.

PHILLIPS: All right.

WHITFIELD: Now in other news "Across America," a secret source comes forward in a reporter's contempt case. A defense lawyer now admits he leaked an FBI videotape to Rhode Island TV reporter Jim Taricani. Taricani is to be sentenced next week for criminal contempt for not revealing his source. It's not clear whether charges will now be dropped in that case.

He won a record Powerball jackpot, but Jack Whittaker is not so lucky with the law. West Virginia state police charged Whittaker with DUI and carrying a concealed weapons without a license. Whittaker had other brushes with the law since winning his nearly $315 million jackpot back in 2002.

Mount St. Helens has been named Washington State's worst air polluter. The U.S. Geological Survey says Mount St. Helens can produce more tons of sulfur dioxide daily than all the state's industries combined.

PHILLIPS: Accusations that the Pentagon used the media to put out a little disinformation on the war in Iraq. Details on that straight ahead.

RHONDA SCHAFFLER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Health insurance may now be out of reach for even more Americans. I'll tell you why coming up on LIVE FROM.

Stay tuned for that.

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PHILLIPS: News "Around the World" now.

After more than a week of protests, Ukraine and the world waits. The country's supreme court began a fourth day of deliberations on allegations of voter fraud in the recent presidential election. Both candidates say they will abide by any court decision.

The main Palestinian party, Fatah, says it's astonished by the decision by jailed activist Marwan Barghouti to run for president. Barghouti reversed an earlier decision to stay out of the election. Egypt has also condemned Barghouti's candidacy as divisive.

Vice President Dick Cheney will lead the U.S. delegation at the inauguration of Afghan President Hamid Karzai next week. Cheney will be accompanied by his wife. Karzai served as interim president after U.S.-led forces toppled the Taliban. He was elected in October.

WHITFIELD: It's a military tactic that is as old as war itself. Some call it misinformation or disinformation. To others, it's plain simple deception.

CNN's Barbara Starr reports on what may have been an elaborate scheme by the Pentagon to confuse Iraqi militants and the media before the recent assault on Falluja.

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1ST LT. LYLE GILBERT, 1ST MARINE EXPEDITIONARY UNIT: The troops crossed the line of departure. We had artillery fire, prep fire going out. Aircraft had been moving through the area all day, helicopters providing transport. It's been a pretty uncomfortable time.

BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Marine Corps Lieutenant Lyle Gilbert from the 1st Marine Expeditionary Unit outside Falluja appeared on CNN October 14, offering words that sounded like the invasion of Falluja had begun. But further reporting indicated that the long-expected large-scale ground offensive against Falluja had not started. It would be another three weeks before that would happen.

So was Lieutenant Gilbert just wrong? Or was the U.S. military using CNN to convince viewers in the battle zone that the attack was already under way? The chief spokesman for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld insists deception of the news media is never allowed.

LAWRENCE DI RITA, CHIEF SPOKESMAN FOR DONALD RUMSFELD: Never. It's just not.

STARR: Di Rita says he is reviewing the circumstances of the Gilbert interview.

DI RITA: And we're looking into specific reports where people may have gotten more creative than they should have.

STARR: A senior Pentagon official told CNN Gilbert's remarks were technically true, but misleading. That there was an attempt to get CNN to report something not true. And CNN management is asking the Pentagon for an official response to this report that there was possible deliberate misinformation.

The "Los Angeles Times," which first reported this story, says it's all part of a broader effort to manipulate the media to achieve U.S. goals in Iraq. It was an unusual interview. Gilbert, a junior public affairs officer dealing with the media, appeared only because the military contacted CNN saying they had someone ready on the scene to discuss major unfolding developments that night.

A CNN spokesman said, "As the story developed, we quickly made it clear to our viewers exactly what was going on in and around Falluja."

Whatever conflicting information was out there, behind the scenes at the Pentagon there is now a raging debate about the use of information as a weapon, and whether a single battlefield commander should be in charge of both psychological operations and media operations at the same time. At the core, concerns that the military is blurring clear distinctions among three goals: psychological operations against enemy forces, offering timely and accurate information to reporters, and influencing foreign audiences.

A Pentagon advisory panel warns the military must make an effort to communicate better with the Muslim world. But critics worry it is becoming a Madison Avenue-type campaign, full of leaflets, broadcasts and government-sponsored influence that crosses the line. A proposal circulated within the Pentagon calls for a new director of central information, all part of an acknowledged, deeper Pentagon effort to counter ideological support to terrorism.

(on camera): All of this began months ago when Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the military had to do a better job of communicating. But now the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is warning commanders not to mix up information operations with the dissemination of news to reporters. But the news media will have to be watchful as well. Barbara Starr, CNN, the Pentagon.

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PHILLIPS: Soaring medical costs are pushing health insurance out of the reach for more Americans now.

WHITFIELD: Rhonda Schaffler with more on that -- Rhonda.

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