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Aired February 10, 2005 - 14:00   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, CO-HOST: Leaving the hospital, ailing Pope John Paul II recuperates well, just in time to go home. We're live from Rome with the developments on the pontiff's health.
TONY HARRIS, CO-HOST: North Korea bombshell. The country announces it has nuclear weapons. How big a threat to world security is it?

PHILLIPS: Royal wedding. Charles and Camilla announce the plans, but he'll never be able to call her the Princess of Wales. We've got details from London.

HARRIS: Dramatic rescue caught on tape. Check this out: a hiker plucked from a cliff after she goes over the edge. Yikes!

From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Tony Harris in for miles O'Brien.

PHILLIPS: And I'm Kyra Phillips. This hour of CNN's LIVE FROM starts right now.

HARRIS: Arrivederci, Gemelli. After nine days in the hospital some call the third Vatican, Pope John Paul II is back at the real Vatican, having been healed, his spokesmen say, of the breathing spasms that struck him while he was already down with the flu.

We get the latest from CNN's Alessio Vinci in Rome.

And Alessio, I have to say, Kyra made the note last hour that the pope looks pretty good, given the fact that he is an 84-year-old man with some health problems.

ALESSIO VINCI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: He does look well and rested. After all, he spent nine days at the hospital. And by the way, it's the pope himself who called this place, the ninth hospital, the third Vatican, sorry. That was when he came here in 1996 to go through some surgery. So the pope himself really feels at home when he's here.

But as you said, he left the hospital about half an hour ago. It was like almost a royalty or a movie star. There were hundreds and hundreds of cameras and television journalists and photographers, taking pictures every step of the way, a cheering crowd also here of well wishers. The pope finally returning to the Vatican, Vatican officials releasing a statement earlier today. We were expecting, actually, the pope to go back to the Vatican tomorrow, Friday, or later -- or Saturday. But the doctors, obviously, quite confident that the pope's health is improving rapidly, that the infection to his larynx has apparently healed, and therefore they have discharged him today.

We do understand that the pope now will check -- will be back at the Vatican, but he will look into resuming his normal schedule. We expect him to see, perhaps, him on Sunday from the window of his private study to deliver, as he does every Sunday, his prayer.

And then Sunday night the pope goes into a one-weeklong retreat, spiritual retreat that he does every year at the beginning of Lent. So we do not expect to see the pope in public after Sunday for at least a week, Tony.

HARRIS: OK. Alessio Vinci in Rome. Alessio, thank you. Appreciate it.

PHILLIPS: Axis anxiety, the same week Iran evokes concern and consternation over its nuclear capabilities comes a stark proclamation from North Korea. For the first time, that highly secretive, steadfastly communist nation is publicly saying it has nuclear weapons and plans to get more.

A statement from Pyongyang's official mouthpiece blames Washington for its decision. Quote, "The U.S. disclosed its attempt to topple the political system in the DPRK at any cost, threatening it with a nuclear stick. This compels us to take a measure to bolster its nuclear weapons arsenal in order to protect the ideology, system, freedom and democracy chosen by the people in the DPRK."

It's been three years since President Bush famously branded Iraq, Iran and North Korea an axis of evil. And you may not hear about that again, except from all of us, the journalists, right?

Well, in its place, Mr. Bush has made spreading freedom everywhere a doctrine of his second term, and Condoleezza Rice, its chief proponent.

CNN's Andrea Koppel reports now on the secretary of state's reaction to the North Korean bombshell.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The news from North Korea reached Secretary of State Rice in Luxembourg, where she sought to downplay its significance.

CONDOLEEZZA RICE, SECRETARY OF STATE: This is an unfortunate move, most especially probably for the people of North Korea, because it only deepens the North Korean isolation from the rest of the international community.

KOPPEL: Rice was meeting with members of the European Union to discuss, among other issues, how to handle another proliferation threat, from Iran.

Nevertheless, Rice said it was no surprise to the United States that North Korea had nuclear weapons. In 2002, U.S. officials said Pyongyang had privately admitted it had a secret nuclear weapons program.

Since then, North Korea says it has reprocessed 8,000 spent plutonium fuel rods, enough nuclear material, experts say, for at least half a dozen nuclear weapons.

One of the world's most isolated regimes, known for its saber rattling, North Korea wants direct talks with Washington. But Rice said the only way out of this nuclear impasse for North Korea was to return to the bargaining table with the U.S., Russia and North Korea's neighbors.

RICE: And I know that we have support from the rest of the international community in saying to the North Koreans that they ought to take what is before them, a path to a more reasonable relationship, a path to a better life for their people, a path to security assurances from their neighbors, including from the United States.

KOPPEL: Rice reiterated that the United States has no intention of invading North Korea.

(on camera) Until now, the headline-grabber during Secretary Rice's swing through Europe has been Iran, another member of the axis of evil, and its suspected nuclear weapons program. Although it's unclear why North Korea has stepped up its saber rattling now, as Rice returns to Washington, it's clear another potentially more urgent threat looms.

Andrea Koppel, CNN, Luxembourg.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

HARRIS: And not to be outdone, Iran marked the 26th anniversary of its revolution with a fiery address to a militant throng. The speaker was President Mohammad Khatami, the audience, revolutionaries heeding a government mandate for a huge crowd despite heavy snow.

Khatami said Iranians seek neither war nor violence nor dispute, but if provoked...

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

PRESIDENT MOHAMMAD KHATAMI, IRANIAN PRESIDENT (through translator): Will this nation allow the feet of an aggressor to touch this land? If God forbid it happens, Iran will turn into a scorching hell for the aggressors.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

HARRIS: The crowd responded by chanting, "Death to America; death to Israel." As always, CNN is committed to providing the most reliable coverage on news that affects your security. Stay tuned both day and night.

PHILLIPS: Men in Saudi Arabia headed to the polls today. They cast ballots in the first of three rounds of municipal elections. The vote was unprecedented in the kingdom, and many people are hailing it as a step toward Democratic reform. Women were not allowed to vote or run for office, however.

HARRIS: Princes Harry and William say they're delighted their father, Prince Charles, is marrying his longtime sweetheart, Camilla Parker Bowles. CNN senior international correspondent Walter Rodgers looks at the couple's very public relationship.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

WALTER RODGERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): He had to wait until the age of 56. But now Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, finally had his mother's permission to marry of love of his life, Camilla Parker Bowles.

Each has been married once before, and now Charles and Camilla have found a way to finesse it again. She will become her royal highness, the Duchess of Cornwall. If he becomes king, she becomes Princess Consort. They are scheduled to marry April 8.

The two first met at a polo match in 1970. Both were in their early 20s. They became close. One of her ever so great grandmothers had been a royal mistress to one of his progenitors, King Edward VII.

But when Charles went off to the Navy, Camilla married an Army officer, Andrew Parker Bowles. Charles came home from the Navy. He and Camilla became, euphemistically, close again.

A palace courtier is said to have whispered to the queen, Charles was now engaged in an affair with Camilla, another man's wife. The palace decided it was time for Charles to marry what one royal biographer called a virginal Protestant aristocrat.

Diana clearly became a royal marriage of convenience. It was a loveless marriage that produced two sons and an ocean of acrimony. Diana later confessed...

DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES: Well, there were three of us in this marriage. So it was a bit crowded.

RODGERS: Mrs. Parker Bowles divorced her husband 10 years ago. A year later, Charles and Diana's marriage was dissolved.

That Charles had taken Camilla as a partner again in the mid-'90s was the worst kept secret in Britain. Even before Diana's death, Charles began openly to introduce Camilla to the British public. Then four years ago after some dithering, there was this royal risk, a public kiss. ROBERT LACEY, ROYAL BIOGRAPHER: The polls show very clearly that the public are now forgiving, that they'd like Charles and Camilla to remarry. The problem is that the very same people who say that also cannot accept the idea of Camilla becoming either Princess of Wales or queen.

RODGERS: Within the last two years, the Church of England, which frowns on marriage to a divorce with a living spouse, softened its opposition, as well. Rowan Williams is the head of the Anglican Church.

ROWAN WILLIAMS, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY: These arrangements have my full support. The Church of England has guidelines on these matters, which the Prince of Wales, as a loyal and committed member of the Church of England, has accepted and agreed with.

RODGERS: The prime minister is at one with the queen in the palace.

TONY BLAIR, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: Congratulations, and good wishes on behalf of the whole government. We all wish them every happiness for their future together.

RODGERS (on camera): Prince Charles has been at the center of most of the British monarchy's difficulties for the past generation. And it would seem the announcement of his impending marriage to Camilla is intended to bring closure to that long-running saga.

Walter Rodgers, CNN, London.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

PHILLIPS: So what will be happening in the next few weeks leading up to the big day?

HARRIS: Ah! Ahead on LIVE FROM -- ah? OK. We'll talk to a longtime royal watcher about what this marriage will mean for the family and for Britain.

PHILLIPS: Political ambitions. Is Senator Hillary Clinton looking to the White House in 2008?

HARRIS: And the movie "Hotel Rwanda" tells the story of genocide in that country. Later on LIVE FROM, we'll introduce you to a man helping to heal the wounds, one child at a time.

ANNOUNCER: You're watching LIVE FROM on CNN, the most trusted name in news.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

HARRIS: You know, they've hardly put away the voting machines from the last election, but the Democrats are looking ahead to 2008. And Hillary Rodham Clinton is emerging as their choice for nominee.

In a CNN/"USA Today"/Gallup poll, 40 percent of Democrats chose the New York senator. John Kerry and John Edwards get 25 percent and 17 percent, respectively.

PHILLIPS: So what does Hillary Clinton think? Well, she's not saying, well, not in so many words. But most signs are pointing to a Clinton candidacy in 2008. Senior political correspondent Candy Crowley has been trying to read the tea leaves.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

CANDY CROWLEY, CNN POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Hillary. It is all you need on the door. All you need on the buttons, all you need to start the conversation. Is it Hillary in '08?

SEN. HILLARY CLINTON (D), NEW YORK: I am focused on 2006.

CROWLEY: It would be both unwise and unnecessary for her to publicly eye the '08 presidential race. Unnecessary because she doesn't need to raise her profile. Unwise because she can't be seen as taking her '06 Senate re-election bid for granted. We are left with tealeaves.

CLINTON: You've made my morning.

CROWLEY: We are talking a first-term senator who has a think tank, a fund-raising committee, and a political action committee which has raised millions for several hundred Democrats.

She has scores of still loyal Clinton administration officials and former campaign aides stashed in various Democratic institutions in Washington and New York. Oh, and a husband who wants her to run, with a Rolodex to die for.

And now consider the New York senator's January speech to family planning advocates in Albany.

CLINTON: Now, research shows that the primary reason teenaged girls abstain from early sexual activity is because of their religious and moral values. We should embrace this and support programs that reinforce the idea that abstinence at a young age is not just a smart thing to do; it is the right thing to do.

CROWLEY: And consider her words to a leadership forum in Boston, where she spoke of her own prayers and of respecting the faith of others and enabling people to live out their faith in the public square.

Friends, supporters in the Hillary '08 crowd say this is nothing more than Hillary being Hillary, saying things she has always said, always believed. Still, red state words in blue state forums have put up antennas across the political spectrum.

BEN SMITH, "NEW YORK OBSERVER": She spent 2000, when she ran for election the first time here, convincing people that she could represent a northeast liberal state.

And now she's reminding people that she grew up a Republican in the Midwest, that she was the first lady of Arkansas, and she spends a bunch of time up in the bits of New York state that are closer to Ohio than they are to New York city.

CROWLEY: It is the beauty and the curse of being Hillary. Everyone assumes she's running for president.

CLINTON: I'm running for re-election. I have more than I can say grace over right now. There's just so much work to be done. And, you know, I just have to say that this budget debate is not just about, you know, numbers. It's about values.

CROWLEY: And everything she says is just another tealeaf.

Candy Crowley, CNN, Washington.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

HARRIS: So what about the Republicans? There's already a bit of jockeying going on that side as well. A CNN/"USA Today"/Gallup poll of Republicans shows Rudy Giuliani emerging as the GOP poster boy, ahead of John McCain.

But as our Kelly Wallace reports, the former New York mayor is being ever so coy about a run for president in 2008.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

KELLY WALLACE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Oh, how he dodges.

RUDY GIULIANI, FORMER MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY: We've got to get out of 2004 first.

WALLACE: OK, it's 2005, and the normally matter of fact Rudy Giuliani still won't answer the question.

GIULIANI: I don't think we start thinking about the next one until sometime from now.

WALLACE: That hasn't stopped Republicans in CNN's latest poll from declaring him the current front-runner for '08 with his rock-star status, following his handling of the September 11 attacks.

He is a maverick of sorts. After all, he's for abortion rights, gay marriage and gun control.

STEPHEN MOORE, PRESIDENT, FREE ENTERPRISE FUND: In some ways, on social issues, Rudy Giuliani is more of a Democrat than he is a Republican.

WALLACE: And to that, cultural conservatives say, "Houston, we have a problem."

MATTHEW STAVER, PRESIDENT, LIBERTY COUNSEL: The only way Rudy Giuliani can win is if, in fact, he has a true conversion on the issue of marriage; he becomes pro-life; he supports the sanctity of human life; and he's strong on those issues.

WALLACE: But could his crowd-pleasing performance at the Republican National Convention...

GIULIANI: The president of the United States, George W. Bush!

WALLACE: ... his stumping for President Bush, and his razzle dazzle celebrity lead conservatives to look past their differences?

Maybe, says Michael Daly, a columnist for "The New York Daily News" who has covered Rudy for years and was at the GOP convention.

MICHAEL DALY, "THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS": It's interesting, you'll be talking to some guy from Texas who, you know, is pro-life, you know, anti-gay, and you say to him, you know, this is a guy who's pro-choice, who lived with two gay gays for a while. And they look at you like so what?

WALLACE: The gay men were his friends, by the way, who put him up after his separation. And then there is this.

GIULIANI: Get lost. That's a -- that's a sneaky way of trying to invade somebody's personal life.

WALLACE: City hall sparring with the New York City press is one thing, but could he handle the scrutiny of a national race?

(on camera) To all of this, Giuliani's spokeswoman says he is focused on his business and not on presidential politics at the moment. Those last three words, of course, leaving all of us political junkies wondering just what the future may hold.

Kelly Wallace, CNN, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

PHILLIPS: Looking for love? Well, call your cable company, because there's new details on demand. That's right. On demand dating.

And if you do find that love of your life, chances are the engagement ring won't be as big as this one. Later on LIVE FROM, we're tracing the royal roots of the famous Hope Diamond.

SUSAN LISOVICZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I'm Susan Lisovicz at the New York Stock Exchange. Coming up, some housing markets are getting too hot to handle. I'll tell you which cities have the most expensive prices.

Stay tuned. LIVE FROM continues after this.

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HARRIS: President Bush is back on the road promoting his plan to overhaul Social Security. First stop was a town meeting in Raleigh, North Carolina. Next, he heads to Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. In Raleigh, Mr. Bush said folks should call on their lawmakers to support his proposal. His message to Congress, we're all in this deal together.

Well, the Golden State seems to be bearing the brunt of some high home prices.

PHILLIPS: Susan Lisovicz live from the New York Stock Exchange.

Hi, Susan.

(STOCK REPORT)

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PHILLIPS: You may have noticed there's a revolution going on in the way people buy and listen to music. CDs, it would appear, are on the way out. And vinyl, well, that's so 20th century. Now it's all about downloads and ripping and shuffling.

From the CNN.com desk, Veronica de la Cruz.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

VERONICA DE LA CRUZ, CNN.COM: Many mainstream artists thought having MP3s of their music easily available on online. But one Atlanta based DJ and producer is using that very technology to his own advantage.

JON FOSTER, HIP-HOP DJ/PRODUCER: My web site is MeetJonDoe.com.

DE LA CRUZ (voice-over): Jon Foster, known as DJ Jon Doe, is using the Internet to jump-start a recording career.

FOSTER: Even though I'm still in Atlanta, Georgia, and I can't fly to Japan, or even if I can't fly to New York to talk to the labels there, I think you're able to actually, you know, cultivate your career and what you want to present to the world in terms of music and even your image.

DE LA CRUZ: Technology is making it easier for him to promote himself online. But when it comes to the digital divide, he still faces a few challenges.

FOSTER: There's a lot of different types of formats that these companies are using to deliver, you know, the music. So that, I think, makes things even more confusing.

The most popular format is MP3. That's where, really, this entire revolution with online music started.

I can be in the studio on a Monday night, get done with the song and mix it, and send it out the next night, and it can preview on a radio show, you know, halfway across the world. So that's what's extremely powerful for me. DE LA CRUZ (on camera): And to find out more about the online music revolution, you can log on to our web site at CNN.com/onlinemusic.

From the dot-com desk in Atlanta, I'm Veronica de la Cruz.

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Aired February 10, 2005 - 14:00   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CO-HOST: Leaving the hospital, ailing Pope John Paul II recuperates well, just in time to go home. We're live from Rome with the developments on the pontiff's health.
TONY HARRIS, CO-HOST: North Korea bombshell. The country announces it has nuclear weapons. How big a threat to world security is it?

PHILLIPS: Royal wedding. Charles and Camilla announce the plans, but he'll never be able to call her the Princess of Wales. We've got details from London.

HARRIS: Dramatic rescue caught on tape. Check this out: a hiker plucked from a cliff after she goes over the edge. Yikes!

From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Tony Harris in for miles O'Brien.

PHILLIPS: And I'm Kyra Phillips. This hour of CNN's LIVE FROM starts right now.

HARRIS: Arrivederci, Gemelli. After nine days in the hospital some call the third Vatican, Pope John Paul II is back at the real Vatican, having been healed, his spokesmen say, of the breathing spasms that struck him while he was already down with the flu.

We get the latest from CNN's Alessio Vinci in Rome.

And Alessio, I have to say, Kyra made the note last hour that the pope looks pretty good, given the fact that he is an 84-year-old man with some health problems.

ALESSIO VINCI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: He does look well and rested. After all, he spent nine days at the hospital. And by the way, it's the pope himself who called this place, the ninth hospital, the third Vatican, sorry. That was when he came here in 1996 to go through some surgery. So the pope himself really feels at home when he's here.

But as you said, he left the hospital about half an hour ago. It was like almost a royalty or a movie star. There were hundreds and hundreds of cameras and television journalists and photographers, taking pictures every step of the way, a cheering crowd also here of well wishers. The pope finally returning to the Vatican, Vatican officials releasing a statement earlier today. We were expecting, actually, the pope to go back to the Vatican tomorrow, Friday, or later -- or Saturday. But the doctors, obviously, quite confident that the pope's health is improving rapidly, that the infection to his larynx has apparently healed, and therefore they have discharged him today.

We do understand that the pope now will check -- will be back at the Vatican, but he will look into resuming his normal schedule. We expect him to see, perhaps, him on Sunday from the window of his private study to deliver, as he does every Sunday, his prayer.

And then Sunday night the pope goes into a one-weeklong retreat, spiritual retreat that he does every year at the beginning of Lent. So we do not expect to see the pope in public after Sunday for at least a week, Tony.

HARRIS: OK. Alessio Vinci in Rome. Alessio, thank you. Appreciate it.

PHILLIPS: Axis anxiety, the same week Iran evokes concern and consternation over its nuclear capabilities comes a stark proclamation from North Korea. For the first time, that highly secretive, steadfastly communist nation is publicly saying it has nuclear weapons and plans to get more.

A statement from Pyongyang's official mouthpiece blames Washington for its decision. Quote, "The U.S. disclosed its attempt to topple the political system in the DPRK at any cost, threatening it with a nuclear stick. This compels us to take a measure to bolster its nuclear weapons arsenal in order to protect the ideology, system, freedom and democracy chosen by the people in the DPRK."

It's been three years since President Bush famously branded Iraq, Iran and North Korea an axis of evil. And you may not hear about that again, except from all of us, the journalists, right?

Well, in its place, Mr. Bush has made spreading freedom everywhere a doctrine of his second term, and Condoleezza Rice, its chief proponent.

CNN's Andrea Koppel reports now on the secretary of state's reaction to the North Korean bombshell.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The news from North Korea reached Secretary of State Rice in Luxembourg, where she sought to downplay its significance.

CONDOLEEZZA RICE, SECRETARY OF STATE: This is an unfortunate move, most especially probably for the people of North Korea, because it only deepens the North Korean isolation from the rest of the international community.

KOPPEL: Rice was meeting with members of the European Union to discuss, among other issues, how to handle another proliferation threat, from Iran.

Nevertheless, Rice said it was no surprise to the United States that North Korea had nuclear weapons. In 2002, U.S. officials said Pyongyang had privately admitted it had a secret nuclear weapons program.

Since then, North Korea says it has reprocessed 8,000 spent plutonium fuel rods, enough nuclear material, experts say, for at least half a dozen nuclear weapons.

One of the world's most isolated regimes, known for its saber rattling, North Korea wants direct talks with Washington. But Rice said the only way out of this nuclear impasse for North Korea was to return to the bargaining table with the U.S., Russia and North Korea's neighbors.

RICE: And I know that we have support from the rest of the international community in saying to the North Koreans that they ought to take what is before them, a path to a more reasonable relationship, a path to a better life for their people, a path to security assurances from their neighbors, including from the United States.

KOPPEL: Rice reiterated that the United States has no intention of invading North Korea.

(on camera) Until now, the headline-grabber during Secretary Rice's swing through Europe has been Iran, another member of the axis of evil, and its suspected nuclear weapons program. Although it's unclear why North Korea has stepped up its saber rattling now, as Rice returns to Washington, it's clear another potentially more urgent threat looms.

Andrea Koppel, CNN, Luxembourg.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

HARRIS: And not to be outdone, Iran marked the 26th anniversary of its revolution with a fiery address to a militant throng. The speaker was President Mohammad Khatami, the audience, revolutionaries heeding a government mandate for a huge crowd despite heavy snow.

Khatami said Iranians seek neither war nor violence nor dispute, but if provoked...

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

PRESIDENT MOHAMMAD KHATAMI, IRANIAN PRESIDENT (through translator): Will this nation allow the feet of an aggressor to touch this land? If God forbid it happens, Iran will turn into a scorching hell for the aggressors.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

HARRIS: The crowd responded by chanting, "Death to America; death to Israel." As always, CNN is committed to providing the most reliable coverage on news that affects your security. Stay tuned both day and night.

PHILLIPS: Men in Saudi Arabia headed to the polls today. They cast ballots in the first of three rounds of municipal elections. The vote was unprecedented in the kingdom, and many people are hailing it as a step toward Democratic reform. Women were not allowed to vote or run for office, however.

HARRIS: Princes Harry and William say they're delighted their father, Prince Charles, is marrying his longtime sweetheart, Camilla Parker Bowles. CNN senior international correspondent Walter Rodgers looks at the couple's very public relationship.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

WALTER RODGERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): He had to wait until the age of 56. But now Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, finally had his mother's permission to marry of love of his life, Camilla Parker Bowles.

Each has been married once before, and now Charles and Camilla have found a way to finesse it again. She will become her royal highness, the Duchess of Cornwall. If he becomes king, she becomes Princess Consort. They are scheduled to marry April 8.

The two first met at a polo match in 1970. Both were in their early 20s. They became close. One of her ever so great grandmothers had been a royal mistress to one of his progenitors, King Edward VII.

But when Charles went off to the Navy, Camilla married an Army officer, Andrew Parker Bowles. Charles came home from the Navy. He and Camilla became, euphemistically, close again.

A palace courtier is said to have whispered to the queen, Charles was now engaged in an affair with Camilla, another man's wife. The palace decided it was time for Charles to marry what one royal biographer called a virginal Protestant aristocrat.

Diana clearly became a royal marriage of convenience. It was a loveless marriage that produced two sons and an ocean of acrimony. Diana later confessed...

DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES: Well, there were three of us in this marriage. So it was a bit crowded.

RODGERS: Mrs. Parker Bowles divorced her husband 10 years ago. A year later, Charles and Diana's marriage was dissolved.

That Charles had taken Camilla as a partner again in the mid-'90s was the worst kept secret in Britain. Even before Diana's death, Charles began openly to introduce Camilla to the British public. Then four years ago after some dithering, there was this royal risk, a public kiss. ROBERT LACEY, ROYAL BIOGRAPHER: The polls show very clearly that the public are now forgiving, that they'd like Charles and Camilla to remarry. The problem is that the very same people who say that also cannot accept the idea of Camilla becoming either Princess of Wales or queen.

RODGERS: Within the last two years, the Church of England, which frowns on marriage to a divorce with a living spouse, softened its opposition, as well. Rowan Williams is the head of the Anglican Church.

ROWAN WILLIAMS, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY: These arrangements have my full support. The Church of England has guidelines on these matters, which the Prince of Wales, as a loyal and committed member of the Church of England, has accepted and agreed with.

RODGERS: The prime minister is at one with the queen in the palace.

TONY BLAIR, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: Congratulations, and good wishes on behalf of the whole government. We all wish them every happiness for their future together.

RODGERS (on camera): Prince Charles has been at the center of most of the British monarchy's difficulties for the past generation. And it would seem the announcement of his impending marriage to Camilla is intended to bring closure to that long-running saga.

Walter Rodgers, CNN, London.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

PHILLIPS: So what will be happening in the next few weeks leading up to the big day?

HARRIS: Ah! Ahead on LIVE FROM -- ah? OK. We'll talk to a longtime royal watcher about what this marriage will mean for the family and for Britain.

PHILLIPS: Political ambitions. Is Senator Hillary Clinton looking to the White House in 2008?

HARRIS: And the movie "Hotel Rwanda" tells the story of genocide in that country. Later on LIVE FROM, we'll introduce you to a man helping to heal the wounds, one child at a time.

ANNOUNCER: You're watching LIVE FROM on CNN, the most trusted name in news.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

HARRIS: You know, they've hardly put away the voting machines from the last election, but the Democrats are looking ahead to 2008. And Hillary Rodham Clinton is emerging as their choice for nominee.

In a CNN/"USA Today"/Gallup poll, 40 percent of Democrats chose the New York senator. John Kerry and John Edwards get 25 percent and 17 percent, respectively.

PHILLIPS: So what does Hillary Clinton think? Well, she's not saying, well, not in so many words. But most signs are pointing to a Clinton candidacy in 2008. Senior political correspondent Candy Crowley has been trying to read the tea leaves.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

CANDY CROWLEY, CNN POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Hillary. It is all you need on the door. All you need on the buttons, all you need to start the conversation. Is it Hillary in '08?

SEN. HILLARY CLINTON (D), NEW YORK: I am focused on 2006.

CROWLEY: It would be both unwise and unnecessary for her to publicly eye the '08 presidential race. Unnecessary because she doesn't need to raise her profile. Unwise because she can't be seen as taking her '06 Senate re-election bid for granted. We are left with tealeaves.

CLINTON: You've made my morning.

CROWLEY: We are talking a first-term senator who has a think tank, a fund-raising committee, and a political action committee which has raised millions for several hundred Democrats.

She has scores of still loyal Clinton administration officials and former campaign aides stashed in various Democratic institutions in Washington and New York. Oh, and a husband who wants her to run, with a Rolodex to die for.

And now consider the New York senator's January speech to family planning advocates in Albany.

CLINTON: Now, research shows that the primary reason teenaged girls abstain from early sexual activity is because of their religious and moral values. We should embrace this and support programs that reinforce the idea that abstinence at a young age is not just a smart thing to do; it is the right thing to do.

CROWLEY: And consider her words to a leadership forum in Boston, where she spoke of her own prayers and of respecting the faith of others and enabling people to live out their faith in the public square.

Friends, supporters in the Hillary '08 crowd say this is nothing more than Hillary being Hillary, saying things she has always said, always believed. Still, red state words in blue state forums have put up antennas across the political spectrum.

BEN SMITH, "NEW YORK OBSERVER": She spent 2000, when she ran for election the first time here, convincing people that she could represent a northeast liberal state.

And now she's reminding people that she grew up a Republican in the Midwest, that she was the first lady of Arkansas, and she spends a bunch of time up in the bits of New York state that are closer to Ohio than they are to New York city.

CROWLEY: It is the beauty and the curse of being Hillary. Everyone assumes she's running for president.

CLINTON: I'm running for re-election. I have more than I can say grace over right now. There's just so much work to be done. And, you know, I just have to say that this budget debate is not just about, you know, numbers. It's about values.

CROWLEY: And everything she says is just another tealeaf.

Candy Crowley, CNN, Washington.

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HARRIS: So what about the Republicans? There's already a bit of jockeying going on that side as well. A CNN/"USA Today"/Gallup poll of Republicans shows Rudy Giuliani emerging as the GOP poster boy, ahead of John McCain.

But as our Kelly Wallace reports, the former New York mayor is being ever so coy about a run for president in 2008.

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KELLY WALLACE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Oh, how he dodges.

RUDY GIULIANI, FORMER MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY: We've got to get out of 2004 first.

WALLACE: OK, it's 2005, and the normally matter of fact Rudy Giuliani still won't answer the question.

GIULIANI: I don't think we start thinking about the next one until sometime from now.

WALLACE: That hasn't stopped Republicans in CNN's latest poll from declaring him the current front-runner for '08 with his rock-star status, following his handling of the September 11 attacks.

He is a maverick of sorts. After all, he's for abortion rights, gay marriage and gun control.

STEPHEN MOORE, PRESIDENT, FREE ENTERPRISE FUND: In some ways, on social issues, Rudy Giuliani is more of a Democrat than he is a Republican.

WALLACE: And to that, cultural conservatives say, "Houston, we have a problem."

MATTHEW STAVER, PRESIDENT, LIBERTY COUNSEL: The only way Rudy Giuliani can win is if, in fact, he has a true conversion on the issue of marriage; he becomes pro-life; he supports the sanctity of human life; and he's strong on those issues.

WALLACE: But could his crowd-pleasing performance at the Republican National Convention...

GIULIANI: The president of the United States, George W. Bush!

WALLACE: ... his stumping for President Bush, and his razzle dazzle celebrity lead conservatives to look past their differences?

Maybe, says Michael Daly, a columnist for "The New York Daily News" who has covered Rudy for years and was at the GOP convention.

MICHAEL DALY, "THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS": It's interesting, you'll be talking to some guy from Texas who, you know, is pro-life, you know, anti-gay, and you say to him, you know, this is a guy who's pro-choice, who lived with two gay gays for a while. And they look at you like so what?

WALLACE: The gay men were his friends, by the way, who put him up after his separation. And then there is this.

GIULIANI: Get lost. That's a -- that's a sneaky way of trying to invade somebody's personal life.

WALLACE: City hall sparring with the New York City press is one thing, but could he handle the scrutiny of a national race?

(on camera) To all of this, Giuliani's spokeswoman says he is focused on his business and not on presidential politics at the moment. Those last three words, of course, leaving all of us political junkies wondering just what the future may hold.

Kelly Wallace, CNN, New York.

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Stay tuned. LIVE FROM continues after this.

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HARRIS: President Bush is back on the road promoting his plan to overhaul Social Security. First stop was a town meeting in Raleigh, North Carolina. Next, he heads to Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. In Raleigh, Mr. Bush said folks should call on their lawmakers to support his proposal. His message to Congress, we're all in this deal together.

Well, the Golden State seems to be bearing the brunt of some high home prices.

PHILLIPS: Susan Lisovicz live from the New York Stock Exchange.

Hi, Susan.

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PHILLIPS: You may have noticed there's a revolution going on in the way people buy and listen to music. CDs, it would appear, are on the way out. And vinyl, well, that's so 20th century. Now it's all about downloads and ripping and shuffling.

From the CNN.com desk, Veronica de la Cruz.

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VERONICA DE LA CRUZ, CNN.COM: Many mainstream artists thought having MP3s of their music easily available on online. But one Atlanta based DJ and producer is using that very technology to his own advantage.

JON FOSTER, HIP-HOP DJ/PRODUCER: My web site is MeetJonDoe.com.

DE LA CRUZ (voice-over): Jon Foster, known as DJ Jon Doe, is using the Internet to jump-start a recording career.

FOSTER: Even though I'm still in Atlanta, Georgia, and I can't fly to Japan, or even if I can't fly to New York to talk to the labels there, I think you're able to actually, you know, cultivate your career and what you want to present to the world in terms of music and even your image.

DE LA CRUZ: Technology is making it easier for him to promote himself online. But when it comes to the digital divide, he still faces a few challenges.

FOSTER: There's a lot of different types of formats that these companies are using to deliver, you know, the music. So that, I think, makes things even more confusing.

The most popular format is MP3. That's where, really, this entire revolution with online music started.

I can be in the studio on a Monday night, get done with the song and mix it, and send it out the next night, and it can preview on a radio show, you know, halfway across the world. So that's what's extremely powerful for me. DE LA CRUZ (on camera): And to find out more about the online music revolution, you can log on to our web site at CNN.com/onlinemusic.

From the dot-com desk in Atlanta, I'm Veronica de la Cruz.

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