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Democrats Seeking White House Close Ranks to Blast Bush Administration; Latest on Developing Situation in Haiti

Aired March 01, 2004 - 10:30   ET

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

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


DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Let's go ahead and check the headlines at this hour. A Mississippi man is due in court this morning with prosecutors charging him in the Valentine's Day disappearance of three family members. Earnest Lee Hargon is in custody on unrelated drug and gun charges. Prosecutors are expected to unveil charges that he is connected to the disappearance his cousin, Michael Hargon, Hargon's wife and his 4-year-old son. Prosecutors spokes to moments ago, revealing a new development in the case.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

WARREN STRAIN, MISS. DEPT. OF PUBLIC SAFETY: The developments have just come to light, some very profound developments in terms of what we're doing here, not only with the prosecution of Mr. Hargon, but also the location of the missing family.

QUESTION: Did they find the bodies?

STRAIN: I'm not going to -- I don't know. I can't speculate on that. All I know is there is something very profound that is going on at this moment, as we speak.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

KAGAN: And we'll bring you the latest on that as those details become available.

Meanwhile, let's look at other top stories at this hour.

We begin with that in Haiti. Ousted President Jean Bertrand- Aristide has started his life in exile and in uncertainly. He arrived earlier this morning in the Central African Republic, but it's not clear if that's his final destination. Officials in Morocco and South Africa have denied reports that he has sought asylum in those countries.

In New Paltz, New York, some 500 gay people are awaiting same-sex marriages. The mayor of the small college town about an hour north of New York City, says that he'll perform more of the wedding next weekend, state warnings that they're illegal. Jason West says that city offices have been overwhelmed since he announced that it was his moral duty to marriage gay couples.

Police on the Hawaiian island of Maui say this 52-year-old man was not carrying on a terrorist attack when he drove his SUV into an airport lobby and then set the vehicle ablaze. The Sunday morning incident stranded thousands of departing passengers for up to 10 hours. The driver was arrested.

Democrats seeking the White House closed ranks to blast the Bush administration's handling of Haiti and the crisis that has deepened in recent weeks, but the Democrats have also turned on each other in a contentious debate two days before the critical Super Tuesday elections that will be held in 10 states. Our national correspondent Kelly Wallace has the story.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

REV. AL SHARPTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Let him finish.

KELLY WALLACE, CNN NATL. CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It was not pretty. The Democratic presidential candidates tangling more with the questioners than with each other. With the Reverend Al Sharpton charging the New York City debate was turning into a Kerry-Edwards forum.

SHARPTON: What you're trying to do is decide for the voters how we go forward. The voters need to hear this morning from four candidates.

WALLACE: And that was just the beginning. It was a more forceful John Edwards than we saw in Thursday's debate on CNN. This time he quickly pounced on John Kerry and his proposal for a 120-day review of all trade agreements.

SEN. JOHN EDWARDS (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: What you're going to say to a family that's lost their job because of bad trade agreements is don't worry, we got to a Washington committee that's studying this for you.

WALLACE: The Democratic front-runner who overall seemed more subdued than their last face-off took this opportunity to fire back.

SEN. JOHN KERRY (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: John Edwards has been in the Senate for five years. He's talked more in the last five weeks about trade than he has in the entire five years.

WALLACE: This was perhaps the senator from North Carolina's last chance to change the dynamics before Tuesday's 10 presidential contests. The Massachusetts senator touted his experience, but questioners asked, is he likable enough to beat President Bush?

KERRY: Give me a living room, give me a barn, give me a VFW hall, give me a one on one, and I think I can talk to anybody in this country.

EDWARDS: I don't think this is a personality contest. I think what people are looking for in a president is something that when they hear them speak, speaks their language.

WALLACE (on camera): The question now is, did this debate change any minds? John Edwards, trailing in the polls in the super Tuesday states, had the most to gain. John Kerry, so far out in front, had the most to lose. Kelly Wallace, CNN, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

KAGAN: Stay with CNN for extensive primetime coverage of Super Tuesday's battle in 10 states; 1,151 delegates up for grabs. It gets under way tomorrow at 7:00 Eastern, 4:00 Pacific right here on CNN.

Of course, we're going to kick off your Super Tuesday coverage with our show right here from Los Angeles tomorrow morning.

Right now, we want to get the latest on the developing situation in Haiti and the White House reaction to the crisis. Our Kathleen Koch is just out of the informal briefing they call the gaggle, the daily gaggle at the White House, and she joins us now with more.

Kathleen, good morning.

KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning.

It went -- what Scott McClellan told us this morning is that what happened in Haiti is it was a peaceful, Democratic and constitutional solution in the best interest of the Haitian people. McClellan described the decision reached by President Aristide to leave his country as a decision in the best interest again of the Haitian people.

President Bush this morning met with his National Security Council to discuss the situation in Haiti and the participation of hundreds of U.S. troops, U.S. Marines. Several hundred of them began arriving last night in the capital of Port-au-Prince. They will be joined by others. Though McClellan said at the briefing, at the gaggle a few minutes ago, that this is not going to be a group numbering in the thousands, that it is going to be more or less a modest deployment. But again, that will really, the final total will be up to the military officials.

And again, this is because of a unanimous vote by the United Nations Security Council last night to create this U.S.-led multinational peacekeeping force. Troops, French troops, began arriving also in Port-au-Prince today. They will be joined by troops from Canada and from other countries. And U.S. officials explained that the deal for Aristide to leave was brokered by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

COLIN POWELL, SECY. OF STATE: We tried to find a political solution. We worked very hard on it. We worked with the international community. The Caracom (ph) community, our French and Canadian colleagues. We couldn't find that answer. So we felt by the end of last week that the only real answer was if President Aristide would take a hard look at the situation and decide to step down, which is what he did. We said that under those circumstances, we would come in, and we came in immediately.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

KOCH: President Bush is taking flack from his critics for his administration's handling, though, of the situation in Haiti. Democratic presidential candidates John Kerry and John Edwards insisting that the president neglected Haiti and acted too late in responding to the violence there. Other critics in Congress accuse the administration of basically engineering the ouster of a democratically elected president -- Daryn.

KAGAN: Kathleen Koch at the White House. Kathleen, thank you for that. We continue to cover this story from the White House. And of course, we have our CNN crew on the ground in Haiti. In fact, we're just getting these pictures in now from Port-au-Prince, from the capital city, rebels making their way through the capital city. This was the last move as they approached the city. This is what convinced Jean Bertrand-Aristide, along with the lack of support from the United States, to flee that country.

As I said, our Lucia Newman on the ground, in Haiti. We'll be checking in with her later this hour.

Also checking in with your computer. It might be lurking on your computer. Have you heard about spyware? It is Internet tracking software that collects personal information about you often for companies trying to sell you a product. There are privacy concerns. And now Congress is stepping in.

Our technology correspondent Daniel Sieberg is here to explain to do as he does, explain to us what exactly happens inside of our computers.

Good morning.

DANIEL SIEBERG, CNN TECHNOLOGY CORRESPONDENT: Daryn, good morning. That's right. We're talking about spyware here. And you may not realize it when you surf the Net, hidden programs can secretly piggyback on each keystroke and Web page you view, and transmit information about your computer habits to third parties.

So what is spyware, or even adware, and how do you know if it's on your computer? Well, we have a demonstration set up in the newsroom with a computer we're going to scan and try to find these hidden files. We've got a program called "Ad Aware." It just happens be one of many programs that are out there. This one is free. We're going to start this scan, and it's going to start looking for these programs, these hidden files on your computer. You can see it's already scanning all these different objects, and it's looking for all the different files on your computer that could be hidden.

Now You mention the government's involvement. We're going to let this scan for a while. We're going to talk about some of the legislation being that's being introduced last week. The whole idea behind this is to try and curb the spyware, getting on to your computer without your knowledge. That's the key to all of this. We've got some of the points. This is a bipartisan bill that was introduced last week from Senators Ron Wyden, Barbara Boxer, as Democrats, and Conrad Burns, a Republican.

You can see here some of the points they're going in here. It collects your personal information, sends it to a third party. The whole idea being that it could try to target advertising for you, from marketers. It does cause pop-ups and other ads to appear on your computer. That's called adware. And it can turn your computer into a spam machine for somebody else, and send out spam from your computer. It also can modify the settings on your computer, change your homepage, so that it can sort of establish where you are on the Internet when you first log on, and it can redirect you to a fake Web site that looks like the real thing.

Now this was legislation introduced last week. It still has to go through a committee, and so it's not exactly out there. Now we finished this scan, where you can see It's found 67 new objects just on this computer alone, these hidden files. So that is just on this computer with this one type of program scanning for these files. So you really never know what's on your computer.

We do have a Web site you can go to. There's a number of other programs that are out there. If you go to spychecker.com, they've got a list there of all these other programs, in addition to Ad Aware, which is the one we've had on here. There are a whole number of different programs that are out there where you can try and find these files that are on your computer. Part of this legislation, too, is not only to restrict these spyware and adware programs on your computer, but to give you the option of consenting to it, to allow it on your computer, and to try to uninstall it, because that can be the toughest thing when it's on your computer, is trying to find them. That's the whole idea of these programs, is to go through and scan for these files, and then remove them if you think that that's necessary.

If we can get one more shot in here, I can just show you something else.

This is the list that it found. All of these different programs that are on here. You see data minor, vulnerability, data minor. All of these different things.

It's telling you what these programs are so you can decide whether or not you want to keep them or whether you want to delete them because some files can be innocent or innocuous, they're not necessarily all bad. But this is certainly a step in the right direction for people who are frustrated with spyware, adware or are not aware that it's out there.

Daryn, back to you.

KAGAN: And you showed me a single person, Daniel, who wants their computer turned into a spam machine. Yuck.

(CROSSTALK)

SIEBERG: ... unknowingly, especially when they get enough of it on their computer in the first place.

KAGAN: Absolutely. That four letter word, spam is around here.

Daniel, thank you for that. Appreciate the peek inside the computer.

Were you able to guess who would take home Oscar gold? It was predictable, wasn't it? Well, coming up, you'll get a chance to compare what you thought, who would win and who did win and should win. And then there are lots of bests, but who was among the worst dressed? That answer coming up.

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KAGAN: Amazing. March 1 and the Oscars are done. Some amazing actors, a beauty that played a beast, a director from another land and the end of an epic. Last night those are who earned the Academy Awards and the rewards during the 76th Annual Academy Awards. Let's take a look.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

KAGAN (voice-over): The movie industry's biggest night. The spectacle. The Hollywood royalty. And the night when the king was finally crowned.

STEVEN SPIELBERG, OSCAR PRESENTER: It's a clean sweep. "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King."

KAGAN: "The Return of the King," the final chapter of the monumental trilogy ran rings around the competition, going 11 for 11 at the Oscars.

PETER JACKSON, DIRECTOR, "LOTR": Oh, this is just unbelievable. And I'm so honored, touched and relieved that the academy and the members of the academy that have supported us have seen past the trolls and the wizards and the hobbits and are recognizing fantasy this year.

KAGAN: The "ring" sweep tied an Academy Record for most trophies and gave Peter Jackson his first Oscar for directing.

JACKSON: You're giving us an incredibly overwhelming night.

KAGAN: The best picture winner was no surprise and for many, neither was best actress.

ADRIAN BRODY, ACTOR: Charlize Theron.

CHARLIZE THERON, ACTRESS: This has been such an incredible year.

KAGAN: Another favorite going in, "Cold Mountain" supporting actress nominee Renee Zellweger had walked the red carpet twice before. The third time was a charm.

RENEE ZELLWEGER, ACTRESS: I am overwhelmed. Thank you.

KAGAN: Many called "Mystic River's" Tim Robbins the man to beat for best supporting actor. That was true, and no one did. Triple nominee Sofia Coppola added to her family's history of Oscar winners by taking what many said was her best chance at gold, the original screenplay award for "Lost in Translation."

SOFIA COPPOLA, DIRECTOR: I was so happy to see my parents. It's a big honor. I never thought my dad would be watching me get one.

KAGAN: Oscar did offer one surprise, a standing ovation for Hollywood outsider, and now Oscar winner, Sean Penn of "Mystic River."

SEAN PENN, ACTOR: I did arguably feel that I was there to debunk the notion that it was a popularity contest.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

KAGAN: OK, we are talking fashion. Besides who won what, many fans and fashionistas are talking about what did they wear and who looked good? Here with some fashion hits and misses is Rose Abudakah Jones (ph). She is West Coast bureau chief for "Women's Wear Daily."

Good morning.

ROSE ABUDAKAH JONES (ph), "WOMEN'S WEAR DAILY": Hello there, a late night.

KAGAN: Indeed, you're telling me. No, the night has just continued for me.

JONES: Same here. Same here.

KAGAN: Absolutely. Let's get right to it. Charlize Theron was expected to be the woman of the night.

JONES: She was. She was, definitely. And she was the night's golden girl. And if the trophy wasn't enough, we got that from the Tom Ford Verducci (ph) dress she wore. I mean, she looked spectacular, definitely.

KAGAN: Did you like the hair that went with the dress?

JONES: I did. I mean, she was definitely channeling Jean Harlow, but I think it worked. For me, it did. I mean, we loved it.

KAGAN: Yes, show me a day that she looked ugly.

JONES: Only on screen, right?

KAGAN: Nicole Kidman, right, a lot of people thought she missed at Golden Globes with the flapper look. Back to pastels.

JONES: She's back to her pastels, and she looked lovely, but I think the Chanel couture dress she wore (UNINTELLIGIBLE), again, lovely but -- I think it sort of characterized the night as far as there were a lot of lovely looks, but nothing that just really went far.

KAGAN: Made a statement.

JONES: Yes, I mean, Charlize definitely did it. And another one who made a statement last night of course was Renee Zellweger, sometimes not the best of statements. That excessive train on her Carolina Abrera (ph) dress was kind of a struggle at times, an you could see that in a lot of the way she posed.

KAGAN: Actually, you can kind of see it here. Because I was backstage when she came. I have to tell you, the most interesting part of this dress was the back. That huge bow on the back was like a big kimono thing.

JONES: Yes, it was definitely beautiful. But in terms of walking, Renee has a tendency to stride too widely, and didn't always come off well. But she did look beautiful when she stood just right.

KAGAN: So she won't be a fashion runway model, but she's an Oscar winner.

JONES: Yes, who cares.

KAGAN: Liv Tyler.

JONES: Liv Tyler, loved her in the Gibanci (ph). I know she wasn't everybody's favorite. But, again, someone who, from the back looked really amazing.

KAGAN: Explain this to me.

JONES: Well, from the front it was an interesting effect. A little bit too much with the hair, and the cat eye glasses, and the band around the neck. But when she was on the red carpet, where it really mattered and looking from behind. it worked.

KAGAN: Someone who's getting a lot of attention for how she looked on the red carpet, Uma Thurman.

JONES: Uma Thurman, the only thing I can think is that she was out there trying to support Johnny Depp for "Pirates of the Caribbean," because that Christian Laquois (ph) look was daring, but not one of her more -- not one of her better looks, let's put it that way. Maybe one of her more memorable ones, but not better.

KAGAN: She's had an interesting year, she's a beautiful woman, and she likes to take fashion chances.

JONES: She totally takes risks, and we love her because of that, and she can carry it.

KAGAN: I'm sure we'll hear more about it in "Women's Wear Daily."

Rose, thank you so much.

Always fun to talk about, did you like it? Didn't you?

JONES: Exactly. That's what it's all about.

KAGAN: A Special on fashionistas, explain to me the ones you don't get. This is why it worked. Thanks for that.

You can find out everything about Oscar. Just go to CNN.com/entertainment. You'll find video of the night's best moments, interesting features with the winners backstage, and a look at the glitz and glamour of the red carpet. The address CNN.com/entertainment. We are not done here. CNN LIVE TODAY back in a flash.

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Aired March 1, 2004 - 10:30   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Let's go ahead and check the headlines at this hour. A Mississippi man is due in court this morning with prosecutors charging him in the Valentine's Day disappearance of three family members. Earnest Lee Hargon is in custody on unrelated drug and gun charges. Prosecutors are expected to unveil charges that he is connected to the disappearance his cousin, Michael Hargon, Hargon's wife and his 4-year-old son. Prosecutors spokes to moments ago, revealing a new development in the case.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

WARREN STRAIN, MISS. DEPT. OF PUBLIC SAFETY: The developments have just come to light, some very profound developments in terms of what we're doing here, not only with the prosecution of Mr. Hargon, but also the location of the missing family.

QUESTION: Did they find the bodies?

STRAIN: I'm not going to -- I don't know. I can't speculate on that. All I know is there is something very profound that is going on at this moment, as we speak.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

KAGAN: And we'll bring you the latest on that as those details become available.

Meanwhile, let's look at other top stories at this hour.

We begin with that in Haiti. Ousted President Jean Bertrand- Aristide has started his life in exile and in uncertainly. He arrived earlier this morning in the Central African Republic, but it's not clear if that's his final destination. Officials in Morocco and South Africa have denied reports that he has sought asylum in those countries.

In New Paltz, New York, some 500 gay people are awaiting same-sex marriages. The mayor of the small college town about an hour north of New York City, says that he'll perform more of the wedding next weekend, state warnings that they're illegal. Jason West says that city offices have been overwhelmed since he announced that it was his moral duty to marriage gay couples.

Police on the Hawaiian island of Maui say this 52-year-old man was not carrying on a terrorist attack when he drove his SUV into an airport lobby and then set the vehicle ablaze. The Sunday morning incident stranded thousands of departing passengers for up to 10 hours. The driver was arrested.

Democrats seeking the White House closed ranks to blast the Bush administration's handling of Haiti and the crisis that has deepened in recent weeks, but the Democrats have also turned on each other in a contentious debate two days before the critical Super Tuesday elections that will be held in 10 states. Our national correspondent Kelly Wallace has the story.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

REV. AL SHARPTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Let him finish.

KELLY WALLACE, CNN NATL. CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It was not pretty. The Democratic presidential candidates tangling more with the questioners than with each other. With the Reverend Al Sharpton charging the New York City debate was turning into a Kerry-Edwards forum.

SHARPTON: What you're trying to do is decide for the voters how we go forward. The voters need to hear this morning from four candidates.

WALLACE: And that was just the beginning. It was a more forceful John Edwards than we saw in Thursday's debate on CNN. This time he quickly pounced on John Kerry and his proposal for a 120-day review of all trade agreements.

SEN. JOHN EDWARDS (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: What you're going to say to a family that's lost their job because of bad trade agreements is don't worry, we got to a Washington committee that's studying this for you.

WALLACE: The Democratic front-runner who overall seemed more subdued than their last face-off took this opportunity to fire back.

SEN. JOHN KERRY (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: John Edwards has been in the Senate for five years. He's talked more in the last five weeks about trade than he has in the entire five years.

WALLACE: This was perhaps the senator from North Carolina's last chance to change the dynamics before Tuesday's 10 presidential contests. The Massachusetts senator touted his experience, but questioners asked, is he likable enough to beat President Bush?

KERRY: Give me a living room, give me a barn, give me a VFW hall, give me a one on one, and I think I can talk to anybody in this country.

EDWARDS: I don't think this is a personality contest. I think what people are looking for in a president is something that when they hear them speak, speaks their language.

WALLACE (on camera): The question now is, did this debate change any minds? John Edwards, trailing in the polls in the super Tuesday states, had the most to gain. John Kerry, so far out in front, had the most to lose. Kelly Wallace, CNN, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

KAGAN: Stay with CNN for extensive primetime coverage of Super Tuesday's battle in 10 states; 1,151 delegates up for grabs. It gets under way tomorrow at 7:00 Eastern, 4:00 Pacific right here on CNN.

Of course, we're going to kick off your Super Tuesday coverage with our show right here from Los Angeles tomorrow morning.

Right now, we want to get the latest on the developing situation in Haiti and the White House reaction to the crisis. Our Kathleen Koch is just out of the informal briefing they call the gaggle, the daily gaggle at the White House, and she joins us now with more.

Kathleen, good morning.

KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning.

It went -- what Scott McClellan told us this morning is that what happened in Haiti is it was a peaceful, Democratic and constitutional solution in the best interest of the Haitian people. McClellan described the decision reached by President Aristide to leave his country as a decision in the best interest again of the Haitian people.

President Bush this morning met with his National Security Council to discuss the situation in Haiti and the participation of hundreds of U.S. troops, U.S. Marines. Several hundred of them began arriving last night in the capital of Port-au-Prince. They will be joined by others. Though McClellan said at the briefing, at the gaggle a few minutes ago, that this is not going to be a group numbering in the thousands, that it is going to be more or less a modest deployment. But again, that will really, the final total will be up to the military officials.

And again, this is because of a unanimous vote by the United Nations Security Council last night to create this U.S.-led multinational peacekeeping force. Troops, French troops, began arriving also in Port-au-Prince today. They will be joined by troops from Canada and from other countries. And U.S. officials explained that the deal for Aristide to leave was brokered by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

COLIN POWELL, SECY. OF STATE: We tried to find a political solution. We worked very hard on it. We worked with the international community. The Caracom (ph) community, our French and Canadian colleagues. We couldn't find that answer. So we felt by the end of last week that the only real answer was if President Aristide would take a hard look at the situation and decide to step down, which is what he did. We said that under those circumstances, we would come in, and we came in immediately.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

KOCH: President Bush is taking flack from his critics for his administration's handling, though, of the situation in Haiti. Democratic presidential candidates John Kerry and John Edwards insisting that the president neglected Haiti and acted too late in responding to the violence there. Other critics in Congress accuse the administration of basically engineering the ouster of a democratically elected president -- Daryn.

KAGAN: Kathleen Koch at the White House. Kathleen, thank you for that. We continue to cover this story from the White House. And of course, we have our CNN crew on the ground in Haiti. In fact, we're just getting these pictures in now from Port-au-Prince, from the capital city, rebels making their way through the capital city. This was the last move as they approached the city. This is what convinced Jean Bertrand-Aristide, along with the lack of support from the United States, to flee that country.

As I said, our Lucia Newman on the ground, in Haiti. We'll be checking in with her later this hour.

Also checking in with your computer. It might be lurking on your computer. Have you heard about spyware? It is Internet tracking software that collects personal information about you often for companies trying to sell you a product. There are privacy concerns. And now Congress is stepping in.

Our technology correspondent Daniel Sieberg is here to explain to do as he does, explain to us what exactly happens inside of our computers.

Good morning.

DANIEL SIEBERG, CNN TECHNOLOGY CORRESPONDENT: Daryn, good morning. That's right. We're talking about spyware here. And you may not realize it when you surf the Net, hidden programs can secretly piggyback on each keystroke and Web page you view, and transmit information about your computer habits to third parties.

So what is spyware, or even adware, and how do you know if it's on your computer? Well, we have a demonstration set up in the newsroom with a computer we're going to scan and try to find these hidden files. We've got a program called "Ad Aware." It just happens be one of many programs that are out there. This one is free. We're going to start this scan, and it's going to start looking for these programs, these hidden files on your computer. You can see it's already scanning all these different objects, and it's looking for all the different files on your computer that could be hidden.

Now You mention the government's involvement. We're going to let this scan for a while. We're going to talk about some of the legislation being that's being introduced last week. The whole idea behind this is to try and curb the spyware, getting on to your computer without your knowledge. That's the key to all of this. We've got some of the points. This is a bipartisan bill that was introduced last week from Senators Ron Wyden, Barbara Boxer, as Democrats, and Conrad Burns, a Republican.

You can see here some of the points they're going in here. It collects your personal information, sends it to a third party. The whole idea being that it could try to target advertising for you, from marketers. It does cause pop-ups and other ads to appear on your computer. That's called adware. And it can turn your computer into a spam machine for somebody else, and send out spam from your computer. It also can modify the settings on your computer, change your homepage, so that it can sort of establish where you are on the Internet when you first log on, and it can redirect you to a fake Web site that looks like the real thing.

Now this was legislation introduced last week. It still has to go through a committee, and so it's not exactly out there. Now we finished this scan, where you can see It's found 67 new objects just on this computer alone, these hidden files. So that is just on this computer with this one type of program scanning for these files. So you really never know what's on your computer.

We do have a Web site you can go to. There's a number of other programs that are out there. If you go to spychecker.com, they've got a list there of all these other programs, in addition to Ad Aware, which is the one we've had on here. There are a whole number of different programs that are out there where you can try and find these files that are on your computer. Part of this legislation, too, is not only to restrict these spyware and adware programs on your computer, but to give you the option of consenting to it, to allow it on your computer, and to try to uninstall it, because that can be the toughest thing when it's on your computer, is trying to find them. That's the whole idea of these programs, is to go through and scan for these files, and then remove them if you think that that's necessary.

If we can get one more shot in here, I can just show you something else.

This is the list that it found. All of these different programs that are on here. You see data minor, vulnerability, data minor. All of these different things.

It's telling you what these programs are so you can decide whether or not you want to keep them or whether you want to delete them because some files can be innocent or innocuous, they're not necessarily all bad. But this is certainly a step in the right direction for people who are frustrated with spyware, adware or are not aware that it's out there.

Daryn, back to you.

KAGAN: And you showed me a single person, Daniel, who wants their computer turned into a spam machine. Yuck.

(CROSSTALK)

SIEBERG: ... unknowingly, especially when they get enough of it on their computer in the first place.

KAGAN: Absolutely. That four letter word, spam is around here.

Daniel, thank you for that. Appreciate the peek inside the computer.

Were you able to guess who would take home Oscar gold? It was predictable, wasn't it? Well, coming up, you'll get a chance to compare what you thought, who would win and who did win and should win. And then there are lots of bests, but who was among the worst dressed? That answer coming up.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

KAGAN: Amazing. March 1 and the Oscars are done. Some amazing actors, a beauty that played a beast, a director from another land and the end of an epic. Last night those are who earned the Academy Awards and the rewards during the 76th Annual Academy Awards. Let's take a look.

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KAGAN (voice-over): The movie industry's biggest night. The spectacle. The Hollywood royalty. And the night when the king was finally crowned.

STEVEN SPIELBERG, OSCAR PRESENTER: It's a clean sweep. "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King."

KAGAN: "The Return of the King," the final chapter of the monumental trilogy ran rings around the competition, going 11 for 11 at the Oscars.

PETER JACKSON, DIRECTOR, "LOTR": Oh, this is just unbelievable. And I'm so honored, touched and relieved that the academy and the members of the academy that have supported us have seen past the trolls and the wizards and the hobbits and are recognizing fantasy this year.

KAGAN: The "ring" sweep tied an Academy Record for most trophies and gave Peter Jackson his first Oscar for directing.

JACKSON: You're giving us an incredibly overwhelming night.

KAGAN: The best picture winner was no surprise and for many, neither was best actress.

ADRIAN BRODY, ACTOR: Charlize Theron.

CHARLIZE THERON, ACTRESS: This has been such an incredible year.

KAGAN: Another favorite going in, "Cold Mountain" supporting actress nominee Renee Zellweger had walked the red carpet twice before. The third time was a charm.

RENEE ZELLWEGER, ACTRESS: I am overwhelmed. Thank you.

KAGAN: Many called "Mystic River's" Tim Robbins the man to beat for best supporting actor. That was true, and no one did. Triple nominee Sofia Coppola added to her family's history of Oscar winners by taking what many said was her best chance at gold, the original screenplay award for "Lost in Translation."

SOFIA COPPOLA, DIRECTOR: I was so happy to see my parents. It's a big honor. I never thought my dad would be watching me get one.

KAGAN: Oscar did offer one surprise, a standing ovation for Hollywood outsider, and now Oscar winner, Sean Penn of "Mystic River."

SEAN PENN, ACTOR: I did arguably feel that I was there to debunk the notion that it was a popularity contest.

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KAGAN: OK, we are talking fashion. Besides who won what, many fans and fashionistas are talking about what did they wear and who looked good? Here with some fashion hits and misses is Rose Abudakah Jones (ph). She is West Coast bureau chief for "Women's Wear Daily."

Good morning.

ROSE ABUDAKAH JONES (ph), "WOMEN'S WEAR DAILY": Hello there, a late night.

KAGAN: Indeed, you're telling me. No, the night has just continued for me.

JONES: Same here. Same here.

KAGAN: Absolutely. Let's get right to it. Charlize Theron was expected to be the woman of the night.

JONES: She was. She was, definitely. And she was the night's golden girl. And if the trophy wasn't enough, we got that from the Tom Ford Verducci (ph) dress she wore. I mean, she looked spectacular, definitely.

KAGAN: Did you like the hair that went with the dress?

JONES: I did. I mean, she was definitely channeling Jean Harlow, but I think it worked. For me, it did. I mean, we loved it.

KAGAN: Yes, show me a day that she looked ugly.

JONES: Only on screen, right?

KAGAN: Nicole Kidman, right, a lot of people thought she missed at Golden Globes with the flapper look. Back to pastels.

JONES: She's back to her pastels, and she looked lovely, but I think the Chanel couture dress she wore (UNINTELLIGIBLE), again, lovely but -- I think it sort of characterized the night as far as there were a lot of lovely looks, but nothing that just really went far.

KAGAN: Made a statement.

JONES: Yes, I mean, Charlize definitely did it. And another one who made a statement last night of course was Renee Zellweger, sometimes not the best of statements. That excessive train on her Carolina Abrera (ph) dress was kind of a struggle at times, an you could see that in a lot of the way she posed.

KAGAN: Actually, you can kind of see it here. Because I was backstage when she came. I have to tell you, the most interesting part of this dress was the back. That huge bow on the back was like a big kimono thing.

JONES: Yes, it was definitely beautiful. But in terms of walking, Renee has a tendency to stride too widely, and didn't always come off well. But she did look beautiful when she stood just right.

KAGAN: So she won't be a fashion runway model, but she's an Oscar winner.

JONES: Yes, who cares.

KAGAN: Liv Tyler.

JONES: Liv Tyler, loved her in the Gibanci (ph). I know she wasn't everybody's favorite. But, again, someone who, from the back looked really amazing.

KAGAN: Explain this to me.

JONES: Well, from the front it was an interesting effect. A little bit too much with the hair, and the cat eye glasses, and the band around the neck. But when she was on the red carpet, where it really mattered and looking from behind. it worked.

KAGAN: Someone who's getting a lot of attention for how she looked on the red carpet, Uma Thurman.

JONES: Uma Thurman, the only thing I can think is that she was out there trying to support Johnny Depp for "Pirates of the Caribbean," because that Christian Laquois (ph) look was daring, but not one of her more -- not one of her better looks, let's put it that way. Maybe one of her more memorable ones, but not better.

KAGAN: She's had an interesting year, she's a beautiful woman, and she likes to take fashion chances.

JONES: She totally takes risks, and we love her because of that, and she can carry it.

KAGAN: I'm sure we'll hear more about it in "Women's Wear Daily."

Rose, thank you so much.

Always fun to talk about, did you like it? Didn't you?

JONES: Exactly. That's what it's all about.

KAGAN: A Special on fashionistas, explain to me the ones you don't get. This is why it worked. Thanks for that.

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