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Flawed Intelligence; New Technology Reinvigorates Debate About When Life Begins

Aired July 12, 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: In the news now, President Bush this hour visits the nuclear weapons and research complex in Tennessee. He'll use that backdrop to discuss the war on terrorism. He may see nuclear weapons parts turned over by Libya, while saying his administration stance helped convice Libya leader Moammar Ghadafi to abandon the program.
This could be an unusually tough week for British Prime Minister Tony Blair. A British investigator releases a report Wednesday that is expected to blast the government for its handling of intelligence before the war on Iraq. The former British intelligence chief tells the BBC that for the first time, government policy was shaping intelligence rather than the other way around.

Here in the U.S., in South Florida, workers have returned to the site of a deadly anthrax attack nearly three years ago. Cleanup crews are pumping a potent chemical into the former Boca Raton headquarters of a supermarket tabloid. An editor there died there after exposure to anthrax in 2001.

An American is among eight people who have been gored today. This is the sixth day of the annual Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain. The 26-year-old New Yorker suffered a leg wound. A Spaniard was gored five times and is hospitalized in serious condition. More than a dozen runners have been killed since the record-keeping began on this event about 100 years ago.

All things might seem political in an election year, and that is especially the case with the Bush administration's case for war, and its reliance on what is now being called flawed intelligence. Mr. Bush's election may depend on how he handles the fallout and defends his decision.

Dana Bash has that story.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DANA BASH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Had they known then what they know now, even some Republicans say Congress probably would not have given the president the green light for war.

SEN. PAT ROBERTS (R), CHMN. INTEL. CMTE.: The weapons of mass destruction and posing an imminent threat to our national security, that would not have been part of the debate. And I'm not sure the votes would have been there to take that kind of military action. GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Each passing day could be the one on which the Iraqi regime gives anthrax or VX nerve gas or some day a nuclear weapon to a terrorist ally.

BASH: In pushing Congress to authorize war, Mr. Bush zeroed in on Iraqi WMD and potential dangers in a post 9/11 world.

Democrats questioned whether the intelligence analysis was so wrong because it was rushed to fit a White House time table for war. And they accuse the president of exaggerating the information he had.

ROCKEFELLER: They weren't paying attention to the intelligence they were getting and going beyond it to try to convince the American people that war was the way to go.

BUSH: The world is better off without Saddam Hussein in power.

BASH: The White House flatly denies misusing intelligence. Aides saying Mr. Bush will continue to defend the war that has come to define his presidency, one a majority of Americans now think was not worth fighting.

The key question now, how to fix a broken intelligence system, an issue sure to get even more intense when the September 11 Commission wraps up its report, which a spokesman tells CNN could now happen as early as this week.

Republicans and Democrats want the president to accelerate intelligence reform. Some saying he should fill the vacancy at the top of the CIA sooner rather than later.

ROBERTS: It'll have to be an extraordinary nominee. If that's the case, we will go full time into the hearings to get him or her confirmed.

BASH (on camera): The president travels to a government facility in Tennessee Monday, where nuclear material from Libya now sits. Whether or not Saddam Hussein had WMD, Mr. Bush will credit military action in Iraq for convincing Moammar Gadhafi to give up his.

Dana Bash, CNN, the White House.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

KAGAN: Fund-raising by former Republica leader Tom DeLay is reportedly undergoing a state investigation in Texas. "The Washington Post" says the probe focuses on the political action committee under then-House Majority Whip Tom Delay, not DeLay himself. The "Post" reports that an e-mail from Enron's top lobbyist claim that DeLay was pressing the energy giant for $100,000 contribution. That is in addition to $250,000 the company had already pledged that year to the Republicans. DeLay said that some of the donation would help fund redistricting in Texas, which ultimately helped the Republicans. He's controlled the state house for the first time in 130 years.

(AUDIO GAP) are attacking the Bush administration on the war in Iraq, the economy and education, but those attending the group's convention in Philadelphia this week will not get to hear the president's side.

Allison Harmelin of our affiliate K -- actually WPHL explains why.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ALLISON HARMELIN, WPHL-TV CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Amidst the photo-ops, applause, networking and entertainment, there's an undercurrent of controversy at 95-annual convention of the NAACP.

JOHN STREET, PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA MAYOR: I think it's very unfortunate that President Bush chose to ignore this convention.

KWEISI MFUME, NAACP PRESIDENT: I've written and written and written, requesting a meeting or an opportunity to talk about pertinent issues. We've written, inviting him to come and address us and we've gotten no response. It's been absolute silence.

HARMELIN: For the fourth year in a row, President Bush has declined the NAACP's invitation to address the group. In spite of 30 visits to battleground state of Pennsylvania, the president turned down this visit, citing scheduling problems.

MFUME: I think the larger picture is in an election that's going to be as close as this one, no party can afford slippage or to write off an entire group of voters, because you may not agree with them on one issue or another.

HARMELIN: But the president has said his issues are with the NAACP's leadership.

Quote, "I will describe my relationship with the current leadership as basically nonexistent. You've heard the rhetoric and the names they've called me."

But at years-largest gathering of African-American community leaders, Philadelphia's mayor believes the president's absence sends a message that will be heard around the country.

STREET: People here will go back to their respective cities. And the president will have to answer for -- answer the question, why didn't you come to the NAACP convention?

HARMELIN: And while George Bush got just 9 percent of the black vote back in November 2000, many here feel this is a slight that will further reduce those numbers.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There are a lot of the things I don't agree with what he's doing. So. And this is something he should be a part of.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: For him not to take time out of his schedule. That to me, that shows me what kind of president he is.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The one vote that he may have gotten black -- from the black community, he's not going to get now.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

KAGAN: Let's go ahead and take a look at other stories making news coast to coast. Double trouble for an Arizona pilot. His plane clipped a van as he tried to make an emergency landing on a Southern California freeway. The plane flipped upside down and was badly damaged. Police arrested the pilot for suspicion of flying under the influence.

Singer Bobby Brown left an Atlanta jail last night after he posted bond in a misdemeanor battery case. Brown is accused of hitting his wife, singer Whitney Houston. Brown could get up to a year in jail if convicted. First-time domestic violence charge is sometimes dropped if the defendant undergoes counseling.

And history repeated itself on the banks of the Hudson River. Descendants of Alexander Hamiliton and Aaron Burr reenacted the 1804 dual where the treasury secretary was fatally wounded. Burr was indicted on murder charges, but never tried, and did finish his term as vice president.

Talk of abortion always stirs emotions. In England, there's new technology that has reinvigorated the debate about when life begins.

Guy Raz has that story from London.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

GUY RAZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The unmistakable features of a human, tiny, fully formed nose and lips, appearing to climb the walls of the womb. But this is a fetus just 12 weeks old, an image magnified many times, the product of cutting edge technology pioneered in Britain earlier this year.

These images have been shown in major newspapers and on television. And now Britain's leading politicians are reconsidering the question of when life begins.

TONY BLAIR, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: If the scientific evidence has shifted, then it's obviously sensible for us to take that into account.

RAZ: Abortion rights advocates say the images are manipulative.

ANNE WEYMAN, FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION: These pictures that have been shown are very emotive and they also -- they are enlarged. They haven't added anything to the knowledge that doctors have about the development of the fetus. And they don't really add to the debate. They are being used as a -- as a tool to bring up this question and to put pressure on to reduce the time limit.

RAZ: Polls show overwhelming public support for abortion rights. Groups here opposing abortion have been on the periphery, but that's starting to change. JULIA MILLINGTON, U.K. PRO-LIFE PARTY: I think we're being perceived as less outlandish as people join with us and say too many abortions. Everybody is saying too many abortions. People are expressing concern that these abortions are being carried out for trivial reasons.

RAZ: Britain has among the least restrictive abortion laws in Europe. In Belgium, abortions are only allowed within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. France has similar restrictions. So does Germany. But in Ireland, abortions are banned unless the life of the mother is in danger.

(on camera): British politicians may now consider whether to reduce the window allowing abortions by up to two weeks. Now that may not sound like much, but abortion opponents are already hailing that prospect.

MILLINGTON: We campaign for total abolition and we continue to campaign for total abolition. However, we do -- we would welcome a reduction in the upper time limit as a step in the right direction.

RAZ (voice-over): Abortion rights groups oppose any changes in the law, saying fewer than 1 percent of abortions here have been after 20 weeks of pregnancy anyway. What they are now pushing for is better access to earlier abortions.

Guy Raz, CNN, London.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

KAGAN: Running sensation Marion Jones has yet to qualify for this year's Olympics. And she is not the only one who has yet to qualify. Find out who else has not made the cut in the track and field events.

And do you want to know who's making campaign contributions to whom? It's as easy as clicking your mouse. Want We'll show you straight ahead on CNN LIVE TODAY.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

KAGAN: From the lap of luxury to a life in prison. The wife of former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow has started serving a one-year prison sentence.

Lea Fastow surrendered to feral authorities a could hours ago. She is trading her affluent home in Houston for an 8x10-foot cell a few miles away. In May, she pleaded guilty to helping her husband hide money from a financial scheme.

And former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay will give his first prime time interview since charged in the company's scandal. You can watch him on CNN's "LARRY KING LIVE" at 9:00 Eastern.

(MARKET UPDATE) KAGAN: You can call it voting voyeurism, a chance to peek into the windows, the wallets of your politically active neighbors. Even celebrities. Alina Cho shows us how a few clicks and a bit of curiosity can pry open the public records of campaign contributions.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ALINA CHO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Easy as typing in your name. In this case, Patty Kennedy finds her address and her record of her $1, 250 donation to Joseph Lieberman on the Web site fundrace.org. Political contribution, part of the public record.

(on camera): You like Kerry?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I do. I like Kerry. I don't think he's perfected.

CHO: Kennedy traditionally votes Democratic. Also gave money to Wesley Clark.

PATTY KENNEDY, CONSULTANT: I don't mind letting people know where I stand politically, and who I've contributed to. I'm happy to talk about it.

CHO: What about celebrities? Jerry Seinfeld may not publicize it, but he gave $2,000 each to Kerry and Clark.

JERRY SEINFELD, COMEDIAN: Why do people always say that, I hate everybody. Why would I like him?

CHO: There's the $2,000 to Dennis Kucinich, courtesy of Matt Damon. Then there's Donald Trump.

He's covering all his bases. John Kerry, George Bush. There you go.

JONAH FERETTI, FUNDRACE.ORG FOUNDER: Check out your neighbors and check out your coworkers and boss and see who they're giving to. It's something that's the kind of thing people will do.

CHO (on camera): Fund Race was created to get people politically involved. It has blossomed into a voyeuristic thrill, getting more than 200,000 hits a day.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You can keep track of everybody. It's good for the media.

CHO (voice-over): At this Internet cafe...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't think that's anybody else's business.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I just don't think there's expectation of privacy when you do that kind of thing.

CHO: Privacy experts say blame it on the Internet. STEWART BAKER, PRIVACY EXPERT: Most of us are used to the idea that we're in control of who we tell about our political views. But those days are over.

CHO (on camera): Well, your money's out there.

KENNEDY: My money's there. I put my money where my mouth was.

CHO: Right.

KENNEDY: Let's hope it counts.

CHO (voice-over): Whether the information is public or not.

Alina Cho, CNN, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

KAGAN: A cycling record hangs in the balance for Lance Armstrong. We'll tell you where he stands in a bid to win another Tour de France when we come back.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

KAGAN: Let's get some interesting sports stories in here. Today is an off-day in the grueling Tour de France. American bicycling legend Lance Armstrong is in sixth place in his quest to capture a record sixth title. He's more than 9 1/2 minutes out of the lead, but considered to be well-positioned for the mountainous phase, and keep in mind, that is where Lance Armstrong usually thrives.

Marion Jones and boyfriend Tim Montgomery will be on the sidelines during the 100-meter dash event in the Athens Olympics. Both failed to qualify in the trials. Jones -- you can see the heat here -- she finished fifth. She won't be defending her gold medal. She could still qualify for the 200 and the long jump. However, Montgomery, who holds the 100-meter world record, was also off the track; he finished seventh in yesterday's final.

After the trials, Jones blamed the media for her loss. She scolded journalists for their intense coverage of the steroid investigation that surrounds both Jones and Montgomery.

Well, let's check out the swimmers. To Long Beach, California Washington: Brendan Hansen set another world record at yesterday's U.S. Olympic swimming trials. He won the 200-meter breast stroke in two minutes, 9.04 seconds. That is three days earlier, Hansen shattered the record for the 100 meter breast stroke. So he will be going on to represent the U.S.

Have you heard these terms? Elsits (ph), daffies, nose and tail wheelies. It is all in day's fun for a group of free-spirited mothers who know their way around a skate park.

Donna Tetrault is on a roll in Southern California.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DONNA TETRAULT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The look of skateboarding isn't what it used to be, girls are carving and doing ollies just like the boys. But these are, well, mature girls.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I've always been kind of obsessed with skateboarding.

TETRAULT: This woman is leading a revolution: skateboarding moms. She's written a book, she's set up a Web site, and now women as far away as New Zealand are visiting it, and rolling into her world.

BARBARA ODANAKA, SKATEBOARDING MOM: When we step on these planks of wood, it's like total freedom. And I'm just ten all over again.

TETRAULT (on camera): When Barbara Odanaka is climbing the walls at home she says she would rather be crawling the walls at a skate park. And she's not alone.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Each trick, each thing that you accomplish just makes you feel so good for the rest of the day.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Skateboarding is absolutely my favorite sport.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's usually a 12-year-old boy who's trying to show me how to do it, just do this.

TETRAULT (voice-over): And while some women shop for shoes, Odanaka and her friends spend thousands on skateboarding equipment.

ODANAKA: This is my latest toy. It's great finding a big long hill. And you carve it just like you would be carving snow.

TETRAULT: They show off their moves, bringing the next generation along.

ODANAKA: I'm no Tony Hawk. I'm a mom. So I do have to be a little careful. But ultimately I'd like to be a mom who can do things that Tony Hawk does on a skateboard.

TETRAULT: It's off to try the gymbo and avoid the asphalt hankie. Donna Tetrault for CNN, Laguna.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

KAGAN: Well, let's go from skateboarding to surf. The surf has a new sound in Florida. We will take you under the waves. An unusual symphony. That is straight ahead.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

KAGAN: I think that guy's playing a fish. OK, well we can try to think of it of -- as Beethoven with bubbles. A symphony conductor donned scuba gear and used a red snorkel for a baton at the Underwater Music Festival under the Florida Keys. These sounds were piped in. But some divers made their own music. You had a trombone fish. A harmoni-crab. And manta-lin.

(WEATHER BREAK)

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Aired July 12, 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: In the news now, President Bush this hour visits the nuclear weapons and research complex in Tennessee. He'll use that backdrop to discuss the war on terrorism. He may see nuclear weapons parts turned over by Libya, while saying his administration stance helped convice Libya leader Moammar Ghadafi to abandon the program.
This could be an unusually tough week for British Prime Minister Tony Blair. A British investigator releases a report Wednesday that is expected to blast the government for its handling of intelligence before the war on Iraq. The former British intelligence chief tells the BBC that for the first time, government policy was shaping intelligence rather than the other way around.

Here in the U.S., in South Florida, workers have returned to the site of a deadly anthrax attack nearly three years ago. Cleanup crews are pumping a potent chemical into the former Boca Raton headquarters of a supermarket tabloid. An editor there died there after exposure to anthrax in 2001.

An American is among eight people who have been gored today. This is the sixth day of the annual Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain. The 26-year-old New Yorker suffered a leg wound. A Spaniard was gored five times and is hospitalized in serious condition. More than a dozen runners have been killed since the record-keeping began on this event about 100 years ago.

All things might seem political in an election year, and that is especially the case with the Bush administration's case for war, and its reliance on what is now being called flawed intelligence. Mr. Bush's election may depend on how he handles the fallout and defends his decision.

Dana Bash has that story.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DANA BASH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Had they known then what they know now, even some Republicans say Congress probably would not have given the president the green light for war.

SEN. PAT ROBERTS (R), CHMN. INTEL. CMTE.: The weapons of mass destruction and posing an imminent threat to our national security, that would not have been part of the debate. And I'm not sure the votes would have been there to take that kind of military action. GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Each passing day could be the one on which the Iraqi regime gives anthrax or VX nerve gas or some day a nuclear weapon to a terrorist ally.

BASH: In pushing Congress to authorize war, Mr. Bush zeroed in on Iraqi WMD and potential dangers in a post 9/11 world.

Democrats questioned whether the intelligence analysis was so wrong because it was rushed to fit a White House time table for war. And they accuse the president of exaggerating the information he had.

ROCKEFELLER: They weren't paying attention to the intelligence they were getting and going beyond it to try to convince the American people that war was the way to go.

BUSH: The world is better off without Saddam Hussein in power.

BASH: The White House flatly denies misusing intelligence. Aides saying Mr. Bush will continue to defend the war that has come to define his presidency, one a majority of Americans now think was not worth fighting.

The key question now, how to fix a broken intelligence system, an issue sure to get even more intense when the September 11 Commission wraps up its report, which a spokesman tells CNN could now happen as early as this week.

Republicans and Democrats want the president to accelerate intelligence reform. Some saying he should fill the vacancy at the top of the CIA sooner rather than later.

ROBERTS: It'll have to be an extraordinary nominee. If that's the case, we will go full time into the hearings to get him or her confirmed.

BASH (on camera): The president travels to a government facility in Tennessee Monday, where nuclear material from Libya now sits. Whether or not Saddam Hussein had WMD, Mr. Bush will credit military action in Iraq for convincing Moammar Gadhafi to give up his.

Dana Bash, CNN, the White House.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

KAGAN: Fund-raising by former Republica leader Tom DeLay is reportedly undergoing a state investigation in Texas. "The Washington Post" says the probe focuses on the political action committee under then-House Majority Whip Tom Delay, not DeLay himself. The "Post" reports that an e-mail from Enron's top lobbyist claim that DeLay was pressing the energy giant for $100,000 contribution. That is in addition to $250,000 the company had already pledged that year to the Republicans. DeLay said that some of the donation would help fund redistricting in Texas, which ultimately helped the Republicans. He's controlled the state house for the first time in 130 years.

(AUDIO GAP) are attacking the Bush administration on the war in Iraq, the economy and education, but those attending the group's convention in Philadelphia this week will not get to hear the president's side.

Allison Harmelin of our affiliate K -- actually WPHL explains why.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ALLISON HARMELIN, WPHL-TV CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Amidst the photo-ops, applause, networking and entertainment, there's an undercurrent of controversy at 95-annual convention of the NAACP.

JOHN STREET, PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA MAYOR: I think it's very unfortunate that President Bush chose to ignore this convention.

KWEISI MFUME, NAACP PRESIDENT: I've written and written and written, requesting a meeting or an opportunity to talk about pertinent issues. We've written, inviting him to come and address us and we've gotten no response. It's been absolute silence.

HARMELIN: For the fourth year in a row, President Bush has declined the NAACP's invitation to address the group. In spite of 30 visits to battleground state of Pennsylvania, the president turned down this visit, citing scheduling problems.

MFUME: I think the larger picture is in an election that's going to be as close as this one, no party can afford slippage or to write off an entire group of voters, because you may not agree with them on one issue or another.

HARMELIN: But the president has said his issues are with the NAACP's leadership.

Quote, "I will describe my relationship with the current leadership as basically nonexistent. You've heard the rhetoric and the names they've called me."

But at years-largest gathering of African-American community leaders, Philadelphia's mayor believes the president's absence sends a message that will be heard around the country.

STREET: People here will go back to their respective cities. And the president will have to answer for -- answer the question, why didn't you come to the NAACP convention?

HARMELIN: And while George Bush got just 9 percent of the black vote back in November 2000, many here feel this is a slight that will further reduce those numbers.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There are a lot of the things I don't agree with what he's doing. So. And this is something he should be a part of.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: For him not to take time out of his schedule. That to me, that shows me what kind of president he is.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The one vote that he may have gotten black -- from the black community, he's not going to get now.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

KAGAN: Let's go ahead and take a look at other stories making news coast to coast. Double trouble for an Arizona pilot. His plane clipped a van as he tried to make an emergency landing on a Southern California freeway. The plane flipped upside down and was badly damaged. Police arrested the pilot for suspicion of flying under the influence.

Singer Bobby Brown left an Atlanta jail last night after he posted bond in a misdemeanor battery case. Brown is accused of hitting his wife, singer Whitney Houston. Brown could get up to a year in jail if convicted. First-time domestic violence charge is sometimes dropped if the defendant undergoes counseling.

And history repeated itself on the banks of the Hudson River. Descendants of Alexander Hamiliton and Aaron Burr reenacted the 1804 dual where the treasury secretary was fatally wounded. Burr was indicted on murder charges, but never tried, and did finish his term as vice president.

Talk of abortion always stirs emotions. In England, there's new technology that has reinvigorated the debate about when life begins.

Guy Raz has that story from London.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

GUY RAZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The unmistakable features of a human, tiny, fully formed nose and lips, appearing to climb the walls of the womb. But this is a fetus just 12 weeks old, an image magnified many times, the product of cutting edge technology pioneered in Britain earlier this year.

These images have been shown in major newspapers and on television. And now Britain's leading politicians are reconsidering the question of when life begins.

TONY BLAIR, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: If the scientific evidence has shifted, then it's obviously sensible for us to take that into account.

RAZ: Abortion rights advocates say the images are manipulative.

ANNE WEYMAN, FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION: These pictures that have been shown are very emotive and they also -- they are enlarged. They haven't added anything to the knowledge that doctors have about the development of the fetus. And they don't really add to the debate. They are being used as a -- as a tool to bring up this question and to put pressure on to reduce the time limit.

RAZ: Polls show overwhelming public support for abortion rights. Groups here opposing abortion have been on the periphery, but that's starting to change. JULIA MILLINGTON, U.K. PRO-LIFE PARTY: I think we're being perceived as less outlandish as people join with us and say too many abortions. Everybody is saying too many abortions. People are expressing concern that these abortions are being carried out for trivial reasons.

RAZ: Britain has among the least restrictive abortion laws in Europe. In Belgium, abortions are only allowed within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. France has similar restrictions. So does Germany. But in Ireland, abortions are banned unless the life of the mother is in danger.

(on camera): British politicians may now consider whether to reduce the window allowing abortions by up to two weeks. Now that may not sound like much, but abortion opponents are already hailing that prospect.

MILLINGTON: We campaign for total abolition and we continue to campaign for total abolition. However, we do -- we would welcome a reduction in the upper time limit as a step in the right direction.

RAZ (voice-over): Abortion rights groups oppose any changes in the law, saying fewer than 1 percent of abortions here have been after 20 weeks of pregnancy anyway. What they are now pushing for is better access to earlier abortions.

Guy Raz, CNN, London.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

KAGAN: Running sensation Marion Jones has yet to qualify for this year's Olympics. And she is not the only one who has yet to qualify. Find out who else has not made the cut in the track and field events.

And do you want to know who's making campaign contributions to whom? It's as easy as clicking your mouse. Want We'll show you straight ahead on CNN LIVE TODAY.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

KAGAN: From the lap of luxury to a life in prison. The wife of former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow has started serving a one-year prison sentence.

Lea Fastow surrendered to feral authorities a could hours ago. She is trading her affluent home in Houston for an 8x10-foot cell a few miles away. In May, she pleaded guilty to helping her husband hide money from a financial scheme.

And former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay will give his first prime time interview since charged in the company's scandal. You can watch him on CNN's "LARRY KING LIVE" at 9:00 Eastern.

(MARKET UPDATE) KAGAN: You can call it voting voyeurism, a chance to peek into the windows, the wallets of your politically active neighbors. Even celebrities. Alina Cho shows us how a few clicks and a bit of curiosity can pry open the public records of campaign contributions.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ALINA CHO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Easy as typing in your name. In this case, Patty Kennedy finds her address and her record of her $1, 250 donation to Joseph Lieberman on the Web site fundrace.org. Political contribution, part of the public record.

(on camera): You like Kerry?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I do. I like Kerry. I don't think he's perfected.

CHO: Kennedy traditionally votes Democratic. Also gave money to Wesley Clark.

PATTY KENNEDY, CONSULTANT: I don't mind letting people know where I stand politically, and who I've contributed to. I'm happy to talk about it.

CHO: What about celebrities? Jerry Seinfeld may not publicize it, but he gave $2,000 each to Kerry and Clark.

JERRY SEINFELD, COMEDIAN: Why do people always say that, I hate everybody. Why would I like him?

CHO: There's the $2,000 to Dennis Kucinich, courtesy of Matt Damon. Then there's Donald Trump.

He's covering all his bases. John Kerry, George Bush. There you go.

JONAH FERETTI, FUNDRACE.ORG FOUNDER: Check out your neighbors and check out your coworkers and boss and see who they're giving to. It's something that's the kind of thing people will do.

CHO (on camera): Fund Race was created to get people politically involved. It has blossomed into a voyeuristic thrill, getting more than 200,000 hits a day.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You can keep track of everybody. It's good for the media.

CHO (voice-over): At this Internet cafe...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't think that's anybody else's business.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I just don't think there's expectation of privacy when you do that kind of thing.

CHO: Privacy experts say blame it on the Internet. STEWART BAKER, PRIVACY EXPERT: Most of us are used to the idea that we're in control of who we tell about our political views. But those days are over.

CHO (on camera): Well, your money's out there.

KENNEDY: My money's there. I put my money where my mouth was.

CHO: Right.

KENNEDY: Let's hope it counts.

CHO (voice-over): Whether the information is public or not.

Alina Cho, CNN, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

KAGAN: A cycling record hangs in the balance for Lance Armstrong. We'll tell you where he stands in a bid to win another Tour de France when we come back.

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KAGAN: Let's get some interesting sports stories in here. Today is an off-day in the grueling Tour de France. American bicycling legend Lance Armstrong is in sixth place in his quest to capture a record sixth title. He's more than 9 1/2 minutes out of the lead, but considered to be well-positioned for the mountainous phase, and keep in mind, that is where Lance Armstrong usually thrives.

Marion Jones and boyfriend Tim Montgomery will be on the sidelines during the 100-meter dash event in the Athens Olympics. Both failed to qualify in the trials. Jones -- you can see the heat here -- she finished fifth. She won't be defending her gold medal. She could still qualify for the 200 and the long jump. However, Montgomery, who holds the 100-meter world record, was also off the track; he finished seventh in yesterday's final.

After the trials, Jones blamed the media for her loss. She scolded journalists for their intense coverage of the steroid investigation that surrounds both Jones and Montgomery.

Well, let's check out the swimmers. To Long Beach, California Washington: Brendan Hansen set another world record at yesterday's U.S. Olympic swimming trials. He won the 200-meter breast stroke in two minutes, 9.04 seconds. That is three days earlier, Hansen shattered the record for the 100 meter breast stroke. So he will be going on to represent the U.S.

Have you heard these terms? Elsits (ph), daffies, nose and tail wheelies. It is all in day's fun for a group of free-spirited mothers who know their way around a skate park.

Donna Tetrault is on a roll in Southern California.

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DONNA TETRAULT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The look of skateboarding isn't what it used to be, girls are carving and doing ollies just like the boys. But these are, well, mature girls.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I've always been kind of obsessed with skateboarding.

TETRAULT: This woman is leading a revolution: skateboarding moms. She's written a book, she's set up a Web site, and now women as far away as New Zealand are visiting it, and rolling into her world.

BARBARA ODANAKA, SKATEBOARDING MOM: When we step on these planks of wood, it's like total freedom. And I'm just ten all over again.

TETRAULT (on camera): When Barbara Odanaka is climbing the walls at home she says she would rather be crawling the walls at a skate park. And she's not alone.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Each trick, each thing that you accomplish just makes you feel so good for the rest of the day.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Skateboarding is absolutely my favorite sport.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's usually a 12-year-old boy who's trying to show me how to do it, just do this.

TETRAULT (voice-over): And while some women shop for shoes, Odanaka and her friends spend thousands on skateboarding equipment.

ODANAKA: This is my latest toy. It's great finding a big long hill. And you carve it just like you would be carving snow.

TETRAULT: They show off their moves, bringing the next generation along.

ODANAKA: I'm no Tony Hawk. I'm a mom. So I do have to be a little careful. But ultimately I'd like to be a mom who can do things that Tony Hawk does on a skateboard.

TETRAULT: It's off to try the gymbo and avoid the asphalt hankie. Donna Tetrault for CNN, Laguna.

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KAGAN: Well, let's go from skateboarding to surf. The surf has a new sound in Florida. We will take you under the waves. An unusual symphony. That is straight ahead.

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KAGAN: I think that guy's playing a fish. OK, well we can try to think of it of -- as Beethoven with bubbles. A symphony conductor donned scuba gear and used a red snorkel for a baton at the Underwater Music Festival under the Florida Keys. These sounds were piped in. But some divers made their own music. You had a trombone fish. A harmoni-crab. And manta-lin.

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