[Rick Sanchez, Cnn Anchor:] We've got a lot to cover, only an hour to do it, so let's get started. Shuttle "Atlantis" in orbit tonight, but Houston, we have a problem. Should we be worried about this hole? It's about four inches long. We're going to have the latest from NASA on that one. One mystery solved, plenty remain. What happened inside this Connecticut house where a missing girl was found? Pornographic evidence, if it's real, it is sickening. Can you call this Italian hospitality? President Bush, wherever he goes lately, angry mobs seem to follow. We're going to have the details from Rome on this one. But first, the candidates on the stump this weekend. John Edwards in New Hampshire, Senator Clinton in Michigan and Iowa, Senator John McCain in Iowa, Senator Chris Dodd in Iowa. See a pattern A straw poll is in August there. The caucus in January. And so goes the courtship of Iowa's voters. The political question this week, is the immigration deal dead or is it just on life support at this point? Today, President Bush tried to resuscitate it, you might say, by urging Congress to pass it, even though the Senate even failed to even vote on it. The president stressed once again this bill does not offer amnesty to illegal immigrants. He says. He argues that they'd have to earn their current U.S. Immigration status. So after hearing from the president and from the candidates tonight on CNN, what do you think? What do average Americans have to say about this immigration debate? Here's our panel. Go ahead, Roger. Roll it.
[Sanchez:] Raise your hand if you think English should be the official language of the United States of America. Key word "official." I heard you grunting while you were hearing that conversation. So go ahead and start us off.
[Ney Lawson, Non-profit Executive:] Well, first of all, we're not the legislation is not separating families. It's a decision to come here illegally is separating families. The second point...
[Sanchez:] But let's go back to the language issue. Do you think it should be there's something...
[Lawson:] OK, the language issue. OK.
[Sanchez:] There's one thing about making it the language of the United States. The other thing is saying it's the official language of the United States. Is there a difference?
[Lawson:] Wait a minute.
[Ron Lieberman, Corporate Attorney:] I don't think most people know what that means. And I think Senator Clinton spoke well about that. It's not whether or not it's official or national. People here in this country need to speak English. And we understand that, but to use it to what ends and to what means.
[Sanchez:] But don't they speak English already? Most all statistics say by the time you get into the second generation when you come to the United States, you are speaking English.
[Elizabeth Ross Lieberman, Non-profit Consultant:] I think that literacy and educating people in our country is important to get them to be able to survive and be successful in our country and be able to fit in with the economy that we're creating, but I don't think that we need to do that at the expense of letting people have the advantage of being treated fairly in order to make educated decisions.
[Sanchez:] I understand. And I know you're dying to get back into this. Go ahead.
[Lawson:] I'm dying to get back into this, because what are they doing voting if they're coming here and can't speak English and are illegal?
[Sanchez:] So by golly, you know...
[Lawson:] You know, I don't want you reading a ballot in another language to decide who's going to be elected in this country.
[Sanchez:] So it sounds like you've got a serious problem with these 12 million people. What do you want to do with them, Ney?
[Lawson:] What do I want to do with them?
[Sanchez:] What do you want to do with them?
[Lawson:] I don't know what to do with them. First of all, the idea that you're going to go out and find them and decide who the criminals are send them back, you can't find them then now. They're illegal!
[Sanchez:] So we've got legislation on the...
[Lawson:] They're they're hidden already!
[Sanchez:] ...table now, that's already being discussed. Raise your hand if you've seen the legislation and you think it's OK? Or do you think it's amnesty, as a lot of people are calling it? You think it's amnesty? Raise your hand. You think it's amnesty.
[Melissa Palacios, Graduate Student:] Just going back to the English thing. I'm a U.S. citizen, but I just came back to this country three years ago.
[Sanchez:] You're from Venezuela?
[Palacios:] Yes, I'm Venezuela.
[Sanchez:] OK.
[Palacios:] So I still feel like sometimes I'm 100 percent confident in English, but that doesn't mean that I speak the language. That doesn't mean that immigrants don't come to this country. They want to take English classes. So I think that...
[Sanchez:] Are you personally affected almost, let me use the word, insulted by this immigration debate that's going on in the United States? Or not? Or do you understand it? Do you get it?
[Palacios:] I actually, I like it. I think actually, that's the way to start. I think that I mean, there is the fact that 12 million people more than 12 million people here already live in this country. So there are we need to create a legal avenue for them.
[Sanchez:] We're going to freeze it right there. And then we're going to pick it up again. What about the Iraq War? What Americans say about that in our next panel segment, coming up in just a little bit. Now does the name Prince Bandar mean anything to you? You'd have to be paying pretty close attention to the news to know that he's a Saudi royal, a Bush family friend, and business associate, a very, very rich man, and now the center of a scandal on alleged kickbacks we learned. The dollar figures will make you dizzy on this one. Here's CNN's Brian Todd.
[Brian Todd, Cnn Correspondent:] A wealthy Saudi prince with deep connections to America, an estate in Aspen worth $135 million, tutor on foreign affairs to George W. Bush before he became president, confidant of George Bush senior, Dick Cheney, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a crucial broker in the first Gulf War. Now questions now about another deal he brokered. "The Guardian" newspaper in the BBC report Prince Bandar bin Sultan, former Saudi ambassador to the U.S., may have gotten up to $2 billion in secret payments from a British defense firm. The payments they say took place over 20 years and were sanctioned by the British government in return for Bandar's help in negotiating a multibillion dollar deal to sell British war planes to the Saudis in 1985. The British firm BAE denies wrongdoing. But prime minister Tony Blair admits he supported a decision to quash an internal British investigation.
[Tony Blair, British Prime Minister:] I don't believe the investigation certainly would of led anywhere, except to the complete wreckage of a vital strategic relationship for our country in terms of fighting terrorism, in terms of the Middle East, in terms of British interests there.
[Todd:] Through his attorney, Prince Bandar issued a statement denying taking what he called backhanders. He says he was authorized to handle the money channeled to the now defunct Riggs Bank in Washington, that the accounts were audited by the Saudi government. And no stage have the ministry defense and aviation or the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Finance identified any irregularities in the conduct of the accounts. But that, too, leaves questions.
[Thomas Lippman, Middle East Institute:] Who is the ministry of defense? The minister of defense is Bandar's father, Prince Sultan, who is also next in line for the throne.
[Todd:] Thomas Lippman, who covered Saudi Arabia for "The Washington Post," says payments like these are standard with the Saudis and often justified by Western governments and companies.
[Lippman:] This has been a relationship that has helped both sides, but it's also one in which business is not done the way it's done in Australia or Canada.
[Todd:] Prince Bandar says he is consulting with his attorneys regarding these media reports, but analysts say they likely will not affect his current standing as Saudi Arabia's national security advisor and may never be reported in the Saudi media. Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.
[Sanchez:] Still ahead what Americans, not politicians, are saying about the Iraq War.
[Unidentified Male:] They'll destroy their countries, would kill we caused like 600,000 deaths in Iraq. And then we say, oh, it's their fault. It doesn't make sense.
[Sanchez:] It's heading toward the international space station tonight, but will this hole prevent the shuttle from getting home safely?
[Unidentified Male:] When he dumped out that water, he put his life in their hands. And they were going to keep him safe.
[Sanchez:] The story of a man who dies of thirst because he was denied water. That's what his family says. I'll take you to Utah for this one.