New Barry Bonds Investigation?; Zacarias Moussaoui Testifies
PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: Good evening. Thank you all for joining us. Tonight, incredible testimony, hours of ranting by an admitted terrorist. Zacarias Moussaoui says, if he had the chance, he would join another hijacking conspiracy today.</s>ZAHN (voice-over): The CNN "Security Watch" -- an al Qaeda terrorist on the witness stand. Zacarias Moussaoui says he has no regret, no remorse, and called Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh a great American. Is he insane? Should he be executed? The "Eye Opener" -- why won't they stop? This may be the deadliest danger your child ever faces.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's a chance for a child to die.</s>ZAHN: Will anything make drivers stop for a school bus? "Mysteries of the Mind" -- this girl claims she was kidnapped.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Things were -- were just not adding up in -- in -- with her initial story.</s>ZAHN: This woman said she had cancer.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's just a horrible, horrible, cruel, vicious lie.</s>ZAHN: This couple said their sextuplets were in intensive care.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Why did you do this, ma'am?</s>ZAHN: Why did any of them do it? What's behind these giant lies?</s>ZAHN: We start tonight with some breaking news about one of the biggest sports stars in this country. CNN has learned a federal grand jury is looking into whether to indict Barry Bonds for perjury. The San Francisco Giants slugger has been dogged for years about rumors about steroid use. He has repeatedly denied knowingly using them, but what he told a grand jury in 2003 now is a federal case. Ted Rowlands is just now breaking the story. He joins me live with the details -- Ted.</s>TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Paula, this is potentially a huge development in the Bonds steroids scandal. For the first time, Barry Bonds is really looking at the real possibility of criminal charges against him.</s>ROWLANDS (voice-over): On December 4, 2003, Barry Bonds testified in front of a federal grand jury in San Francisco. Prosecutors asked the baseball superstar whether he had used steroids.</s>MICHAEL RAINS, DEFENSE ATTORNEY FOR BARRY BONDS: Barry testified truthfully to the grand jury. Barry Bonds is clean.</s>ROWLANDS: But it now appears federal prosecutors are pursuing a case of perjury against Barry Bonds. Multiple sources tell CNN that, for more than a month, a different federal grand jury has been hearing testimony over whether Bonds lied when he testified in 2003. If the grand jury indicts Barry Bonds, an eventual trial could land him in jail.</s>JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN SENIOR LEGAL ANALYST: This is extremely bad news for Barry Bonds, because a federal prosecutor doesn't start looking into perjury unless he has a pretty good idea that he's going to find perjury at the end of the day.</s>ROWLANDS: Barry Bonds was one of several athletes forced to testify in 2003 as part of the BALCO case, which centered around a San Francisco-area lab, its founder, Victor Conte, and Greg Anderson, a longtime friend of Barry Bonds. Conte eventually spent four months in jail, after pleading guilty to distributing illegal steroids. Anderson was sentenced to three months on the same charges. At the time, Bonds and the other athletes were given immunity from the federal prosecutors. The deal, which is common, was simple: Tell the truth and nothing will happen. Lie, and we can come after you for perjury. Barry Bonds' attorney, Michael Rains, has long maintained that the federal government has it in for his client.</s>RAINS: We think this has always been the case of the Barry Bonds show. It hasn't been U.S. vs. Conte, U.S. vs. Anderson. It has been U.S. vs. Bonds.</s>ROWLANDS: At this press conference in December 2004, Rains accused prosecutors of intentionally trying to set up Bonds in front of the grand jury, so they could later pursue a perjury case against a famous baseball player.</s>RAINS: Look no further than Martha Stewart. The trap is perjury. The trap is, as they did with Martha, you get them in there. You offer them the immunity. Then, you ask them the questions. And then you get them for 18-USC-1001, lying to federal officers, exactly what they got Martha for. That is the trap. And that was the trap that was being laid.</s>TOOBIN: Prosecutors are supposed to go after big fish. It's those kind of prosecutions that tell everyone that it's not OK to lie to prosecutors or to the grand jury.</s>ROWLANDS: And to be clear about the process, when the prosecution is finished presenting their case to this grand jury that has been hearing testimony for over a month up in San Francisco, they could return an indictment against Bonds. And, at that point, charges could be filed. Bonds could be arrested. And then he would get a full trial, of course, innocent until proven guilty, a clear, clear indication, though, Paula, that the federal government believes Barry Bonds lied when he testified in 2003, and it appears as though they were going after him.</s>ZAHN: But, if, indeed, he did lie, why has it taken the government so long to go after him?</s>ROWLANDS: That's a good question. They have to, essentially, prove that he knowingly used steroids, if they're going to prove that he lied. So, whether or not they have new information that they didn't have back then, physical evidence, or witness testimony, or if it has taken them this long to come up with this plan and pull the trigger to go after him, who knows? There's a lot of politics that go into decisions like this. But the bottom line is, they have decided to go after him in this form, present it to a grand jury, and see what happens.</s>ZAHN: And I know you will be keeping us apprised of any new developments. Ted Rowlands, thanks so much for breaking that story for us tonight. We move on to the "Security Watch" and the testimony of a terrorist. Admitted al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui took the stand today to try to persuade a jury not to order his execution for his role in the 9/11 attacks, attacks Moussaoui might have helped prevent. Now, throughout this trial, Moussaoui's outbursts in court and reactions to graphic testimony have seemed bizarre, and certainly have been infuriating. And, today, his words seem even more so, but one thing he said today may be undeniable. He said, "We will never understand each other.' Justice correspondent Kelli Arena was in court today for his caustic testimony.</s>KELLI ARENA, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For the second time in this trial, Zacarias Moussaoui took the stand, against his own attorneys' advice. And, once he started talking, there was little they could do to control the damage. When asked whether he had in any regret over the 9/11 attacks, he said "None whatsoever." In fact, he said he was disgusted by witnesses who wept on the stand over the loss of their loved ones. "We have done it for this," he said. "We wanted to inflict pain on this country." Maureen Santora, who lost her son on 9/11, says Moussaoui's testimony made her change her mind about the death penalty, and now wants him executed.</s>MAUREEN SANTORA, MOTHER OF SEPTEMBER 11 VICTIM: I came to get an understanding of how a group of people could be as hateful as this and kill 3,000 souls. And I got my answer today.</s>ARENA: Moussaoui told jurors he thought his lawyers did a bad job defending him and said they should have argued that life in prison was a better punishment, because to execute him would make him a martyr.</s>JOSH BERMAN, FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTOR: I think, at this point, it doesn't matter what he says about martyrdom or his interests in dying or not dying. I think what he said in the first stage of this death-penalty trial was critical. Going forward, I think the jury will have to grapple with mental health issues, schizophrenia.</s>ARENA: Defense lawyers are trying to convince the jury Moussaoui is mentally unstable and should not be sentenced to death. Moussaoui insisted he's not crazy, but he provided some answers that could be described as delusional. He said, President George Bush will free him from prison by the end of his term, and he believes that 100 percent, because he had a dream about it. Jurors will soon have to decide whether to execute Moussaoui by lethal injection or let him live his life out in this maximum-security prison in Colorado, known as the Alcatraz of the Rockies. Before Moussaoui took the stand, the jury heard from retired prison warden James Aiken, who described what Moussaoui's life would be like. "He will never get lost in a crowd, because he will never be in a crowd," he said.</s>ARENA: Aiken said, the U.S. prison system is designed to handle people like Moussaoui. "I have seen what happens," he said. "They rot." Kelli Arena, CNN, Alexandria, Virginia.</s>ZAHN: And we change our focus when we come back. If your children are in school, there's a very good chance they face a deadly threat, not just once in a while, but twice a day. What has to be done to make drivers stop breaking the law and stop for school buses?</s>DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I'm David Mattingly in Durham, North Carolina, where allegations of rape have been public for weeks on the Duke University campus. But the question now is whether or not a grand jury will charge Duke lacrosse players with the crime -- details when PAULA ZAHN NOW continues.</s>ZAHN: But, right now, more than 17 million of you went on to our Web site today. Our countdown of the top 10 stories on CNN.com starts with the seizure of more than two dozen puppies from a man who tried to smuggle them into the U.S. from Mexico. Authorities say many of the dogs are in poor health. 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