Arnold and Maria Do Damage Control; New Video Released of Jessica Lynch's Rescue
ANDERSON COOPER, HOST (voice-over): Standing by her man or pulling the strings? What's Maria Shriver's real role in her husband's campaign? Can the Justice Department or the White House plug the CIA's spy leak? A writer on trial for murder. Is blood the key to the case? Who makes the perfect spy? Could you? OxyContin. Why are hundreds of thousands addicted? And this weekend's hot Hollywood ticket.</s>ANNOUNCER: Live from the CNN broadcast center in New York, this is ANDERSON COOPER 360.</s>COOPER: And thanks for joining us on this Friday. We begin with a bold statement today from Arnold Schwarzenegger: "It's time we chase Gray Davis out of Sacramento." But Schwarzenegger is being chased in a sense, as well, by his past. Not just the accusations of groping. Now there are allegations that he once expressed admiration for a monster. His response and the political fallout from CNN's Kelly Wallace.</s>KELLY WALLACE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): After the toughest day yet of his political life, Arnold Schwarzenegger's strategy: try to stay on message and accuse Democrats of trying to bring him down.</s>ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER (R), CALIFORNIA GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE: Let me tell you something. They already have begun. But I -- I will stay focused. I will always stay focused, because the fight continues.</s>WALLACE: Schwarzenegger's fighting not only his opponents but his past, continuing to deny that during a 1975 interview for a documentary about his life, he expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler.</s>SCHWARZENEGGER: Because I don't remember ever having said any of those things because I despise Hitler and despise Nazis, despise anything that it stood for.</s>WALLACE: But in a phone conversation with CNN, the man who interviewed the then champion bodybuilder recalled Schwarzenegger saying in response to a question that Hitler was his first hero.</s>PETER DAVIS, JOURNALIST: I didn't think that he was in any way advocating anything that Adolf Hitler advocated. He was just saying this is what you do when you're a boy in Austria and your father is a police chief.</s>WALLACE: It was the second day of aides doing none-stop damage control after Schwarzenegger's extraordinary apology following allegations he groped women. That apology, too little too late, said these women activists at a news conference featuring one of the women who claimed Schwarzenegger made unwelcome advances in 1975.</s>E. JAINE STOCKTON, SAYS SCHWARZENEGGER GROPED HER: The gym was rather full and Arnold passed me by, and he groped my breast. It completely caught me off guard. I was just shocked.</s>WALLACE: What impact is this all having? No surprise, it depends whom you ask. Schwarzenegger's aides say their overnight polling shows a slight increase in support for the candidate following his apology. But the Davis team says its overnight polling shows a slight decrease in support for recalling Governor Gray Davis -- Anderson.</s>COOPER: Kelly Wallace, thanks very much. It is getting down to the wire. Another recall opponent of Schwarzenegger responded to the allegations today, though he sounded less like a lieutenant governor and more like an angry dad.</s>CRUZ BUSTAMANTE, CALIFORNIA LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR: Had they been my daughters, there wouldn't have been this kind of delay on what took place. It wouldn't have taken a campaign to resolve this matter.</s>COOPER: Well, now the reaction of one woman in particular, Maria Shriver, Arnold's wife and a Kennedy, who knows the impact of scandal as few people do. Her reaction is being closely watched, just like Hillary Clinton's was. But if Shriver is furious with her husband, she was not showing it today. CNN's Candy Crowley has that part of the story.</s>CANDY CROWLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The daughter of privilege, she is by bloodline and politics a Kennedy Democrat. He's an Austria immigrant who bootstrapped his way from poverty to world fame and great wealth. A Schwarzenegger Republican. She didn't want him to run. He said he had to. She took a leave from her job in journalism and said she'd be with him. Now this.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You can't vote for this man, because Arnold Schwarzenegger has a serious problem with women.</s>MARIA SHRIVER, ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER'S WIFE: One at a time.</s>CROWLEY: How do you solve this problem if you're Maria?</s>SHRIVER: Nothing hurts, because I know the man that I'm married to.</s>CROWLEY: They were campaigning separately Thursday when the story consumed his splashy bus tour. That night, she was there.</s>SHRIVER: Everybody that I've met today has said that they admire the way he has handled this, they admire his strength for getting into this race, as do</s>I. CROWLEY: It was the starkest of settings in the starkest of times. And as Mr. And Mrs. Arnold Schwarzenegger took their leave, the strain showed. You had you to wonder who she was maddest at.</s>SHRIVER: He is his own man. After more than a quarter century hanging around my family, he's still a Republican.</s>CROWLEY: With a list of ten reasons to vote Schwarzenegger, the man she says is an A-plus human being, Maria Shriver was back on the trail Friday. What she knows about what everybody's read is hers not to tell.</s>SHRIVER: You know, I'm not going to go down this road, because I don't believe in gutter politics, and I don't believe in gutter journalism. So I think you can keep asking me that question, but you're not going to get a response from me.</s>CROWLEY: Touche, Mrs. Schwarzenegger. Candy Crowley, CNN, Los Angeles.</s>COOPER: On to the latest in the strange tale this week of Rush Limbaugh. A week that began with controversy over something he said about a black quarterback; it ends with allegations of a prescription drug habit. People expect Rush to tell it like it is at a pretty high decibel level. That is not what they heard today. Susan Candiotti joins us now from Miami -- Susan.</s>SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Anderson. As we know, Rush Limbaugh usually doesn't hold back on any subject. Today, however, on his talk show he didn't have much to say about a woman who claimed she sold him thousands and thousands of prescription painkillers, a claim she's taken to the Palm Beach County state attorney's office in Florida, according to law enforcement sources.</s>RUSH LIMBAUGH, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: I don't know -- yet know what I'm dealing with here, folks. I really don't know the full scope of what I am dealing with. And when I get all the facts, and when I get all the details of this, rest assured that I will discuss this with you and tell you how it is. Tell you everything there is, maybe more than you want to know about this. You can believe me and trust me on that.</s>CANDIOTTI: Now law enforcement sources tell CNN the woman making the claims is a former housekeeper at Limbaugh's oceanfront mansion in Palm Beach. Sources close to the investigation say she turned over what she describes are records of pills she claims she sold to Limbaugh. Sources also tell CNN they have seen e-mails they say appear to be from Limbaugh to the woman about drugs, and answering machine messages that sound like his voice. But Anderson, investigators say they are unclear at this time whether any charges will be filed against anyone. Back to you.</s>COOPER: All right, Susan Candiotti, following this story very closely. We're going to talk to some people who know first-hand what OxyContin is all about a little bit later on. But first, a TV movie is being filmed in Texas about Jessica Lynch's POW ordeal. We talked about that last week. The former Army private, however, has remained out of the public eye. But today a new video and new details emerge about what happened to Jessica Lynch when she was captive. CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr has that.</s>BARBARA STARR, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): After commandos rushed Jessica Lynch out of an Iraqi hospital on to a plane to Kuwait and freedom, doctors tried to reassure the terrified and badly injured young woman.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're doing great, Jessica. You're doing wonderful. OK?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Welcome back.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just like I told you. OK? We're on a plane now and we're going to go to Kuwait. OK? It's about an hour and 15 minute plane ride. OK? All these doctors are going to be in here the whole time. And I'm not leaving you. They're going to cut the dressings off your legs. OK? They're going to -- there you go.</s>STARR: Jessica Lynch would leave Iraq behind and be welcomed home to her family and friends two and a half months later in West Virginia, still recovering, and getting ready to tell the story of her flight to freedom.</s>STARR: So Anderson, what's really remarkable about this video we're seeing for the first time, it's the very first moments of Jessica Lynch's rescue, her conversation with her rescuers on her flight to freedom -- Anderson.</s>COOPER: Amazing to see those new pictures after all this time. Barbara Starr, thanks very much for that. On to the political uproar of the week: the question of whether someone at White House deliberately blew the cover of a CIA operative. Today the White House counsel put the staff on notice, telling them to get ready to hand over documents, be prepared for questioning at any moment and plan to take an oath. White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux has all that.</s>SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): President Bush is trying to carry out business as usual. Remarks on Iraq.</s>GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Saddam Hussein was a threat. A serious danger.</s>MALVEAUX: And a day trip to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for fund raising and a speech on the economy.</s>BUSH: We acted by passing tax relief.</s>MALVEAUX: But the buzz around the White House makes these times anything but usual. Today White House counsel Alberto Gonzalez sent all White House staffers two memos from the Justice Department. One details the kinds of documents employees must turn over, including documents relating to any contact regarding Joseph Wilson or his wife and her position at the CIA, any communication between the White House and the press regarding Joseph Wilson and his wife, additionally, any documents involving contact with Robert Novak or two "Newsday" reporters. The second memo requires every employee to certify that they have produced all documents "in my possession" and to sign that they understand false statements may result in criminal penalties and that all documents must be turned over no latter than 5 p.m. on October 7. The Justice Department is also pursuing the source of the leak at the Pentagon and State Department.</s>COLIN POWELL, SECRETARY OF STATE: We've been asked to take a look at our calendars and documents to see if we have any information that is relevant to this inquiry. And we obviously will cooperate fully with the Department of Justice in getting the answers that they seek.</s>MALVEAUX: Now the next phase of this investigation, Anderson, are the interviews of senior White House staff -- Anderson.</s>COOPER: All right. Suzanne Malveaux at the White House. Thanks for that. Now let's check's tonight uplink for some stories around the globe. Bagram (ph), Afghanistan. Bomb blasts at a home near the base -- near the main base for U.S. forces. It is unclear if it was an accident or intentional. At least four Afghanis were killed, and two are missing. Mogadishu, Somalia. Today marks the tenth anniversary of Black Hawk Down, a downed U.S. helicopter -- you see it right there -- which marked the turning point for operations in Somalia. Pictures of dead American soldiers being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu were broadcast around the world. Soon after, U.S. forces withdrew from that country. Islamabad, Pakistan. Missile tests. The army says it successfully test fired a nuclear capable surface-to-surface missile. It also says more tests are on the way in the next couple days. Havana, Cuba. Demanding political change despite a government crackdown, the leader of the so-called Varela Project delivered more than 14,000 new signatures to Cuba's parliament today. What's significant is they're seeking sweeping changes to the country's socialist system. Rome, Italy. Special delivery. Protesters dumped three barrels of fresh excrement right in front of the home of the Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi. Now it's to protest tomorrow's European Union meeting to discuss the European constitution. Don't know how the fresh excrement was placed in the barrel to begin with, but it cannot have been a pretty process. Ottawa, Canada, he will inhale. The country's 69-year-old prime minister, Jean Chretien, says he is considering taking a toke, smoking a doobie, when smoking pot no longer becomes a criminal offense and when he retires. He's pushing for a new law which would only require pot users to pay a fine if caught with small amounts. And that is tonight's uplink. Well, nuclear North Korea. Flexing its military muscle. Imminent threat or dangerous game of chicken? We're going to take a closer look at that. Also, birth of a spy. Find out how agents and traders get recruited. Part of our special series "The Spying Game." And OxyContin. They call it hillbilly heroin. So why are so many doctors prescribing it? Two sides sound off. First, let's took a look inside the box at tonight's top stories on the network evening newscasts.