BLITZER:   I'm Wolf Blitzer in Washington. Coming up at the top of the hour, a late developing story. The man who tried to kill President Ronald Reagan will get some limited free time without an escort. We'll tell you about this very surprising decision by a U.S. district judge. Interrogating Saddam Hussein. What's acceptable, what's not. And how CIA officers may go about trying to extract information from their valuable captive. I'll speak live with two experts. And Democratic presidential candidate Joe Lieberman. He'll join me live. He'll tell us why he's continuing his attack against Howard Dean. And how does he feel about Al Gore right now. All that coming up. Right now, though, there's been a development in the jury deliberations involving the accused sniper Lee Boyd Malvo. For that, let's go to CNN's Elaine Quijano in Chesapeake, Virginia. She's got the latest. 
ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN CORRESPONDENT:   Hello to you, Wolf. Just moments ago we learned that the jury apparently has a question. This jury has been deliberating since about 9:00 a.m. Eastern time. They took an hour-long break between 1:00 and 2:00 for lunch. And they were scheduled to keep court hours, meaning they would wrap up around 5:00. So we don't know yet what exactly this question has to do with. We just know, as I said, moments ago we learned that the jury has a question of some sort -- Wolf. 
BLITZER:   All right, Elaine. We'll be checking back with you. Elaine Quijano covering the jury deliberations. All of those stories, much more coming up only minutes away on "Wolf Blitzer Reports." Now back to CROSSFIRE. 
NOVAK:   Thank you, Wolf. Tucker Carlson is spending a little quality time in Iraq. It's going on 1:00 in the morning there, but he's still awake enough to join us. 
BEGALA:   Tucker, it's good to see you, my friend. 
CARLSON:   Hey, Bob, Paul, how are you doing? 
BEGALA:   Good, thanks. A number of reports of fire fights and bombings. Any of them near you? What can you tell us about them? 
CARLSON:   Well, I mean, there are certainly fire fights all the time. I mean, most of them aren't reported because they're just ubiquitous. I heard them right when I got up this morning. I heard them all day long when we were in the car. Went up to the Saddam Iraq/Iran war monument, the famous crossed swords you see on television. We're the only people there. It's in the Green Zone which is relatively the safest part of Iraq from what I can tell. We heard a fire fight fairly close by. I thought it must have been a firing range of some kind but then there was return fire. So it obviously wasn't. You hear them all the time. Same with explosions. And again, most of them don't go reported. There was some sort of massive explosion here downtown, I think right near the house I'm staying in early this morning. And it's not clear whether it was a car bomb or whether it was an -- a collision between a petroleum truck and taxi. Driving here is pretty radical here, too. But, yes, there's a lot of that here. 
NOVAK:   Tucker, would you explain for the viewers what the Green Zone is and how it differs from the other parts of Baghdad that you've been in? 
CARLSON:   Well, first, it differs dramatically. It's a little -- from what I can tell driving through it today, it's a little bit of America right in the middle of Iraq. The Green Zone essentially is across the river from where I am now and it is the -- Saddam's presidential compound. There's Uday's mistresses' house, there are the famous parade grounds with the fascist symbols on them. And then the presidential palace palaces that's occupied by the U.S. military. From what I can tell, the bulk of the U.S. military in Baghdad are within that zone and by the CPA, Ambassador Bremer and the people who are creating the new Iraqi government here.  But it is really -- it's an oasis in the middle of this city, where there really isn't a visible American presence, again, from what I can tell, driving around the city for the last three days. The only American flag I have seen in Baghdad so far, literally, the only one, was in a bar at the Baghdad International Airport where I went today on the fourth floor of the airport. There really isn't an obvious American presence here. It's striking. I'm not quite sure what it means but you notice it. 
BEGALA:   Well, Tucker, quickly, the airport I gather is fairly deserted, right? 
CARLSON:   Is what? 
BEGALA:   It's fairly deserted, is it? 
CARLSON:   I couldn't hear exactly what you said. But I want to say, one interesting thing I learned today, and that is that the people who are in the military, somebody I spoke to today, knows what's going on, said that the next three weeks are absolutely critical after the capture of Saddam, that we will know the direction this country is going in, in the next three weeks. Whether it's going to descend to a broader insurgence here or whether it's going to actually right itself and become a sustaining decent country, a good place to live. 
BEGALA:   Tucker Carlson, thank you for staying up late for us. Stay safe, be well. 
CARLSON:   Thank you. 
BEGALA:   Coming up, some counter programming to the Super Bowl might be a little too hot to handle for some Ram tough guys. We'll tell you all about it in just a minute.
