GOP Divide:   It is believed to be a first for a sitting President. At his own party's Presidential debate, he emerges as the... clear loser.  And he isn't even one of the candidates.  Our fifth story on the Countdown: the good news for President Bush: only one of the former members of his cabinet threw him under the bus in New Hampsher last night.  The bad news for Tommy Thompson and the other would-be Republican nominees to succeed Mr. Bush: they won't be running against him.  All in all, it is enough to make a man skip town.  The President, having already done that... still in Germany for the G-8 summit.

Save Scooter!:   The cries for a pardon of Scooter Libby.  Despite the fact that the prosecutor and the judge were both appointed by President Bush...The Right is up in arms that Libby is going to jail.. and even turning on the president for not granting a pardon already.  John Dean on the Conservative reaction to the Libby Sentence.

ODDBALL:  Fun with excersize balls and the coldest case in the long history of cold cases.  Yeah, we have a very special caveman autopsy tonight. 

The Plot Continues to Thin:  Our third story on the Countdown: Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York astonishing some of his critics and comforting some of his friends, by not only not joining the stampede after the revelation of the technically impossible "JFK Pipeline Plot"... but actually encouraging New Yorkers to remember how unlikely terrorism truly is.

The Face of Death:  For ten years, the images were taboo - even to Britain's infamous tabloids.  But in our number two story on the Countdown, for the first time ever tonight, the grainy paparazzi shots showing Princess Diana's last moments alive, have tonight been broadcast on British television. Producers at the network in question, Channel Four, claimed the photos were an essential part of it's documentary entitled "Diana: The witness in the tunnel"

WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD:  Melanie Morgan's flunkie, the National Guard and FOX News' own Roger Ailes jockey for top honors tonight.

Divas Behind Bars:  One's in the klink, the other can't drink...shocking celebrity headlines with In Touch Weekly's Tom O'Neil