CBS Evening News - 1992-12-30
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[0:02] With a special prosecutor on his case,
[0:04] President Bush hires himself a
[0:06] high-powered attorney. Young victims of
[0:09] the heat or eat syndrome. Their parents
[0:11] can't afford both food and fuel. An eye
[0:14] on America tonight. High school sports
[0:17] and players in jeopardy.
[0:19] >> We actually try to make a tackle and I
[0:22] think from the impact that's when I got
[0:23] paralyzed.
[0:25] >> This is the CBS Evening News.
[0:33] Good evening. I'm Connie Chung sitting
[0:35] in tonight for Dan Rather. President
[0:37] Bush today defended the pardons he
[0:39] handed out to several key figures in the
[0:41] Iran Contra scandal and he hired a
[0:44] lawyer to defend himself. Not just any
[0:46] lawyer. Eric Angberg reports on the
[0:48] president's surprising choice.
[0:51] Under legal attack by a prosecutor who
[0:53] has publicly accused him of misconduct,
[0:56] President Bush turned to a high-powered
[0:58] lawyer for help. He hired a
[1:00] well-connected Democrat, Griffin Bell of
[1:02] Georgia, once President Carter's
[1:04] attorney general. A carefully worded
[1:06] White House statement said Bell would
[1:08] assume full responsibility for advising
[1:10] the president on the investigation.
[1:13] Before starting a trip to Somalia, the
[1:14] president blasted critics who've charged
[1:16] his pardon of Casper Weinberger was part
[1:19] of a cover up. I pride myself on 25 or
[1:22] more years of public service of serving
[1:24] honorably, decently, uh, and with my
[1:28] integrity intact. Walsh, in a Chile
[1:31] statement said he was glad the president
[1:33] had a lawyer who understands the rule of
[1:35] law. The president said Belell's first
[1:38] job will be to try to force Walsh to
[1:40] make public the only swo