CBS Evening News - 2009-01-12
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[0:00] [Music]
[0:01] Thank you.
[0:02] >> Tonight, George W. Bush defends his
[0:04] record.
[0:05] >> Don't tell me the federal response was
[0:07] slow.
[0:08] >> Admits mistakes.
[0:09] >> Clearly putting a mission accomplished
[0:11] on a aircraft carrier
[0:13] >> and gets reflective as the curtain comes
[0:15] down on his presidency. I'm Katie
[0:18] Kurrick. Also tonight, no jail for
[0:20] Bernard Maidoff. A judge refuses to
[0:23] revoke his bail. He'll stay in his
[0:25] luxury apartment for now. As the
[0:28] Palestinian death toll in Gaza tops 900,
[0:32] Israel is split over declaring victory
[0:34] or continuing the war. And the road to
[0:38] the inauguration, if it weren't for
[0:40] these trailblazers, there might not be a
[0:43] President Obama.
[0:49] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Katie
[0:52] Kurrick.
[0:55] >> And good evening, everyone. Eight days
[0:57] before the transfer of power, the
[0:59] incoming president asks the outgoing
[1:01] president for a transfer of money.
[1:04] Barack Obama wants access to the second
[1:06] half of the financial industry bailout
[1:08] package when he takes office, $350
[1:12] billion, and Mr. Bush said he'll ask
[1:14] Congress to provide it. Mr. Obama said
[1:18] he wants the money ready in case there's
[1:20] a new emergency in the financial system.
[1:22] And with Mr. Bush about to leave office.
[1:24] He held his final news conference today.
[1:27] He gave a spirited defense of his
[1:28] policies but also admitted mistakes. Jim
[1:31] Axelrod has covered the Bush White
[1:32] House. CBS News political consultant Dan
[1:34] Bartlett worked in it. And Jim, this was
[1:36] a side of the president we have not seen
[1:39] before.
[1:40] >> Katie, he was as introspective as I've
[1:42] ever seen him talking about a whole