World News Tonight (ABC) - 2002-12-16
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[0:00] all the Northwood.
[0:01] >> Is it good for the Republican party? If
[0:03] Trent Lock continues as the Senate
[0:05] leader, an extraordinary meeting to
[0:07] discuss his future, biological and
[0:10] chemical weapons detectors, there is no
[0:12] system. We'll take a closer look at one
[0:14] solution. And just another day in the
[0:17] tabloid nation, the prime minister's
[0:19] wife, the con man, the lock of a
[0:21] prince's hair, and of course, the
[0:23] butler.
[0:28] From ABC News World Headquarters in New
[0:30] York, this is World News Tonight with
[0:34] Peter Jennings.
[0:35] >> Good evening everyone. We're going to
[0:36] begin this week with uncertainty about
[0:38] the future in the country's two major
[0:39] political parties. The big news in the
[0:41] Republican party is that Republican
[0:43] senators have decided they have got to
[0:45] get together to resolve whether their
[0:47] leader in the Senate, Trent L, is a
[0:49] liability and should step aside. In the
[0:52] Democratic party, it's a case of
[0:53] potential presidential candidates
[0:56] scrambling to get into the game now that
[0:58] former presidential candidate Al Gore
[1:00] has decided that his future is somewhere
[1:02] else. We're going to begin with Mr.
[1:04] Gore. Mr. Gore won more of the popular
[1:07] vote than George Bush in the last
[1:09] presidential election. And here is ABC's
[1:12] Terry Moran who covered him in the
[1:13] campaign. Terry,
[1:15] >> Peter Al Gore says he reached his
[1:17] decision to drop out last week.
[1:19] Democratic Party sources tell us he
[1:21] spent months reaching out to potential
[1:22] donors and getting a lukewarm reception.
[1:26] >> Al Gore said his decision not to run in
[1:29] 2004 probably means he will never be
[1:31] presiden