World News Tonight (ABC) - 1998-01-14
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[0:05] On World News Tonight this Wednesday, an
[0:07] ABC News exclusive. A member of the
[0:10] president's cabinet, a question of
[0:11] taking bribes. Could Saddam Hussein
[0:14] really have tested biological weapons on
[0:17] human guinea pigs? The United Nations is
[0:20] very suspicious.
[0:22] >> What is going on?
[0:24] >> And we're [music] going to take a closer
[0:25] look at the effects of stress. There is
[0:27] very new research
[0:31] [music]
[0:36] >> from ABC [music] News World Headquarters
[0:38] in New York, Wednesday, January 14th.
[0:43] This [music] is World News Tonight with
[0:45] Peter Jennings.
[0:46] >> Good evening. We begin tonight with
[0:47] money and power and a question of
[0:49] corruption in the Clinton
[0:50] administration. This is not chapter 37
[0:52] of the campaign finance scandal. ABC
[0:55] News has learned that the Justice
[0:56] Department is deep into an investigation
[0:59] of the president's secretary of labor
[1:01] Alexis Herman. Miss Herman is accused of
[1:03] selling her influence for money when she
[1:06] was a senior White House aid to the
[1:08] president during 1994 95 and 96. ABC's
[1:12] chief investigative reporter Brian Ross
[1:14] is on the story.
[1:16] >> Thank you very much.
[1:19] >> [applause]
[1:19] >> As a top assistant to President Clinton,
[1:21] Alexis Herman had power and connections
[1:24] inside the White House. And now the
[1:26] Justice Department wants to know whether
[1:27] Herman put her power and connections up
[1:30] for sale. Allegedly, in one case, for
[1:33] cash in an envelope.
[1:34] >> And I went to her house and gave her
[1:36] this envelope.
[1:37] >> You gave her an envelope of cash
[1:39] >> personally to Alexis Herman?
[1:41] >> Absolutely. The Justice Department
[1:43] investigation of Herman