World News Tonight (ABC) - 1998-09-14

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[0:09] From ABC News World Headquarters in New

[0:12] York, this is World News Tonight with

[0:15] Peter Jennings.

[0:16] >> Good evening. And now it is Monday and

[0:18] the political establishment in

[0:19] Washington has had a weekend to gauge

[0:21] reaction to the Star report about

[0:23] President Clinton. The pollsters and the

[0:25] press have had a pretty busy weekend,

[0:27] too. all of us trying to get a handle on

[0:29] how badly damaged the president has

[0:31] been. It is not resolved, however much

[0:34] battle fatigue people say they have. And

[0:37] when the most senior members of the

[0:38] president's own party say they are not

[0:40] satisfied with the president's standard

[0:42] of truthfulness, and when senior, even

[0:45] sympathetic members of both parties say

[0:47] the president has got to tell the truth

[0:49] as the rest of us understand it, then

[0:52] you know it is far from over. We're

[0:54] going to begin on Capitol Hill with

[0:56] ABC's Linda Douglas.

[0:59] >> As members of the House Judiciary

[1:00] Committee came to a government building

[1:02] to go through thousands of pages of

[1:04] evidence against the president,

[1:05] Democratic leaders urged Mr. Clinton to

[1:07] admit that he lied about the details of

[1:09] his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.

[1:12] In a statement, Senate Democratic leader

[1:14] Tom Dashel said, "I agree with those who

[1:16] have grown impatient with hairsplitting

[1:18] over legal technicalities. The president

[1:21] had, as he conceds, a sexual

[1:23] relationship that was undeniably wrong

[1:25] and he didn't tell the truth about it.

[1:27] The president and his adviserss must

[1:29] accept that continued legal jousting

[1:32] serves no constructive purpose.

[1:34] Democratic House Leader Richard Gart

[1:36] said the judgment of the American people

[1:38] won't rise or fall on the fine

[1:40] distinctions of legal arguments. He

[1:42] called for straight talk and the truth.

[1:45] And a Democratic member of the judiciary

[1:47] committee added his voice. Well, the

[1:49] president clearly lied about his

[1:51] relationship with Monik Lewinsky and uh

[1:54] he should just say that he lied.

[1:56] >> Several Democrats told ABC News the only

[1:58] way they can defend Mr. Clinton is if he

[2:00] finally appears to be telling the whole

[2:01] truth. Some predicted that if the

[2:03] president admits lying, they might be

[2:05] able to persuade Congress to censure the

[2:07] president. An official reprimand that

[2:09] could ward off the impeachment process.

[2:12] But Republican sources shot that idea

[2:14] down today. Some Democrats fear now

[2:16] there may be no way out for the

[2:18] president.

[2:18] >> I I

[2:20] see the Clinton presidency as being

[2:22] pretty severely damaged.

[2:24] >> Democratic leaders now are virtually

[2:26] certain there will be an impeachment

[2:27] inquiry. Those who are calling on the

[2:29] president to admit lying acknowledge

[2:31] that could get him into more trouble.

[2:33] But some Democrats say at this point

[2:35] they are more worried about themselves

[2:37] in the fall elections. Peter,

[2:38] >> thank you. Linda Linda Douglas on

[2:40] Capitol Hill. Despite the criticism

[2:41] today, there is no change in the White

[2:43] House strategy of denying that the

[2:45] president committed perjury. The

[2:47] president was here in New York today for

[2:48] politics and for policy. And Sam

[2:51] Donaldson was with him.

[2:54] With a spring in his step and his wife

[2:56] by his side once again looking content

[2:57] and supportive, President Clinton gave

[2:59] no indication today that he feels like a

[3:01] man with his back to the wall. In fact,

[3:04] in a speech before the Council on

[3:05] Foreign Relations on the Global Economy,

[3:07] he made no reference to the scandal or

[3:10] his difficulties, just presented the

[3:12] picture of a president battling the

[3:13] Republican Congress for more money for

[3:15] the International Monetary Fund on

[3:17] behalf of American prosperity.

[3:19] >> Let me put this as plainly as I can.

[3:22] Failure by this Congress to pay our dues

[3:24] to the IMF will put our own prosperity

[3:27] at risk. Council members, including top

[3:30] diplomatic business and media leaders,

[3:31] gave him a warm reception. In the

[3:34] streets, there were few signs about the

[3:35] scandal one way or the other. And at a

[3:37] Democratic Party fundraising lunchon

[3:39] where news cameras were not permitted,

[3:41] the president suggested that recent

[3:43] events had actually energized the party

[3:45] faithful to show up.

[3:47] >> The adversity of the moment of I think

[3:49] has led us to this record turnout. Why?

[3:51] Because people made a decision and they

[3:53] thought they were needed and they stood

[3:54] up. Indeed, for the most part, local New

[3:57] York Democratic candidates in tomorrow's

[3:59] primary election stood up with the

[4:00] president also, if somewhat tentatively.

[4:03] >> He's my friend. He's my president. He

[4:06] aired. He acted inexcusably,

[4:09] but I think not impeachably. I'm going

[4:11] to be there tonight. I uh believe that

[4:14] the party tonight has a very important

[4:16] goal, which is helping Democrats take

[4:18] back the Senate and take back the House.

[4:21] The sketishes of Democratic candidates

[4:23] was underscored today by the Democratic

[4:25] congressional leader statement calling

[4:27] on the president's lawyers to stop their

[4:28] hairspitting. In response, late today,

[4:31] the White House issued a statement

[4:32] saying the president does not want the

[4:34] work of his lawyers to get in the way of

[4:36] his admission that he was wrong, that no

[4:38] legalisms can obscure the fact that he

[4:41] knows he was wrong and that he has said

[4:43] it. But Peter, missing from this

[4:45] statement is any indication the

[4:46] president has instructed his lawyers to

[4:48] change their tactics. And in fact, as of

[4:50] tonight, we are given to understand the

[4:53] lawyer strategy is still very much in

[4:55] place.

[4:55] >> Sam, in just a second, we're going to

[4:56] talk about why the lawyer strategy may

[4:58] be as it may be. But stand by for just a

[5:00] second. We like to give you a poll

[5:01] number. Our latest poll finds that the

[5:04] president's job approval remains quite

[5:06] high. It's always been pretty high. 57%

[5:08] say they think Mr. Clinton should remain

[5:11] in office and 39%

[5:13] think he should resign. Sam, just one

[5:16] more question. Is that the number on

[5:18] which the White House is focused?

[5:20] >> The White House still has this number.

[5:22] But I must tell you, several of the

[5:23] president's aids worry that the

[5:25] president himself may be beguiled by

[5:27] these numbers or by the fact that here

[5:29] in New York today, by the end of the

[5:30] day, he will have raised more than $4

[5:32] million for the Democratic party. They

[5:34] fear that he and Mrs. Clinton may look

[5:36] at these numbers, look at that money,

[5:38] and say, "We don't have to do anymore."

[5:40] And many of his aids know that that's

[5:43] not the strategy that will win for him.

[5:44] >> Okay, Sam, thanks very much. In a

[5:46] moment, we'll take a look at some other

[5:47] numbers which are not quite so

[5:49] encouraging for the president. And we'll

[5:51] also take a cloer closer look at why the

[5:53] president will not say outright he lied.

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[7:25] >> That was pretty tough language from some

[7:26] of the president's own today about not

[7:28] telling the truth before the grand jury

[7:30] or earlier in the Paula Jones case. So,

[7:33] let's take a closer look at why the

[7:35] president's lawyers and maybe the

[7:37] president are so reluctant to use

[7:39] everyday language. Here's ABC's Jackie

[7:42] Jud on why they may be being so careful.

[7:46] An admission by the president that he

[7:48] lied to the grand jury would carry with

[7:50] it great legal risks, including the

[7:53] possibility that independent counsel Ken

[7:56] Starr would take him to court.

[7:58] >> He must have been worried that if he

[8:00] came out and said, "I lied. I committed

[8:03] perjury that there would be an

[8:06] indictment that would be unsealed the

[8:08] day after he left office.

[8:10] >> Admitting perjury also would create all

[8:13] kinds of potential problems regarding

[8:15] the now dismissed sexual harassment

[8:17] lawsuit by Paula Jones. Judge Susan

[8:20] Weber Wright already has raised the

[8:22] possibility of a contempt citation

[8:24] against the president for making

[8:25] misleading statements in the Jones

[8:27] deposition. and Jones's lawyers might,

[8:30] according to sources, now push Judge

[8:32] Wright to act. A confession of perjury

[8:35] also could make it an easier decision

[8:37] for the Court of Appeals to reinstate

[8:39] the Jones case,

[8:42] leaving Mr. Clinton facing the

[8:44] embarrassment of standing trial while

[8:46] still in office.

[8:47] >> An admission of perjury would, in my

[8:49] view, increase the likelihood that the

[8:51] Jones case is coming back from 98% to

[8:55] 100%.

[8:56] >> And finally, if Mr. Clinton conceds an

[8:58] illegality on one point, it could make

[9:01] the other allegations contained in the

[9:03] Star report, including obstruction of

[9:05] justice, all the more difficult for him

[9:08] to fight. Peter,

[9:09] >> thanks, Jackie. There was some uh or

[9:11] there is some frustration in the White

[9:13] House because it's hard to find anyone

[9:15] influential in the House of

[9:16] Representatives who might help the White

[9:18] House get out of this on the Senate

[9:20] side. And remember, if the president is

[9:22] impeached, the Senate would be his jury.

[9:25] One of those who seems to be in search

[9:26] of a better solution is the Republican

[9:28] chairman of the Judiciary Committee.

[9:30] This afternoon, we asked Senator Orin

[9:32] Hatch what the president had to say to

[9:35] satisfy him.

[9:37] >> I think he really has to, in addition to

[9:39] the I thought good uh uh apology and

[9:43] request for forgiveness last Friday, I

[9:45] think that the president really has to

[9:47] just shoot square from here on in and

[9:49] quit trying to hide behind uh legal hair

[9:52] splitting and legal games. Uh, frankly,

[9:55] his attorneys are trying to protect him

[9:56] from something that he's got to get

[9:58] beyond. He's got to talk straight and

[10:00] square with the American people.

[10:01] >> Do you mean to say that the president

[10:03] must stop saying that his testimony in

[10:06] the Paula Jones deposition and before

[10:08] the grand jury was quote legally

[10:10] accurate, unquote?

[10:11] >> Yeah, there is no jury in the world uh

[10:13] who would who would take that testimony

[10:15] and believe it. I think the attorneys uh

[10:18] don't quite realize uh that the American

[10:21] people have seen through this and are

[10:24] Senator, forgive me for interrupting.

[10:25] You know exactly

[10:27] >> that the lawyers for the president know

[10:30] what they're doing.

[10:31] >> Sure I do. And what they're doing is

[10:34] legally correct. Although he was not

[10:36] legally correct uh in his statements. Uh

[10:40] but I think morally and politically

[10:42] wrong. And I think in the end he might

[10:45] be able to protect himself somewhat

[10:47] legally, but in the end he could lose

[10:49] the presidency. Do I understand you

[10:51] clearly, Senator Hatch, that to satisfy

[10:53] you, the president must say to the

[10:55] American people, to the Congress that he

[10:57] lied in his deposition in the Paula

[10:59] Jones case and he lied in his testimony

[11:01] before the grand jury and then the

[11:03] Congress and the country in your view

[11:05] can get on with life?

[11:07] >> I don't even think he has to use the

[11:08] word lie. I think what he's got to say

[11:09] is yes, I did have sexual relations with

[11:11] Monica Lewinsky. Once he does that, I

[11:14] think he'd be better off. I really do.

[11:16] Well, it must be pretty obvious to

[11:17] everyone now that the country is still

[11:19] very divided about this. Here's another

[11:20] snapshot of public opinion from our own

[11:22] polling unit. 45% tell us they think the

[11:25] Star report makes a strong case for

[11:28] impeachment. 42% think Mr. Star's case

[11:32] is weak. That's quite a division. looked

[11:33] at another way after the president's

[11:36] lawyer's defense of him this weekend.

[11:37] 31% they said said they thought it was a

[11:41] strong case against impeachment and 59%

[11:45] said that they thought the president's

[11:47] lawyer's case was weak. As the week goes

[11:50] on, and it may be weeks actually, we'll

[11:53] watch to see whether public opinion

[11:54] shifts. Tonight, ABC's Aaron Hayes in

[11:57] North Carolina has a first take on how

[12:00] this is going down with some of

[12:02] America's teenagers.

[12:05] >> Here at the Mountain State Fair, there's

[12:07] a lovely sense of innocence. Kids and 4.

[12:11] >> Okay, turn. Let's start back and fun.

[12:14] >> Yeah, turn around and smile big.

[12:16] >> You might think this would be as far

[12:19] away from the worries of Washington

[12:23] as one could get. It is not. The local

[12:26] paper filled with every detail was where

[12:29] all could read it, even the kids. Daniel

[12:31] Trantham has read it. At 16, he is

[12:33] disgusted, he says, with the president.

[12:36] >> He's living in not his White House, our

[12:39] White House. And I think it's right that

[12:42] people should know what he's done.

[12:43] >> His grandfather worries about the effect

[12:45] of it all on Daniel's generation.

[12:48] >> They say, "Well, the president did this

[12:50] and did that, got by with it. Why can't

[12:52] we do it?" Just listen in across town

[12:54] here at Asheville High School, Mr.

[12:56] McDonald's class where it is clear an

[12:59] ugly chapter is being added to American

[13:02] history.

[13:03] >> And here's our president, the most

[13:04] powerful man in the world at this time.

[13:06] And if he can't handle his life, then

[13:09] how is he going to lead our country?

[13:11] >> I think that now he's weakened so much

[13:16] that a lot of people find when he gets

[13:18] on up and says, "I have sinned and I

[13:21] shouldn't have done it." It's almost

[13:22] funny.

[13:23] >> And they echoed the difficulty so many

[13:25] are having with all of this.

[13:27] >> And although he did lie and that is

[13:29] morally wrong, how is that really going

[13:31] to affect his the way he governs our

[13:33] country?

[13:33] >> I think that it it'd just be easiest to

[13:36] let the whole thing drop.

[13:37] >> Plenty wish it could just go away. Back

[13:40] at the fair, kids say they're tired of

[13:42] hearing about it.

[13:43] >> Just get it over with. I mean, it's

[13:45] already happened. West will keep

[13:46] worrying about it.

[13:48] >> Oh, no. The children, like so many of

[13:51] their parents, want life, the country,

[13:53] back to normal, whatever it takes. Aaron

[13:57] Hayes, ABC News, Asheville, North

[13:59] Carolina.

[14:00] >> The next generation. Tomorrow, by the

[14:02] way, we're going to take a closer look

[14:03] at the scene behind ours and everybody

[14:07] else's polling unit in the country to

[14:08] see how we get at those numbers and what

[14:10] they mean over the long haul. When we

[14:13] come back this evening, some of the

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[16:28] In Washington today, the government

[16:30] proposed to make airbags in cars safer.

[16:33] Airbags, as you know, have been credited

[16:35] with saving thousands of lives, but also

[16:37] are blamed for 113 deaths, mostly

[16:40] children. And that is what the

[16:42] government is trying to stop. Here's

[16:44] ABC's Lisa Stark.

[16:47] >> Right now, automakers are only required

[16:49] to test airbags using a medium-sized

[16:52] 170 lb male test dummy.

[16:55] Under the proposed rule, that would

[16:57] change. Automakers would have to make

[16:59] sure airbags are safe as well for small

[17:02] females and children ages 6, three, and

[17:05] one. A move applauded by the father of

[17:08] Allison Sanders, one of the 65 children

[17:11] killed by an exploding airbag.

[17:14] >> This in turn will force the automakers

[17:16] to design their systems in a way that

[17:18] are demonstrated to be safe in the kinds

[17:21] of conditions where airbags are now

[17:23] killing people. Automakers will look at

[17:25] several new technologies. Sensors

[17:27] demonstrated here to determine the

[17:29] weight and position of an occupant. So,

[17:31] the bag deploys with proper speed and

[17:33] force. And airbags with two deployment

[17:36] speeds. Less powerful for less severe

[17:38] crashes, more powerful for high-speed

[17:41] crashes. But there's also a

[17:43] controversial requirement for the airbag

[17:45] to protect adults not wearing seat

[17:48] belts. Automakers warn this means a

[17:50] return to higher powered airbags. That's

[17:53] going to lead without a doubt to the

[17:56] repowering of airbags. That is not good

[17:58] for public safety.

[18:00] >> Already cars are sporting side airbags

[18:02] and head protection airbags. In

[18:05] development, airbags to protect knees

[18:07] and hold an occupant in place and

[18:10] inflatable seat belts. As for the

[18:12] advanced airbags, they're required

[18:14] beginning in four years. Automakers plan

[18:17] to beat that deadline. Lisa Stark, ABC

[18:20] News, Washington.

[18:22] Investors who wanted greater focus on

[18:24] the global financial crisis were

[18:25] encouraged by the attention the

[18:26] president paid to the subject today. On

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[18:30] gained a little under 150 points to

[18:32] close at 7945. On the NASDAQ market,

[18:35] stocks gained a fraction over 24 points.

[18:39] In Florida today, 10 people have been

[18:41] charged with spying for the Cuban

[18:43] government. Federal investigators say

[18:45] the suspects were working to get into US

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[18:52] break into anti-Castro groups in the US,

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[18:57] charged had worked for the Cuban exile

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[19:02] the accused are American citizens. When

[19:05] we come back, how will the country

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[21:36] complex life of former Alabama Governor

[21:38] George Wallace, who died last night in

[21:40] Montgomery at the age of 79. He will

[21:43] likely be remembered more for his work

[21:45] to keep the races separate than for the

[21:48] change of heart he had about it later in

[21:50] life. Wallace's legacy now rests with

[21:52] the explosive way that he shaped

[21:54] politics in the South and framed the

[21:57] debate about race in the rest of the

[22:00] country. ABC's Jim Wooten covered many

[22:02] of Wallace's campaign and here's his

[22:05] review.

[22:06] >> I draw the line.

[22:07] >> This is how he made his entrance onto

[22:09] the American political stage.

[22:12] >> And I say segregation now, segregation

[22:15] tomorrow, and segregation forever.

[22:20] >> It was 1963, and in those few harsh

[22:23] words, the new governor of Alabama fixed

[22:25] forever the face of his public image. In

[22:28] a changing society, he would not change.

[22:31] Instead, like his Confederate ancestors,

[22:34] he would stand for the old ways of the

[22:36] old South. Stand between the federal

[22:38] government, for example, and the

[22:40] integration of the state university that

[22:42] June

[22:43] >> to hereby denounce and forbid this

[22:46] illegal and unwarranted action by the

[22:49] central government. He soon surrendered

[22:51] there, of course, as he always

[22:52] surrendered eventually. But he also soon

[22:55] discovered that win or lose, millions of

[22:57] white Americans stood with him, and they

[23:00] became the energy of his clamorous

[23:02] career. In four consecutive presidential

[23:05] campaigns, he exploited and exacerbated

[23:08] the country's racial tensions, denying

[23:10] and disguising his anti-lack appeal with

[23:13] an anti-federal rhetoric. He wasn't a

[23:16] racist, he said, but a populist who

[23:18] stood with the common folks against a

[23:20] common enemy, the briefcase toteen

[23:23] bureaucrats, the pointy-headed

[23:25] intellectuals, the liberals and the

[23:27] lying press. And that message won him

[23:29] five southern states in 1968. Enough,

[23:32] said some analysts, to guarantee Richard

[23:34] Nixon's election. In any event, Wallace

[23:37] was flying high when his 1972 campaign

[23:41] abruptly ended in a burst of gunfire in

[23:43] suburban Maryland.

[23:48] He was permanently paralyzed with a

[23:50] bullet in the spine and yet he was

[23:52] elected governor three more times and in

[23:55] between there was one more try for the

[23:57] White House. It was a sad campaign that

[24:00] went nowhere.

[24:01] >> The main reason that I'm arriving here

[24:03] not to accept the nomination is because

[24:05] I didn't get enough votes. I got

[24:07] defeated. Finally, in January 1987, in

[24:11] constant pain from his wounds, he

[24:13] administered the state treasurer's oath

[24:15] to his son and left office for the last

[24:18] time, a shadow of the fierce campaigner

[24:20] he once had been. But he had also

[24:23] changed in other ways. And for the

[24:25] remainder of his days, George Corley

[24:27] Wallace tried to make clear what was

[24:30] finally clear to him, that racial

[24:32] segregation was morally wrong and he had

[24:36] been wrong to defend it. Jim, ABC News.

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[26:41] Just a brief review of the main story.

[26:43] Members of the president's own party are

[26:44] calling on him to admit that he lied in

[26:47] the Monica Lewinsky case, even if that

[26:49] means he committed perjury. Democratic

[26:52] leader in the Senate, Tom Dashel, says

[26:53] he's impatient. With the hair splitting

[26:56] over legal technologies, and he is not

[26:58] the only one. Finally, tonight, an

[27:00] exciting reminder that with only two

[27:02] weeks left in the regular baseball

[27:04] season, there is more history to be

[27:06] made. Sammy Sosa has caught up.

[27:10] HILL ONE

[27:12] BUILT IT

[27:12] >> in Chicago yesterday with number 61.

[27:15] Sosa tied Roger Maris's 1961 home run

[27:18] record for most home runs in a season.

[27:21] >> Swap on. There she goes.

[27:25] >> And then same game he tied Mark Maguire.

[27:29] There was an extraordinary scramble for

[27:31] the ball. Three different people are

[27:33] still fighting over who got the ball

[27:34] first.

[27:37] Sosa's jersey and bat made it to the

[27:39] Hall of Fame this afternoon. And here's

[27:41] what's exciting. Who's going to win the

[27:42] season? Both men play tonight. That is

[27:46] our report on World News Tonight. Later

[27:48] on Night Line, the attacks on the

[27:49] president's legal defense. I'm Peter

[27:52] Jennings. We hope you have a good

[27:53] evening and we'll see you tomorrow. Good

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