World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-01-15

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[0:01] On World News Tonight this Friday, the

[0:03] president's trial in the Senate. The

[0:04] pressure to have witnesses increases,

[0:07] including Monica Lewinsky. A US Olympic

[0:10] Committee official resigns. The

[0:12] International Olympic Committee promises

[0:14] to clean house. The mess that winter has

[0:17] made, a surprise to many in the East.

[0:21] And the century on Friday, the trial

[0:24] that captivated the nation. Science or

[0:28] religion?

[0:36] From ABC, this is World News Tonight

[0:39] with Peter Jennings, reporting tonight

[0:41] from Washington.

[0:42] >> Good evening. The Republican members of

[0:44] the House prosecuting the president

[0:45] argue today to the Senate that when

[0:48] senators examine all the testimony so

[0:50] far, and if they are fair, surely they

[0:52] will have to judge the president guilty

[0:55] of obstructing justice and perjury. But

[0:58] just in case, the House prosecutors

[1:00] argued the Senate should hear from the

[1:02] witnesses themselves. In fact, they

[1:04] should hear from Monica Lewinsky and

[1:05] maybe the president. Today, the

[1:08] Republican challenge was to keep the

[1:09] Senate focused on legalities. First,

[1:12] here's ABC's Jackie Jud.

[1:14] >> Mr. Chief,

[1:15] >> Republicans got off the high road that

[1:17] they took yesterday, at least for a few

[1:19] moments. Congressman Bill McCullum

[1:22] delivered the most graphic language yet

[1:24] heard in the Senate when he said even

[1:26] accepting Mr. Clinton's narrow

[1:28] definition of sex, the president still

[1:31] committed perjury by denying he had

[1:33] sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky.

[1:36] >> But they asked him about touching

[1:38] certain parts of the body that were

[1:40] defined in the definition that you've