CBS Evening News - 2000-08-17
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[0:03] what's supposed to be Al Gore's big
[0:04] night in Los Angeles but as Gore takes
[0:07] center stage at the Democratic
[0:09] Convention the Republican Back special
[0:12] prosecutor puts President Clinton back
[0:14] in the spotlight the Russian submarine
[0:17] disaster did the sub hit a surface ship
[0:21] and after 50 years a reunion like no
[0:25] other
[0:31] this is the CBS Evening
[0:34] News with Dan Rather reporting from the
[0:37] Democratic National Convention in Los
[0:40] Angeles good evening timing is
[0:43] everything Al Gore Must Stand and
[0:45] Deliver here tonight as the Democratic
[0:47] party's Presidential nominee and now
[0:49] Gore must do so against the backdrop of
[0:52] a potentially damaging carefully
[0:54] orchestrated story leak about President
[0:57] Clinton the story is that Republican
[0:59] Back special prosecutor Robert Ray Ken
[1:01] star successor has a new grand jury
[1:04] looking into possible criminal charges
[1:06] against the president growing out of Mr
[1:08] Clinton's sex life CVS's Jim Stewart in
[1:11] Washington has that story and the
[1:14] context independent Council Robert Ray
[1:16] quietly notified the justice department
[1:18] a month ago he intended to call a grand
[1:20] jury on the Lewinsky Affair and
[1:22] according to one report the panel has
[1:24] already met and begun to hear evidence
[1:27] the questions are the same as during the
[1:28] president's impeachment last year did Mr
[1:31] Clinton lie our obstruct Justice while
[1:33] testifying about the affair only this
[1:35] time the stakes are different the
[1:37] president was acquitted in his
[1:39] impeachment trial and thus allowed to
[1:41] finish office this time the result could
[1:43] be criminal charges after he leaves the
[1:45] Wh