CBS Evening News - 2011-05-20
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[0:01] Tonight, Lance Armstrong again denies
[0:04] doping, but a 60 Minutes investigation
[0:06] finds at least three teammates have told
[0:09] federal investigators they saw him do
[0:12] it. I'm Harry Smith. Also tonight,
[0:14] tension at the White House. Meeting face
[0:17] to face, Israeli Prime Minister
[0:19] Netanyahu rejects President Obama's M
[0:22] East plan for peace. agree that a piece
[0:26] based on illusions will crash eventually
[0:29] on the rocks of Middle Eastern reality
[0:32] >> and apocalypse when?
[0:35] >> How about tomorrow?
[0:41] >> This is the CBS Evening News.
[0:47] >> Good evening. We begin again tonight
[0:49] with accusations that the world's best
[0:51] known cyclist, Lance Armstrong, cheated
[0:54] by taking performance-enhancing drugs.
[0:57] The accusations in a 60 Minutes
[0:59] interview were made by former teammate
[1:01] Tyler Hamilton, who admitted he took
[1:03] those drugs as well. And today, Hamilton
[1:06] surrendered the gold medal he won in the
[1:08] 2004 Olympics. Now, 60 Minutes is
[1:11] reporting Hamilton is not the only
[1:13] former teammate to claim he saw
[1:15] Armstrong doping. Armen Contean has the
[1:18] story.
[1:20] >> Like his signature move in the
[1:21] mountains, Lance Armstrong went on the
[1:23] attack today. As he has repeatedly done
[1:26] in the past, he targeted the credibility
[1:28] of those who accuse him of using illegal
[1:30] performance-enhancing drugs. His current
[1:33] target, former Tour to France teammate
[1:35] Tyler Hamilton. In an interview to air
[1:37] this Sunday on 60 Minutes, Hamilton
[1:40] tells correspondent Scott P about his
[1:43] and Armstrong's repeated use of banned
[1:45] substances, including the blood boosting
[1:48] drug EPO.
[1:49] >> You saw Lance Armstro