CBS Evening News - 1999-02-12
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[0:03] It is over. The Senate finds President
[0:06] Clinton not guilty.
[0:08] >> The Senate sitting as a court of
[0:10] impeachment stands adjourned sine die.
[0:14] >> And now the President looks to the
[0:16] future. This can be
[0:19] and this must be
[0:22] a time of reconciliation
[0:24] and renewal
[0:26] for America.
[0:29] >> This is the CBS Evening News.
[0:34] With Dan Rather reporting tonight from
[0:36] Washington.
[0:38] >> Good evening. The verdict is in.
[0:40] President Clinton will stay in office.
[0:42] The push by Republicans to remove him
[0:44] failed today. The vote wasn't even close
[0:47] to the 2/3 majority required. That'd be
[0:49] 67 votes on either one of the two
[0:52] impeachment counts for perjury and
[0:53] obstruction of justice. From Capitol
[0:55] Hill, Bob Schieffer reports on a
[0:58] defining day for the President,
[1:00] Congress, and the country.
[1:02] >> It was just past noon Eastern time when
[1:05] the Chief Justice formally posed the
[1:06] question, was the President guilty of
[1:08] perjury?
[1:09] >> Senators, how say you?
[1:12] Is the respondent, William Jefferson
[1:14] Clinton, guilty or not guilty?
[1:17] >> In a stinging defeat for House
[1:18] prosecutors, the measure did not even
[1:20] win support of a simple majority of
[1:22] senators. 10 Republicans, Chafee,
[1:25] Collins, Jeffords, Snowe, Specter,
[1:28] Gordon, Shelby, Stevens, Thompson, and
[1:30] Warner joined all 45 Democrats in saying
[1:34] not guilty, and the perjury charge was
[1:36] defeated 55 to 45.
[1:39] Five of those Republicans also voted for
[1:42] acquittal on the second charge,
[1:44] obstruction of justice. That left the
[1:46] Senate split 50-50. Again, far short of
[1:49] the 67 votes required to remove the
[1:52] President from office. So, it was done.
[1:55] Th