CBS Evening News - 2002-01-11
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[0:03] Whatever happened to your favorite TV
[0:05] star? Next.
[0:09] Money, politics, [music]
[0:11] and the collapse of Enron. Subpoenas are
[0:14] issued by the dozens today. And the US
[0:16] Treasury now acknowledges it did get an
[0:18] Enron SOS. Ford rolls out plans to close
[0:23] plants, cut jobs, and you can say
[0:25] goodbye to the Lincoln Continental. The
[0:28] first plane load of prisoners from
[0:30] Afghanistan arrives at the US military
[0:32] base in Cuba for interrogation. And a
[0:35] guilty verdict in the hockeyad trial
[0:38] guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
[0:45] [music]
[0:48] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:51] Rather.
[0:52] >> And good evening. Dan is on assignment
[0:54] tonight. I'm John Roberts. The Bush
[0:56] administration was trying again today to
[0:58] control the damage from the collapse of
[1:00] the Enron Corporation, a company with
[1:02] ties to many administration officials,
[1:04] including the president. The key
[1:07] questions for congressional and criminal
[1:09] investigators, include who knew what and
[1:12] when, about the energy company's slide
[1:14] into bankruptcy. Today, we learned that
[1:16] a top executive of Enron asked the
[1:18] administration to step in late last year
[1:21] to try to head off the company's
[1:22] collapse. We begin our coverage tonight
[1:25] with CBS News correspondent Bill Plant
[1:27] at the White House.
[1:29] >> As its stock price was plummeting last
[1:31] fall, an Enron executive made numerous
[1:34] attempts to get help from the Bush
[1:36] administration. Treasury officials
[1:38] revealed today that Enron President
[1:40] Lawrence Why made six or eight phone
[1:42] calls to Under Secretary of the Treasury
[1:44] Peter Fiser. Enron was seeking a credit
[1:47] extensio