World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-01-17

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[0:04] On World News Tonight this Sunday, could

[0:06] witnesses in the Senate trial help the

[0:09] president's case? Help or not, they may

[0:11] now be inevitable. The Serbian military

[0:15] tightens its grip in Kosovo following

[0:17] Friday's massacre.

[0:20] >> Let's party Minnesota.

[0:23] >> And the new governor of Minnesota cuts

[0:25] loose at an inaugural bash.

[0:33] From ABC,

[0:35] this is World News Tonight, Sunday.

[0:40] Good evening. I'm Carol Simpson.

[0:42] President Clinton spent the day

[0:43] preparing his State of the Union address

[0:45] to be delivered Tuesday night, a few

[0:48] hours after his lawyers appear before

[0:50] the Senate to begin their defense. Two

[0:53] big debates on the talk shows today.

[0:55] Will the Republicans be able to prove

[0:57] the president's alleged crimes are

[0:59] serious enough to justify removal from

[1:02] office? And will they get a chance to

[1:04] call witnesses? We begin with ABC's Mike

[1:07] von friend at the White House.

[1:11] The president left church this morning

[1:13] with the first lady on one hand and his

[1:15] Bible in the other. It was exactly one

[1:18] year ago today that the president gave 6

[1:20] hours of testimony in the Paula Jones

[1:23] sexual harassment case and was

[1:25] blindsided by questions about Monica

[1:27] Lewinsky, a civil case that has now led

[1:30] to an impeachment trial. This weekend,

[1:32] the president's lawyers have been

[1:34] huddling in the White House working on

[1:36] their strategy to save his presidency.

[1:39] >> I think the president is is very anxious

[1:41] to have his lawyers begin. And there's a

[1:43] great frustration that the American

[1:45] people have now heard half of a case,

[1:48] >> but the half they heard last week may

[1:50] have c