NBC Nightly News - 1996-02-12 (Iowa caucuses)

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[1:10] is leading the field tonight. Pat

[1:11] Buchanan running a strong second. The

[1:14] rest fighting for survival.

[1:16] NBC News in-depth tonight. The Christian

[1:18] conservatives of Iowa, how they got to

[1:20] be so politically powerful. What it

[1:21] could mean for the rest of the nation.

[1:24] And another kind of campaign opens. A

[1:25] campaign against kids and smoking. This

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[1:36] From NBC News. This is a special edition

[1:40] of NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw.

[1:43] Reporting tonight from Des Moines, Iowa.

[1:47] Good evening from the counting center in

[1:49] Des Moines, Iowa. And tonight after all

[1:51] the speeches, all the television

[1:52] commercials, all of the talk show

[1:54] speculation, the real people finally are

[1:56] having their turn. Iowa's Republican

[1:58] voters gathering in places like this Des

[2:01] Moines Junior High School tonight for a

[2:02] caucus where they're picking their

[2:04] presidential favorites and at the

[2:05] moment, Bob Dole has a commanding lead

[2:08] but Pat Buchanan is showing very strong

[2:11] strength as the number two man and Lamar

[2:13] Alexander is in third place, the rest of

[2:16] the field fighting for survival. We have

[2:19] that based on real election returns and

[2:21] on a scientific sample of voters that we

[2:23] interviewed as they entered the caucus

[2:25] sites tonight. This is not a primary but

[2:28] it is the first significant test of a

[2:30] crowded Republican field and for most of

[2:32] the candidates tonight, it's less about

[2:34] winning than it is about survival.

[2:36] Second and third here can be triumphs.

[2:40] Senator Bob Dole, as expected, is in

[2:42] first place but after that, what

[2:44] happens? Here's NBC's Gwen Ifill on the

[2:46] final frantic day.

[2:49] >> Folks, this morning on WHO radio,

[2:51] speaking with all of the presidential

[2:53] candidates.

[2:54] >> It's all over

[2:58] but the shouting.

[3:00] The Republican candidates for president

[3:02] had little else to do today but court

[3:04] radio listeners and television cameras.

[3:06] >> This is a TV convention.

[3:08] >> Bob Dole grew teary-eyed

[3:12] when a radio host played the song he

[3:14] listened to repeatedly while recovering

[3:16] from war injuries half a century ago.

[3:19] >> I I guess it was sort of an inspiration

[3:21] because

[3:22] back at that time I couldn't I couldn't

[3:23] walk.

[3:24] >> Yeah.

[3:24] >> And

[3:25] then everyday play it, play it, play it.

[3:28] >> In his final appeal to Iowa voters, Dole

[3:30] acknowledged his own political

[3:32] shortcomings.

[3:33] >> Maybe I can offer you cannot offer you

[3:35] eloquence.

[3:37] But I can offer the common sense

[3:39] of a lifelong Midwestern public servant.

[3:43] >> The other candidates virtually tripped

[3:45] over each other in one last burst of

[3:47] campaigning.

[3:48] >> Good to see you.

[3:48] >> Good good to see you.

[3:49] >> Steve Forbes stepped up his efforts to

[3:51] look like a regular guy, reading a fairy

[3:54] tale to school children.

[3:55] >> I think I can. I think I can. I think I

[3:59] can. I think I can.

[4:01] >> The real race here is to run number two

[4:03] to Dole.

[4:04] >> Any body voters in here?

[4:07] >> I'm I'm going to try. I'm going to do my

[4:08] best.

[4:09] >> Well, I think we can win.

[4:10] >> This is the way things have been since

[4:11] we started. Started about a year ago. We

[4:14] speeded up a little bit.

[4:15] >> For other candidates, this is probably

[4:17] as fast as the treadmill will ever get.

[4:20] Relatively few voters attend these

[4:22] caucuses, but they're important because

[4:24] they help weed out the field. Nine

[4:26] candidates came to Iowa, only three,

[4:28] perhaps four, will leave here with their

[4:30] presidential hopes alive.

[4:32] Voters are looking forward to getting on

[4:34] with it.

[4:35] >> One vote can make a difference. I

[4:36] believe that.

[4:37] >> But there are other things happening

[4:39] here this week beside politics,

[4:41] Valentine's Day for instance.

[4:43] >> We got to get our flowers ready.

[4:44] >> Which is just as well. Tomorrow

[4:46] politicians will drop Iowa like an old

[4:49] lover, moving on to the next romance,

[4:51] February 20th in New Hampshire.

[4:54] Gwen Ifill, NBC News, Des Moines.

[4:58] >> What's been going on here tonight is a

[4:59] little unusual. It's really a series of

[5:01] small town halls across the state where

[5:04] neighbors gather to argue for their

[5:05] candidates and issues.

[5:07] So the campaigns had to get their people

[5:09] to the right place with the right

[5:10] arguments at the right time.

[5:12] Organization was the key.

[5:14] NBC's David Bloom tonight on the war

[5:15] rooms.

[5:17] >> Daybreak, 7:30 a.m. A Dole staffer hard

[5:21] at work.

[5:21] >> I just wanted to make sure that you guys

[5:23] were aware of your caucus location.

[5:25] >> 23-year-old Monty Shaw still trying to

[5:27] convince Dole supporters to trudge out

[5:30] tonight and vote.

[5:31] >> It really takes neighbors calling

[5:33] neighbors saying, "Hey, come on. We'll

[5:34] go together."

[5:35] >> For all the media hype, the advertising

[5:37] hype, it takes a strong organization to

[5:39] win in Iowa. Bob Dole supporters have

[5:42] each received four or five phone calls

[5:43] in recent days urging them to vote.

[5:46] >> Oh, I'm having so much

[5:48] >> Monty Shaw has been added virtually

[5:50] round-the-clock for 9 months. He's one

[5:52] of six Dole field representatives in

[5:55] charge of organizing 28 counties in

[5:57] southern Iowa.

[5:58] >> Excuse us.

[5:59] >> Just get 4 or 5 hours of sleep a night.

[6:03] >> Go back to Saturday morning when the

[6:04] final sprint began.

[6:06] >> All right, here we go.

[6:07] Folks, we're moving.

[6:09] >> Dole is coming to a farm in Shaw's

[6:11] territory because his TV ads alone won't

[6:14] get out the vote.

[6:15] >> It's really the the ground war that has

[6:17] made the difference in Iowa.

[6:19] >> We've got to get them to the caucus

[6:20] because they

[6:21] >> Back in Des Moines, Jennifer Sowers is

[6:23] at Lamar Alexander's headquarters.

[6:25] >> And would you be sup- supporting Lamar

[6:27] if you were in attendance?

[6:28] >> Sowers is only working part-time, but

[6:30] her mission is daunting. Deliver the

[6:32] moderate Republican voters of West Des

[6:34] Moines.

[6:35] >> Hi, Annabelle.

[6:36] >> Alexander has been in Iowa 80 days, far

[6:38] more than any rival, but he's badly

[6:40] outgunned. The Dole campaign has nearly

[6:43] 6,000 volunteers, people in every single

[6:46] precinct. And Saturday, they bused in

[6:48] 2,000 more volunteers from out of state

[6:51] to work the phone.

[6:52] >> Yeah, I have been on the bus for 12

[6:53] hours.

[6:54] >> Now it's Sunday, 1 day to go.

[6:56] >> Let's get a nice line of phones going

[6:58] here.

[6:59] >> Everybody's going. We've been

[7:00] distributing stuff around and

[7:01] >> So the more names we get cranked out

[7:03] today, the sooner you get to go home. So

[7:04] that's

[7:05] >> Shaw, the young veteran, hard at work.

[7:07] Sowers, in her first campaign, greeting

[7:10] Alexander supporters, one last

[7:12] pre-caucus rally.

[7:14] >> Hi, how are you?

[7:15] >> Just fine, thanks.

[7:15] >> Would you like a sticker tonight?

[7:16] >> Yes.

[7:18] >> Thank you very much.

[7:20] >> We are really ready for this.

[7:23] >> So too is the opposition.

[7:25] >> I'm I'm pretty confident that we are

[7:26] going to get our troops out.

[7:28] >> Confident, but working the phones until

[7:31] the very end.

[7:32] David Bloom, NBC News, Des Moines.

[7:36] >> For a change, the Democrats don't have a

[7:38] contest for their presidential

[7:39] nomination. So Bill Clinton was able to

[7:41] come here over the weekend and make

[7:43] several standing room only appearances

[7:44] praising

[7:46] his own record.

[7:47] When we continue, Iowa's power brokers,

[7:49] the Christian right, a very powerful

[7:52] presence in the state and well beyond.

[7:55] And NBC News in Depth tonight, and

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[9:46] >> A major new offensive was launched today

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[9:50] taking aim at the tobacco industry this

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[9:57] More tonight from NBC's Bob Kur.

[10:01] >> No group ever has brought more money and

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[10:05] and other marketing gimmicks that may

[10:07] entice kids to smoke. The new National

[10:10] Center for Tobacco-Free Kids starts with

[10:13] at least $30

[10:15] mainly from the Robert Wood Johnson

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[10:18] Society. Today at the White House

[10:20] President Clinton welcomed the new

[10:22] effort in a meeting with anti-smoking

[10:24] activists including high school

[10:25] students.

[10:26] >> It's going to involve

[10:28] the best national experts, but more

[10:30] importantly community groups, all kinds

[10:32] of grassroots groups of people working

[10:34] together to try to deal with this issue.

[10:36] >> $30 million means anti-smoking ads now

[10:39] only in print will be done for TV and

[10:41] radio. It means financial and legal help

[10:44] for states trying to combat a 30%

[10:47] increase in smoking among eighth

[10:49] graders. And organizers say it means

[10:52] taking aim with new ads against Congress

[10:54] which received at least $2 million

[10:56] tobacco dollars in the last election.

[10:59] >> Everybody understands that tobacco is

[11:01] addictive, that it kills people. And so

[11:03] what they're trying to do is pour more

[11:05] money into the political process to do

[11:07] the best they can to protect the status

[11:09] quo.

[11:09] >> The industry argues it has a right to

[11:12] sell its product.

[11:13] >> They want to do more than just restrict

[11:15] advertising, they want to ban it all

[11:16] together.

[11:17] >> This campaign against teen smoking is

[11:20] driven by a government estimate that 3

[11:22] million American teens are smoking and

[11:25] that 1/3 of them eventually will die

[11:27] tobacco-related deaths. Bob Kur, NBC

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[12:01] Well, Nightly News continues from Iowa,

[12:03] the Christian Coalition, a powerful

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[13:44] >> Results beginning to come in in the Iowa

[13:46] caucuses. Here's where we stand. Bob

[13:48] Dole out in front. If he holds that

[13:50] number, he'll win. But Pat Buchanan, a

[13:53] very strong second right now. Lamar

[13:55] Alexander, it appears that he could

[13:57] finish third. Steve Forbes, the rest of

[14:00] the pack well back.

[14:02] NBC News in depth tonight, we're talking

[14:04] about the political power of the

[14:06] Christian conservatives. That power has

[14:08] been developing rapidly here in Iowa.

[14:10] Maybe a harbinger of what's to come in

[14:12] other states around the country. The

[14:13] television evangelist Pat Robertson

[14:15] started the movement here when he ran

[14:17] for president 8 years ago.

[14:19] Now those Christian activists represent

[14:21] 40% of the Iowa GOP. And they have been

[14:24] setting the agenda for tonight's

[14:25] caucuses. Who are they? What drives

[14:28] them? Watch.

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[14:33] this beautiful weather today. We ask

[14:35] that

[14:35] >> Steven and Carmen Coffe represent the

[14:37] new power within the Iowa Republican

[14:39] Party.

[14:40] Steven is an accountant at a trucking

[14:41] firm in Des Moines. Carmen, a housewife

[14:44] and mother of four.

[14:46] He's a precinct leader for Phil Graham.

[14:48] Carmen is a board member of Iowans for

[14:50] Life.

[14:51] >> The pro-life issue is is the most

[14:52] important issue to me.

[14:54] >> My faith

[14:55] is where I get my world view.

[14:59] >> The Coffs and their fellow Christian

[15:01] conservatives are so politically

[15:02] powerful here, it is impossible to win

[15:05] the Iowa caucuses without their support.

[15:08] So, when the Christian conservatives

[15:10] organized a rally against legalizing gay

[15:12] marriages, the leading candidates signed

[15:15] up.

[15:15] >> We're going to bring back the God of the

[15:17] Bible.

[15:17] >> I will overturn Bill Clinton's

[15:20] pro-abortion agenda.

[15:21] >> I find the name of God writ large on the

[15:24] foundation stone of this country's life.

[15:29] >> Members of the Christian Coalition and

[15:31] others who share their beliefs are

[15:33] everywhere a candidate appears in Iowa.

[15:36] >> Do you have a personal relationship with

[15:37] Jesus Christ?

[15:38] >> I was just wondering what you believe

[15:40] about God.

[15:40] >> Does your definition of the family

[15:42] include same-sex marriage?

[15:45] >> Steve and Carmen Crofts say it shouldn't

[15:48] surprise anyone that Christian activists

[15:50] have become so political.

[15:52] >> I guess I think it's because people are

[15:53] they're getting tired of of the morals

[15:55] in this country going downhill and

[15:57] they're concerned for their kids.

[15:58] >> We have some objective moral truths that

[16:01] we believe in

[16:03] and they don't we don't waver on those

[16:05] and we think that that's a better way to

[16:07] run a society.

[16:08] >> Other people would say to that, well,

[16:10] but you want us to adopt what is your

[16:13] very narrow point of view and if you get

[16:16] great political power you'll impose that

[16:18] on the whole country.

[16:19] >> We have the same right as everyone else

[16:21] to sell our ideas in the marketplace of

[16:23] ideas. If our ideas don't sell

[16:26] then then they they don't sell.

[16:28] >> Of course not all Iowa Republicans agree

[16:30] with the Christian Coalition's agenda,

[16:32] but many of them are impressed with how

[16:35] the Christian Coalition has achieved

[16:37] real political power through hard work,

[16:39] organization and most of all by sticking

[16:42] to their principles.

[16:44] >> Mary Louise Smith, a Des Moines

[16:46] moderate, has been prominent in the

[16:47] Republican Party for most of her adult

[16:49] life.

[16:50] >> They have as much right to be in the

[16:52] Republican Party as I have or anybody

[16:54] else has.

[16:55] Uh the the uh thing I don't believe they

[16:59] have a right to do is impose a religious

[17:01] agenda through the political process.

[17:03] >> David Yepsen, the state's top political

[17:06] reporter, has watched the Christian

[17:08] conservatives rise to power.

[17:10] >> Tolerance is sometimes a dirty word to

[17:11] those people because uh they believe

[17:14] that the Bible uh has some very specific

[17:18] admonitions. And you shouldn't be too

[17:20] tolerant of

[17:21] of anything that deviates from that.

[17:23] >> What really outrages you when you hear

[17:26] people criticize the Christian Coalition

[17:27] movement?

[17:28] >> That we're crazy wackos and and that we

[17:31] go around thumping our Bible.

[17:38] >> Not so long ago, Carmen and Steve were

[17:40] reluctant to talk about their beliefs in

[17:42] public. No more. They've learned the

[17:45] power of passion plus political

[17:47] organization. And it is now as much a

[17:49] part of their lives as their Christian

[17:52] faith.

[17:54] >> And as we continue reporting the Iowa

[17:56] caucuses live tonight at this hour,

[17:58] we're seeing the power of the Christian

[18:00] conservative. Joining me now to discuss

[18:01] all of this, NBC's Tim Russert, our

[18:03] Washington Bureau Chief, moderator of

[18:05] Meet the Press. Tim, Pat Buchanan and

[18:07] Bob Dole both paying homage to the

[18:10] Christian conservatives and it's showing

[18:11] up in the polls tonight.

[18:13] >> It sure is, Tom. The Christian

[18:15] conservatives are a potent force. Here

[18:17] in Iowa, over 40% of those voting

[18:19] tonight are Christian conservatives. And

[18:22] Tom, the road ahead, South Carolina,

[18:24] Florida, Texas, Georgia, more than 40%

[18:28] of those Republican voters will be

[18:30] Christian conservatives. And even in New

[18:32] Hampshire, Tom, Pat Buchanan will try to

[18:34] focus in on anti-abortion right

[18:36] Catholics and evangelical Protestants.

[18:39] And he thinks he can put together a good

[18:40] margin of 20 to 30% in New Hampshire.

[18:43] >> And Bill Clinton can't ignore the

[18:45] Christian conservatives either, can he?

[18:47] >> He sure can't, Tom. You remember his

[18:48] State of the Union address? He talked

[18:49] about V-chipped so you could parents

[18:52] could take

[18:53] violence out of television sets, school

[18:55] uniforms, traditional family values,

[18:57] strength of the family. And he

[18:59] understands he has to appeal to

[19:00] conservative middle-class Catholics in

[19:03] Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania and

[19:05] Ohio or he cannot be reelected.

[19:07] >> All right, thanks very much. Tim Russert

[19:08] tonight, live here in Iowa reporting on

[19:10] the caucuses. Still to come when the NBC

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[21:54] He said he is ending negotiations with

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[25:34] >> A Dateline exclusive. Jane Pauley talks

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[25:45] >> Crime and violence are two major issues

[25:47] in this election year. Today, for

[25:49] example, an angry former employee fired

[25:52] 40 rounds in a Sacramento, California

[25:54] computer plant, and fortunately, no one

[25:57] was hit. But last Friday in Fort

[25:59] Lauderdale, Florida, it was a different

[26:01] story. Another angry worker with a gun.

[26:04] NBC's Bob Dotson tonight on the anatomy

[26:06] of a shooting that should not have

[26:08] happened.

[26:10] >> The police scene crime ribbons are there

[26:12] with the remains of yesterday's picnic.

[26:15] Just steps from one of the most famous

[26:17] beaches in the world.

[26:19] The crew that usually picks up this

[26:21] trash are mostly dead.

[26:24] Five men slaughtered last Friday morning

[26:26] as they sipped coffee inside this

[26:28] trailer. Leland Brookins, shot in the

[26:31] stomach, liver, and lungs, managed to

[26:33] call 911 before he fell seriously

[26:36] wounded.

[26:37] >> We just had about seven or eight guys

[26:38] shot down here by the school employees.

[26:40] >> What do you mean they were shot, sir?

[26:42] >> Some of them are dead, some are not.

[26:44] Hurry.

[26:44] >> Did you get shot, sir?

[26:45] >> Yes.

[26:46] >> Who did this to you?

[26:47] >> I did. The school employee, Cliff

[26:49] McCray. He shot himself. He's dead. He's

[26:52] dead.

[26:52] >> Yes.

[26:53] >> 41-year-old Clifton McCray, a former

[26:56] Marine sharpshooter, saved the last

[26:58] bullet for himself.

[27:00] The Parks Department had fired McCray

[27:01] for threatening co-workers and being

[27:03] rude to the public.

[27:04] >> He had made threats before.

[27:06] >> Nancy Ellers was the only person who

[27:08] escaped the trailer uninjured.

[27:10] >> He said he would he would kill. He was

[27:12] always going to get his gun and

[27:14] and kill somebody.

[27:16] That's what he did.

[27:18] >> 14 months to the day after he was fired.

[27:21] >> We certainly see a lot of warning signs

[27:23] and if I could have noticed that kind of

[27:24] thing, we might have been able to warn

[27:26] people and gotten him the kind of help

[27:28] he might have needed.

[27:28] >> McCray had a long history of being

[27:30] disciplined for his temper. In 1978, he

[27:33] was suspended for fighting. Police were

[27:35] called. In 1981, he was reprimanded for

[27:38] his anger, suspended again in 1987, and

[27:41] then 1989 for missing work. But not

[27:44] until he failed a drug test in 1994,

[27:47] did he lose his 18-year job.

[27:50] >> As soon as these threats or veiled

[27:52] threats were brought to our attention,

[27:54] we

[27:56] offered him counseling.

[27:58] >> McCray refused, said his threats were

[28:00] only jokes.

[28:02] Neighbors say the father of three young

[28:04] children had a tough time getting work

[28:06] after that.

[28:06] >> Every avenue he tried to turn,

[28:10] the doors were shut.

[28:11] >> He was behind in his mortgage. His Irma,

[28:13] his wife of 16 years, had lost her job,

[28:16] too, last October.

[28:18] >> The last thing he said to me, you know,

[28:20] uh tell the kids that I love them.

[28:23] >> The day before the killing, McCray

[28:25] calmly walked into City Hall and asked

[28:27] for his old Parks job back.

[28:29] He didn't get it.

[28:30] So, police say he drove to the beach and

[28:33] waited for the cleanup crew to gather at

[28:35] dawn. He left a suicide note. "Since I

[28:38] couldn't continue to support my family,

[28:39] life became nothing," he wrote. "I also

[28:42] wanted to punish the cowardly racist

[28:44] devils that helped bring this about. I'm

[28:46] glad I did it. It became war.

[28:49] >> McCreary bought a weapon like this 9-mm

[28:51] semi-automatic handgun last August.

[28:54] Nothing turned up in his records check

[28:56] because he had never been arrested.

[28:58] >> You can