CBS Evening News - 1994-01-12 (partial)

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[0:00] The Whitewater case, all about a failed

[0:03] real estate investment back home in

[0:04] Arkansas. And tonight, the president has

[0:07] apparently and reluctantly yielded to

[0:09] pressure to allow an independent

[0:11] investigation. CBS News correspondent

[0:14] Linda Douglas in Washington has the

[0:15] latest on that.

[0:17] >> As the president left Prague for Kiev

[0:19] early today, he was still struggling

[0:21] with how to deal with his political

[0:23] headache back home, Whitewater. In an

[0:25] interview with White House correspondent

[0:27] Rita Braver, Mr. Clinton continued to

[0:29] question why he should call for a

[0:31] special counsel.

[0:32] >> I can't recall anything like it in

[0:33] American history where everybody says,

[0:35] "Well, there's no evidence this guy's

[0:36] done anything wrong, but we think he

[0:37] should invite another investigation of

[0:39] himself."

[0:40] >> But back in Washington, the president's

[0:41] damage control team told reporters that

[0:43] the president would ask Attorney General

[0:45] Janet Reno to appoint a special counsel.

[0:48] Sources say that Hillary Clinton

[0:49] participated in the decision. She told

[0:52] friends last week a special counsel was

[0:54] probably inevitable. This week, growing

[0:56] pressure from within the president's own

[0:57] party left him no choice.

[0:59] >> This controversy is becoming too much of

[1:01] a distraction. The president wants to

[1:03] get on with the vital issues facing the

[1:05] American people.

[1:06] >> But Republican Bob Dole, who had been

[1:08] demanding a special counsel, now says

[1:10] that's not enough. Dole will ask the

[1:12] Senate to appoint a select congressional

[1:14] committee to investigate. Though no one

[1:16] has accused the pre