CBS Evening News - 1999-12-16
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[0:01] road. Remembering Rock Hudson on
[0:04] Entertainment Tonight.
[0:07] Taking the pledge as presidential
[0:09] candidates Bradley and McCain swear off
[0:11] the big special interest soft money.
[0:14] We'll look at why it's so addictive and
[0:16] who gives it. The US military declares
[0:19] victory over a pesky enemy, the Y2K
[0:22] computer bug. and a major breakthrough
[0:25] in getting insurance companies to pay
[0:27] for experimental treatments for cancer.
[0:32] This is the CBS Evening News
[0:36] with Dan Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:39] headquarters in New York. Good evening.
[0:42] Two presidential hopeless crossed party
[0:45] lines today trying to fight the
[0:47] influence of big special interest money
[0:50] on American political campaigns. They
[0:52] crossed party lines to do it. Republican
[0:54] John McCain and Democrat Bill Bradley
[0:56] tried to focus attention on what's
[0:58] called quote soft money. The unlimited
[1:01] unregulated money shoveled into
[1:03] campaigns by special interests. In so
[1:05] doing, they also tried to help each
[1:07] other by attacking the perceived
[1:09] presidential front runners. CBS's Phil
[1:12] Jones has the story, political and
[1:14] financial.
[1:15] >> We said we were going to sign
[1:16] >> in New Hampshire today. It was a case of
[1:18] presidential politics making strange
[1:20] bedfellows. A Republican John McCain and
[1:23] a Democrat Bill Bradley signing a pledge
[1:26] not to allow use of big corporate
[1:28] unregulated money if they become the
[1:31] nominees. McCain was scathing against
[1:34] Democrats.
[1:35] >> The scandal in 1996 was not Monica
[1:38] Lewinsky. The scandal was a debasement
[1:40] of the institutions of government by the
[1:42] Clinton Gore campaign. The pres