CBS Evening News - 2002-01-11
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[0:02] Money, politics, and the collapse of
[0:05] Enron. Subpoenas are issued by the
[0:07] dozens today. And the US Treasury now
[0:09] acknowledges it did get an Enron SOS.
[0:13] Ford rolls out plans to close plants,
[0:16] cut jobs, and you can say goodbye to the
[0:19] Lincoln Continental. The first plane
[0:21] load of prisoners from Afghanistan
[0:23] arrives at the US military base in Cuba
[0:26] for interrogation. And a guilty verdict
[0:29] in the hockey dad trial guilty of
[0:31] involuntary manslaughter.
[0:40] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:44] Rather. And good evening. Dan is on
[0:46] assignment tonight. I'm John Roberts.
[0:48] The Bush administration was trying again
[0:50] today to control the damage from the
[0:52] collapse of the Enron Corporation, a
[0:54] company with ties to many administration
[0:56] officials, including the president. The
[0:59] key questions for congressional and
[1:01] criminal investigators, include who knew
[1:03] what and when about the energy company's
[1:07] slide into bankruptcy. Today, we learned
[1:09] that a top executive of Enron asked the
[1:11] administration to step in late last year
[1:13] to try to head off the company's
[1:15] collapse. We begin our coverage tonight
[1:17] with CBS News correspondent Bill Plant
[1:20] at the White House.
[1:22] >> As its stock price was plummeting last
[1:24] fall, an Enron executive made numerous
[1:27] attempts to get help from the Bush
[1:28] administration. Treasury officials
[1:31] revealed today that Enron President
[1:32] Lawrence Why made six or eight phone
[1:35] calls to Under Secretary of the Treasury
[1:37] Peter Fiser. Enron was seeking a credit
[1:40] extension from its banks and Fiser
[1:42] believed that he was being asked to
[1:44] en