World News Tonight (ABC) - 1998-09-09

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[0:10] From ABC News World Headquarters in New

[0:12] York, this is World News Tonight with

[0:16] Peter Jennings.

[0:17] >> Good evening. There is enormous tension

[0:19] in the nation's capital tonight. The

[0:20] independent council's report has been

[0:22] delivered to the Congress. The

[0:24] possibility of impeaching the president

[0:26] must now be addressed.

[0:30] There was nothing else that mattered in

[0:31] Washington today. Democratic leaders

[0:34] from the House of Representatives went

[0:36] to the White House this morning. They

[0:38] found the president very emotional.

[0:40] >> You know, he's caused a lot of uh hurt

[0:42] and pain to people and he's he's and he

[0:44] feels just very well he feels devastated

[0:46] by it.

[0:47] >> On Capitol Hill, the leaders of both

[0:50] parties struggled with what to do now

[0:52] that the report is there. The Democratic

[0:55] leader in the House of Representatives,

[0:56] Richard Ghart. next to declaring war.

[0:59] This may be the most important thing

[1:00] that we do.

[1:01] >> The Republican chairman of the judiciary

[1:03] committee.

[1:04] >> No one looks forward to this uh

[1:06] traumatic journey that we're about to uh

[1:10] enter on.

[1:10] >> The president went to Florida today,

[1:13] but he has been told how much trouble he

[1:16] is in unexpectedly. He said this. I let

[1:20] my family down and I I let this country

[1:22] down,

[1:24] but I'm trying to make it right and I'm

[1:26] determined never to let anything like

[1:28] that happen again. The Independent

[1:30] Council's report is under lock and key

[1:33] tonight, but there is enormous pressure

[1:35] to make it all public. In Washington

[1:38] today, the tension is extraordinary.

[1:41] First on the report itself, ABC's Jackie

[1:44] Jud.

[1:46] >> It all came down to this. some three

[1:48] dozen boxes containing the case that

[1:51] independent counsel Ken Starr has built

[1:53] against the president. The House

[1:55] Sergeant-at-Arms signed his name

[1:57] acknowledging receipt of the report from

[1:59] Star's prosecutors.

[2:00] >> The Office of Independent Council

[2:02] submitted a referral to the House of

[2:04] Representatives containing substantial

[2:07] and credible information that may

[2:09] constitute grounds for impeachment of

[2:11] the President of the United States. The

[2:13] heavily guarded boxes were taken to a

[2:15] nearby congressional building and locked

[2:17] up to be kept there until the House

[2:20] decides how to move forward. Inside

[2:22] those cartons, according to sources

[2:24] familiar with the investigation, a 240

[2:27] page narrative of events and 160page

[2:30] analysis alleging the president violated

[2:33] his oath of office by committing perjury

[2:36] and obstruction of justice. The report

[2:38] also presents evidence related to abuse

[2:40] of power by alleging Mr. Clinton used

[2:43] his office to prevent prosecutors from

[2:45] learning the truth. To support his

[2:48] findings, Star included transcripts of

[2:50] what witnesses told the grand jury, the

[2:53] video tape of Mr. Clinton's testimony,

[2:55] and the tapes that Linda Trip secretly

[2:58] recorded of Monica Lewinsky. According

[3:00] to the sources, the report focuses

[3:02] almost entirely on the president's

[3:04] relationship with Lewinsky. It

[3:06] concentrates on what happened after his

[3:08] attorneys learned last December that

[3:10] Lewinsky was on a list as a potential

[3:13] witness in the Paula Jones sexual

[3:15] harassment case. Star suspects Mr.

[3:18] Clinton suggested to Lewinsky how she

[3:20] could avoid testifying and avoid turning

[3:23] over gifts from him that had been

[3:24] subpoenaed and that he had enlisted the

[3:27] support of Vernon Jordan and others to

[3:30] help Lewinsky find a job as a means of

[3:32] ensuring her silence. Sources say the

[3:35] report also cites evidence proving Mr.

[3:38] Clinton committed perjury when he was

[3:40] deposed in the Jones case and again

[3:42] during his grand jury testimony when he

[3:45] denied having sexual relations with

[3:47] Lewinsky as it was defined by Jones's

[3:50] lawyers. And sources say the report

[3:52] cites weaknesses in the case that would

[3:55] allow Star to preempt the expected

[3:57] criticism of the president's allies that

[3:59] the case doesn't hold up. Peter,

[4:01] >> Jackie, a lot of talk today about an

[4:03] executive summary of the report. First,

[4:05] there was going to be one and now there

[4:06] isn't. What happened

[4:07] >> right at at the 11th hour, Peter,

[4:09] prosecutors decided to pull the

[4:11] executive summary because they didn't

[4:13] want to place themselves in the position

[4:15] where they could be accused of only

[4:17] highlighting the most damaging

[4:18] information that they had collected

[4:20] against the president.

[4:21] >> Okay, Jackie Jud in Washington, thank

[4:22] you very much. However, this turns out,

[4:24] it is a turning point in Mr. Clinton's

[4:27] presidency. It is not an exaggeration to

[4:29] say that he has less control of his

[4:31] destiny than at any time since he was

[4:33] elected. Sam Donaldson is at the White

[4:36] House. Sam, I know they're trying to

[4:37] develop a strategy for the next phase.

[4:39] Can you lay out what you know about it?

[4:41] Right, Peter. To begin with, the

[4:43] president started reaching out to

[4:44] congressional Democrats today, imploring

[4:46] them to stick with him in his desperate

[4:48] hour of need. And he continued reaching

[4:50] out to the public using the same tone of

[4:53] tradition he began in Ireland last

[4:55] Friday. After meeting with the president

[4:57] at the White House this morning to

[4:59] discuss the scandal, a group of House

[5:00] Democrats appeared shaken by what they

[5:03] had heard.

[5:03] >> And he knows he has done something that

[5:05] has been very very very difficult for

[5:08] not only his family but for the country

[5:10] and uh he feels very deeply about about

[5:14] all of this.

[5:15] >> It was a an emotional meeting uh and he

[5:20] apologized to us directly for what had

[5:23] happened. The Democrats told the

[5:25] president he needs to convince the

[5:27] country of his repentance. And Mr.

[5:29] Clinton lost no time in following

[5:30] through. While being introduced in

[5:32] Orlando this afternoon at a Florida

[5:34] Democratic Party gathering, the

[5:36] president jotted down some words of

[5:38] contrition on a piece of paper, then

[5:40] delivered them.

[5:41] >> I've done my best to be your friend, but

[5:42] I also let you down. And I let my family

[5:45] down, and I I let this country down.

[5:49] But I'm trying to make it right. and I'm

[5:52] determined never to let anything like

[5:53] that happen again. So I ask you for your

[5:57] understanding, for your forgiveness on

[5:59] this journey we're on. I want you to

[6:01] understand these have been the toughest

[6:03] days of my life, but may they may turn

[6:05] out to be the most valuable for me and

[6:07] my family.

[6:10] And I have no one to blame but myself

[6:12] for my self-inflicted wounds.

[6:14] >> But if the president was admitting he

[6:16] let the country down. Back at the White

[6:18] House, his private lawyer, David

[6:20] Kendall, was making it clear Mr. Clinton

[6:22] is going to fight to stay in office.

[6:24] >> People should keep in mind that the

[6:26] documents delivered to Congress today

[6:29] represent only the prosecutor's

[6:32] allegations.

[6:33] Allegations that we have been denied a

[6:37] chance to review.

[6:39] But we do know this,

[6:42] there is no basis for impeachment. Brave

[6:46] words, but in fact, the White House is

[6:48] gearing up for a desperate impeachment

[6:49] battle. Deputy Chief of Staff John

[6:51] Podesta is arranging for an impeachment

[6:53] team. There's talk of hiring an outside

[6:55] specialist. The name of former Oklahoma

[6:57] Congressman James Jones has been

[6:59] mentioned. Tomorrow morning, the

[7:01] president meets with congressional

[7:02] Democrats on the Senate side, the Senate

[7:05] leadership. And in the afternoon, Peter,

[7:07] he may have the most difficult meeting

[7:08] to discuss this matter he's had outside

[7:10] of discussing it with his wife. He's

[7:12] going to meet with his cabinet. You'll

[7:14] remember that at the outset, four

[7:16] cabinet members came out here and said,

[7:17] "Oh, yes. I believe him. I believe him.

[7:19] He's going to apologize to his cabinet

[7:21] for lying to them, I'm told." And that

[7:23] is really going to be a very emotional

[7:25] moment.

[7:26] >> Sam, the mood of the country has always

[7:27] been very important in this whole case.

[7:29] Does the president have any plans that

[7:31] you know of to go to the country again

[7:32] to try to raise support?

[7:34] >> Well, apparently at the moment, the

[7:35] plans are to do what you saw today. at

[7:37] moments of his choosing, he will be able

[7:40] to discuss this. But there are no plans

[7:41] that I know of that I've been told of

[7:43] for another speech like the one he gave

[7:45] on that Monday when he testified before

[7:47] the grand jury. And in fact, they're

[7:48] going to try to do business as usual.

[7:50] Mrs. Clinton has a White House event

[7:52] tomorrow. She's going to meet with Katie

[7:54] Kurrick, the NBC anchor, and others to

[7:56] discuss colon cancer. He wants the

[7:58] country to see that he's continuing to

[8:00] perform as president and that he's very

[8:02] contrite and he's very sorry.

[8:04] >> Thank you, Sam. Business as usual will

[8:06] be difficult. Certainly on Capitol Hill

[8:07] is an enormous burden on the Congress at

[8:09] the moment. In a moment, we'll take a

[8:10] closer look.

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[10:10] Congress now. The independent council's

[10:12] report, as we've said before, is the

[10:13] hottest political potato around. There

[10:15] is the constitutional question of

[10:17] impeachment to be faced, and there are,

[10:19] of course, the politics. ABC's Linda

[10:21] Douglas is on the Hill.

[10:23] >> On Capitol Hill, leaders of both parties

[10:25] are preparing to face the question of

[10:27] whether to impeach the president.

[10:29] >> This is a very serious constitutional

[10:32] question and should be dealt with with

[10:34] the greatest of concern and I think with

[10:37] the greatest and deepest sense of

[10:38] patriotism. This is an exercise in

[10:40] individual conscience. We ask for God's

[10:44] help and blessing.

[10:45] >> But their immediate problem is what to

[10:46] do with the report. Democrats are filled

[10:49] with dread, anticipating that it will be

[10:51] filled with so much damaging information

[10:53] about the president that it could sink

[10:55] their party in the fall elections. Many

[10:58] now are urging that the entire report,

[11:00] details and all, be released now so they

[11:02] can get it behind them as quickly as

[11:04] possible.

[11:05] >> There's no reason this should be limited

[11:06] to some inner circle here in the

[11:08] Congress and dripped out through leaks

[11:11] week after week after week. Post it on

[11:13] the internet and make it available to

[11:15] every American citizen. Republican

[11:17] leaders also are urging that the report

[11:19] be made public.

[11:20] >> Our strong

[11:22] belief is that the public has the right

[11:25] to know that both members and the public

[11:28] should expect that they will have access

[11:29] to the report.

[11:31] >> Still, when members began demanding to

[11:33] see the report today, Gingrich took a

[11:35] firm stand. And until the rules

[11:37] committee has determined where these

[11:39] documents will go and in what manner

[11:41] they will be handled, they will be

[11:42] maintained under armed guard uh in a

[11:44] room that the sergeant-at-arms is

[11:46] responsible for.

[11:47] >> The rules committee will debate how to

[11:49] handle the report tomorrow and the full

[11:51] House of Representatives could vote on

[11:53] whether to release the whole thing by

[11:55] the end of the week. The contents of

[11:57] this report could ignite public opinion

[11:59] one way or another and that could push

[12:01] the Congress to act quickly. Peter,

[12:03] >> thanks Linda. Linda Douglas on Capitol

[12:04] Hill. ABC's Koki Roberts has naturally

[12:06] been talking to members of Congress

[12:07] today and she joins us tonight from our

[12:10] Washington bureau. Kokei, at moments

[12:11] like this, a reporter almost invariably

[12:14] has contacts who are a litmus test of

[12:16] where things are going. What do your

[12:18] litmus test tell you today?

[12:19] >> Well, it sounds very benign, Peter,

[12:21] because what they're saying is we have

[12:22] to wait and see what's in the report.

[12:24] But that's very significant. The fact

[12:26] that Democrats and Republicans met this

[12:28] morning and came out and said we have to

[12:30] handle this in a bipartisan fashion,

[12:32] that's very significant. What it means

[12:34] is that they are not just the Democrats

[12:36] are not just going on the attack

[12:38] defending the president at all cost and

[12:41] saying that Kenneth Star's report is not

[12:43] credible. That's not what's happening

[12:45] there. They're saying wait and see. Wait

[12:47] and see. That's not very good for the

[12:49] president. There was another moment at

[12:50] the White House today when the

[12:51] Democratic leadership went to see the

[12:52] president and somebody asked him whether

[12:54] there was anything else out there that

[12:56] they had to worry about. What does that

[12:58] tell them?

[12:58] >> Well, and and the president just moved

[13:02] along and didn't answer. Now, the White

[13:04] House says that it was his part of a

[13:06] statement, not a direct question. And

[13:07] and as far as as White House advisers

[13:10] are concerned, there is nothing else out

[13:12] there. But people on the Hill are not at

[13:15] all sure whether that's true or not. And

[13:17] they the worst of it is Peter, they

[13:19] don't know whether to take the

[13:20] president's word for it or not.

[13:22] >> And in a phrase, I hate to put too much

[13:24] emphasis on intuition. Where do you

[13:26] think it's going?

[13:27] >> I think that what'll happen is the the

[13:29] House will take a look at this report

[13:31] and then have a fight about whether it

[13:34] is impeachable offenses or not.

[13:36] >> Many thanks, Koki Roberts. In the

[13:37] Washington bureau tonight, one last

[13:39] important item from Washington. The

[13:41] independent council Kenneth Star has not

[13:43] finished. The Lewinsky grand jury. The

[13:46] place is falling apart slightly, but not

[13:48] seriously. The Lewinsky grand jury will

[13:50] hear more testimony tomorrow. We do not

[13:52] know from whom, and prime time live will

[13:55] take this whole subject up again this

[13:56] evening, and so will Night Line. Now,

[13:59] there is other news today. In a moment,

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[14:03] choosing the sex of your baby. Very

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[16:16] There is news bound to cause a storm

[16:18] from a fertility clinic in Virginia

[16:20] today. Doctors say they've developed a

[16:22] reliable method for parents to choose

[16:25] the sex of their babies. The storm will

[16:28] be a debate about ethics. Tonight, the

[16:30] science. Here's ABC's Ned Potter.

[16:33] Philip A of Fuel is 29 weeks pregnant

[16:36] and she and her husband John asked from

[16:38] the start that their baby be a girl.

[16:40] There's a history of hemophilia in their

[16:42] family which only affects boys.

[16:44] >> We were just so excited to have a

[16:46] healthy girl.

[16:48] >> Being able to specify your child's sex

[16:50] has been a hit or miss proposition, but

[16:52] the odds have been greatly improved with

[16:54] today's announcement from the Genetics

[16:56] and IVF Institute, which calls its

[16:58] technique micro sort. We feel very

[17:01] comfortable that this is the most

[17:02] reliable technique that has been

[17:04] developed as to date.

[17:05] >> How reliable? 93%. The procedure is

[17:08] still experimental and does not yet work

[17:10] well for parents who want boys. But the

[17:13] clinic says 13 of 14 couples who wanted

[17:16] a girl got one. Microsort begins with a

[17:19] simple notion that sperm which produce

[17:21] girls contain 2.8% more DNA than sperm

[17:26] which produce boys. The lab figured out

[17:28] how to separate the two types, then use

[17:31] only girl producing sperm to fertilize

[17:33] the mother's egg. The new technique

[17:35] means a lot less anxiety for people like

[17:38] Miss Fuel, who worries about a genetic

[17:40] disease. But many couples come for help

[17:42] because they'd like a certain mix of

[17:43] boys and girls, and that's where things

[17:46] get complicated. Should we be in the

[17:48] business of designer families? Is that

[17:50] something where a medical uh medical

[17:54] specialist would want to intervene?

[17:56] >> One study showed 31% of young adults

[17:59] would use high-tech ways to choose their

[18:01] children's sex. And of that group, 81%

[18:04] of women and 94% of men said they would

[18:08] prefer their first child be a boy. So,

[18:11] would the new technology make their

[18:12] lives better or open a Pandora's box?

[18:16] Ned Potter, ABC News, New York. On Wall

[18:19] Street today, the Dow Jones Industrials

[18:20] lost more than 155 points to close at

[18:24] 7865.

[18:26] On the Nasdaq market, stocks lost more

[18:28] than 36 points. There was a 50 point

[18:30] drop in the Dow immediately after the

[18:33] news of the Star report became public.

[18:35] Investors apparently nervous that

[18:36] uncertainty in Washington adds

[18:38] instability to the global economy. In

[18:41] Oregon today, the challenge of making

[18:43] travel arrangements for a whale. Ko the

[18:46] killer whale is going home to Iceland.

[18:49] This afternoon they began getting Ko

[18:52] Willie to many into a giant nylon sling

[18:55] and hoisting all 10,000 lbs of him into

[18:58] a speciallymade very large waterfilled

[19:02] box. Kanka will be flown to Iceland to

[19:05] see if he can as in the movie survive on

[19:08] his own in the ocean.

[19:12] When we come back, a massive celebration

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[21:41] North Korea celebrated 50 years as a

[21:43] communist state today. 50 years of

[21:45] trouble for many people inside the

[21:47] country and out. It is not an easy

[21:50] country to get a handle on. The United

[21:51] States has been watching events very

[21:53] closely today, very closely to see what

[21:56] they can. Here's ABC's John McQuey.

[22:01] It does not look like a nation

[22:03] struggling to survive. A day-long

[22:05] celebration filled the streets. Kim

[22:08] Jong-, usually one of the world's most

[22:10] reclusive leaders, watched it all from

[22:12] high above the parade ground. In fact,

[22:15] this is a nation sliding toward yet

[22:17] another confrontation with the world.

[22:19] There was the provocative missile test

[22:21] last week. A North Korean rocket flew

[22:24] directly over Japan. And the US is even

[22:27] more worried about the nuclear weapons

[22:29] complex North Korea appears to be

[22:31] building in a deep tunnel. The

[22:33] >> security issues here are enormous. At

[22:36] any time, because of the character of

[22:37] this regime, we could have a

[22:39] conventional war in the Korean

[22:40] peninsula. We need to avoid that.

[22:43] >> But how can the US avoid that? And how

[22:46] to stop North Korea from developing

[22:48] nuclear weapons and the missiles to

[22:49] carry them? America would seem to have

[22:52] leverage. North Korea's economy is

[22:54] collapsing. As many as 1 million people

[22:57] may have already starved to death. This

[23:00] year, the US is providing 72 million in

[23:03] food aid. And Washington has also

[23:05] promised to help build two nuclear power

[23:08] plants in North Korea if the government

[23:10] there stops its efforts to develop

[23:12] nuclear weapons. But North Korea has

[23:14] pushed ahead with its military projects.

[23:16] And now many are demanding an end to any

[23:19] help.

[23:20] >> What do we do if we do that? What

[23:21] happens to that ballistic missile

[23:23] program? What happens to that nuclear

[23:24] weapons program? How do we deal with

[23:26] that? Do we go to war?

[23:28] >> It's a terrible dilemma for the US.

[23:30] Negotiating with a country that starves

[23:32] its people and lies about what it is

[23:34] doing has little appeal. But the

[23:37] alternatives may be even worse. John

[23:39] McQuey, ABC News. The Pentagon.

[23:42] >> Elsewhere in Asia today, a reminder of

[23:43] how sometimes things just are. In

[23:47] Beijing today, turmoil in a hotel lobby.

[23:51] Security officers dragged the wife of a

[23:53] prominent dissident away from the hotel

[23:55] where Mary Robinson, former president of

[23:57] Ireland, chief United Nations human

[23:59] rights official, was arriving to give a

[24:01] speech. Chuhilan had gone to the hotel

[24:03] to ask for a meeting about her husband

[24:06] who is in jail because he has campaigned

[24:09] for workers rights. In Nova Scotia,

[24:13] sources close to the Swiss Air

[24:14] investigation tell ABC News there is

[24:16] another tiny important clue. A piece of

[24:18] a seat from the cockpit that had burned,

[24:21] now recovered. Today, the recovery ship

[24:24] USS Grapple arrived on the scene to help

[24:26] the salvage effort in the rough seas off

[24:29] Peggy's Cove. And not far from Peggy's

[24:32] Cove, a memorial service,

[24:36] families and friends and rescue workers.

[24:40] It was one week ago tonight that 229

[24:44] people died.

[24:47] In just a moment, a last word about the

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[26:28] >> Just a brief review of the main story.

[26:29] The independent council's report has

[26:31] been delivered to the Congress. It

[26:33] arrived in almost three dozen boxes.

[26:36] Sources tell ABC News that the report

[26:38] contains a detailed narrative of events

[26:41] involving the president and Monica

[26:43] Lewinsky and analysis alleging that the

[26:45] president violated his oath of office by

[26:48] committing perjury, obstructing justice,

[26:51] and abusing his power.

[26:54] Finally, this evening, the good news.

[26:57] Last night's news.

[27:00] In St. Louis this afternoon, thousands

[27:02] turned out to celebrate Mark Maguire's

[27:04] moment of glory. The St. Louis Post

[27:06] Dispatch predicts they'll sell a million

[27:08] newspapers today. Three times more than

[27:11] normal. Demand is so high for this

[27:13] souvenir edition, they had to go out and

[27:15] buy more ink. The ball and the bat and

[27:19] Maguire's jersey have already arrived at

[27:21] the Hall of Fame in Coopertown, New

[27:23] York. A reminder that what we witnessed

[27:26] was history. Last night in the fourth

[27:29] inning, after 5 months of baseball,

[27:31] after going to the plate more than 500

[27:34] times, watching the mound, watching the

[27:37] pitcher, in the blink of an eye,

[27:40] deciding it was the right pitch.

[28:03] That is our report on World News

[28:04] Tonight. Later on, the final edition of

[28:07] Prime Time Live, which is about to

[28:08] become part of the new 2020. A look back

[28:11] at some of their most memorable stories.

[28:13] I'm Peter Jennings. Good night.

[28:17] >> Tomorrow, a shocking report. College

[28:19] drinking is down, but students that do

[28:22] drink binge. What do we do? Watch ABC's

[28:25] World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.

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