This Week (ABC) - 1996-03-31

Name: This Week (ABC) - 1996-03-31
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[0:00] What if my baby comes bruising?

[0:01] >> What if I need blood?

[0:02] >> What if I break my arm?

[0:04] >> What if there were a healthcare

[0:05] organization with such innovative

[0:06] solutions to what you might need

[0:08] tomorrow that all you'd have to do is

[0:09] enjoy today?

[0:10] >> What if my brother makes me eat a bug?

[0:13] >> What if you didn't have to worry about

[0:14] healthcare? Blue Cross Blue Shield.

[0:18] Town Hall seeks solutions to classrooms

[0:20] in crisis. Tonight at 6

[0:26] from ABC News,

[0:31] this week with David Brinkley. Now from

[0:35] Washington, David Brinkley.

[0:38] Sunday morning, Jordan, Montana.

[0:41] Population 444.

[0:44] Two of the 444 are held in jail, charged

[0:47] with financial fraud in the millions.

[0:50] They are calling themselves free men,

[0:53] refusing to pay taxes to a government

[0:55] they say is illegal, one refusing to

[0:57] eat, one refusing to take showers. And

[1:01] one of the free men has hinted this

[1:03] could turn into another scene of

[1:04] violence like the branch devidian fire

[1:07] near Waco, Texas. About 80 people died

[1:10] there. The FBI is there in force trying

[1:14] to be unobtrusive and trying not to set

[1:16] them off and trying for some kind of

[1:18] peaceful settlement. It may not be easy.

[1:22] The two under arrest brought into court

[1:24] shouted and screamed it was all illegal

[1:26] and would answer no questions. What to

[1:29] make of this? We'll ask our guests,

[1:32] William Sessions and William Webster,

[1:34] both former directors of the FBI.

[1:38] John Truckman, a founder of the militia

[1:40] of Montana, and John Parsons of the

[1:43] Tri-State Militia.

[1:46] And a discussion here with Sam

[1:47] Donaldson,

[1:49] Ki Roberts, and George Will. All here on

[1:53] our Th