CBS Evening News - 2003-01-22

Name: CBS Evening News - 2003-01-22
Uploaded: 2026-02-19
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[0:02] Tonight's headlines, US stepping up

[0:05] psychological pressure on Iraqis and

[0:08] expanding a program to sniff out

[0:10] bioteterror.

[0:12] America catches a wicked cold and it's

[0:15] spreading. Also tonight, CBS looks at

[0:18] the state of abortion in America 30

[0:20] years after the Supreme Court made it

[0:22] legal. The daughter of the Chief Justice

[0:25] of the Supreme Court is under

[0:26] investigation. Eye on America has an

[0:28] exclusive interview with her and he was

[0:31] caught in an avalanche and lived to tell

[0:33] about.

[0:39] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Dan

[0:43] Rather reporting from CBS News

[0:45] headquarters in New York.

[0:47] >> Good evening. The chairman of the

[0:49] military joint chiefs of staff insisted

[0:51] today US forces taking up positions for

[0:53] a possible shooting war with Iraq could

[0:56] wait for months if necessary without

[0:58] losing their combat edge. If France and

[1:01] Germany get their way, they might have

[1:03] to do just that. In the meantime, CBS's

[1:06] David Martin reports President Bush is

[1:08] leading a stepped up psychological

[1:10] offensive trying to plant doubts and

[1:13] fears in the minds of the Iraqis.

[1:16] Although the US military is still weeks

[1:18] away from being ready to launch an

[1:20] invasion of Iraq, the psychological

[1:22] warfare is already in high gear.

[1:24] >> And there will be serious consequences

[1:28] for any Iraqi general

[1:31] or soldier

[1:34] who were to use weapons of mass

[1:36] destruction on our troops. American

[1:38] troops in Kuwait are training to defend

[1:40] themselves against chemical attack. But

[1:42] the president is trying to convince the

[1:44] Iraqi military not to follow any order

[1:46] to use chemical weapons.

[1:48] >> My a