CBS Evening News - 2009-02-03
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[0:00] Tonight,
[0:03] a major embarrassment for the president.
[0:05] >> I think I messed up. I screwed up.
[0:07] >> Tom Dashel becomes the third
[0:09] high-profile nominee forced to drop out
[0:12] over ethics questions.
[0:14] >> I don't want my administration to be
[0:15] sending a message that there two sets of
[0:18] rules.
[0:19] >> I'm Katie Kurrick in Washington. Also
[0:21] tonight, the Salmonella outbreak. Horror
[0:24] stories from that peanut factory. A rat
[0:29] was dry roasted in the penis.
[0:32] >> The investigation widens.
[0:35] More Americans are having cardiac CT
[0:37] scans. But are the benefits outweighed
[0:40] by the radiation risk?
[0:43] And he conquered New York's highest
[0:45] peaks. The incredible feat of Phipe
[0:48] Pati.
[0:51] [Music]
[0:54] This is the CBS Evening News with Katie
[0:57] Kurrick reporting tonight from
[0:59] Washington.
[1:01] >> Good evening everyone. It was a blunt
[1:03] and candid admission today by the
[1:05] president of the United States. Barack
[1:07] Obama said, quote, "I messed up." Tom
[1:10] Dashel, his choice to head up the
[1:11] Department of Health and Human Services
[1:13] and the point man for reforming health
[1:15] care was forced to withdraw his
[1:18] nomination over his failure to pay some
[1:20] of his taxes. Our chief White House
[1:22] correspondent Chip Reed reports on what
[1:24] had to be the toughest day yet for the
[1:26] new administration.
[1:28] >> Tom Dashel told the president of his
[1:30] decision to withdraw in a morning phone
[1:32] call, then in a public statement
[1:34] explained why he doesn't want to be a
[1:36] distraction. The president accepted his
[1:38] decision with sadness and regret.
[1:41] Dashel's downfall, failure to pay more
[1:43] than $128,000
[1:45] in taxes, most of it for use o