CBS Evening News - 2009-01-29
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[0:00] Tonight,
[0:02] huge bonuses on Wall Street. Outrage on
[0:06] Pennsylvania Avenue.
[0:07] >> That is the height of irresponsibility.
[0:10] >> I'm Katie Kurrick. Also tonight, he's
[0:12] out. The Illinois Senate removes Rod
[0:15] Bgoyovich despite his lastminute plea.
[0:18] >> How can you throw a governor out of
[0:20] office who is clamoring and begging and
[0:23] pleading with you to give him a chance?
[0:26] >> A CBS News investigation. soldiers
[0:29] bringing the violence of war home.
[0:32] >> I grabbed her and she bumped her head
[0:35] bad.
[0:36] >> And there's a lot riding on this horse
[0:38] carrying not only a jockey but a legacy.
[0:46] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Katie
[0:49] Kurrick.
[0:52] >> And good evening everyone. In the second
[0:54] week of his presidency, we found out
[0:56] what it takes to get Barack Obama angry.
[0:59] And this is what did. A report that
[1:01] employees of financial companies in New
[1:03] York collected nearly 18.5 billion
[1:06] dollars in bonuses last year, even as
[1:08] the industry was drowning in debt and
[1:10] collecting taxpayer bailouts. The
[1:13] president called it shameful. From the
[1:15] White House, here's Chip Reed.
[1:18] In the Oval Office today, the president
[1:20] blasted Wall Street bankers for taking
[1:22] billions of dollars in bonuses while
[1:24] pleading for a bailout to keep them
[1:26] afloat.
[1:27] >> At a time when most of these
[1:29] institutions were teetering on collapse
[1:31] and they are asking for taxpayers to
[1:34] help sustain them. That is the height of
[1:36] irresponsibility.
[1:39] It is shameful. The president told
[1:41] advisers the anger rose straight from
[1:43] his gut as he read reports that New York
[1:45] City securities industry employees got
[1:48] mor