CBS Evening News - 2001-07-23
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[0:01] warming particular this parts of the
[0:05] globe today. Dangerously hot in the
[0:08] Midwest. America says a final farewell
[0:11] to Katherine Graham and Eye on America
[0:14] investigates a nagging problem with
[0:17] geneal altered food. Mikey won't try it.
[0:22] [Music]
[0:26] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:30] Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:32] headquarters in New York. Good evening.
[0:35] President Bush is ending up his European
[0:37] trip in the spotlight and on the spot on
[0:40] several policy issues that could have
[0:42] lasting global impact. There's the
[0:45] sudden surprise word that US talks with
[0:48] Russia could link the missile shield
[0:50] plan Mr. Bush wants to a deal Russia's
[0:53] President Putin wants on nuclear weapons
[0:56] reduction. More about that shortly.
[0:58] First, President Bush found himself on
[1:00] the receiving end today of a lecture
[1:02] from the Pope on embryionic stem cell
[1:04] research and a stinging rebuke from
[1:07] world leaders about global warming.
[1:10] CBS's John Roberts is traveling with the
[1:12] president.
[1:15] This was supposed to be the easy part of
[1:17] the president's trip after a weekend of
[1:19] taking fire from G8 leaders on global
[1:21] warming. Instead, Mr. Bush found himself
[1:24] right back in the European pressure
[1:26] cooker. First, it was the Pope who
[1:29] injected himself into the intensifying
[1:31] debate over federal funding of stem cell
[1:33] research, urging the president to reject
[1:35] what he termed the evils of destroying
[1:37] embryos in the name of science. And of
[1:39] course, I'll take that point of view
[1:41] into consideration.
[1:43] The admonition forced out a president
[1:45] reluctant to talk about his decision on
[1:47] stem