CBS Evening News - 2001-01-19

Name: CBS Evening News - 2001-01-19
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[0:00] Our big

[0:01] chill years brings a presidential deal

[0:04] with prosecutors. All this just hours

[0:07] before a new president takes office.

[0:10] Plus, electric shock waves. California's

[0:13] widening power crisis could soon lead to

[0:16] a gasoline shortage.

[0:20] [Music]

[0:24] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan

[0:28] Rather reporting tonight from

[0:30] presidential inauguration headquarters

[0:32] in

[0:34] Washington. Good evening. Once again,

[0:37] there has never been anything like this

[0:39] in American history. A dramatic close

[0:41] today to the Clinton presidency. A plea

[0:44] arrangement to avoid any possible

[0:46] prosecution or disbarment in two sex

[0:49] cases. And it shook up this capital city

[0:52] just as it's preparing for the

[0:53] inauguration of a new president, George

[0:55] W. Bush, making one final round of

[0:58] appearances today before he takes office

[1:00] at noon tomorrow. We'll have much more

[1:02] about the inauguration in a moment. But

[1:04] first, CBS News correspondent John

[1:06] Roberts at the White House has details

[1:09] of the Clinton deal with the Independent

[1:10] Council and what it means. John. Dan.

[1:13] The sources tell CBS News the

[1:14] Independent Council's office demanded

[1:16] President Clinton accept this deal today

[1:18] for two reasons. Special prosecutor

[1:20] Robert Ray wanted the deal done while

[1:22] Mr. Clinton was still president. And he

[1:24] didn't want the matter hanging around

[1:25] through George Bush's first few days at

[1:27] the White House. I never

[1:30] had sexual relations with Monica

[1:33] Lewinsky. I've never had an affair with

[1:34] her. Three years after this deposition

[1:36] in the Paula Jones case, President

[1:38] Clinton for the first time today

[1:40] admi