World News Tonight (ABC) - 1998-09-20

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[0:02] On World News Tonight this Sunday, just

[0:05] hours before the release of the

[0:07] president on videotape, a more complete

[0:09] picture of his testimony. Anger, regret,

[0:13] and concern for Monica Lewinsky.

[0:16] Hurricane George gaining strength and

[0:19] heading straight for Puerto Rico.

[0:24] and Mark who Chicago fans show Sammy

[0:27] Sosa he's the one

[0:35] >> from ABC News. This is World News

[0:40] Tonight Sunday.

[0:41] >> Good evening. I'm Carol Simpson. We know

[0:44] more tonight about what President

[0:46] Clinton told the grand jury. And by this

[0:48] time tomorrow, Americans will have had

[0:50] the opportunity to see and hear the

[0:53] president's testimony for themselves.

[0:56] Tomorrow morning, Congress will release

[0:57] his videotaped testimony along with 2800

[1:01] pages of evidence, including transcripts

[1:04] of sexually explicit testimony from

[1:06] Monica Lewinsky. We begin tonight with

[1:09] ABC's Mike Vonm at the White House.

[1:11] Mike,

[1:12] >> Carol, the tape will be fed over fiber

[1:14] optic television lines to news

[1:15] organizations from Capitol Hill shortly

[1:18] after 9:00 a.m. tomorrow. The first

[1:20] seven minutes shows a prosecutor

[1:22] quizzing the president about whether he

[1:24] understands the oath he has taken and

[1:26] what it means to tell the whole truth.

[1:29] Inside the White House map room, the

[1:31] entire 4 and 1/2 hours of testimony was

[1:34] recorded by one camera focusing only on

[1:37] the president. Mr. Clinton is sitting in

[1:39] a chair answering prosecutors who were

[1:42] heard but not seen. One of the first

[1:44] questions to the president was whether

[1:46] he had been intimate with Monica

[1:48] Lewinsky. Mr. Clinton answers with this

[1:50] prepared statement. Quote, I engaged in

[1:53] conduct that was wrong. These encounters

[1:56] did not consist of sexual intercourse.

[1:58] They did not constitute sexual relations

[2:01] as I understood that term to be defined

[2:03] at my January 17th, 1998 deposition. but

[2:07] they did involve inappropriate intimate

[2:10] contact. The president adds that he and

[2:12] Lewinsky also had telephone

[2:14] conversations that included quote

[2:16] inappropriate sexual banner. But to

[2:19] preserve what he called the dignity of

[2:21] his office, the president refuses to be

[2:23] any more specific. Even when grand

[2:26] jurors submit pointed questions about

[2:28] the sexual encounters, the president

[2:31] seems to become defensive when

[2:33] prosecutors ask if he lied to his

[2:35] cabinet when he told them he never had

[2:37] sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky.

[2:40] Then there are the neck ties given to

[2:42] him by Monica Lewinsky. Prosecutors ask

[2:45] if he was sending her a signal when he

[2:48] wore this one on the day of her grand

[2:49] jury testimony or when White House

[2:52] Steuart Bayani Noel wore this one for

[2:54] one of his grand jury appearances. The

[2:57] president seemed baffled by the

[2:59] questions. At one point, the president

[3:02] expresses appreciation to the

[3:03] prosecutors for granting immunity to

[3:06] Monica Lewinsky and her mother. Most of

[3:09] the questioning was conducted by

[3:10] Kenstar's deputies, but near the end,

[3:13] Star himself asked the president why he

[3:15] invoked executive privilege. After that,

[3:18] Mr. Clinton's lawyer, David Kendall,

[3:20] ends the testimony. Today, the debate

[3:23] continued on whether the House Judiciary

[3:25] Committee is doing the right thing by

[3:28] releasing the tape. What's good about

[3:29] this is the American people will be able

[3:31] to evaluate this without having to be

[3:33] filtered through the media or through

[3:36] the opinions of members of Congress.

[3:38] >> They decided uh that rather than just

[3:40] doing a a document dump, they would do a

[3:43] garbage dump uh on Monday. And I think

[3:46] people are going to wonder about that.

[3:47] >> While officials were arguing on Sunday

[3:49] talk shows, the president and first lady

[3:51] went to church. Tomorrow, the president

[3:54] will be addressing the UN General

[3:55] Assembly in New York just as the tape is

[3:58] being made public. Mike von, ABC News,

[4:01] the White House.

[4:03] This is Tim O'Brien. When the tapes

[4:05] start rolling in Washington, millions of

[4:07] viewers will be glued to their sets. But

[4:09] the most damaging evidence may be in the

[4:11] supporting documents, 2,800 pages that

[4:14] provided the basis for Ken Star's

[4:16] X-rated report, and which the committee

[4:18] will also release tomorrow morning.

[4:20] >> Some of it's going to be cleaned up.

[4:22] It's not a pretty story to tell or

[4:24] listen to, and that's just the way it

[4:25] is.

[4:26] >> Even Republicans like Graham say the

[4:28] material must be read critically.

[4:30] >> Please remember that none of this,

[4:33] almost none of this, has been tested

[4:35] adversarily. There statements being made

[4:37] against the president where nobody has

[4:39] been cross-examined yet.

[4:40] >> Expected to be made public and instantly

[4:42] available on the internet, transcripts

[4:44] of messages the president left on

[4:46] Lewinsky's answering machine, Lewinsky's

[4:48] email to her friends, and some of her

[4:50] letters to the president. details of

[4:52] their telephone sex, transcripts of some

[4:54] of Linda Trip's secretly recorded tapes,

[4:57] and photographs of that infamous blue

[4:59] dress with an incriminating stain

[5:01] encircled.

[5:02] >> Tomorrow, there's going to be no

[5:04] intermediaries, no spin. The public is

[5:07] going to review the raw evidence one way

[5:09] or the other, and in many ways, they'll

[5:12] be like a jury.

[5:13] >> Sources say the grand jury is continuing

[5:15] to look into the roles of Deputy White

[5:17] House Counsel Bruce Lindseay and First

[5:19] Lady Hillary Rodm Clinton. They are all

[5:21] but certain to be mentioned tomorrow.

[5:23] Most of the printed material is expected

[5:25] to merely reinforce what we already

[5:27] know, but at least some of it could also

[5:29] shed light on the continuing work of the

[5:30] Lewinsky grand jury and on who, if

[5:33] anyone, is still at risk of indictment.

[5:35] Tim O'Brien, ABC News at the capital.

[5:39] >> President Clinton will be joined at the

[5:40] United Nations tomorrow by other world

[5:43] leaders, including Tony Blair. The

[5:45] British Prime Minister still voices

[5:47] support for the president, but tomorrow

[5:49] his office is expected to release a

[5:51] statement on the importance of marriage

[5:54] and family. In this country, one key

[5:57] constituency continues to support the

[5:59] president and he will meet with them

[6:01] several days this week. Last night, it

[6:03] was the Congressional Black Caucus.

[6:05] >> I give you the President of the United

[6:09] States

[6:11] of America.

[6:14] It was like a tonic for President

[6:16] Clinton. More than 3,000 black people on

[6:19] their feet cheering him.

[6:21] >> I want to thank you for standing up for

[6:23] me and understanding the true meaning of

[6:26] repentance and atonement.

[6:30] >> Recent polls show many more blacks

[6:32] approve of President Clinton's job

[6:33] performance than whites. Why would so

[6:36] many African-Ameans here give such an

[6:39] overwhelming show of support to an

[6:41] embattled President Clinton? We found

[6:43] out that it has everything to do with

[6:45] the black experience and the issue of

[6:48] race in America. Black people say he has

[6:51] supported them more than any other

[6:53] president in history. They say they

[6:55] won't abandon him despite his moral

[6:57] lapses.

[6:58] >> As an individual, I don't condone it,

[7:01] but I understand what happened. I

[7:03] understand.

[7:04] >> I would think black people would be

[7:06] madder than anyone else.

[7:07] >> The good things have outnumbered the bad

[7:10] things. So that's one reason I think we

[7:12] can get over what he has done.

[7:15] >> It almost looks like enttrapment to find

[7:18] something to get him on.

[7:20] >> You think there might be conspiracy to

[7:23] get President Clinton?

[7:24] >> Oh yes, I do.

[7:25] >> That's why the Black Caucus decided this

[7:27] weekend to wage a major campaign to get

[7:30] out the black vote this fall in an

[7:32] effort to elect Democrats who support

[7:34] the president. If you want to say, "I

[7:37] don't want to impeach Bill Clinton,"

[7:39] then the easiest way to do it is on

[7:42] November 3rd, change the Congress.

[7:45] >> Black Americans whose history is rooted

[7:47] in the Christian faith also describe

[7:50] themselves as a forgiving people.

[7:52] >> If we hadn't had the capacity to

[7:54] forgive, we would have hardly been able

[7:58] to live in the same country with white

[8:00] people. As many segments of the American

[8:02] people seem to be turning away from

[8:04] President Clinton, he continues to find

[8:07] solace among his most loyal

[8:09] constituency. He told them last night,

[8:12] >> "I am very, very grateful."

[8:16] >> Vice President Al Gore also received a

[8:19] warm welcome at last night's Black

[8:20] Caucus Gala. During the presidential

[8:23] crisis, Gore has remained a steadfast

[8:25] friend and supporter of the presidents.

[8:27] But that could be a risky position for a

[8:30] presidential hopeful. ABC's John Cochran

[8:32] has been traveling with the vice

[8:34] president.

[8:36] >> The reminders of a presidency in peril

[8:38] are everywhere, but anyone looking for

[8:40] hints that the vice president is trying

[8:42] to separate himself from Bill Clinton

[8:44] will look in vain. The best thing we

[8:47] have going for us is a president of the

[8:50] United States,

[8:51] >> whose leadership is good for this

[8:53] country,

[8:54] >> is making a tremendous positive

[8:56] difference,

[8:56] >> who stands at the heart of all that

[8:58] progress. He is a great president.

[9:02] >> Gora's loyalty has not gone unnoticed,

[9:05] especially by the president who said

[9:07] last night, "There has never been a more

[9:09] effective vice president." I sometimes

[9:11] regret that one of the burdens of being

[9:15] vice president

[9:17] is having to brag on the president

[9:20] and never getting to brag on himself.

[9:23] >> But how does Gore feel about the

[9:25] Lewinsky scandal, a scandal that could

[9:27] well hurt his own chances in the next

[9:29] presidential campaign? The president

[9:31] himself has said that the actions

[9:33] described in that report were were wrong

[9:36] and he has apologized and uh he's asked

[9:40] for forgiveness.

[9:41] >> In other words, Gore does not want to

[9:43] talk about his personal feelings.

[9:45] >> He may be loyal but he is also cautious.

[9:48] >> He needs to remain loyal. He needs to

[9:50] remain supportive. At the same time, he

[9:53] does not want to somehow uh interject

[9:56] himself into the president's problems

[9:57] and undermine his own credibility.

[9:59] Gore's caution extends to the

[10:01] possibility that Clinton will be forced

[10:03] from office. He insists the president

[10:05] will serve his full term, and he has

[10:07] warned his staff that anyone who talks

[10:10] about preparing for a sudden Gore

[10:12] presidency will be fired.

[10:14] >> Careful and loyal, yes, but also smart.

[10:17] Too smart, say his friends, not to lie

[10:19] in bed some nights and make plans for

[10:21] something he hopes will not happen. John

[10:24] Cochran, ABC News, Washington.

[10:27] Stay with ABC News for complete coverage

[10:29] of the presidential crisis, beginning

[10:31] tomorrow with Good Morning America,

[10:33] followed at 9:00 a.m. and throughout the

[10:36] day with special coverage of the

[10:37] president's videotaped grand jury

[10:39] testimony. Then tomorrow evening before

[10:42] Monday Night Football, tune in for a

[10:44] special 1-hour edition of World News

[10:47] Tonight with Peter Jennings. And 35

[10:49] minutes after the game, Night Line will

[10:52] present a special 1hour edition. Still

[10:55] ahead on World News Tonight this Sunday,

[10:57] Hurricane George. When and where will it

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[13:05] >> Tonight, the nearly 4 million people who

[13:07] live in Puerto Rico are preparing for

[13:09] Hurricane George.

[13:11] It's going to hit real hard

[13:14] >> and I'm not ready for that.

[13:16] >> Shelves once filled with water are now

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[13:28] >> We're trying to stay calm and do

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[13:34] >> It's not like the other years, so it's

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[13:39] Hurricane Hugo tore through the island

[13:42] and caused $53 million in damage.

[13:45] Scientists say this storm is nearly as

[13:48] strong with sustained winds at 135 m an

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[13:55] the most populated city in a country the

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[14:05] Authorities say Puerto Ricans in the

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[14:13] Sansami, ABC News, Sanan, Puerto Rico.

[14:17] >> Joining us now from Orlando, Florida is

[14:19] Bob Sheets, the former head of the

[14:21] National Hurricane Center, now an ABC

[14:23] News consultant. Bob, uh, what is the

[14:25] storm doing right now and does it pose a

[14:27] threat to the US? Well, Carol, right now

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[14:49] >> Bob, one more question quickly. What

[14:50] about Hermine? That was another storm

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[14:56] ashore, the depression there in the

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[15:00] and now it's just some rain up in that

[15:01] area.

[15:02] >> Thank you very much, Bob Sheets. When we

[15:05] come back, how the times change. Iran of

[15:08] all countries looks for help to avoid a

[15:10] war with Islamic revolutionaries.

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[17:19] >> In news overseas in the Philippines

[17:21] today, rescue crews saved 17 more people

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[17:38] The president of Iran is in New York

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[17:42] Secretary of State Maline Albbright and

[17:45] leaders from six other countries. Iran

[17:47] is trying to avoid a war with

[17:49] Afghanistan where the ruling Taliban are

[17:52] fighting Iranianbacked rebels. ABC's

[17:55] Richard Gizber reports.

[18:00] Iran, a country known for radical

[18:02] Islamic fundamentalism, a country

[18:04] remembered for holding American

[18:05] diplomats hostage in 1979,

[18:08] now calls Afghanistan's Muslim Taliban

[18:11] leaders fanatics and accuses them of

[18:13] detaining, then murdering nine Iranian

[18:16] diplomats. Today, the last of 200,000

[18:19] Iranian troops arrived on the border

[18:21] with Afghanistan for a military show of

[18:23] strength. It's against that tense

[18:25] backdrop that Iran's president Muhammad

[18:27] Katami will address the UN tomorrow.

[18:32] >> "We shall do our best," he said today,

[18:34] to prevent a war. The Taliban denies

[18:36] that it ordered the killings of the nine

[18:38] men, but had previously accused the

[18:40] diplomats and Iran itself of meddling in

[18:43] Afghanistan's ongoing civil war.

[18:45] >> It's important to realize that these

[18:46] tensions have been building up ever

[18:48] since the Taliban took Kabul several

[18:49] years ago. The Taliban is made up mostly

[18:52] of Muslims from the Sunnis sect. Iran is

[18:54] mostly Shiite and Iran accuses the

[18:57] Taliban of massacring Shiites in

[18:59] Afghanistan. As far as the uh militant

[19:03] Sunnis uh are concerned, the Shiers are

[19:05] a heretical sect in Islam. And as far as

[19:07] they're concerned, the punishment for

[19:09] being a membership of that sector is

[19:11] death. Since its Islamic revolution,

[19:14] when it held America hostage, Iran has

[19:16] been seen as the principal threat to

[19:18] more moderate Muslim states. Now, as

[19:21] Iran inches towards moderation and

[19:23] perhaps a thaw in relations with the US,

[19:25] it finds itself struggling with an even

[19:28] more militant form of fundamentalism on

[19:30] its own doorstep. Richard Gizbert, ABC

[19:33] News.

[19:35] In South America, the mother of Sarah

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[22:00] >> Now, some news in sports. There is now

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[22:08] today. Number 65. Sammy Sosa is still at

[22:12] 63, but today in Chicago, it was all

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[22:28] >> Major League Baseball's tribute to the

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[22:39] Magguire did.

[22:40] >> No one from the major league office was

[22:42] at Wrigleyfield then and there was no

[22:44] ceremony. Mark Maguire was celebrated

[22:47] when he broke the record two weeks ago,

[22:49] but since then, Sosa has proven the race

[22:51] was far from over.

[22:53] >> Whoever breaks it first doesn't

[22:54] necessarily wind up as a champion in the

[22:57] end.

[22:57] >> Critics said Sosa deserved the same

[22:59] attention and praise given Maguire.

[23:01] Today, the young man from the Dominican

[23:03] Republic got it. Sosa also got a number

[23:06] of gifts, but perhaps more important was

[23:09] the presence of Roger Maris's children.

[23:11] You didn't need a ticket to today's game

[23:13] to be a part of the celebration. Just

[23:16] beyond the left field wall in this real

[23:18] neighborhood, Chicagoans call

[23:19] Wrigleyville, fans were as close as a

[23:22] Sammy Sosa home run.

[23:25] >> On the sidewalk near where Sosa's 61st

[23:28] homer landed, there was a festive

[23:30] atmosphere inside the park. Sosa

[23:32] displayed the same self-deprecating

[23:35] humor that has endeared him to so many

[23:37] fans.

[23:38] >> Baseball being very, very good to me.

[23:40] Jim Williams, ABC News, Chicago.

[23:44] >> From the diamond to the tennis court. 25

[23:47] years ago today, millions of people

[23:49] watched women's champion Billy Jean King

[23:51] beat a man, Bobby Riggs. ABC's Jamie

[23:55] Floyd takes us back to the days when we

[23:57] called it women's lib.

[24:00] >> Live from the Astrodome in Houston,

[24:02] Texas. The tennis battle of the sexes

[24:05] belly. Jean King versus Bobby Riggs.

[24:09] 30,000 people were there, 40 million

[24:12] watched on live television.

[24:13] >> I'm Howard Coell. We're delighted to be

[24:15] able to bring you this very, very

[24:18] quaint, unique event.

[24:20] >> Extennis pro Bobby Riggs challenged

[24:23] superstar Billy Jean King, saying, "No

[24:25] woman could beat a man, not even a woman

[24:28] 26 years his junior."

[24:30] >> Supposing you lose, Bobby.

[24:32] >> Supposing I lose.

[24:33] >> Listen, that thought never even enters

[24:36] my mind. But Billy Jean King beat Rigs

[24:39] in straight sets.

[24:41] >> I understood the the significance of

[24:43] that match very clearly. I understood

[24:45] that it was about social change.

[24:46] >> It was 1973 and women were fighting for

[24:49] equal rights. But 25 years later, the

[24:52] world has changed and so has tennis. Now

[24:56] the hottest tennis stars are women.

[24:58] Davenport, Hingis, the Williams sisters.

[25:01] And in the World Team Tennis League, men

[25:03] and women play with and against each

[25:06] other. Billy Jean King founded World

[25:09] Team Tennis 18 seasons ago. It remains

[25:12] America's only professional

[25:14] co-educational sport. She hopes it can

[25:17] be a model for the larger society. That

[25:19] is my philosophy on life. Equal

[25:21] opportunity, boys and girls, same

[25:23] playing field.

[25:24] >> Bobby Riggs died three years ago. One of

[25:27] the last things he ever said to me

[25:28] really was, "Uh, boy, we really made a

[25:31] difference, didn't we, Billy?" I said,

[25:33] "Yeah, we did."

[25:34] >> Jamie Floyd, ABC News, New York. When we

[25:38] come back, an update on our top story.

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[27:14] >> The new 2020. Now on three nights

[27:16] tonight, an epidemic of illegitimate

[27:18] children fathered by NBA stars. Barbara

[27:21] Walters, Diane Sawyer, 2020. Tonight,

[27:26] >> recapping our top story tonight, a

[27:28] complicated picture of a defiant and

[27:30] contrite president is emerging from his

[27:32] grand jury testimony. President Clinton

[27:35] heads to New York tonight. He will

[27:37] address the UN General Assembly tomorrow

[27:40] just as his videotaped testimony is

[27:42] being released. And that's our report

[27:45] for tonight. Stay with ABC News for

[27:47] complete coverage of the presidential

[27:49] crisis, beginning tomorrow with Good

[27:51] Morning America, followed at 9:00 a.m.

[27:54] and throughout the day with special

[27:55] coverage of the president's videotaped

[27:58] grand jury testimony. Then tomorrow

[28:00] evening before Monday Night Football,

[28:02] tune in for a special one-hour edition

[28:05] of World News Tonight with Peter

[28:07] Jennings. 35 minutes after the game,

[28:10] Night Line will present a special 1hour

[28:12] edition. Later tonight, the premiere of

[28:15] 2020 Sunday. That's tonight at 9 8

[28:18] Central. I'm Carol Simpson. For all of

[28:20] us here at ABC News, have a good week

[28:22] and good night.

[28:25] >> Monday,

[28:26] >> the evidence against the president made

[28:28] public. The videotape, how damaging will

[28:30] it be?

[28:31] >> A special 1hour World News Tonight with

[28:33] Peter Jennings. Monday.

[28:36] Last week on top of the news, on top of

[28:38] the presidential crisis in Washington.

[28:40] This week, stay with Good Morning

[28:41] America for the latest twists and turns.

[28:43] All this week on Good Morning America.

[28:46] It's now official. The practice wins the