World News Tonight (ABC) - 1995-12-19
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[0:00] play at 6:00. We'll see you then.
[0:04] >> At the White House, a summit meeting on
[0:06] balancing the federal budget.
[0:08] >> There's an agreement that we will get
[0:10] this done before the end of the year.
[0:12] >> In Israel, the murder of Prime Minister
[0:14] Rabine on videotape. His security forces
[0:17] are looking the wrong way. And on the
[0:19] American agenda, using animal organs to
[0:22] save human lives. The hope and the risk.
[0:27] From ABC, this is World News Tonight
[0:30] with Peter Jennings.
[0:31] >> Good evening. We begin tonight with the
[0:33] 800 lb gorillas, the principal players
[0:35] in Washington's budget impass. President
[0:38] Clinton, Senate Leader Robert Dole, and
[0:39] House Speaker N. Gingrich stop snapping
[0:42] at each other long enough today to
[0:43] seriously consider each other's
[0:44] proposals. And their meeting at the
[0:46] White House may not have ended the
[0:48] partial government shutdown which began
[0:49] last weekend, but it could it could be
[0:52] the beginning of the end. At the White
[0:54] House, ABC's Britt Hume.
[0:59] >> The president was suddenly saying
[1:00] outright today what he had barely
[1:02] acknowledged before, namely that a
[1:04] balanced budget in seven years, as
[1:06] verified by the Congressional Budget
[1:08] Office, the CBO, is not only possible,
[1:10] but desirable.
[1:12] >> Our goal is to pass a credible balanced
[1:14] budget plan that is ultimately certified
[1:16] by the Congressional Budget Office that
[1:18] that the financial markets and the
[1:20] business community, the ultimate judge
[1:22] of this, say, "This is a good plan. this
[1:23] is going to work.
[1:24] >> No, said the president. He's not worried
[1:26] about that stock market drop yesterd