NBC Nightly News - 1992-03-03 (Western) (Decision '92)

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[1:00] NBC News headquarters in New York.

[1:02] >> Good evening. This is the most important

[1:04] day so far in the long 92 presidential

[1:07] campaign. And we are projecting tonight,

[1:09] Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, the

[1:11] winner in the Georgia primary, the solid

[1:13] win that Clinton was looking for in his

[1:15] home region, the South. And Paul Sonis,

[1:18] our projected winner in Maryland. The

[1:20] former Massachusetts senator is showing

[1:22] strength tonight beyond his home turf of

[1:24] New England. The polls in Colorado are

[1:26] just closing with what appears to be a

[1:27] very tight race. Among the Democrats

[1:29] there, Clinton, Songus, and Jerry Brown.

[1:32] However, the contest in Colorado,

[1:34] Georgia, Maryland, and four other states

[1:36] today will likely leave Clinton and Sus

[1:39] at top the Democratic pack with former

[1:41] Governor Jerry Brown still a force to be

[1:43] reckoned with. On the Republican side,

[1:45] NBC News projects President Bush the

[1:47] winner in Georgia, despite another

[1:49] strong showing from conservative Patrick

[1:51] Buchanan. The president is the projected

[1:54] winner tonight in Maryland as well. And

[1:57] with voting just ended in Colorado, Bush

[2:00] is the projected winner there with what

[2:02] appears to be a two to1 victory. The

[2:04] president is urgently trying to blunt

[2:06] Buchanan's challenge from the right and

[2:08] to get off the defensive. We have NBC's

[2:10] John Cochran with the president tonight.

[2:12] Andrea Mitchell is covering the

[2:13] Democrats. John, let's begin with you

[2:15] and the president's spin out of the

[2:17] White House tonight.

[2:18] >> Tom, in a written statement tonight, the

[2:20] president admitted that a lot of voters

[2:22] who usually would have supported him did

[2:24] not vote for him today. But he blames

[2:26] that on discontent with all Washington

[2:28] politicians. Even so, some Bush aids

[2:31] admit privately that a lot of that

[2:33] protest vote is aimed at George Bush.

[2:35] Faced with a stiff conservative

[2:37] challenge, the president suddenly

[2:38] admitted that breaking his no new taxes

[2:40] pledge was the worst mistake of his

[2:42] presidency. Today's Atlanta Journal

[2:45] quotes Bush as saying, "Listen, if I had

[2:47] to do that over, I wouldn't do it. Look

[2:49] at all the flack it's taking." Adding

[2:51] that the tax increase has brought him

[2:53] political grief. Today, the president

[2:55] tried to soften that, saying he is

[2:57] worried not only about his political

[2:59] fate, but about new attempts in Congress

[3:01] to raise taxes and spending. Uh, I

[3:03] thought this one compromise, and it was

[3:05] a compromise, would result in no more

[3:07] tax increases. Pat Buchanan couldn't

[3:10] wait to say, "I told you so."

[3:12] >> Why then all this criticism of Pat

[3:14] Buchanan when I criticize attacks? Hik

[3:16] agrees with me.

[3:17] >> I'm saying to myself, uh, given all

[3:19] these attacks and given those facts,

[3:22] hey, this is a mistake. Everybody's

[3:24] entitled to one. I'm not going to make

[3:25] another one up.

[3:26] >> It's not only a cocky Pat Buchanan, but

[3:28] Ronald Reagan who thinks Bush blew it

[3:30] with the tax increase. Reagan backs Bush

[3:33] but limited picture taking during their

[3:34] meeting last week to this photo. Even

[3:37] so, Bush mentioned Reagan's name twice

[3:39] today as he courted the religious right

[3:41] during a taxpayer paid trip to a

[3:44] convention of evangelicals in Chicago.

[3:47] Conservatives have never trusted Bush,

[3:48] even though after becoming Reagan's

[3:50] number two, he switched to Reagan's

[3:52] positions on women's rights and

[3:53] abortion. Today, Bush promised to block

[3:56] pro-choice legislation now in Congress.

[3:59] It would impose on all 50 states an

[4:02] unprecedented regime of abortion on

[4:06] demand going well beyond

[4:09] even Row versus Wade. This is not right

[4:13] and it will not become law as long as I

[4:16] am president of the United States of

[4:17] America.

[4:19] And just how long that will be is of

[4:21] course the big question. Tonight, Bush

[4:23] campaign aids hope that the only message

[4:24] voters sent today is that they are

[4:26] unhappy. Not that they're really fed up,

[4:29] Tom.

[4:30] >> Thank you, John. And NBC's Andrea

[4:32] Mitchell on the Democratic side. Clinton

[4:34] and Sunis are emerging tonight as the

[4:36] clear front runners. Andrea, you've been

[4:38] tracking their strategy.

[4:40] >> Tom, today's voting not only gave Bill

[4:41] Clinton his first big victory. Paul

[4:43] Sonis also proved by winning in Maryland

[4:45] that he could compete outside New

[4:47] England. Having won in Maryland and

[4:50] showing strength in Colorado and

[4:52] Washington State, Stongis was calling

[4:54] himself the breakthrough kid, claiming

[4:56] he's no longer a regional candidate.

[4:58] >> From what we hear, we're we're doing

[5:00] quite well. And um in Maryland, which

[5:03] was the battleground, um if these

[5:06] numbers hold, we'll have a very

[5:07] convincing victory. So, I think we've

[5:10] broken through barriers that were

[5:12] alleged to have existed. Clinton hopes

[5:14] his Georgia win will give him momentum

[5:16] for next week's big southern primaries.

[5:18] He views it now as a twoman race. He

[5:20] attacks repeatedly today as a throwback

[5:23] to Reagan Bush economics.

[5:24] >> And now we're having a fight in the

[5:26] Democratic party with somebody who says

[5:28] the same thing. Growth first, fairness

[5:30] later. Bull. We never had growth without

[5:32] fairness and we never will.

[5:34] >> Song had made Maryland a crucial test

[5:36] going there immediately after his New

[5:38] Hampshire victory.

[5:39] >> It's no accident that this is where I

[5:41] came first. Maryland is critical.

[5:44] >> His economic message caught on with

[5:46] better educated suburban whites. He had

[5:48] difficulty connecting to Maryland's

[5:49] black voters, a quarter of the

[5:51] electorate. In Maryland and Georgia,

[5:53] where a third of the voters are black,

[5:55] Sonis campaigned hard, trying to bridge

[5:57] the gap. But most blacks felt more

[5:59] comfortable with Clinton, a son of the

[6:01] South. Sus did surprise party leaders in

[6:04] Georgia by being tougher and funnier

[6:06] than they'd expected. But to most

[6:07] southerners, he was at best unknown, at

[6:10] worst a foreigner. I'd like to know if

[6:12] you're a Christian or not. Oh,

[6:13] >> I sure am.

[6:15] >> Glad to know it.

[6:16] >> Clinton, on the other hand, knew the

[6:17] language of the region.

[6:18] >> For the thing that got me interested in

[6:20] politics as a child

[6:24] was the idea that the discrimination of

[6:27] my native South was wrong.

[6:29] >> Today, Clinton was already campaigning

[6:31] in Florida, courting votes he will need

[6:33] next week on Super Tuesday. Sus was

[6:36] hoping a good showing, if not a win, in

[6:38] Colorado and Washington will enhance his

[6:40] national image. Jerry Brown was touting

[6:42] his strength in Colorado to prove he's

[6:45] still a contender.

[6:46] >> We think we're we're now in a position

[6:48] to challenge the front runners, Mr.

[6:50] Clinton and Mr. Sunis.

[6:52] >> In fact, rounded well enough in Colorado

[6:54] to regain eligibility for federal

[6:56] matching funds. All but out of the race,

[6:58] Tom Harkin hanging on to the slim hope

[7:00] of a win in Minnesota. Also way behind,

[7:03] Bob Kerry hoping to survive in case one

[7:05] of the others stumbles. Tom,

[7:07] >> thanks Andrea. And as this campaign

[7:08] heats up, so do the claims in the

[7:10] candidates's commercials. In some cases,

[7:12] they're overheated. NBC's Lisa Myers

[7:14] tonight with a fact check of the latest

[7:16] round of commercials.

[7:18] >> Pat Buchanan has been hammering George

[7:20] Bush with an ad attacking the National

[7:22] Endowment for the Arts. In the last 3

[7:25] years, the Bush administration has

[7:27] invested our tax dollars in pornographic

[7:29] and blasphemous art. Too shocking to

[7:32] show. That's misleading. First, the Bush

[7:35] administration had absolutely nothing to

[7:37] do with the film in this ad. It was

[7:39] produced with $5,000 from a grant

[7:41] restored during the Reagan

[7:43] administration. And there's another

[7:45] problem. The Buchanan ad distorts the

[7:48] record of the National Endowment for the

[7:50] Arts by suggesting that this film is a

[7:53] typical instance of funding. It's not.

[7:56] The vast majority of NEA money supports

[7:59] groups like the Chicago Symphony and

[8:01] programs such as Live from Lincoln

[8:03] Center. [singing]

[8:07] The Bush campaign also has taken

[8:09] liberties with ads trumpeting the

[8:11] president's leadership. Now he has an

[8:13] agenda to strengthen [music] our economy

[8:14] and make America more competitive in the

[8:16] world to change welfare [music] and make

[8:19] the able-bodied work. That's misleading.

[8:22] >> Here's why.

[8:23] >> In the three years he's been president,

[8:25] he's not submitted a single significant

[8:27] proposal in the welfare reform area.

[8:29] >> Another Bush ad also generated

[8:32] controversy.

[8:33] >> When Pat Buchanan opposed Desert Storm,

[8:35] [music] it was a disappointment to all

[8:37] military people.

[8:38] >> Wait a minute. Today, the Buchanan

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[8:42] made in December 1990 when troops

[8:45] already were in the Gulf in which he

[8:47] seems to oppose going to war. Kelly

[8:49] claims he was quoted out of context.

[8:52] >> I have supported President Bush from the

[8:55] day he gave the first order to deploy

[8:58] forces to the Gulf until the last day of

[9:00] the war. Now, the Democrats. Paul Sonis,

[9:04] who preaches honesty, plays fast and

[9:06] loose with the truth in attacking his

[9:08] rival support for a middle class tax

[9:10] cut.

[9:10] >> And they want to give us a tax credit

[9:13] that they're going to have to borrow

[9:15] from my children.

[9:16] >> That's misleading. Both Bill Clinton and

[9:18] Bob Kerry would pay for their tax cuts

[9:20] by raising taxes on the rich.

[9:23] >> That means there's no cost to our

[9:24] children. In this latest round of ads,

[9:27] the theme seems to be distraction,

[9:29] distortion, and deception. And as the

[9:31] stakes get higher, it's likely to get

[9:33] worse. Lisa Meyers, NBC News,

[9:36] Washington.

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[10:52] chief financial correspondent Mike

[10:54] Jensen tells us now, a few positive

[10:56] signs do not necessarily make a trend.

[10:59] >> The economy is stirring. Companies

[11:02] starting to buy new equipment. Stores

[11:05] reordering, filling stock rooms. The

[11:08] stock market rising.

[11:10] >> The government's index of leading

[11:12] indicators had its largest increase

[11:14] since last July.

[11:17] Chicago toy maker Dan Shore says

[11:20] business is good and getting better.

[11:22] >> We've been pleasantly surprised by how

[11:24] strong business is this early in the

[11:26] year.

[11:26] >> Another good sign, new home sales on the

[11:30] rebound. Colorado builder Gary

[11:32] Frederick's loves it.

[11:34] >> They're starting to realize that now is

[11:35] the time to buy. If they wait much

[11:37] longer, rates may go up and uh pricing

[11:39] will definitely go up.

[11:40] >> The nation's purchasing agents said

[11:43] February was a winner. I think it's not

[11:45] a one-mon phenomena. I tend to think

[11:47] there are a lot of good reasons why this

[11:49] will be a sustainable growth.

[11:51] >> Another sign of strength, the business

[11:53] week index. Production rising for five

[11:56] weeks, leading indicators for 10 weeks.

[11:59] Even Allan Greenspan, chairman of the

[12:02] Fed was almost optimistic today.

[12:05] >> As we look ahead, there are a few

[12:08] hopeful signs, but at this stage, they

[12:11] are quite tentative.

[12:13] So, good news and a word of caution.

[12:15] This has happened before and the economy

[12:17] has done a Uturn. There does seem to be

[12:21] a modest recovery in the works, but it's

[12:23] both very mild and very reversible.

[12:27] Also, don't look for a quick pickup in

[12:29] hiring. That always comes last after

[12:32] people start buying more and companies

[12:34] start manufacturing more. And with most

[12:37] companies operating lean and mean, a lot

[12:40] of white collar positions won't be

[12:42] filled even then. Mike Jensen, NBC News,

[12:47] New York. And in Seattle, the home of

[12:50] the Major League Mariners, Japan's place

[12:52] in America's pastime is about to be

[12:54] resolved. Major League Baseball owners

[12:57] meet tomorrow to consider an offer from

[12:59] a Japanese backed syndicate to buy that

[13:01] team. NBC's Keith Morrison is with the

[13:03] Mariners at spring training. It's an

[13:06] impossibly beautiful day in Tempe,

[13:08] Arizona. And the Seattle Mariners are

[13:10] finally going about the business of

[13:12] working up a baseball team.

[13:15] >> And oh, if life were so simple, even

[13:18] here in the sun, it rains. Politics.

[13:21] >> It's just an underlying, I think, racist

[13:23] attitude that baseball has. And they,

[13:26] you know, they have a problem.

[13:28] >> As the little nod of diehard fans

[13:30] watches the team prepare,

[13:32] >> the Mariners are safe at home. And they

[13:35] ought to be with a dream of a deal. $125

[13:38] million on offer for a $100 million

[13:41] team.

[13:41] >> TRIPLE PLAY. CAN WE CLEAR this hallway?

[13:44] >> They parade the numbers down the halls

[13:46] of New York skyscrapers and

[13:48] congressional centers of power.

[13:50] >> The batting lineup is

[13:51] >> teams of men in suits, boardroom

[13:54] sluggers battling over the future of

[13:56] Seattle's franchise. And the question,

[13:58] who has a right to own America's game?

[14:00] Could it be a group headed by the owners

[14:03] of Nintendo?

[14:05] >> It is not Japanese specific. It is not

[14:08] racial. It is basically a very difficult

[14:12] issue for baseball.

[14:13] >> And in Seattle, it seems so obvious.

[14:16] Around here, Nintendo, Japanese or not,

[14:19] is a local company supported in its bid

[14:21] for baseball by a dozen other local

[14:24] companies.

[14:25] >> What they ask could be wrong with that?

[14:27] >> What's foreign anymore?

[14:28] >> I can't see any difference. I mean,

[14:30] money is money and as long as we have

[14:32] our team, that's what counts.

[14:35] >> But baseball, the American game,

[14:38] >> baseball is not a business like other

[14:40] businesses.

[14:41] >> And the Nintendo deal is a problem the

[14:43] baseball owners hate and say insiders

[14:46] will almost certainly kill

[14:48] >> statement or the statement will speak

[14:50] for itself. And so on yet another

[14:52] perfect day in Tempe, Arizona, the

[14:54] Seattle Mariners prepare for what many

[14:57] here fear could be their last season. as

[14:59] the Seattle Mariners. And how do they

[15:02] feel about that?

[15:03] >> We're just looking for somebody to keep

[15:05] a team in Seattle.

[15:06] >> It's a beautiful place to live and a

[15:08] nice place to raise children. And

[15:10] although Florida is nice, too.

[15:12] >> So it is, and it's quite possibly the

[15:15] next home of the Mariners. Keith

[15:17] Morrison, NBC News, Tempe, Arizona.

[15:21] It was not Japan bashing, insisted South

[15:23] Carolina Senator Ernest Hollings. But in

[15:25] a speech Monday, Hollings did suggest to

[15:28] bluecollar workers that they draw a

[15:30] mushroom cloud and caption it made in

[15:33] America by lazy and illiterate Americans

[15:36] and tested in Japan. Today, Holling said

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[17:29] policeman. The incident was made

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[17:34] Police brutality became topic A across

[17:36] this country. A federal investigation

[17:38] was ordered. But has anything changed?

[17:41] NBC's Ed Rael tonight.

[17:43] >> Video tape of the beating broadcast

[17:45] repeatedly caught Los Angeles policemen

[17:48] in the act and stunned the nation.

[17:50] >> What I saw made me sick.

[17:53] >> President Bush and then Attorney General

[17:55] Dick Thornberg promised an unprecedented

[17:57] investigation of police brutality.

[18:00] >> Law enforcement officials cannot place

[18:02] themselves above the law that they are

[18:05] sworn to defend. But one year after the

[18:07] beating, the Justice Department still

[18:09] will not reveal the results of its

[18:11] sweeping nationwide review of 15,000

[18:14] complaints of police misconduct. Critics

[18:17] charge that the department is covering

[18:18] up for the police.

[18:20] >> You're in a fraternity.

[18:22] You don't squeal on one another.

[18:26] Uh the code is silence.

[18:29] >> At this point, we're not disclosing any

[18:31] of the specifics.

[18:32] >> Why not?

[18:32] >> Because it's an ongoing review. And I

[18:35] think when the overall assessment and

[18:37] review is done, there will be an

[18:39] amplification uh and identification of

[18:41] the departments that have problems.

[18:43] >> California resident Patricia Wilmouth

[18:46] was one of those who complained to the

[18:47] federal government. Two years ago, a

[18:50] sheriff's deputy allegedly beat and

[18:52] choked her while arresting her on

[18:54] charges of interfering at the scene of

[18:55] an accident. The charges against her

[18:57] were dropped.

[18:58] >> Here you go. Okay, come on down. But she

[19:01] still needs physical therapy and is

[19:03] suing the sheriff's department. She says

[19:05] the FBI promised to investigate. Yet

[19:08] neither she nor her husband has heard

[19:10] anything from the FBI agent who

[19:12] interviewed them. They say

[19:14] >> he sat in this chair and explained that

[19:17] we needed to understand that this was

[19:21] after all a conflict of interest for him

[19:23] due to the fact that these were in fact

[19:28] fellow officers who he might be

[19:31] dependent upon possibly in the next few

[19:33] weeks as backup. Citizens complained

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[19:41] But in only 68 of those cases did the

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[19:54] which police departments are the worst

[19:55] offenders nationwide. The Justice

[19:58] Department has the information, but says

[20:00] it may not release it for a year or

[20:02] more. Ed Rabel, NBC News, Washington.

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[22:16] More dramatic testimony today in the New

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[22:43] John Chancellor is with us now. He's

[22:45] taking a look at who's voted today and

[22:46] why. John,

[22:47] >> Tom, we pled voters in Georgia,

[22:50] Maryland, and Colorado. And we've got

[22:52] about twothirds of that poll in.

[22:55] Overall, we learned that the gender gap

[22:57] still exists. American women voters

[22:59] don't like Pat Buchanan very much. We

[23:02] had learned that in New Hampshire, and

[23:03] we learned it in three states today. The

[23:05] president is being hurt by Buchanan, but

[23:07] the wounds are not mortal. Biggest

[23:10] Buchanan vote was in Georgia. Many

[23:12] Democratic voters would like another

[23:14] candidate and the cancer that Paul Sonis

[23:17] once had is no longer a problem for him.

[23:19] While the draft evasion problems issues

[23:22] that that problem that haunted Bill

[23:26] Clinton for a while was no problem for

[23:27] him. In Georgia, the economy was a big

[23:30] issue. Uh Pat Buchanan got some

[23:32] Democrats and independent voters to

[23:35] cross over and vote in the Republican

[23:36] primary. We're not sure how important

[23:38] that will be for him. The president's

[23:40] job rating was low in Georgia among

[23:42] Republicans. That hurt him. Bill Clinton

[23:45] did very well with blacks in his native

[23:47] South. In Maryland, the economy, there

[23:49] was a big send a message vote on Bush.

[23:53] Many of those people will vote

[23:54] Democratic this fall. Sonus was helped

[23:57] by his stand on the economy. The big

[23:59] surprise tonight is Jerry Brown's

[24:02] competitive position in the Colorado

[24:04] primary. He's doing very well. Carrie

[24:07] and Harkin in these three states not so

[24:09] well. The president today was bruised.

[24:11] The Democrats are still confused and the

[24:14] voters feel abused. Tom,

[24:16] >> thank you. Rapm John Chansor tonight.

[24:18] When we return, Marty Gro time in Cinjun

[24:21] country.

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[26:26] Say Marty Gro, think Louisiana. Say

[26:29] Louisiana, think cinjun. Marty Gro ends

[26:32] tonight, but the cinjun spirit, it

[26:34] continues. And now there's a little blue

[26:36] dog to lead them. Confused. Here's NBC's

[26:40] Mike.

[26:43] >> Knowing from where you came helps you

[26:45] get to where you're going. Otherwise,

[26:47] observed one old casian, you'll drift

[26:49] aimlessly like a feather. During

[26:52] Mardigra at least, most Cajuns adhere to

[26:54] tradition. The rest of the year, art,

[26:57] food, music, and myth must serve as the

[26:59] culture signposts. And now, a little

[27:02] blue mud is becoming a guide dog for

[27:04] those trying to find their way to

[27:05] Aadiana, Louisiana's Cajun country. The

[27:09] blue dog is George Rodriguez's black and

[27:11] red fish, a cultural billboard which

[27:13] draws the gaze of Cajun and non-Casian.

[27:16] >> And he's trying to come back and find

[27:19] me. Blue is meant to be the ghost of

[27:21] Rodrig's now deceased pet, Tiffany. With

[27:24] its ghostly gaze, it wanders through a

[27:26] series of paintings as it tries to find

[27:28] its way back home.

[27:29] >> The blue dog has his own journey and

[27:32] he's sort of left the cinjun and finding

[27:35] his own way around the world and taken a

[27:38] little Cajun culture with him.

[27:41] >> For people who once were considered

[27:43] backward swamp folk, the Casians have

[27:45] developed an uncanny knack for exporting

[27:47] their culture. Hot sauce, Cajun cooking

[27:50] and music. And now the blue dog are hot

[27:52] items in the fickle world marketplace.

[27:54] AJ Leblanc and Roy Brousard believe life

[27:57] dealt the Cajuns a lemon and they made

[27:59] it into something sweet.

[28:01] >> And it's like as if someone would give

[28:03] you a lemon, you could stand up there

[28:05] and holler and scream that it's sour.

[28:08] But if you take that lemon and make

[28:09] lemonade and you come out with something

[28:11] that's worthwhile.

[28:12] >> We're not looked down upon anymore and

[28:15] we don't care whether we are or not. We

[28:17] know how we feel.

[28:18] >> But Veronica Rodriguez, the artist's

[28:20] wife and herself occasion, wonders if

[28:22] the Cajun boom can last.

[28:24] >> The shest sign that a culture is dying

[28:27] is this resurgence of interest and

[28:30] trying to bring it all back again.

[28:32] >> Aadiana's heart is still beating

[28:34] strongly though. Even though the blue

[28:36] dog didn't find its way to Mardigra to

[28:38] see his master on the king's float, it

[28:40] was here in spirit. Mike Batcher, NBC

[28:43] News, Lafayette, Louisiana.

[28:47] That's not news for now. I'll be back

[28:49] throughout this evening with updates on

[28:51] these important primaries. We'll have a

[28:52] complete wrap-up tonight immediately

[28:54] following your late local news. I'll see

[28:56] you then.

[28:58] [cheering]

[29:04] She raised her