CBS Evening News - 2004-07-31 (partial)
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[0:57] This is the CBS Evening News
[1:01] with Thalia Ashurus.
[1:05] Good evening. Thalia is off tonight. I'm
[1:07] Cheryl Atkinson. We begin with campaign
[1:09] 04 and a pair of battling bus tours
[1:12] across the battleground states.
[1:14] Democrats John Kerry and John Edwards
[1:15] spent the day traveling east to west
[1:17] across Pennsylvania and Ohio nearly
[1:20] crossing paths with President Bush who
[1:22] is making a similar trip from west to
[1:24] east. We start now with Jim Axel who's
[1:27] following the carry campaign.
[1:30] >> The location of the two motorcades
[1:32] within 30 miles of each other at one
[1:34] point was no accident. The Pennsylvania
[1:36] Ohio border.
[1:39] Both men need both states. Today,
[1:42] Senator Kerry hammered away at both Mr.
[1:44] Bush's record on national security.
[1:46] >> Saying we're turning the corner doesn't
[1:48] make it so.
[1:50] Saying there are weapons of mass
[1:52] destruction in Iraq doesn't make it so.
[1:55] And the president's slogans and they
[1:57] keep telling him just talk in this tiny
[1:59] little itsy-bitsy soundbite to try to
[2:02] win voters in places like Greensburg,
[2:04] Pennsylvania. This is day two of this
[2:07] postconvention cross-country tour.
[2:09] buses, boats, trains winding their way
[2:11] 3,500 miles through 22 states in two
[2:15] weeks. Democrats lost 11 of those states
[2:18] last election and four others are states
[2:20] they won, but by less than 1/ half of
[2:23] one percentage point. So, when's the
[2:24] last time a presidential candidate was
[2:26] here?
[2:27] >> Can't remember.
[2:29] >> The Kerry campaign is trying to pump up
[2:31] enthusiasm in rural America, a problem
[2:34] area in 2000. I've been a fisherman
[2:36] since I about three years old, four
[2:38] years old. By supplementing coast to
[2:40] coast criticism of the war with
[2:42] specifically designed regional targets.
[2:45] In 28 states in the United States of
[2:47] America, our country, parents can't take
[2:50] their kids fishing and hope to eat the
[2:53] fish. Can't eat the fish because of the
[2:56] mercury, because of the toxics,
[2:58] chemicals, the poisoning.
[2:59] >> Al Gore won less than 40% of voters in
[3:02] communities of less than 50,000. The
[3:04] Kerry campaign hopes the spillover
[3:06] crowds turning out so far mean history
[3:09] won't repeat itself with small town
[3:11] voters. What do you think's going to be
[3:12] different this time? We're smarter than
[3:14] we were four years ago. From here in
[3:17] West Virginia, Senator Kerry will cross
[3:18] the river behind me and head into Ohio
[3:20] to begin campaigning there. There are
[3:22] strategists in both camps who believe
[3:24] Ohio is the new Florida, the place where
[3:27] the election could ultimately be
[3:28] decided. No Republican has ever won the
[3:31] White House without winning Ohio. Cheryl
[3:35] >> Jim Axelrod with the Cary campaign.
[3:37] Thanks. As for President Bush, he
[3:39] devoted much of his campaign day to
[3:41] defending his economic record. White
[3:43] House correspondent Mark Nler has that
[3:45] part of the story.
[3:48] >> President Bush tried to score some
[3:49] points with Ohio voters by being
[3:51] photographed playing catch this morning
[3:53] with members of the Cleveland Browns.
[3:55] and he tried to score a political
[3:57] touchdown against John Kerry, claiming
[3:59] his taxon the wealthy pledge would
[4:02] trickle down to everyone.
[4:03] >> He said he's already going to raise the
[4:05] tax on the so-called rich. But you know
[4:06] how the rich is, they got accountants.
[4:10] It means you pay. Means the small
[4:12] business pays. It means the farmers and
[4:14] ranchers pays. That's the wrong medicine
[4:16] for this economy. And we're not going to
[4:18] let him prescribe it.
[4:19] >> Addressing some 5,000 invited supporters
[4:22] at a rally in Canton, Mr. Bush defended
[4:25] giving tax cuts to everyone, including
[4:27] the rich.
[4:28] >> We didn't we didn't play winners or
[4:29] losers.
[4:31] >> We did it the fair way.
[4:33] >> Despite slower thanex expected economic
[4:35] growth and record budget deficits, the
[4:38] president claimed his tax cuts have been
[4:40] a boost to the economy, but acknowledged
[4:42] that times have been tough for some Ohio
[4:44] workers.
[4:45] >> I'm aware of that. I just traveled on
[4:47] the bus with workers who told me they
[4:49] are nervous about their future.
[4:52] They're concerned.
[4:54] I am too.
[4:55] >> To keep jobs from being outsourced, Mr.
[4:57] Bush said, "America must be the best
[4:59] place in which to do business." But
[5:01] outside the rally, it was clear the
[5:03] rhetoric didn't connect. Protesters want
[5:06] this bus trip to be the Bush farewell
[5:08] tour. A far cry from what the Bush
[5:11] campaign is calling it. You need only a
[5:13] map to decipher the Bush strategy. His
[5:16] campaign believes the election will be
[5:18] decided by a dozen or so battleground
[5:20] states that Mr. Bush either won or lost
[5:22] four years ago by narrow margins and
[5:25] those are the must-win targets even in
[5:27] July. Mark Nuller, CBS News with the
[5:30] Bush campaign in Pittsburgh.
[5:32] >> The government is releasing $75 million
[5:35] in federal campaign money to candidate
[5:38] Kerry now that he's been formally
[5:39] nominated. Under campaign funding rules,
[5:42] that's all he can use. President Bush
[5:44] still gets to spend freely, at least
[5:46] until he too accepts his party's
[5:47] nomination. But as Cynthia Bowers tells
[5:50] us, both campaigns are finding ways
[5:52] around the spending limits.
[5:55] At campaign stops like this one, it's
[5:58] all about the crowd, the candidates, the
[6:00] commotion. But behind the scenes, it's
[6:02] largely about money. Record amounts of
[6:04] it, maybe even a billion dollars, which
[6:07] doesn't seem to phase supporters on the
[6:09] trail. Whatever it takes, I guess, as
[6:12] long as it isn't our money, if it's
[6:14] their money.
[6:15] >> All this money being spent, despite
[6:17] campaign finance reforms intended to
[6:20] curb this kind of thing. Reform watchers
[6:23] say the legislation did largely
[6:25] eliminate influence paddling by cutting
[6:27] out huge contributions from big
[6:29] business, but did little or nothing to
[6:31] curb this orgy of spending.
[6:34] >> Excessive spending arms race, which is
[6:37] what we're in right now.
[6:38] >> Here's how it works. Once picked by the
[6:40] party, each candidate is limited to $75
[6:43] million in federal funding and each
[6:46] party 16 million to spend in
[6:48] coordination with the candidate.
[6:51] >> We need a strong military.
[6:53] >> But then how do you explain the
[6:55] Democrats ability to spend $100 million
[6:58] on this advertising blitz starting
[7:00] today? Where does it come from? Well, it
[7:03] comes from contributions by individuals.
[7:07] The only restriction on that money is
[7:09] that the campaigns don't meddle with how
[7:11] it's spent. Although, you can be sure
[7:13] it's generally used in a way that would
[7:15] flatter the candidate.
[7:16] >> Unless you do something about the
[7:18] independent expenditures of dollars, and
[7:20] there's some real constitutional
[7:22] problems with trying to do so, you're
[7:24] never going to stop this incredible flow
[7:25] of money.
[7:26] >> But others point out that this process
[7:28] is, after all, about picking the right
[7:30] person for the highest office in the
[7:32] land and could be considered priceless.
[7:35] Cynthia Bowers, CBS News, Greensburg,
[7:38] Pennsylvania.
[7:40] >> In the wake of the 911 Commission
[7:42] report, President Bush is expected to
[7:44] announce changes in America's
[7:46] intelligence gathering this coming week.
[7:48] The White House and some Democrats are
[7:50] now questioning the panel's
[7:51] recommendation for a single intelligence
[7:53] chief. But in an interview with Bob
[7:55] Schiffer for tomorrow's Face the Nation,
[7:57] candidate John Kerry says he stands by
[8:00] his support for an intelligence point
[8:02] man inside the White House.
[8:04] No, I believe it belongs there and I'm
[8:06] very comfortable with that decision.
[8:08] It's in fact it is there today and one
[8:11] of the reasons you have a problem is
[8:13] that you haven't known what the right
[8:14] hand is doing versus the left hand. If
[8:17] you're going to really lead a war on
[8:18] terror, I think it's critical to have
[8:21] the kind of direct accountability to the
[8:22] president and I think the American
[8:23] people want.
[8:24] >> So, you're not worried that it might
[8:25] taint
[8:26] >> I'll tell you why. I'll tell you why I'm
[8:27] not. because number one, you have a
[8:29] tremendous ability for oversight from
[8:32] the Congress itself in a renewed
[8:34] strengthened oversight structure that
[8:36] the committee itself, the commission has
[8:38] put together. That's number one. Number
[8:39] two, there's also a civil liberties uh
[8:42] rights oversight structure that they
[8:44] recommend. I think between the two, you
[8:47] have adequate ability to be able to have
[8:49] the oversight. But if I were command, if
[8:51] I'm commander-in-chief and president of
[8:53] the United States responsible for the
[8:54] safety and security of the country, I
[8:56] want the ability to hold somebody
[8:58] accountable directly within the White
[8:59] House. And I think the American people
[9:00] want the ability to know that they have
[9:02] that accountability with the president.
[9:04] >> And you can see the full Bob Schiffer
[9:06] interview with John Kerry and his
[9:07] running mate John Edwards tomorrow
[9:09] morning on Face the Nation. As the
[9:12] Democrats in Boston were nominating a
[9:14] Vietnam veteran turned protester for
[9:16] president, echoes of the Vietnam War
[9:18] resonated only blocks away from the
[9:20] convention site. Sharon Alfonsi tells us
[9:22] a new group of veterans from a new war
[9:25] were banding together.
[9:27] >> Ivan Medina and his twin brother Irving
[9:30] were once the picture of proud US
[9:32] soldiers.
[9:33] >> It was a way that we could give back to
[9:35] the nation that gave us and our family
[9:37] so much. Both brothers served in Iraq,
[9:39] but Irving never made it home.
[9:42] >> A roadside bomb exploded, opening the
[9:44] back of his head from ear to ear, dying
[9:47] hours later.
[9:48] >> Now Ivan has a new mission
[9:50] >> and it's time to bring our troops home.
[9:53] >> He's joined a small but growing group
[9:56] called Iraq Veterans Against the War.
[9:58] >> I didn't feel like I was a liberator. I
[10:00] felt like I was an oppressor. formed
[10:02] this week and already 30 members strong.
[10:05] The ex-soldiers are speaking out about
[10:07] what they saw in Iraq.
[10:09] >> We burned a flatbed filled with produce
[10:11] in front of Iraqi people who were
[10:13] starving
[10:14] >> and suffering the wrath of those who say
[10:16] it's unpatriotic.
[10:18] >> MY SON DEFENDED YOUR FREEDOM every day.
[10:21] >> At this protest, the battle between a
[10:23] sailor's father and a soldier's mother
[10:26] grew personal.
[10:27] >> My Don't you touch me, lady.
[10:29] unpatriotic. Me, everybody here, our
[10:33] children volunteered for this army to go
[10:36] in.
[10:36] >> Her son was killed in Iraq. Proof that
[10:39] the dividing line between those who
[10:41] support the war and those who oppose it
[10:43] is now more blurry than ever.
[10:46] >> We are not against the troops, we're
[10:48] against the war.
[10:50] >> But some vets say the soldiers still
[10:52] fighting in Iraq wouldn't see it that
[10:54] way.
[10:54] >> I don't think they'd be happy. Uh, I
[10:57] think uh that this is not a way to show
[10:59] support for our men and women in
[11:01] uniform.
[11:02] >> The Department of Defense says since
[11:04] October of last year, more than 5,000
[11:07] soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan have
[11:10] decided to reinlist and stay with their
[11:12] units, continuing to fight abroad even
[11:15] as some ex-soldiers wage a war of words
[11:19] here at home. Sharon Alonsy, CBS News,
[11:22] New York. Still to come on tonight's CBS
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[14:38] Tiger Woods, the world's number one
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[14:45] Open tomorrow on CBS.
[14:50] >> An al Qaeda leader captured in Pakistan
[14:52] shortly after 9/11 has recanted his
[14:55] sensational claim that Iraq trained al
[14:57] Qaeda to use chemical and biological
[14:59] weapons. That's according to today's New
[15:02] York Times. He took back the claim last
[15:04] year. Before that, the Bush
[15:05] administration had used it to link Iraq
[15:08] and al-Qaeda and help justify the war
[15:10] against Iraq. As Homeland Security
[15:13] officials tighten rules for the cruise
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[15:21] old $50 fine for leaving marshmallows
[15:24] out overnight at a national park. Joey
[15:27] Chen tells us why she's not the only
[15:29] one.
[15:31] On their best vacation ever, a cruise
[15:33] through the Bahamas, the Clerkin family
[15:35] saw no sign of trouble ahead.
[15:37] >> Sounds like a great time.
[15:38] >> It was a wonderful time until
[15:40] >> until Tell me about
[15:42] >> the last day.
[15:43] >> After the ship docked early that
[15:45] morning, three customs officers arrived
[15:47] at the cabin with a warrant for the
[15:49] father Pat Clerkin's arrest.
[15:51] >> They said that the warrant was 23 years
[15:54] old that they had issued for his arrest
[15:56] and
[15:56] >> 23 years old.
[15:58] >> 23 years old. Back in 1981, Pat Clerkin
[16:01] was a teenager on the streets of
[16:02] Pensacola, Florida, looking for money
[16:05] and finding trouble. He spent two months
[16:08] in jail for stealing two hubcaps.
[16:10] Released on probation, Clerken turned
[16:12] his life around, or thought he had. He
[16:15] married, had three kids, a successful
[16:17] business. He'd even done missionary
[16:19] work. But he violated his probation by
[16:21] moving without telling authorities. A
[16:24] warrant was issued, but officers never
[16:26] pursued him until customs spotted it. He
[16:29] had 20 years to straighten this out.
[16:31] >> Mhm.
[16:32] >> Why didn't he?
[16:33] >> He didn't know. He didn't know.
[16:36] >> After his latest arrest, a judge
[16:38] sentenced him to 9 months in a Florida
[16:40] jail.
[16:42] >> At home in Maryland, his family wondered
[16:44] why the punishment was so harsh.
[16:47] >> You got to pay your, you know, for your
[16:49] crime, but 9 months is a long time for
[16:51] something such as that. The judge held
[16:53] firm until yesterday. As a CBS news
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[16:58] Clerkin was suddenly summoned to court
[17:00] and freed on a technicality.
[17:02] >> He offered no excuses for his past.
[17:04] >> I assume uh to be honest with you, life
[17:06] I was not the person I am today and
[17:09] there's a lot of drinking, a lot of it
[17:11] was it's just a blur from back then.
[17:13] >> He's now headed home to his kids with a
[17:15] lesson about actions and consequences.
[17:18] Remember he says somewhere down the road
[17:20] there's always a price to pay. Joey
[17:24] Chen, CBS News, Randy Juan, Maryland.
[17:27] A relaxing afternoon in a New York City
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[17:40] The curious tiger strolled around the
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[17:46] Just ahead on tonight's CBS Evening
[17:48] News, why public school Bible clubs
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[20:25] >> The Democratic ticket. John Ky and John
[20:28] Edwards. Their strategy and what are
[20:30] their plans to beat President George
[20:32] Bush. We'll ask them on Face the Nation
[20:34] Sunday.
[20:36] >> The Granite Monument that was at the
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[20:56] There are many debates over where to
[20:58] draw the line between church and state.
[21:01] The controversy over Bible clubs in
[21:03] public schools is the focus of tonight's
[21:05] Weekend Journal.
[21:11] While sisters Lauren and Jessica pursue
[21:14] common teenage interests, 16-year-old
[21:16] Cara Meeks has chosen a more religious
[21:19] path.
[21:19] >> For the Lord your God will be with you
[21:21] wherever you go.
[21:22] >> She even leads a teen Bible study group.
[21:24] Today, they're at a local park.
[21:26] >> Take up your shield of faith with which
[21:28] you can extinguish all the flaming
[21:30] arrows of the evil one.
[21:31] >> But during the school year, they
[21:33] actually meet on the public high school
[21:35] campus.
[21:36] >> So, you normally have the meetings at
[21:37] school. Mhm. After school on a Wednesday
[21:40] from like 3:00 to 4:00,
[21:42] >> school Bible clubs face constant court
[21:44] challenges, but they're perfectly legal
[21:46] as long as they follow strict rules to
[21:48] maintain the constitutional separation
[21:50] between church and state like Carara's
[21:52] group does. Though the Bible study is
[21:54] held on school grounds, it's held after
[21:57] school hours. It's student organized and
[21:59] no one is pressured to attend. So, the
[22:01] school believes it doesn't cross any
[22:03] lines.
[22:04] >> Hello, this is Freedom from Religion
[22:06] Foundation. I can help you.
[22:07] >> Annie Lorie Gayler, who leads the
[22:09] national group of atheists and
[22:10] agnostics, insists school Bible clubs
[22:12] are divisive and inappropriate.
[22:14] >> We get complaints constantly by high
[22:16] schoolers who feel that it creates a
[22:18] hostile environment where they are being
[22:20] aggressively proitized and where the
[22:23] children, the students who belong to the
[22:25] Bible clubs are being treated as better.
[22:27] Others also object to any hint of
[22:29] religion at school, like the California
[22:32] dad who recently lost his fight to take
[22:34] under God out of the pledge of
[22:36] allegiance. Not surprisingly, Cara and
[22:38] her friends defend the phrasing.
[22:40] >> I think it should stay.
[22:42] >> People don't have to say the pledge of
[22:43] allegiance, and it's not like by saying
[22:45] under God, we're forcing a religion on
[22:47] them. So, I don't see the point in
[22:48] taking it out.
[22:50] >> Polls show up to nine and 10 Americans
[22:52] agree that under God belongs in the
[22:54] pledge. 90% of Americans also say they
[22:57] believe in God. And religion in the
[22:59] school setting may be gaining ground
[23:01] nationally. Analysts say there's been a
[23:03] dramatic rise in the number of students
[23:05] forming religious clubs and not just
[23:08] Christian clubs.
[23:09] >> More recently, Muslim students and
[23:11] others have been asking to form clubs.
[23:13] This of course causes some controversy
[23:15] and tension in school districts
[23:16] particularly where they're not used to
[23:18] other religious groups forming clubs,
[23:20] but that's the trend. Did you ever think
[23:22] it was controversial to be doing Bible
[23:24] study at school?
[23:25] >> Um, I don't think it is.
[23:27] >> In the minds of others, any mix of
[23:30] religion and public school is bound to
[23:31] remain controversial. But as for Cara,
[23:34] she strongly believes God shouldn't be
[23:36] locked out when the bell rings.
[23:38] >> Lord, I just want to thank you for this
[23:40] day.
[23:41] >> The fight over religion in schools
[23:43] continues to generate legal action. Just
[23:45] last month, the federal appeals court
[23:47] upheld the right of a Maryland
[23:48] evangelical group to distribute flyers
[23:51] to elementary students. We'll be back.
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