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Welcome to World News. Tonight, a dramatic increase in Alzheimer’s. A new case in the country every 72 seconds. The costs of the disease constitute <상태를> 만들어 내다 a health care crisis. Legal Defiance 완강한 저항, 무시. President Bush digs in 입장을 고수하다 as lawmakers 의원 try to force his Attorney General 법무장관 out. Abortion 유산, 낙태 Battle. The proposed law that would require a woman seeking an abortion to look at a picture of her fetus <임신 9주 후의> 태아. Common sense or emotional blackmail 협박? From ABC News headquarters, this is World News with Charles Gibson.
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Good evening? For days, there has been a drumbeat 요란한 주장 from democrats and even a few republicans that the Attorney General needs to step aside 물러나다 as a result of the controversy over the firing of eight US attorneys. The President has been relatively 비교적으로 quiet as the issue has bubbled up 끓어 오르다 in Washington.
A short while ago, emphatically 단호히 Mr. Bush spoke out, claiming democrats were on a fishing expedition <비밀 등을> 캐내려고 하고 있다, looking only to score 얻다 political points. And he stood strongly behind 후원하다, 지지하다 his Attorney General. ABC’s Jonathan Karl is tonight at the White House. John? Charlie? The president was defiant 반항적인, 거만한 tonight, but he also offered democrats an olive branch 화해 saying that he would allow congress to question 심문하다 his top aides 보좌관, even Carol Rove 연방검사들의 무더기 해임 음모와 관련된 백악관 비서실 부실장. But that was an offer that came with strings 부대조건 attached.
The President offered an unambiguous 명백한 statement of support for his embattled 곤경에 처한 Attorney General. “He’s got support with me.” In an effort to appease 달래다 those on Capitol Hill 의회
“However we will not go along with 해나가다, 진행시키다 a partisan 당파적인 fishing expedition 정보 캐내기 작업 aimed at honorable public servants 공무원, 관리.” That was a reference 언급 to democratic demands that White House officials testify in public and under oath 맹세하고. Today, White House counsel Fred Fielding made it clear that is not going to happen.
In a letter to congress, he said the interviews must be conducted in private that Rove and Miers would not be under oath. There would be no transcript 필기록 and no follow-up testimony <법정에서의> 선서증언. Democrats critiqued 비평하다 that offer was scorn 경멸, 조롱.