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Democratic National Convention: Gore Focusing on Mid-Atlantic Battleground Today; Clinton Engages in Public Soul Searching

Aired August 11, 2000 - 9:03 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore is focusing on a key campaign battleground region today, a northern stretch from the mid-Atlantic to the Midwest. He begins with an event in a Philadelphia suburb in New Jersey. And that's where CNN's Patty Davis is following the Gore team.

Patty, good morning.

PATTY DAVIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Daryn. Actually, we're in a Philadelphia suburb here of Bridgeport, Pennsylvania.

On the Sanchez issue, a Gore aide tells CNN that the vice president did disapprove of the location of that fund-raiser. The aides said the campaign bent over backwards trying to find another location. That apparently did not work out. So, now, we've heard the news now that she has been dropped.

Today he works his way towards you, Daryn, in Los Angeles. He is headed out there to the Democratic National Convention, but he is making his first stop here in the suburb of Bridgeport, Pennsylvania.

He is -- arrived yesterday in nearby Philadelphia, was greeted by supporters, along with his new running mate, Joseph Lieberman. He will be here in Bridgeport at a women-owned doll-making factory to make an appeal to female voters. That is one of his main themes today.

He is expected to tout his $500 billion 10-year tax cut plan, and aides say that includes tax breaks specifically aimed at women. He will be touting those.

Polls show that GOP candidate George W. Bush is making gains among women, and Gore is battling to hold his own, and also get some of those women who have apparently decided that they are liking George W. Bush somewhat after his Republican National Convention. He did receive a bounce among women.

Also, very important, later today, Al Gore gets the endorsement, the formal endorsement of the United Auto Workers. That means he will have 700,000 United Auto Worker workers on his side going into the election. That means he'll have lots of workers to go out door to door, to pass out literature, to get out the vote. That's an important thing for him, boost for his campaign, as he heads into the Democratic National Convention and then the general election -- Daryn.

KAGAN: Patty, one more word on this controversy involving Congresswoman Sanchez. The "L.A. Times" is reporting that the pressure increased when Joe Lieberman came on the ticket because he has been so vocal against sex and violence in the media. Have you had any word about that?

DAVIS: Well, they definitely are looking to present themselves as the ethical pair, now that Lieberman is on. So a fund-raiser at the Playboy mansion would not seem to fit in with that. So it would seem reasonable that that is what would happen happened -- Daryn.

KAGAN: Patty Davis, in Bridgeport, Pennsylvania, thank you very much. We will be checking with you throughout the morning.

CNN does plan to bring you live coverage of Al Gore's address to the United Auto Workers. Right now, that is scheduled for 2:50 p.m. Eastern, 11:50 a.m. Pacific.

About four hours from now, President Clinton leaves Washington for Los Angeles. He'll arrive here in L.A. late this afternoon. He has several fund-raising on his schedule, and that is prior to Monday's opening of the convention.

Yesterday, the president spent some time reflecting on his mistakes in the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

CNN's Major Garrett reports on the president's public soul searching.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

MAJOR GARRETT, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): President Clinton came with no prepared remarks, only to take questions from one of his spiritual advisers. Talk quickly turned to his spiritual journey since the Lewinsky scandal.

WILLIAM J. CLINTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Well, I feel much more at peace than I used to. And I think that, as awful as what I went through was and as humiliating as it was -- more to others than to me even, sometimes when you think you've got something behind you, and then it's not behind you, this, sort of, purging process, if it doesn't destroy you, can bring you to a different place.

GARRETT: The Reverend Bill Hybels is one of four religious leaders who have counseled Mr. Clinton since the Lewinsky scandal. As a result, the president says he's found a thin silver lining.

CLINTON: If I hadn't been knocked down in the way I was and forced to come to grips with what I've done and the consequences of it, in such an awful way, I might not never ever had to really deal with it 100 percent.

GARRETT: And now, the president says he understands the meaning of integrity. CLINTON: It means the integration of one's spirit, mind and body, being in the same place at the same time with everything, doing what you believe is right and you believe is consistent with the will of God.

GARRETT: Before leaving the stage, the president mixed politics with contrition, urging church leaders to absolve Vice President Gore of any blame for his mistakes.

CLINTON: He doesn't get enough credit for what we did together that is good, and surely no fair-minded person would blame him for any mistake that I made.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

GARRETT: Democrats outside the White House have been urging the president to make that statement about Vice President Gore Monday at his speech to the Democratic National Convention. And, for a while, that topic was debated here at the White House. But the president's decision to do so yesterday strongly suggests he will use that speech Monday to focus entirely on the credit he believes Al Gore deserves for improving the U.S. economy and lowering crime and welfare rates in the country.

Major Garrett, CNN, reporting live from the White House.

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