Obama, McCain Sweep Tuesday Primaries; The Death of a Top Hezbollah Leader
DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: Under oath and under fire, a baseball hero and the man who says he injected the player with steroids getting grilled on Capitol Hill. Hello, everyone. I'm Don Lemon, live at the CNN world headquarters in Atlanta.</s>BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN ANCHOR: And I'm Brianna Keilar, in for Kyra Phillips. Baseball star Roger Clemens says he never used performance- enhancing drugs ever, but his former trainer says that is not true. Brian McNamee says he knows this because he is the one who gave those drugs to Roger Clemens. The baseball legend and his accuser sat just a few feet away from each other on Capitol Hill and testified under oath. For his part, Clemens denied repeatedly that he has ever used performance-enhancing drugs.</s>ROGER CLEMENS, MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYER: How do you prove a negative? No matter what we discuss here today, I'm never going to have my name restored. But I have got to try and set the record straight. However, by doing so, I'm putting myself out there to all of you, knowing that, because I said that I didn't take steroids, that this is looked as an attack on Senator Mitchell's report. Where am I to go with that? I'm not saying Senator Mitchell's report is entirely wrong. I am saying Brian McNamee's statements about me are wrong.</s>LEMON: Brian McNamee has turned over evidence he says amounts to proof that he injected Clemens with steroids, including needles and gauze pads. But Congressman Dan Burton had a skeptical response to McNamee's story.</s>REP. DAN BURTON (R), INDIANA: I want to make sure I have got this straight. Your friend Roger Clemens, you allegedly gave him these shots. You kept the pads and the needles for five years and went on and kept working for him because he was your employer. And then you say you said you felt bad -- you felt bad about proposing and giving these to the Mitchell committee when you first started talking to them?</s>BRIAN MCNAMEE, FORMER PERSONAL TRAINER TO ROGER CLEMENS: Yes, sir.</s>BURTON: Gee whiz! Are you kidding me?</s>MCNAMEE: No, sir.</s>BURTON: My goodness.</s>LEMON: Let's go now to Washington live and Henry Waxman, the chairman of the Oversight Committee speaking right now. Let's listen in.</s>REP. TOM DAVIS (R), VIRGINIA: ... both challenged on their statements, I think, substantially.</s>QUESTION: What message are you sending to other leagues with regards to their steroid policies (</s>OFF-MIKE) REP. HENRY WAXMAN (D-CA), GOVERNMENT REFORM COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN: We want them to make sure that they do everything to stop the use of these illicit drugs in their sports. And I want to make sure that they have a testing regimen, an educational regimen, and they get the drugs out of major league sports. I don't want that link any longer. So, while we have looked at baseball today, we have looked at other sports during the 2005 hearings. And we're going to continue to monitor how all professional athletes -- athletics are handling this matter.</s>QUESTION: Is forensic testing being done on this evidence that you know of? Is forensic testing being done?</s>DAVIS: You have the ask is the federal authorities whom this was turned over. Really, that is in their purview at this point.</s>QUESTION: Which is which agency?</s>DAVIS: Probably Justice, I think. Justice Department.</s>QUESTION: ... judge on this?</s>DAVIS: Probably.</s>QUESTION: Is that to say you are reluctant to refer it to DOJ, or what case you, at this point, to refer this matter to DOJ?</s>DAVIS: Well, we haven't said that discussion yet. I think we have to go and parse the testimony, take a look at the total records, additional documents. I don't we are there yet. Are you thinking...</s>WAXMAN: I certainly have not come to any conclusions along those lines. And that is not my thinking at the moment. I will evaluate it. I will think it over.</s>QUESTION: It seemed to get partisan in the questioning, Republicans questioning McNamee harshly, Democrats questioning Clemens (</s>OFF-MIKE) WAXMAN: Well, I it just was not other than the fact that members came out on different sides. Mr. Souder, on the Republican side, I thought made some very interesting statements, in light of the work that he has done in illicit drug issues, where he talked about how, sometimes, you get a little story at first and then it gets bigger and more information later on. I thought that was an observation that was very, very worthwhile.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Last question for Chairman Waxman. Last question.</s>QUESTION: It is possible that you all could come to the conclusion that one of these people was lying, and yet not make a recommendation for a perjury charge?</s>WAXMAN: It is certainly possible.</s>DAVIS: Sure.</s>WAXMAN: Thank you all very much.</s>LEMON: Henry Waxman, Tom Davis, the leading Republican on the House Oversight Committee, talking about why they held these hearings today and what they plan to do if anything in the future. In the meantime, CNN is going to break it al down for you. Our national correspondent, Gary Tuchman, he was inside of the hearing. And he will join us in the NEWSROOM in just a few minutes. Meantime, we want to ask you this. Who do you believe? That is a question we're posing in today's "Quick Vote" at CNN.com. Is Roger Clemens telling the truth or is his former's account more credible, or are neither of them telling the truth? Log on to CNN and vote at CNN.com. Here is the voter breakdown as it stands right now. Nineteen percent of you say that Roger Clemens is telling the truth. Nine percent -- I should say 36 percent believe his trainer is telling the truth. And nearly half don't believe either person is telling the truth in this case.</s>KEILAR: Topping the Political Ticker: big wins by Senator Barack Obama and John McCain in the Potomac primaries. Obama handily beat his Democratic rival, Senator Hillary Clinton, in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. And for the first time now, he leads her in the total delegate count. On the Republican side, front-runner John McCain also came out on top in those three primaries. Now, despite his losses in yesterday's Potomac primaries, Republican Mike Huckabee is still pressing ahead. He says he is staying in the race as an alternative to John McCain. Huckabee says he is -- quote -- "a solid conservative, absolute pro- life candidate." And another senior level staff member is leaving Hillary Clinton's campaign. Deputy campaign manager Mike Henry has resigned. That word coming from Clinton campaign officials, and this is the second such departure in the last few days. It was revealed Sunday that former campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle was being replaced by longtime Clinton aide Maggie Williams. A major endorsement for Hillary Clinton in a key primary state for her. Former astronaut and Ohio Democratic Senator John Glenn backing her. Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, served in the Senate for 24 years. And the Texas and Ohio primaries on March 4 are huge for Senator Clinton. A new look now on our Democratic delegate board. For the first time, Barack Obama has passed Hillary Clinton in the total delegate count. You see there he has 1,253 delegates, Clinton 1,211. The candidate who will be the nominee needs to get a total of 2,025 delegates to become the Democratic nominee. Now, let's check out Republicans. This is where the delegate count stands right now. You can see McCain 827, Huckabee 217, and then also Mitt Romney, who suspended his campaign, had more than 200, close to 300, but has since suspended his campaign, as I said. Ron Paul with 16 delegates. And the Republicans need to get -- the candidate, I should say, needs to get 1,191 delegates to win the nomination. Now, next big stops on the trail, Texas and Ohio, and you can track all of the action from the campaign trail at CNNPolitics.com, plus, of course, analysis from the best political team on television, all of that and more at CNNPolitics.com.</s>LEMON: His nickname was the Fox for his ability to stay ahead of the American and Israeli authorities hunting him for 25 years. Today, a long--wanted terror mastermind is dead, the apparent target of a car bombing on the other side of the world. Here is CNN's Beirut bureau chief, Brent Sadler.</s>BRENT SADLER, CNN BEIRUT BUREAU CHIEF (voice-over): One of the world's most wanted terror suspects, Imad Mughniyeh, targeted by a car bomb in Damascus, Syria., Mughniyeh was a top Hezbollah operation, a Lebanese mastermind, it is claimed, by Israeli and U.S. officials, behind a chain of attacks against U.S., Israeli and Jewish targets that sometimes shook the world. Harrowing images in 1983 of a truck bombing that collapsed a U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut helped shape a hasty U.S. withdrawal from the quagmire of Lebanon's sectarian civil war -- 241 U.S. civil personnel died in that attack.</s>MARC SIROIS, MANAGING EDITOR, "DAILY STAR": He was obviously a very capable operator who could plan, carry out, execute very complicated operations and obviously get away with it for a very long time.</s>SADLER: Some of Hezbollah anti-Israel terror tactics were originally inspired by Mughniyeh, it is claimed by Western security sources, and used to help wage Hezbollah's asymmetrical war against Israel, especially during the 2006 Israel/Hezbollah conflict. Mughniyeh had been in hiding for years. But his footprint, according to Western intelligence, appeared not only in Lebanon, where he was also linked to the 1985 hijacking of a TWA airliner and its passengers, but also Iran, Syria and as far afield as South America. Israel believes deadly attacks during the 1990s against its Argentine embassy and a Jewish center in Buenos Aires were also the work of Mughniyeh.</s>SIROIS: A lot of people can gain from Imad Mughniyeh's death. One could be the Syrians. The Israelis also gain. The Americans gain.</s>SADLER (on camera): Imad Mughniyeh is expected to be buried by Hezbollah with honors Thursday in the heart of the group's teeming stronghold in South Beirut, parts of which were obliterated by Israel some 18 months ago. (voice-over): A few miles away in a repeat of last year's turnout, hundreds of thousands of Lebanese are expected to commemorate the assassination of long-serving Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, a tense day of remembrance for two very different men, whose deeply divided followers have been at each other's throats for over a year, as an Hezbollah-led political opposition tries to topple a Western-backed government. Brent Sadler, CNN, Beirut.</s>LEMON: And we want to tell you that coming up in the CNN NEWSROOM, our international anchor, Mr. Jim Clancy, has covered a lot of this situation, covered a lot of the bombings that this man is responsible for. He's join us in the CNN NEWSROOM in just a moment.</s>KEILAR: And those heated baseball and steroids hearing on the Hill, they have wrapped up, and we are expecting Roger Clemens, himself, to come to the mike shortly. We are going to bring it to you right here in the CNN NEWSROOM.