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...Daschle, 51, is being magnanimous these days, it's only because he wants to help Trent Lott find a dignified way to end the proceedings. He knows that Lott wants it to be over but that he will lose part of his caucus if he tries to end it too fast. "This plane has two co-pilots, and I'm going to try to help him land it safely," Daschle told TIME...
...never convict, no matter what the evidence. Daschle buried the idea, but not before Byrd took to the well of the Senate to accuse the White House of jury tampering. When Daschle, who has denounced Clinton's behavior as well as the White House legal team's hairsplitting, joined Lott in fashioning a blueprint for the proceedings that was ratified by a unanimous Senate vote, Clinton was miffed, wishing instead that Daschle had led the kind of rock throwing that had so benefited the President in the House. "The President thought it was a major stab in the back," says...
...Daschle and Lott slogged through two days of intense negotiations last week, they tried everything they could think of to work out their differences. At issue: whether to make the videotape of the depositions public, whether to fix a firm end date for the trial, whether to allow a vote on a "finding of fact" resolution that would in effect seal Clinton's guilt without convicting him of impeachable offenses. The two leaders talked on the phone. They passed notes. And on Thursday morning they met for 90 minutes in Daschle's conference room. Along the way, they held...
...fine feeling between Lott and Daschle may not last. Before the impeachment trial comes to a close, bitter questions must be resolved. Will Republicans vote to release the videotapes? Will they end up siding with the House managers and bring live witnesses into the well of the Senate? "Our Republican colleagues are going to have to weigh that this is becoming a Republican trial," says Daschle. "We've tried to be as helpful as we can, but there comes a time when you have to draw a line...
...House managers will do everything they can to push across that boundary, confronting Lott with another set of difficult choices as he tries to grind the process to a halt without angering G.O.P. Senators who feel the prosecution has been slighted. Rather than calling the 15 witnesses the managers wanted, the prosecutors were limited to what Henry Hyde called a "pitiful three." In the crunch, Betty Currie was dropped from the list in exchange for White House aide Sidney Blumenthal. Though calling Currie was once thought to be central to proving the obstruction case, some managers decided the spectacle...