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California Recall Election

Aired October 02, 2003 - 14:02   ET

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

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


KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Up first this hour, man behaving badly. That's Arnold Schwarzenegger's take on past encounters with women on rowdy movie sets, though the actor turned politician insists a lot of what the media is reporting today is not true. "The Los Angeles Times" reports a half dozen women claim Schwarzenegger groped them offer the past three decades, had a campaign stop in San Diego today. Schwarzenegger apologized for behavior, he says, he once considered playful, but now understands was offensive.
CNN's Bob Franken live from L.A. with the latest -- Bob.

BOB FRANKEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, it's interesting to watch the evolution of the response from his campaign. His spokesman, Sean Walsh, originally said the story was incorrect. He also suggested the Democrats were part of a campaign to undermine Schwarzenegger in the closing days of the campaign, something the Democrats, by the way, absolutely deny, saying they had nothing to do with the information that was in "The L.A. Times."

When Schwarzenegger appeared at what was the kickoff of a four day bus tour, appeared in San Diego at first stop, this was the first order of business, and he gave what amounts to a convoluted response.

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ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER (R), CALIF. GOV. CANDIDATE: ... can see through the trash politics. Yes. Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. A lot of what you see in the stories is not true.

But at the same time, I have to tell you they always say that wherever there's smoke, there's fire. That is true. So what I want to say to you is that, yes, I have behaved badly sometimes, yes, it is true that it was on rowdy movie sets, and I have done things that I thought then when was playful, but now I recognize that I have offended people, and to those people that I have offended, I want to say to them, I'm deeply sorry about that, and I apologize, because this is not what I tried to do.

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FRANKEN: Well, the question, of course, is will Schwarzenegger be harmed by this? Will it have any influence on the fact that, according to the polls at least, he is going strongly into the last days of the campaign, leading in the campaign while Governor Gray Davis is losing in his campaign to avoid recall?

Kyra. PHILLIPS: All right, Bob Franken, the drama never ends. Thank you.

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Aired October 2, 2003 - 14:02   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Up first this hour, man behaving badly. That's Arnold Schwarzenegger's take on past encounters with women on rowdy movie sets, though the actor turned politician insists a lot of what the media is reporting today is not true. "The Los Angeles Times" reports a half dozen women claim Schwarzenegger groped them offer the past three decades, had a campaign stop in San Diego today. Schwarzenegger apologized for behavior, he says, he once considered playful, but now understands was offensive.
CNN's Bob Franken live from L.A. with the latest -- Bob.

BOB FRANKEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, it's interesting to watch the evolution of the response from his campaign. His spokesman, Sean Walsh, originally said the story was incorrect. He also suggested the Democrats were part of a campaign to undermine Schwarzenegger in the closing days of the campaign, something the Democrats, by the way, absolutely deny, saying they had nothing to do with the information that was in "The L.A. Times."

When Schwarzenegger appeared at what was the kickoff of a four day bus tour, appeared in San Diego at first stop, this was the first order of business, and he gave what amounts to a convoluted response.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER (R), CALIF. GOV. CANDIDATE: ... can see through the trash politics. Yes. Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. A lot of what you see in the stories is not true.

But at the same time, I have to tell you they always say that wherever there's smoke, there's fire. That is true. So what I want to say to you is that, yes, I have behaved badly sometimes, yes, it is true that it was on rowdy movie sets, and I have done things that I thought then when was playful, but now I recognize that I have offended people, and to those people that I have offended, I want to say to them, I'm deeply sorry about that, and I apologize, because this is not what I tried to do.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

FRANKEN: Well, the question, of course, is will Schwarzenegger be harmed by this? Will it have any influence on the fact that, according to the polls at least, he is going strongly into the last days of the campaign, leading in the campaign while Governor Gray Davis is losing in his campaign to avoid recall?

Kyra. PHILLIPS: All right, Bob Franken, the drama never ends. Thank you.

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