Justice Department Looks to Question Roger Clemens
KEILAR: The stakes just got higher for baseball great Roger Clemens. Two prominent members of Congress have asked the Justice Department to investigate whether Clemens lied when he appeared before their committee. Clemens, as you know, repeatedly denied ever taking steroids or hormone growth hormone earlier this month, while sitting just a few feet from his former trainer, Brian McNamee, who swore that he had given Clemens performance-enhancing drugs.</s>ROGER CLEMENS, BASEBALL PITCHER: I'm not saying Senator Mitchell's report is entirely wrong. I am saying that Brian McNamee's statements are about me are wrong. Let me be clear, I have never taken steroids or HGH.</s>KEILAR: And our justice correspondent, Keli Arena joining me now from Washington. So, Keli, what does this all mean?</s>KELLI ARENA, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT: Well, Brianna, the Department of Justice has confirmed for CNN that it did receive a request from Congressmen Henry Waxman to look into whether Roger Clemens lied under oath to Congress. And the Justice Department says it's reviewing that request. Now, as you said, Clemens did testify before a House committee that he never used steroids, never used human growth hormone. Again, that was in direct contradiction to what his trainer, Brian McNamee, told the very same committee. The Justice Department says that it may decide to refer that letter from the Congressman to the FBI to investigate. Now it did that with a similar letter regarding veteran shortstop Miguel Tejada. Now, Brianna, it's very important to note that when you testify before Congress under oath, it's just the same as doing it in a court of law. And if you do lie, you can be charged with perjury or making false statements. But just the fact that an investigation is opened does not, by any means, mean that there will be charges. That decision will be made by the Justice Department somewhere down the line.</s>KEILAR: All right. So it could be a whole lot of nothing there. It's certainly a possibility. Keli Arena, our justice correspondent, there in Washington. We also want to tell our viewers, we have some new video, if we can bring that up. We have some video. This is Roger Clemens. He's at spring training right now. This is video from today coming from our affiliate, WESH. You can see Clemens there. He just got into his car in Kissimmee, Florida at spring training. So he's going about business as usual, at least for right now.</s>LEMON: All right. Big car?</s>KEILAR: Big car.</s>LEMON: Yes. Barack Obama picks up a big endorsement. The latest from the wooing of the superdelegates. That's next.