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Hardball airs tonight on MSNBC at 7p, 11p & 4a ET & 4p, 8p & 1a PT Find MSNBC on your TV http://www.msnbc.com/CableOperator.asp MSNBC also is on your XM satellite radio on channel 130 Big news inside the beltway as Colin Powell resigns from the cabinet...We all knew it was coming but not necessarily this soon...Who'll succeed him? A Neocon hawk or a moderate? His pick may be a telltale sign of where the war in Iraq & war on terror will go...Will the religious right call in their mark as the feminists did with Madeleine Albright? We'll get the story behind the story with Andrea and then talk to one of the Neocon's top intellectual leaders, Richard Perle... We'll also get a report from Time Mag's Michael Ware, reporting from the frontlines of Fallujah... Then in the back half we'll get into our highly toutly and much promo-ed "The Passion Of The Right" special with Newsweek's Jon Meacham, Pat Buchanan, Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention and Jim Wallis of "Call to Renewal", an umbrella group of Christian groups dedicated to fighting poverty...We'll look at the role of religion and faith in politics and the Bush administration...Please join us... Powell quits as secretary of state; will serve until successor is OK'd...Resignation submitted Friday to Bush http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6492238/ National security adviser Condoleezza Rice emerged as the likely candidate on Monday to replace resigning Secretary of State Colin Powell, Republican sources said. (Reuters) http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=UZWVM5X1LHKJQCRBAE0CFEY?type=topNews&storyID=6816698 Dominic Bellone wrote, compiled and edited The Hardball Briefing.. Did you see Carville bust an egg on his face yesterday?? Bob Cox has the video (a hat tip my friend) CLICK ON THE PIC http://www.thenationaldebate.com/blog/archives/2004/11/carville_delive.html Moran provides instant slice and dice of Powell departure: Powell leaves an unfinished legacy...Iraq may yet prove 'the Powell doctrine' correct http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6493449/ Shocker: A man has apparently tried to set himself on fire on the north side of the northwest gate of the White House around 2 p.m. Monday. (WTOP Radio) http://www.wtop.com/index.php?nid=25&sid=331631 Energy, education, agriculture secretaries resigning...Names have already surfaced to replace Abraham, Paige and Veneman http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6492183/ Iraq fighting spreads far beyond Fallujah...U.S. says 20 insurgents killed in Baqouba; situation 'tense' in Mosul (MSNBC) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6403689/ Trouble spots dot Iraqi landscape...Attacks erupt away from fighting in Fallujah (The Washington Post) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6486511/ U.S. forces battle insurgents in Mosul...U.S. commander predicts 'some hard fighting' in next few days (Reuters) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6491126/ Iraq's most feared terror leader told insurgents in an audiotape found Monday on an Islamic Web site that the Americans will move on other guerrilla strongholds after Fallujah and urged the guerrillas to strike first. (AP) http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041115/D86CFVUG0.html U.S. Military Death Toll in Fallujah at 38 (AP) http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041114/D86BS9V80.html Fallujah's masked fighters have been fighting house to house, firing from rooftops and mosques with a seemingly unending supply of firepower, wounded U.S. servicemen said Monday, recounting tough urban combat in the Iraqi insurgent stronghold. (AP) http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041115/D86CBUU81.html Specter on the line as Congress returns...Must make case for becoming Senate Judiciary Committee chair (AP) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6485741/ For Specter, a Showdown Over Judiciary Chairmanship...GOP Senator Battles Conservatives Angered by His Comments (The Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A49975-2004Nov14?language=printer CIA veterans clash with new chief...Senior officers fear Goss too isolated; resignations mount (The Washington Post) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6478618/ President Bush on Monday tapped the chairman of his re-election campaign, Ken Mehlman, to head the Republican Party. (AP) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/11/15/national1244EST0549.DTL&type=printable As Bill Clinton's library is unveiled at a gala opening this week, one thing is certain: His messy legacy will be on full display...One alcove will be dedicated to impeachment, and organizers have promised not to sidestep even Monica Lewinsky or Paula Jones. The 58-year-old political superstar is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of visitors a year to his library. (AP) http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041115/D86CB9EG0.html William Safire, the conservative voice on the New York Times Op-Ed page for more than three decades, will end his regular column in early 2005, a Times spokeswoman said Monday. (Editor & Publisher) http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000719411 Opinion/Editorial Corn: Powell Is Out...His punishment should be four more years. And--yikes!--is the infamous Elliott Abrams a possible successor? http://thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=2005 Pat: How goes the culture war? http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41456 Novak: The Senate vs. the U.N. http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak15.html Ilana Mercer: Symbolic Savage: Laying to rest some liberal lies about Yasser Arafat http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=7390 ========================================= This email is never sent unsolicited. You have received The Hardball Briefing Newsletter because you subscribed to it or, someone forwarded it to you. To remove yourself from the list (or to add yourself to the list if this message was forwarded to you) simply go to http://www.msnbc.com/tools/newstools/e/emailextra.asp?nfeature=19 Microsoft Corporation - One Microsoft Way - Redmond, WA 98052 MSN PRIVACY STATEMENT http://privacy.msn.com