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Hardball airs tonight and every week night on MSNBC at 7, 11 & 4 am et...4, 8 & 1 am out West... Tonight we're back in the Battle for the White House with Carol Moseley-Braun....Live from Harvard...She's a long shot but that's the beauty of our system: Everyone at least gets a chance.. Hardball- Battle for the White House: Carol Moseley Braun http://www.msnbc.com/news/994471.asp Democrat Carol Moseley Braun has hired former National Organization for Women president Patricia Ireland to head her presidential campaign amid questions about the future of the long-shot bid. Braun, the only woman in the nine-way field, lost two key advisers on Friday (AP) http://apnews.myway.com/article/20031117/D7USF5TO0.html Don't forget to check out Chris' special tonight... Matthews's one-hour show, "JFK: The Day That Changed America," at 9 tonight on MSNBC, is a sensitive evocation of those days, of a weekend when we realized how unbelievable reality could be. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50191-2003Nov16.html Howie does a decent write up of Chris today....Kurtz: Sunday Best...To Chris Matthews, whose bellowing style tends to trample his guests, the new forum is like moving from a barroom to a high-toned brunch. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49956-2003Nov16.html Dominic Bellone wrote, compiled and edited The Briefing from Washington, DC CIA: No evidence of WMD transfer...Agency has no proof that Saddam gave weapons to terrorists (The Washington Post) http://www.msnbc.com/news/994201.asp?0dm=V23EN Howard Dean extended his double-digit lead over rival John Kerry among likely voters in New Hampshire's Democratic presidential primary, according to a poll that showed Wesley Clark losing ground. (AP) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=703&e=4&u=/ap/20031117/ap_on_el_pr/new_hampshire_poll Dean Must Show Strength, Iowa Governor Says...Vilsack Contends Candidate May Be Vulnerable to GOP Criticism That He Is Not Tough Enough (The Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49845-2003Nov16.html Democrat Howard Dean, in a close battle with Dick Gephardt in Iowa, launched a television commercial Monday that takes his rival to task for backing President Bush on the war against Iraq. (AP) http://apnews.myway.com/article/20031117/D7USG13O0.html Hillary Rodham Clinton had hundreds of her supporters glowing at a book signing in West Des Moines on Sunday..."I had goose bumps when I walked away," said Jennie Salvato of Des Moines after Clinton autographed her book. (The Des Moines Register) http://desmoinesregister.com/news/stories/c4789004/22779233.html Retired Army general Wesley K. Clark agreed to take a brief hiatus from his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination to go to the Netherlands in mid-December and testify at the United Nations war crimes trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic (AP) http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/11/17/clark_set_to_testify_at_trial_of_milosevic/ Arnold Schwarzenegger was upbeat and in a joking mood as he met friends and supporters late on Sunday on the eve of becoming California governor after a remarkable career change. (Reuters) http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=EVKRMILLGGMNWCRBAELCFFA?type=topNews&storyID=3834265 In a departure from recent inaugurations, there will be no big parties and no gala balls after Arnold Schwarzenegger takes the oath of office as California's 38th governor on Monday. (AP) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20031117/ap_on_re_us/schwarzenegger_inauguration Organized Iraq rebels coordinate strikes...Iraqi resistance fighters in just six months have gone from loose-knit bands of Saddam Hussein followers to organized cells that communicate with each other and carefully pick bombing targets to drive a wedge into the U.S.-led coalition. (The Washington Times) http://washingtontimes.com/national/20031117-121127-4225r.htm U.S. puts on show of force in Tikrit...Mortar and tank fire lit up the night sky over Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit Monday in a show of force to intimidate the resistance, while troops angered residents by mounting their biggest-ever hunt for weapons and explosives in a middle class Bagh http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/870749.asp Saddam 'is around,' Bremer says...The U.S. administrator in Iraq suggested Monday that a new audiotape purported to be that of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was legitimate, but that in any case it was simply a "voice from the wilderness." http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/993053.asp It's so much more than toothpaste now...When George W. Bush and Tony Blair first met at the U.S. presidential retreat at Camp David, the folksy right-leaning Texas rancher and the sophisticated left-leaning London lawyer seemed like the oddest couple ever to head up the transatlantic special relationship. (Reuters) http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=3834248 'Enemy combatant' fights anti-terror law...A federal appeals court was to hear arguments Monday in the case of an American challenging the government's authority to indefinitely jail him and deny him access to a lawyer under anti-terror laws. http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/994528.asp Howard: 2004: Wishful Thinking?...The latest Hillary-for-president scenario http://www.msnbc.com/news/994172.asp?0dm=s11Ck Rush Limbaugh returned to radio Monday after what he called "five intense weeks" of rehab for an addiction to painkillers, promising listeners "even more honesty to come." (AP) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031117/ap_on_en_ot/rush_limbaugh_returns_4 Milbank: Prez in Topless Tabloid...London Paper Nabs Rare Bush Exclusive http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43228-2003Nov14.html Opinion/Editorial Saletan: Howard Dean's Quagmire...Saletan: Howard Dean's Quagmire If you like postwar Iraq, you'll love the rest of Howard Dean's presidential campaign. http://slate.msn.com/id/2091141/ Barnicle: Our video-game view of war blurs picture http://www.nydailynews.com/news/col/story/137134p-121935c.html Doonesbury http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/ ========================================= This email is never sent unsolicited. You have received The Hardball Briefing Newsletter because you subscribed to it or, someone forwarded it to you. 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