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Tonight on Hardball we'll get more reax on Bush's speech from Arizona Senator John
McCain...The other day he wrote an op-ed in the Times calling for the resignation of
SEC chairman Harvey Pitt...He's also been a frequent critic of this
administration...Could he be gearing up for another presidential bid? Who knows?
Chris will try to pin him down a bit...Also, the new set is looking real cool...Sleek
design, all the bells, whistles and cool stuff you'd expect...(It will be debuted on
Monday, the 15th, 9 pm and 12 midnight et, exclusively on America's Newschannel, MSNBC)
You're also starting to see the new editorial layout of the show with Chris getting
deep into an issue up front...Plus, the new B block segment...Let us know what you
think mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday, you'll see even more changes with our new
Hardball correspondent David Shuster who'll set up the D block debates with smart
taped packages..
Back to the show at hand...In the D block debate we'll look at the latest from the
Inglewood police beating and whether it was justified...DeLacy Davis of the group
Black Cops Against Police Brutality, will join us with Joe Tocapina playing
defense...I'm expecting some fireworks from this one...As public outrage mounts,
various law enforcement agencies have opened investigations into the arrest of a
teenager who was videotaped being slammed onto a police car and punched in the face
while he was handcuffed. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020710/ap_on_re_us/police_video_12
Deputy's Report Offers Account of Beating...Inglewood: Protesters at City Hall decry
brutality. Mayor says the teen's civil rights were violated. (LA Times)
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-inglewood10jul10005053.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dcalifornia
We'll do something on the polls and more Bush reax with Gergen and Buchanan in the
buzz: Public confidence in President Bush's ability to manage the economy and look out
for the interests of ordinary Americans appears to be eroding as business scandals
mount and Democrats question his past business practices. (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/07/09/usat-poll.htm
Complete poll: http://www.usatoday.com/news/2002-07-09-poll.htm
Mortman is still playing around with topics for the B block...Should be cool...
The Hardball Briefing was compiled and edited by Dominic Bellone in Washington, DC
WashPost: Corporate abuse hard to prosecute...The world according to George W. Bush is
often portrayed as a matter of good and evil, you're either with us or against us.
Yesterday, he brought the same approach to issues of corporate ethics and
responsibility.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/778284.asp
NYT: Bush, on Wall Street, Offers Tough Talk and Softer Plans...Some of the
president's calls for change on Wall Street were endorsements of measures already sure
to be enacted, while others were efforts to jawbone corporate America.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=68&ncid=68&e=3&u=/nyt/20020710/ts_nyt/bush__on_wall_street__offers_tough_talk_and_softer_plans
As an accounting oversight bill moves toward Senate passage this week, President Bush
expressed confidence to legislative leaders Wednesday "that Congress will be able to
get this done," White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=703&e=2&u=/ap/20020710/ap_on_go_co/congress_business_fraud_7
Mr. Bush did not mention former President Bill Clinton specifically, but the
Republican National Committee yesterday called the 1990s the "era of irresponsibility"
and said, "Scandal after scandal revelation after revelation, Clinton-Gore always had
an excuse." (The Washington Times)
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020710-72630360.htm
Gallup Release: Public's Reaction to Bush Speech May Be Muted...Americans skeptical of
need for new regulations, and half say Bush is more interested in corporate well-being
than in ordinary people http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr020710.asp
Secretive Group Re-emerges With Advertising Hostile to Bush (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/10/business/10ADS.html?ex=1026964800&en=beacb1d47ecd1ea2&ei=5006&partner=ALTAVISTA1
Great Milbank satire on the beltway rhetorical wars...A Bull Market in Political
Trading...The starting gun in the race to condemn corporate wrongdoers sounded at 7:06
a.m. Tuesday in the White House driveway. It was a day of political jockeying that
summoned groans even in a capital well accustomed to such maneuvers.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46704-2002Jul9.html
Senate OKs Yucca nuclear waste site...In the climax to a 20-year-long battle, the
Senate voted Tuesday to allow much of the nation's nuclear waste to be permanently
stored inside Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/777869.asp
Judicial Watch suing Cheney...A watchdog group is accusing Vice President Dick Cheney
and Halliburton Co., the oil company he ran for five years, of accounting fraud.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/778367.asp
The State Department has a policy to approve a visa for any Saudi national unless it
already has a specific reason to deny that person entry to the United States, Congress
learned yesterday (The Washington Times)
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20020710-928325.htm
Jordan rejects the use of force against Iraq and will not allow foreign troops to use
its territory in an attack against its eastern neighbor and main trade partner, a
Cabinet minister said Wednesday. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&ncid=716&e=2&u=/ap/20020710/ap_on_re_mi_ea/jordan_us_iraq_1
An optimistic Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has suggested that a "window has
been opened" following the the first Israeli-Palestinian talks in months. Violence
continued to fuel tensions on Wednesday, although the level of conflict remained much
lower than in recent weeks. (MSNBC) http://www.msnbc.com/news/677951.asp
President Bush's proposed Homeland Security Department is beginning to take shape in
the House, where a battery of committees is moving with unusual speed to assemble
enabling legislation. (AP)
http://nandotimes.com/special_reports/terrorism/story/461407p-3692917c.html
House Republicans have placed a proposed ban of partial-birth abortion on the fast
track, holding a hearing yesterday on revamped legislation and planning to send it to
the full House in two weeks. (The Washington Times)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020710-895824.htm
Battle Emerges Over Latino Votes...Democrats, GOP Woo New Citizens (The Washington
Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46382-2002Jul9.html?referer=email
GOPAC reaches out to woo Hispanic voters (The Hill)
http://www.thehill.com/071002/gopac.shtm
GOP rejects Gephardt's blame for finance scandals...The top House Democrat yesterday
blamed the Republican revolution and deregulation for the latest series of corporate
financial scandals. (The Washington Times)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020710-12924.htm
Privatized Primaries?...Leading Democratic presidential hopefuls are contemplating a
significant break with party tradition: Financing bids for the Democratic nomination
with private donations rather than public funds. (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46614-2002Jul9.html?referer=email
Ventura hospitalized with blood clot...Minnesota governor in stable condition (MSNBC)
http://msnbc.com/news/778171.asp
Militants wire Web with links to jihad Islamic groups using Internet to recruit,
solicit money, send terrorism instructions (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020710/4259695s.htm
Augusta National Golf Club chairman William W. "Hootie" Johnson lashed out at a
national women's group yesterday for telling the club to have female members before
next year's Masters Tournament or it would pressure sponsors to pull out. The National
Council of Women's Organizations, which has about 6 million members from 160 groups,
sent a letter to Mr. Johnson on June 12 after Chairwoman Martha Burk read reports
about Augusta National not having women among its 300 members. (AP)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020710-31793246.htm
Live, From South Beach, It's Janet Reno!...The former attorney general is gettin'
jiggy. Taking a cue from "Saturday Night Live," Reno will host her own "dance party"
in hopes of raising revenue and interest in her gubernatorial campaign. (The
Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48885-2002Jul10.html
A Life All Her Own...In her autobiography, "Growing Up X," Malcolm X's daughter
Ilyasah Shabazz steps from his shadow. (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47090-2002Jul9.html?referer=email
Wednesday morning, a Capitol Hill committee is expected to quiz PBS president-CEO Pat
Mitchell and Assn. of Local Public TV Stations president-CEO John Lawson on the issue,
among other matters. (Variety)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=805&e=14&cid=854&u=/variety/20020710/tv_variety/television_pbs_dc_2
'I'm going to miss him"...Bunning on Williams: one of the great ones (The Hill)
http://www.hillnews.com/071002/open_secrets.shtm
The government-run Iraqi News Agency claims "solidarity'' with Nation of Islam leader
Louis Farrakhan, saying Farrakhan "admires'' the Iraqi people and hopes for "victory
to Iraq.'' (Chicago Sun Times) http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-farr10.html
Carter Bid Fails to Spur Venezuelan Dialogue...Opposition leaders, suspicious of the
former U.S. president's intentions, refused his invitation to meet with Presiden Hugo
Chavez in a bid to reduce tensions. (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46558-2002Jul9.html?referer=email
Wacko Jacko says he's no freako.Michael Jackson yesterday lashed out at accusations
that he's a gay child molester who bleaches his skin so he won't look black, saying
they're part of a "conspiracy" to "turn the public against him." (NY Post)
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/52165.htm
Media mogul fest kicks off in Idaho (NY Post) http://www.nypost.com/business/52129.htm
Candidates turn to e-mail strategy...Campaigns seek new ways to target voters (MSNBC)
http://msnbc.com/news/772125.asp?0dm=C24FN
Opinion/Editorial
Getting down to business...President Bush's version of corporate ethics is a case of
'Do as I say, not as I do,' writes William Saletan in Slate.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/778040.asp
The Washington Times: Corporate responsibilty...The recent WorldCom-Arthur Andersen $4
billion accounting debacle pushed Congress beyond the tipping point. The president's
speech yesterday is in danger of being overwhelmed by a tsunami of bipartisan
congressional indignation. http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20020710-85016654.htm
The New York Times: The Corporate Scandals: Cleaning Up...President Bush's address to
corporate America was disappointingly devoid of tough proposals for forceful reform.
http://nytimes.com/2002/07/10/opinion/10WED1.html
Tampa Tribune: Much Uncertainty Remains About Extent Of Business Fraud
http://www.tampatribune.com/News/MGATBWLBG3D.html
The Wall Street Journal: The November Markets...Bush joins the Democrats in playing
politics with the corporate scandals.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110001968
Blankley: Make safe slowly...Congress should not rush Homeland Security
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20020710-87376039.htm
The Washington Post: Mr. Moran's Bad Credit
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46958-2002Jul9.html
Doonesbury http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/2002/07/10/
Mallard Fillmore http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mallard.asp
Steiner http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/steiner.htm
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