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The Hardball Briefing On MSNBC
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Well, tonight's the big night folks...This is what we've all been waiting for: The big
MSNBC and Hardball rollout...Yes, you'll see the new set. Yes, you'll see the Shuster
debate package and yes, you'll see the souped up Mortman spiel in B...Have you ever
had a wonderful relationship with someone and grown to love them more as you learn
more about them? That's what's going to happen tonight with you and Hardball...Chris
will explain the details up top so don't be late...Actually, as we discussed last
week, your set will be tuned to MSNBC already because of Nachman @ 7 pm et (special
guest: Don Imus) and Donahue @ 8 pm et
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We'll kick it off with Senators Kerry and Hatch about on the Hill's reaction to Bush's
corporate responsibility agenda (The market is tanking today folks, btw) and Bush's
foreign policy...Dig the piece in today's Post below where Kerry take's the harshest
shots yet from a Dem...We'll then go to Howard on the political state of affairs in
this country: The Left, the Right and everything in between...Mortman and Chris are
still working out the topics for B but I'm sure he'll throw in some Traficant sound
who is testifying today in front of the House ethics panel...
We'll do the "Should their be more regulations on corporate America?" debate with "The
Donald" (Trump, not Rumsfeld) and NY Attorney General Elliot Spitzer....Peggy will do
the Buzz on Bush's "the corporate world is not black and white" statement on some
other topics I'm putting together...
This really is "must see" tv tonight...Pls do join us..Dominic Bellone, Hardball
Briefing Editor...
Howard's latest: Harkening Back to Texas...The market's tumbling, confidence is soft
and Bush is facing questions about what he did and when he did it long ago. The battle
to calm investors, rein in CEOs-and keep the past at bay.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/779608.asp
A great backgrounder for Kerry: Democrats Speak Up On Foreign Policy...After months of
hesitancy, leading Democrats have begun to challenge President Bush directly on his
conduct of foreign affairs, offering pointed criticisms of his policies on the Middle
East and even the war in Afghanistan.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4354-2002Jul14.html?referer=email
Peggy will be in the F buzz block...Here's her latest piece: Privileged to Serve...In
this war, not only the sons of the poor are enlisting.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110001975
The D Block block debate will be Spitzer and Trump...Disclosures keep surfacing about
private meetings between the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission and chief
executive officers of companies being investigated by the agency. (AP)
http://tampatrib.com/businessnews/MGAUP3D3H1D.html
How Corrupt Is Wall Street?...New revelations have investors baying for blood, and the
scandal is widening (Business Week mag)
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_19/b3782001.htm
Newsweek Poll: It's Time to Get Tough...Nearly half of Americans say the president's
proposed corporate reforms aren't harsh enough (Newsweek)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/779901.asp?0cb=-71793481
John Walker Lindh, an American captured by U.S. forces during the war in Afghanistan,
pleaded guilty on Monday to aiding the Taliban fundamentalist movement and carrying
explosives while doing so. (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=topnews&StoryID=1201814
President Bush remains optimistic over U.S. economic prospects despite a share-price
slide linked to accounting scandals, the White House said on Monday in suggesting the
decline was part of a market cycle. (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=topnews&StoryID=1201460
WorldCom Ignored Workers' Concerns...Memos Show Challenge To Accounting in 2000 (The
Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4433-2002Jul14.html
Vice President Dick Cheney's former company is being vigorously investigated by the
Securities and Exchange Commission, which will take enforcement action if needed, the
agency chairman says (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=513&ncid=703&e=3&u=/ap/20020715/ap_on_go_ot/business_scandals_73
Sticky Business...With the stock tanking and the SEC looking into accounting practices
at the company he used to run, Cheney has been noticeably absent from the debate over
how to fix corporate America (Newsweek) http://www.msnbc.com/news/780130.asp
4 found guilty of Pearl slaying...Four Islamic militants were convicted Monday morning
of the kidnap and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl after a trial
that fanned the anger of Islamic hard-liners who accused Pakistan's government of
betraying them.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/768163.asp
Pakistan braces for trial backlash...In Pakistan, the guilty verdict in the Daniel
Pearl murder trial could have dangerous repercussions. NBC's Ned Colt reports
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/780473.asp
Report: Bin Laden alive, wounded...Osama bin Laden is alive and in good health after
being injured in an attack on his base in Afghanistan in December, an Arab journalist
with close ties to the Saudi-born dissident's associates said on Monday.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/627086.asp
Allies to Press Administration On Middle East...Arab Leaders Hope to Soften Bush
Stance on Palestinians (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4408-2002Jul14.html
Many Palestinians Want Reform, but on Their Terms...Critics of U.S. Plan Say Change
Can Come Only From Within (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4382-2002Jul14.html?referer=email
Senate Vote Spotlights Audit Reform and Sarbanes...U.S. Sen. Paul S. Sarbanes was
sandwiched among 20 reporters near the Senate chamber last week -- his careful,
owl-like visage blinking in the unfamiliar attention -- when an aide broke in, saying
it was time to go. (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4424-2002Jul14.html
Questions about President Bush's and Vice President Cheney's past business practices
are distracting the White House and threaten to overtake Bush's corporate reform
proposals (USA Today) http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020712/4268883s.htm
In an uphill fight to keep from becoming only the second House member expelled from
Congress since the Civil War, Rep. James Traficant opens his second defense this week
against the bribery, tax evasion and racketeering charges he was convicted of in
court. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=512&ncid=703&e=6&u=/ap/20020715/ap_on_go_co/traficant_2
Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, Connecticut Democrat, said yesterday that the U.S. economy
will suffer unless President Bush and Vice President Richard B. Cheney release more
details of their actions as private-sector corporate executives. (The Washington
Times) http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020715-88137934.htm
Pfizer to purchase Pharmacia...Pfizer Inc. agreed to buy Pharmacia Corp. for stock
valued at $60 billion, giving what is already the world's biggest drug company full
rights to the blockbuster arthritis drug Celebrex.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/780428.asp
Fiery civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton came to Los Angeles on Sunday after the
videotaped beating of a black teen-ager by a white police officer in nearby Inglewood,
adding his voice to the call for new laws to give more civilian control over law
enforcement (Reuters)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020714/ts_nm/crime_police_dc_1
Military and political opponents of the Iraqi regime appealed to President Saddam
Hussein's officer corps yesterday to refuse to fight any uprising or a U.S.-led
invasion force. (The Washington Times)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20020715-67395824.htm
DNC Faces Staff Changes...Less than four months out from the midterm elections and the
likely implementation of the McCain-Feingold bill, the Democratic National Committee's
top staffer is moving to the private sector. (Roll Call)
http://www.rollcall.com/pages/politics/00/2002/07/pol0715b.html
Kurtz: Born-Again Reformers...Politicians Find Their Inner Nader as Corporate
Collapses Hit Main Street
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6011-2002Jul15.html
Watts Offers Parting Advice to GOP Leaders (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4268-2002Jul14.html
Advocates for religious and legal "marriage" for homosexuals are moving toward their
goal, racing against a countermove to amend the U.S. Constitution to say marriage is
between a man and woman (The Washington Times)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020715-22306932.htm
Heard on the Hill: Mixing Shakespeare with a streetfighter's stiletto, Senate
Appropriations Chairman Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) ripped into Bush official Mitch Daniels
in a stunningly harsh floor speech Friday morning.
http://www.rollcall.com/pages/columns/hoh/
On Top of the News...His Future at NBC Assured, Brian Williams Isn't Letting
Succession Go to His Head (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4376-2002Jul14.html
Harper on Media: Phil Donahue is back on the airwaves for the first time in six years,
ready to rumble on MSNBC, which tonight debuts a new prime time line-up of talkers,
screamers and mellifluous persuaders.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020715-88137934.htm
Opinion/Editorial
Truth or lies...In today's edition of Altercation, Eric Alterman looks at George W.
Bush's response to corporate misconduct. Is this the right room for an argument?
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/752664.asp
Broder: The confidence crisis that has overtaken the Bush administration has many
dimensions, but at bottom, it comes down to a single question: Can you take this
president's words seriously?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63914-2002Jul12.html
Fund's Diary: Not Just an Average Joe...A black Republican may give Rep. Eliot Engel a
run for his money. http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110001992
State of Embarrassment...An American journalist is detained because he questioned
Foggy Bottom's Saudi policies. (The Wall Street Journal)
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110001991
Novak: The criminalization of business
http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak15.html
Hentoff: What kind of Palestinian state?
http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20020715-71303000.htm
Conason: Corporate Rogues Count on the G.O.P. Corporate Rogues Count on the G.O.P.
Doonesbury http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/
Mallard Fillmore http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mallard.asp
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