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First off, Caddell's in the House tonight...That's reason enough to watch tonight, if
not set the VCR...Caddell's fired up about the oil angle in Iraq ("I'm gonna go nuts
tonight")...Scarborough and Molinari are in the lineup as well...We have a special
treat for you in the back half which I'll get to in a minute...
We'll lead off with this new idea of exile for Saddam...Rummy floated it yesterday and
Condi and Powell commented on it as well...Essentially it would be a deal for him to
voluntarily step down and avoid war crimes prosecution and all out war...In addition
to the latest Iraq news, we'll also get into the news of Libya now chairing the UN
Commission on Human Rights...Yes, that wasn't a typo...Libya
Plus, today is MLK day...We'll take a look at it in the context of affirmative action
and the brewing divisions within the Bush administration on the Michigan admissions
policy...Late Friday Condi came out and said race should be "a factor" in considering
applicants, plus Colin Powell said yesterday he disagreed with Bush's position on the
Michigan case...Powell has offered differing visions of how to handle Saddam as
well...Is he off the reservation?
In the back half we'll play cuts from a New Hampshire focus group of voters Luntz
conducted recently...The big questions: What's the mood of the country?, Where do
voters stand on the big issues of the day? And most important, what do voters want to
see in a presidential candidate? I urge all those working for presidential candidates
out there to pay close attention...
Howard and Luntz will slice and dice the focus group clips...
Btw, Chris is in New Orleans at the NAPTE (National Association of Television Program
Executives) conference so you'll notice a different set tonight....Pls don't be
alarmed...
Dominic Bellone wrote, compiled and edited The Briefing in Washington, DC
Latest rundown of WH '04 polls: http://www.pollingreport.com/wh04dem.htm
Presidential Hopefuls Court Iowa...Democrats Signal Problem for Gephardt (The
Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15541-2003Jan19.html
Former Colorado Sen. Gary Hart says he has tried very hard to contribute to the
country since scandal drove him from the 1988 presidential race when he was the
Democratic front-runner (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030120/ap_on_el_pr/democrats_2004_5
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow urged world leaders Monday to settle their
differences peacefully and avoid a painful war. (AP)
President Bush, evoking the memory of Martin Luther King Jr., proclaimed Monday "there
is still work to do" to fulfill the assassinated civil rights leader's dream of
equality in America. (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=544&e=1&u=/ap/20030120/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said yesterday that he disagrees with President
Bush's position on an affirmative action case before the Supreme Court, as the White
House called for more money for historically black colleges. (AP)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15465-2003Jan19.html
President Bush's two top black advisers yesterday split on a university program that
gives special bonus points to minority applicants - Secretary of State Colin Powell
said he backs it, while National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said it has
"problems." (NY Post) http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/66993.htm
Growing calls for Saddam's exile...As thousands of U.S. and British forces pour into
the gulf region, top officials from both nations are endorsing an alternative to war
-- exile for Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/842500.asp
Officials Support Exile for Hussein...Top Bush administration officials said Sunday
they would welcome exile for Saddam Hussein, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
signaled the U.S. might allow Hussein to escape war crimes prosecution if he
voluntarily steps down (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15542-2003Jan19.html
Libya, under fire for years from human rights activists, was overwhelmingly elected
Monday to chair the top United Nations' rights body after the United States broke with
tradition and forced a vote. (Reuters)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030120/wl_nm/rights_commission_dc_6
As the Bush administration moves into what officials call the last phase of the
showdown with Iraq, the United States is undertaking a vigorous military and
intelligence effort to track, and possibly kill, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. (USA
Today) http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2003-01-19-bush-saddam-usat_x.htm
Iraq promised U.N. weapons experts more help Monday, saying it was even forming its
own teams of inspectors to search for banned weapons. (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=ZRGV034NSULZQCRBAEKSFFA?type=topNews&storyID=2073900
Secretary of State Colin Powell implored other nations Monday to face up to Saddam
Hussein, saying the world body "cannot shrink" from its responsibility to disarm Iraq.
(AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=540&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20030120/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_iraq
Newsweek Poll: Bush Loses Ground...The majority of Americans are sympathetic to the
president's position on affirmative action, but he is losing support in his handling
of many other issues-from the economy to terrorism
http://www.msnbc.com/news/861124.asp
Howard's latest: Spinning Race...He speechified to the right. He briefed to the
middle. And he sought cover by trying to bring in Condi Rice. The color of racial
politics http://msnbc.com/news/861383.asp?0cv=KA01#BODY
7 terror suspects held after U.K. raid...Police arrested seven terror suspects early
Monday after raiding a mosque in north London in an operation linked to the recent
discovery of the deadly poison ricin, police said.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/860684.asp
Osama bin Laden has issued a new statement urging Muslims to bury their differences
and unite to fight the "external enemy," according to a report published in a leading
London-based Arabic newspaper on Sunday. (Reuters)
http://channels.netscape.com/ns/news/story.jsp?floc=FF-PLS-PLS&id=01191931000294133&dt=20030119193100&w=RTR&coview=
North Korea mulls Russian proposal...A Russian envoy proposing a plan to resolve North
Korea's nuclear dispute with the United States reportedly met on Monday with the
North's reclusive leader, Kim Jong Il, to discuss the offer.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/850567.asp
Thirty years after the U.S. Supreme Court made it legal for American women to end
unwanted pregnancies, activists on both sides of the debate are talking about a
turning tide on the explosive issue, and the reason is simple political arithmetic.
(Reuters) http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=2074430
Lambro: The Democratic presidential candidates must fashion a more conservative
message that appeals to the South if they are to beat President Bush in 2004, several
state Democratic chairmen said.
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20030120-67387474.htm
As they begin their fifth two-year congressional session in control of the House, some
of the practices Republicans attacked in 1994 after 40 years of Democratic rule don't
seem so bad after all. (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-01-19-gop-revolution-usat_x.htm
Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter was secretly prosecuted in Albany County in
2001 after he was snared in an Internet sex sting operation, law enforcement sources
told the Daily News.
http://www.nydailynews.com/01-19-2003/news/wn_report/story/52737p-49424c.html
Content with past, Harris moves to Hill...No matter what else new Republican Rep.
Katherine Harris does with her life, her role in the 2000 presidential election will
almost certainly be in the lead paragraph of her obituary. (The Washington Times)
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20030120-22356204.htm
Look Away, Dixieland...Bush may have rebuked Lott for his praise of Strom Thurmond,
but the President recently revived a practice of paying homage to an even greater
champion of the Confederacy (Time Mag)
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030127-409510,00.html
George Clooney says President Bush would fit in just fine with New Jersey's favorite
crime family...."The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos," he tells
Charlie Rose tonight in a full-bore assault on Dubya's foreign policy. (Rush & Molloy)
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/52957p-49641c.html
Redford: Throughout his career, Robert Redford has always been as involved in
political causes as he has in film, and politics are very much on his mind these days
as he prepares his 30-years-later sequel to "The Candidate" and confronts what he
views as "threats around the edges" to Americans' freedom of expression and other
basic rights and values.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=598&u=/nm/20030120/film_nm/sundance_redford_1&printer=1
Ariel Sharon's official campaign T-shirts have been linked to a terrorist group that
wants to wipe out Israel, it was revealed last night. (NY Post)
http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/66979.htm
Opinion/Editorial
Nobles & Knaves: http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20030118-1409096.htm
Barnicle: If hard work & honesty only paid as well
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/col/story/52660p-49355c.html
The Washington Times: Martin Luther King Jr. Day...Martin Luther King Jr.'s ideas are
as alive - and controversial - today as they were four decades ago, when he expressed
them. http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20030120-30769282.htm
Peggy: A Tough Roe...Will the Democratic Party be abortion's final victim?
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110002936
Dan's 'Closing Argument'...Why it's crazy to allow a camera into the jury deliberation
room in a capital murder trial http://msnbc.com/news/844141.asp
The Kurds and Saddam...The Kurds of northern Iraq are armed and anti-Saddam, so why
doesn't the U.S. like them more? Why is Washington not including the Kurds as a major
part of its plans to topple Saddam? By Patrick Cockburn.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/860895.asp
Zakaria: It's Time to Talk to the World...Rising anti-Americanism makes it more and
more difficult for foreign politicians to back U.S. actions, even when they agree with
them http://msnbc.com/news/861321.asp?0cv=CA01
Bartley: The Dawning Bush Establishment? Republican dominance may be in the offing for
a long time. http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/rbartley/?id=110002935
Conason: Republicans Scrap Old Vows As Media Naps
http://www2.observer.com/observer/pages/conason.asp
Novak: Democrats slow-walking to 2004
http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak20.html
Doonesbury http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-01-19-gop-revolution-usat_x.htm
Mallard http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mallard.asp
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