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Tonight is going to be an action packed thriller of an hour on Hardball...I guarantee
it...We lead with the troubling threat level this country finds itself in
today...Orange color threat ("high risk") is just under the highest threat level of
red ("severe")...No wonder I've seen more armed cops on the Metro subway this
week...Terrorism analyst Steve Emerson and fmr. NYC police Commish Bernard Kerik weigh
in on what it all means and how you should change your lifestyle...
Then in the B/C blocks we'll lighten things up a bit, (or darken them depending on
your view) by looking at Michael Jackson's latest meltdown...Has Jacko truly gone
wacko?? They did that big two hour expose last night (you only saw an hour because the
second hour coincided with Hardball)...We'll show you what you missed and talk to Dr.
Drew Pinsky, Toure, a writer for Rolling Stone (the mag, not the band and yes he only
has one name) and PR crisis management guru, Eric Dezenhall...
In the slammin' back half we'll melt the east coast snow storm with the kinda heat
we're bringing....Caddell, Fund, Jeffers & Dornan...Folks, it just doesn't get any
hotter than that and these guys come to play...We'll do the Iraq/North Korea round up
in D...NBC-WSJ polls...Edwards on Clinton from last night in E....and Clinton on Larry
last night in F...We'll play the sots (sound on tape) and get panel reax...Folks, I
talked to Caddell yesterday and he was spittin' mad at the "confederacy of Jacobins"
which have hijacked this government...
Tonight's show is a "sine qua non" for your evening...No doubt about it...If you've
been stuck in the snow, play it safe...Make some hot chocolate, some coffee, maybe
order some of your favorite food and kick it freestyle with Hardball...
Dominic Bellone wrote, compiled and edited The Briefing from Washington, DC....
More now on what all the colors mean
http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?theme=29&content=320
U.S. to raise terror threat assessment...The Homeland Security Department was to
increase its terrorist threat level to "orange" -- or high risk -- on Friday,
reflecting concerns that a "major attack" is being planned, a source told NBC News.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/869630.asp
Eye on Edwards...
Edwards goes one-on-one at NCCU...Durham campus jumping for Edwards, MSNBC's 'Hardball
College Tour' (The News & Observer)
http://newsobserver.com/front/story/2178124p-2062839c.html
Edwards fields `Hardball'...MSNBC talks politics live from N.C. Central (The Charlotte
Observer) http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/local/5126060.htm
Edwards steers toward 'moderate'...Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards
calls himself a "mainstream North Carolinian." Republicans call him a "Georgetown
liberal." (The Charlotte Observer)
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/politics/5126113.htm
The Confederate flag has emerged as the first big issue in the South Carolina
presidential primary, and it's a ticklish one for U.S. Sen. John Edwards and his
Democratic rivals. (The News & Observer)
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/2177954p-2062901c.html
Alleged Al Qaeda Ties Questioned...Experts Scrutinize Details of Accusations Against
Iraqi Government (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38235-2003Feb6.html
President Bush on Friday urged the U.N. Security Council to "make up its mind soon"
about confronting Iraq, warning reluctant world leaders that the United States won't
wait for long before leading a coalition to disarm Saddam Hussein itself. (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=544&ncid=693&e=4&u=/ap/20030207/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq
'The Game Is Over,' Bush Warns Iraq...President Bush said Thursday that Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein is wasting his chance to comply with international demands
that he give up his weapons of mass destruction. (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38214-2003Feb6.html?referrer=email
Iraqi Scientist Interviewed in Private...A biologist linked to Iraq's arms programs
was the first scientist to agree to confidential questioning by the United Nations.
(The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38187-2003Feb6.html?referrer=email
Michael Jackson said Thursday he felt betrayed by a "terrible and unfair" TV
documentary about his life, in which the King of Pop revealed he sometimes lets
children sleep in his bed. (AP)
http://www.usatoday.com/life/2003-02-06-jackson-rebuttal_x.htm
President Bush on Friday pressured China to help diffuse a nuclear standoff with North
Korea, and said "all options are on the table" as the United States seeks a solution
to the crisis. (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=544&ncid=703&e=3&u=/ap/20030207/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_nkorea
North Korea's government-run newspaper warned on Thursday that any U.S. attack on the
country's nuclear facilities would bring a ''powerful counterattack'' and spark
''total war. (USA Today) http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20030207/4847946s.htm
President Bush told Congress on Friday that America's vibrant free-market system was
the key factor in allowing the country to deal with the shocks of a recession,
terrorist attacks and corporate scandals. But he said a new round of $1.3 trillion in
tax cuts would help lift economic growth to a higher level. (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=544&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20030207/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_economy
GOP Not Backing Savings Changes...President Bush's proposal to create new tax-free
savings accounts has virtually no chance of passing and should be replaced with a
bipartisan proposal to expand existing retirement programs, House Republican leaders
have said (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38036-2003Feb6.html
Bush Orders Guidelines for Cyber-Warfare...Rules for Attacking Enemy Computers
Prepared as U.S. Weighs Iraq Options (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38110-2003Feb6.html
A new poll says Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton could sweep the entire field of Democratic
presidential candidates if she wanted to challenge President Bush in 2004 - fueling
talk she's leaving the door open to doing just that. (NY Post)
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/54138.htm
One CIA officer was killed and two others were injured in a training accident in
eastern Afghanistan, agency officials said. (AP)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2003-02-07-cia-afghan_x.htm
Europe's past colors its view...Military weakness and newfound unity on the 'most
violent continent on earth' shape public's rejection of war. (CS Monitor)
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0207/p01s03-woeu.html
Former Officials Were Briefed Before U.N. Talk...Two days before Secretary of State
Colin L. Powell made his presentation to the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday, he
briefed a group of former senior government officials on the highlights of his
testimony, participants said (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38033-2003Feb6.html?referrer=email
Fremont Rep. Pete Stark, whose caustic comments directed at fellow House members have
provoked anger in the past, took aim Thursday at President Bush's past problems with
alcohol. (SF Gate)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/02/07/MN240870.DTL
Opinion/Editorial
Cries of desperation...Colin Powell's appearance at the United Nations makes it
painfully clear that Powell, good military man that he is, will choose obedience to
authority over principle when it counts. By Jill Nelson.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/869613.asp
Miller Time...Not everyone in Hollywood is pro-Saddam.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110003036
Doonesbury http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/
Mallard http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mallard.asp
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