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Tonight we lead with the Schwarzenegger stuff we brought up in last night's Buzz...CA
Attorney General Bill Lockyer says the groping allegations "won't go away" and Arnold
has launched his own private investigation of himself...We'll talk to one of our
favorite mayors Jerry Brown and favorite Congressman David Dreier about the
Governor-elect's first battle...
In the B block we'll do the economy and its rebound with New York Times columnist and
Bush thorn in the side, Paul Krugman up against Steve Moore, supply side proselytizer
and gadfly of the Right...
We'll debate President Bush's Middle East democracy revolution speech with, one of my
favorites, Eric Margolis and uber-Hawk Ken Adelman...
In the Buzz we'll chat with our resident political analyst Howard Fineman on the
latest poll out of New Hampshire and his Newsweek piece on Dean potentially opting out
of the public financing system...
Check out Hardball tonight before you hit that cocktail or dinner party...You'll be
running the conversation and amazing your friends with the latest Washington news...
And yo, if you missed any episodes this week, we'll run the whole 5 of 'em from 1-6 pm
et on MSNBC..
Dominic Bellone wrote, compiled and edited The Briefing from Washington, DC
Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger will ask a private investigator to launch an
independent inquiry into allegations made by 16 women that he groped or sexually
harassed them but has not decided what he will do with the findings, the Republican's
spokesman said Thursday. (Contra Costa Times)
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/7205459.htm
Attorney General Bill Lockyer called for an independent investigation Thursday into
allegations raised late in the recall campaign that Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger
had groped women over a period of decades. (The San Francisco Chronicle)
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/11/07/MNG4Q2SGC61.DTL
Plagued by allegations of past sexual harassment, California Governor-elect Arnold
Schwarzenegger said on Thursday he was hiring investigators to look into the charges
that dogged his election campaign. (Reuters)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20031107/us_nm/politics_schwarzenegger_dc_3
U.S. helicopter crashes near Tikrit...One U.S. soldier was killed and two others
wounded in an ambush south of Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Thursday. Another
American died in a landmine blast near the Syrian border.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/870749.asp
Bush urges Mideast democratization...Reform is key in war on terrorism, president says
(The Washington Post) http://msnbc.com/news/990348.asp?0dm=N229N
Idealism in the Face of Troubled Reality...In a speech that redefined the U.S. agenda
in the Middle East, President Bush waxed eloquent on Thursday about his dream of
democracy coexisting with Islam. (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10064-2003Nov6.html
Howard Dean holds a 14-point lead over John Kerry in a poll of likely voters in New
Hampshire's Democratic presidential primary amid signs that the contest is evolving
into a two-man race. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031106/ap_on_el_pr/new_hampshire_poll_2
Howard's latest: Howard Dean's Southern Swing...As the primaries loom, the Dems' front
runner and his rivals hunt for black votes http://www.msnbc.com/news/988057.asp
NBC: Mission whiplash for GIs in Iraq...Soldiers are ordered to go on a night patrols
or raids -- where danger can lurk at every corner or behind every door- and then help
rebuild the Iraqi nation during the day. NBC's Kevin Sites reports from Tall Afar in
northern Iraq.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/990028.asp
Iraq isn't Vietnam, not yet at least. But as criticism of the Bush administration's
conduct of the war there intensifies, a number of prominent Vietnam War veterans say
they are frequently reminded of the way the White House fumbled away public support
for the only major war the United States ever lost. (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-11-06-vets-usat_x.htm
Bush to sell economic plan in N.C...Business leaders bemoan job losses in state's
textile industry http://msnbc.com/news/990546.asp?0dm=N12NN
U.S. economy keeps adding jobs...October payrolls jump by 126,000, jobless rate falls
to 6% http://msnbc.com/news/990515.asp?0cv=CB10
2 more judges block abortion law...The legal attack against a new ban on certain
late-term abortions rapidly escalated Thursday as federal judges in New York and
California blocked the law, delivering a serious setback to President Bush only a day
after he signed it.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/989539.asp
Anthrax search closes 11 post offices...5 workers at Navy mail-sorting office to be
given antibiotics (AP) http://msnbc.com/news/990473.asp?0cv=CB10
Tina Brown's critics are turning on the former magazine editor over her Washington
Post column and CNBC talk show. No doubt some of her bad press is attributable to
envy, writes Toby Young.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F11%2F07%2Fnmed07.xml
Opinion/Editorial
Terry's latest: Lt. Col. West Prevented Sniper Attack...Don't Prosecute This Hero
http://humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=2279
Corn: Ann Coulter Goes to the Movies...Claiming yet another Hollywood conspiracy, this
conservative icon--gasp!--ignores facts.
http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=1050
Drezner: Fables of the Reconstruction
A new report by the Center for Public Integrity attempts to prove something that many
people simply assume to be true: that the Bush administration has strongly favored
cronies and campaign contributors in awarding reconstruction contracts for Iraq and
Afghanistan
http://slate.msn.com/id/2090636/
Tunko: Fantastic Voyage...Howard Dean, metrosexual, heads south.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110004272
May: Oil Junkies http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuestColumns/May20031106.shtml
Ilana: Selling out black Americans http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35475
Doonesbury http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/
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