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Housekeeping note: Hardball will be live on the air Saturday night (2/7) from 7 to 9
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Democratic Caucuses...Don't Miss It!
Haas is in the House! We've got the head of the Council on Foreign Relations and
former sr. State dept. official Richard Haas for two segments tonight...We'll talk to
him about Iraq and the WMD controversy, Tenet's speech and the President down in South
Carolina...
Tenet said today that the intelligence never suggested an "imminent threat" and the
President said basically we haven't found the WMD but the decision to go to war was
still right....I'm confused....We'll try to make sense of it tonight...
Also, tomorrow is Ronald Reagan's 93rd birthday...We'll talk to some folks who knew
him best: Fmr. Reagan aide Sheila Tate, Fmr. Hud Secretary/Veep nominee Jack Kemp, CBS
News White House Correspondent Bill Plante and ABC News legend Sam Donaldson...
Plus, Howard Dean says he's if he doesn't win in Wisconsin, he's done...
Pls join us...Dominic Bellone wrote, compiled and edited The Hardball Briefing from
Washington, DC
CIA chief defends intelligence gathering ahead of Iraq war...Tenet says U.S. analysts
never claimed Iraq posed an imminent threat (MSNBC)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4049012/
President Bush acknowledged Thursday that the United States had not found the banned
weapons that his administration believed were in Iraq, but he defended the war as "the
right thing" to do. (Reuters) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4180021/
Bush slipping in S.C., nation...As president visits Charleston today, many in GOP
worried about his re-election hopes (The State)
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/politics/7878520.htm
Kerry, rivals focus on different states for votes...Clark, Edwards cede weekend
contests, look to Tuesday and South (MSNBC) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4160281/
Democrat Howard Dean said on Thursday his once high-flying U.S. presidential bid would
be over if he did not win the Wisconsin primary on Feb. 17, declaring "the entire race
has come down to this." (AP)
http://news.myway.com/top/article/id/377343|top|02-05-2004::08:46|reutershtml
Dean E-mail: "The entire race has come down to this: we must win Wisconsin. ... We
will get a boost this weekend in Washington, Michigan, and Maine, but our true test
will be the Wisconsin primary. A win there will carry us to the big states of March 2
and narrow the field to two candidates. Anything less will put us out of this race."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4178076/
Democratic Party officials are predicting packed houses across the state at Saturday's
presidential caucuses but are optimistic that all voters will have a chance to be
heard and their candidate preference recorded. (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001851123_caucus05m.html
Edwards, Clark Count On Virginia...Kerry's Challengers Plan Push for Tuesday Primary
(The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14076-2004Feb4.html
John Kerry intervened in the Senate to keep open a loophole that had allowed a major
insurer to divert millions of federal dollars from the nation's most expensive
construction project, then received tens of thousand of dollars in donations from the
company during the next two years, documents show. (AP)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/02/04/politics1709EST0760.DTL
In an attempt to compete with President Bush's unabashed discussion of religion while
in office, Democratic presidential candidates are making similar stabs at God-talk.
(The Washington Times) http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040205-120813-3550r.htm
Mass. lawmakers review strategy on gay marriage...Critics of state justices' ruling
look at fine print (MSNBC) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4161820/
At least 160 of the 650 detainees acknowledged by the Pentagon being held at the
United States military base at Guantanamo, Cuba -- almost a quarter of the total --
are from Saudi Arabia, a special UPI survey can reveal.
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040204-051623-5923r
Opinion/Editorial
Peggy: Janet Jackson and the Frog...Has our culture gone iredeemably to pot, or can we
jump for our lives? http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110004649
Carr: The Real Kerry: http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/17337.htm
Newsweek: Hitting the Right Notes...John Edwards clearly has found a message that
resonates. His campaign, however, remains vulnerable
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4161104/
Novak: Dixie could prove tricky for Democrats
http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak05.html
Pat: What are we doing there? http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36924
Doonesbury http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/
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