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Hardball airs tonight at 7 pm ET, 11 pm ET & 4 am ET...If you're out west tonight tune
it at 4 pm PT, 8 pm ET & 1 am PT
Alright folks, it's late, I'm yawning and starting to zone out here...Let's make this
short and sweet...
You'll be pleased to know that tonight we'll have two unique shows tonight to cover
the Virginia & Tennessee primary returns...Plus, Chris will be doing hits on MSNBC
throughout the night on Olberman & Scarborough Country...We may even have to break
into Deborah Norville's show should one of the major candidates speak and the speech
is deemed compelling enough for you to see...So hang with us..It's gonna be a long
night...
Our panelist tonight: Dee Dee, Scarborough, Craig, Trippi, Jacques, Pat, Annis & Ron
Reagan, Jr.
The Strategists: Jamal Simmons (Clark), David Axelrod (Edwards), Tad Devine (Kerry) &
Roy Neel (Dean)
The Electeds: Harold Ford, Jr. on the military record issue...Pataki from Amman Jordan
The Reporter: Shuster
The Candidates: Dean & Kerry
Plus, as you know, we always have a lot of last minute surprises and cool stuff like
that...
Big news buzzing around the Beltway today with the White House's release of the
President's Air National Guard pay records...Press Secretary Scott McClellan was on
the hot seat trying to explain the records released by 1600 Pennsylvania Ave...One of
the big questions surrounded whether pay records actually equate with showing
up...McClellan continually referred to the President's pay records but the piranhas in
the press insisted that didn't prove he actually showed up...
Dominic Bellone wrote, compiled and edited The Hardball Briefing from Washington, DC
Bush's Vietnam-era records being released...Democrats resurrect military service issue
(AP) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4230576/
"It showed that he fulfilled his duties," McClellan said. "There are some that have
made outrageous accusations, and I think you need to ask those individuals if they
want to continue to stand by those outrageous accusations in the face of documentation
that clearly demonstrates the president fulfilled his duties." (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28838-2004Feb10.html
President Bush received credit for attending Air National Guard drills in the fall of
1972 and spring of 1973 -- a period when his commanders have said he did not appear
for duty at bases in Montgomery, Ala., and Houston -- according to two new documents
obtained by the Globe. (The Boston Globe)
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/02/10/bush_credited_for_guard_drills/
Car bomb kills 50 in Iraqi town, hospital says...Dozens more wounded in attack on a
police station (MSNBC) http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4016883/
Primary day for Democrats in Tenn., Va....Kerry expected to win, show he can compete
against Bush in South http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4222144/
President Bush finds his political standing slightly improved in a USA
TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll taken over the weekend.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/2004-02-09-bush-kerry-poll_x.htm
Campaign ads enrich advisers...Practice raises questions about conflicts of interest
(The Washington Post) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4226901/
If Howard Dean ends his presidential bid, his former campaign manager has a piece of
advice: think twice about giving the Democratic Party the e-mail addresses of
supporters. (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=694&u=/ap/20040210/ap_on_el_pr/dean_trippi_2&printer=1
Kerry holds commanding lead...Senator has huge margin in Wisconsin, poll indicates
(Milwaulkee Journal Sentinel) http://www.jsonline.com/news/gen/feb04/206353.asp
Fresh from his latest win in Maine, the favourite to challenge George Bush for the US
presidency has secured the financial support of some of the most powerful media moguls
in the world. (London Guardian)
http://media.guardian.co.uk/city/story/0,7497,1144464,00.html
Milbank's White House Notebook: Cheney, a Little Tarnished..."Dick Cheney," the
president often says at campaign stops, "is the best vice president this nation has
ever had." After the applause subsides, he quips: "My mother may not agree."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26847-2004Feb9.html
They were two years apart, these two Yale boys, these sons of privilege, and so the
moment of truth came first for John Kerry, later for George W. Bush. Each faced the
same life-changing question as did so many others of their generation: What to do
about Vietnam? (AP) http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040209-111045-7006r.htm
Bush aides testify in leak probe...Grand jury called McClellan, Matalin (The
Washington Post) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4226902/
Islamic radicals are being trained at terrorist camps in Pakistan and Kashmir as part
of a conspiracy to send hundreds of operatives to "sleeper cells" in the United
States, according to U.S. and foreign officials (The Washington Times)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040209-115406-6221r.htm
A former North Carolina obstetrician-gynecologist who served as an expert witness and
consultant to Sen. John Edwards during his days as a trial lawyer, now accuses the
Democratic presidential candidate of increasing the cost of medicine and forcing
doctors into retirement in the senator's home state. (CNS News)
http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewCulture.asp?Page=\Culture\archive\200402\CUL20040210a.html
More than half the money allocated over the past two years to first responders and
other state and local agencies to help them prepare for terrorist attacks has not yet
been disbursed, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge told lawmakers Monday. (UPI)
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040209-053012-8863r
The governors of New York, Idaho, Hawaii, Louisiana, Minnesota and Oregon were in Iraq
on Tuesday on a two-day trip arranged by the Bush administration. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040210/ap_on_re_mi_ea/governors_iraq_3
Harper: No campaign is complete without some official cool moments. Candidate Bill
Clinton tooted his sax on late night TV, and Al Gore posed in tight trousers for
Rolling Stone magazine once upon a time.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040209-111048-6891r.htm
Jeannette Walls: Sean Penn criticizes 'comfortable cowards'
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4201707/
Opinion/Editorial
Cohen on Bush's National Guard service
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27178-2004Feb9.html
Zoller: Southern Strategies, Georgia Style
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0204/zoller.html
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