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Hardball airs tonight at 7p, 11p, 4a ET & out west at 4p, 8p & 1a PT
Big news today as Condi agrees to testify in public under oath...Bush & Cheney will
testify jointly but not under oath (Don't ask me, I don't know what that means
either)...We focus on this for the hour and how this will all shake out politically
with Commissioners Jim Thompson (R) & Richard Ben-Veniste (D) from the Commission plus
an update on the day's news from David Gregory on the White House's north lawn and
Lisa Meyers from the Bureau
We'll also get reaction from a couple of Hill veterans, Anna Eshoo (D) from California
and Dana Rohrabacher from California...She's from the Northern Silicon Valley area
around San Mateo County, Woodside & Stanford...Rohrabacher is from the southern
LA/Orange County, Huntington Beach area...
Then we wrap it up with Tony Blankley and Washington Wiseman David Gergen slicing and
dicing the White House's handling of this....
And finally David Shuster offers up two distinct packages tonight...One on the latest
ad wars and the other on the latest political tomes to hit the book shelves...
And don't forget...Richard Clarke tomorrow for the full hour...Chris is flying up to
New York to do it...This is definitely one of those "must see"
interviews..."Unpredictable" as Chris said on Imus...Maybe you've seen him on other
shows, but you know good and well that we're not like other shows...
Dominic Bellone wrote, compiled and edited The Briefing from Washington, DC
Mortman: Clarke's creative writing...In his new book, Richard Clarke heads straight
for the politicos. He gets real juicy - liberally taking pot shots at President Bush
while heaping praise on President Clinton. And he makes pop political references,
which some might find odd for a counterterrorism czar.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4624813/
NBC: Rice to testify in public, under oath...Bush, Cheney also agree to speak before
entire 9/11 panel
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4623066/
Most Americans still approve of President Bush's leadership in the war on terrorism,
even after a week of accusations that he failed to pay enough attention to
intelligence warnings before the Sept. 11 attacks. (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/polls/2004-03-29-poll_x.htm
Bush, Kerry clash over gas prices...President unveils ad; rival unveils plan to curb
cost (AP) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4630191/
Vintage cars spin around a police officer, prices rise on an old-fashioned gas pump
and a man wearing a chauffeur-style hat pumps fuel in a new campaign ad from President
Bush that claims Democratic rival John Kerry supports high gas taxes. (AP)
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040330/D81KUUG00.html
Although President Bush has been battered by a former aide's claim that he did nothing
to counter the al-Qaida threat before the Sept. 11 attacks, a poll released Monday
finds American voters still consider Bush far stronger than Democratic rival John
Kerry in defending the country against terrorism. (AP)
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040329/D81K8TJ01.html
John Kerry is looking to name a running mate early - by the end of May - to help raise
money, build momentum and serve as an attack dog, sources said yesterday. (NY Post)
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/22159.htm
H.J. Heinz Co. has launched an election-year campaign of its own, this one to distance
the ketchup maker from what is shaping up to be an acrimonious presidential race. (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=509&u=/ap/20040329/ap_on_bi_ge/politics_of_business&printer=1
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, responding to remarks by a top U.S. official that
outsourcing can be good for the economy, said the Bush administration isn't facing
reality _ at least reality in upstate New York. (AP)
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--snow-outsourcing-0330mar30,0,2948211.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, al Qaeda's purported operations chief, has told U.S.
interrogators that the group had been planning attacks on the Library Tower in Los
Angeles and the Sears Tower in Chicago on the heels of the September 11, 2001, terror
strikes. (The Washington Times)
http://washingtontimes.com/world/20040330-120655-9785r.htm
The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the government does not have to release
11-year-old photographs from the suicide of Clinton administration White House lawyer
Vincent Foster. (AP) http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040330/D81KP6KO0.html
UK police arrest 8 terror suspects....London police arrested eight men Tuesday and
seized half a ton of ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer that can be used to make bombs, in
anti-terror raids in and near the British capital.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4629706/
Pakistan: Al-Qaida chief not killed....An al-Qaida suspect killed in a Pakistani
military operation near the Afghan border was a local operative and not the terror
network's intelligence chief, Pakistan's army spokesman said Tuesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4539021/
Opinion/Editorial
Pat: "Israel has a right to defend itself," said President Bush. And against whom was
Israel defending itself at dawn on Monday?
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37787
Katrina: The Children Soldiers..."He did not sign up for this bloodbath and
occupation." http://www.thenation.com/edcut/index.mhtml?bid=7
Doonesbury http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/
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