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Sorry we're late folks...I'm having one of those days where I start the Briefing at
9:30 am and nearly have it ready to go, then we change the show around and I get
sucked into producing a segment and tracking down some obscure element or two and you
end up at 4 pm scrambling to get it out the door...
Campbell Brown takes the helm of Hardball this week (in case you missed last night's
show) as Chris & family are "summering" at an undisclosed location...
Tonight we lead with White House Communications Chief Dan Bartlett on the latest from
Iraq, the unfortunate beheading of that South Korean hostage, the new Wash Post poll
numbers (must read stuff) and the torture memos just released this afternoon from the
White House...
Later we talk with the Reverend Pat Robertson on religion & politics (see The
Washington Times pieces below), the Post poll and Bill Clinton's new memoir which hit
the bookshelves this morning...We'll run Robertson for two segments
We round out the show with former Clinton Chief of Staff John Podesta to get his take
on "My Life" and the Clinton book craze...
Tomorrow we've got Deputy SecDef Paul Wolfowitz, a key neocon architect of the Iraq
war...Plus, we're sending Shuster to the big DC premiere of the controversial new
Michael Moore film "Fahrenheit 9/11" to get a live report...Btw, Hitchens is slamming
Moore in a new Slate piece (see below)...Hitchens will also enter Scarborough Country
tonight at 10 pm ET/7pm PT on MSNBC
A personnel note from dot-com...Charlie Tillinghast named MSNBC.com publisher, GM
Executive set to continue growth of leader in Internet news
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5264691/
The United States launched an airstrike Tuesday in Fallujah on a safehouse used by
followers of Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - the second strike against the
terror network in three days, the U.S. military said. (AP)
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040622/D83C8TJ81.html
Report: S. Korean hostage beheaded...Seoul says it will evacuate all its citizens in
Iraq by July http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5256382/
Bush loses advantage in war on terrorism...Poll: Nation evenly divided on president,
Kerry (The Washington Post) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5264834/
Complete Poll:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac3/ContentServer?pagename=polls&nextstep=chooseQuestion&interactive=n&searchPollId=2004169&pollType=National&questCategoryType=n&newsearch=&questCategory=&keyword=&pollDateRange=&startingRow=1
Dominic Bellone wrote, compiled and edited The Hardball Briefing from Washington, DC
Kerry raises much more than Bush in May...But president has millions more than Dem in
bank (AP) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5261903/
President Bush said he has never ordered the torture of Iraqi or al Qaeda prisoners as
he and his administration went on the offensive on Tuesday to counter reports
suggesting that he condoned torture. (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=SXXEKTLE53VRKCRBAE0CFFA?type=topNews&storyID=5485662
Defense in Abu Ghraib cases can query generals...But judge rejects bid to move abuse
courts-martial out of Iraq (AP) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5259200/
Report: Captors extend deadline...An abducted South Korean in Iraq was alive Tuesday,
a day after a deadline for his execution had expired, South Korea's Yonhap news agency
reported. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5256382/
9/11 panel threatens Bush's credibility...The White House's swift and sustained
reaction last week to the preliminary findings of the Sept. 11, 2001, commission
showed the potential threat the 10-member panel poses to President Bush's reelection
prospects.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5251766/
Z. Hallow: A new independent-expenditure group, backed by the John Templeton
Foundation, is targeting what political analysts regard as President Bush's electoral
ace in the hole - religious conservative voters.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040622-122338-4424r.htm
America's 50 million evangelicals have received a call "to shape public policy" and
expand the role of religion in public life, according to a document produced by the
National Association of Evangelicals. (The Washington Times)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040622-122338-9915r.htm
Fans line up to buy Clinton memoir despite pans...Fans of Bill Clinton lined up
outside bookshops from Arkansas to New York to snap up copies of "My Life," despite
reviews that describe the 950-page plus book as boring and self-indulgent.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5264264/
'My Life' too much of a not-so-good thing...Review: None of the many characters in
Bill Clinton's memoir, "My Life," comes alive, not even the main characters of this
badly conceived, flatly written, poorly edited book.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5267891/
Clinton Book Weighs Failures and Successes....Memoir Contradicts Testimony on Lewinsky
(The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A59217-2004Jun21?language=printer
Details of Clinton's agigation in the BBC interview: Clinton chides media over
affair...Former US President Bill Clinton has hit out at the media's treatment of his
affair with Monica Lewinsky in a BBC television interview. (BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3829799.stm
Monica Lewinsky - in Little Rock, Ark., for a wedding this past weekend - was invited
to tour the Clinton Presidential Library. But she declined. (Page Six)
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06222004/gossip/pagesix.htm
Isikoff: Under the Hot Lights...Moore's movie will make waves. But it's a fine line
between fact and fanaticism. Deconstructing 'Fahrenheit 9/11'
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5251769/site/newsweek/
State Dept. revises flawed terror report...Death toll in 2003 is double what was first
published (AP) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5264512/
A pro-Democratic group that criticizes President Bush in its fund-raising letters is
breaking the law in the types of contributions it uses to finance the mailings,
campaign finance watchdog groups said in a complaint. (AP)
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040622/D83C8R902.html
Opinion/Editorial
Hitchens: Unfairenheit 9/11...The lies of Michael Moore
http://slate.msn.com/id/2102723/
Katrina: Clinton & Bush--the Truth, the Lies, the Consequences...Where is the special
prosecutor to investigate President Bush?
http://www.thenation.com/edcut/index.mhtml?bid=7
Debra Burlingame: Divided We Fall...The 9/11 Commission becomes another Beltway soap
opera. http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110005251
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