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Tonight we lead with the gay marriage debate and the action on the Senate floor to ban
it...We run a package on the issue tracked by Ron Reagan, then go to Republican
Senator Wayne Allard who opposes it and is pushing the amendment..
Then we speak with Richard Holbrooke, former Clinton UN ambassador and now a
Kerry-Edwards foreign policy advisor, for a couple of blocks...No doubt we'll get into
the newly announced DNC convention theme: "Stronger at Home, Respected in the World"
kind of thing as well as Bush slamming Kerry on being a flip flopper today..
We'll play more of the Bush sound with BC04 Chief Strategist Matthew Dowd, &
Kerry-Edwards Sr. Advisor Tad Devine...We'll do Iraq, values, gay marriage and why
North Carolina voters prefer Bush-Cheney to Kerry-Edwards..
Courting conservative voters in Michigan's rural Upper Peninsula, President Bush said
Tuesday that rival John Kerry abandoned support for U.S. troops in Iraq and then
bragged about it. (AP) http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040713/D83Q3HD80.html
We wrap up with conservative icon William F. Buckley, Jr. who is stepping down from
his post at National Review, a magazine he founded...
Housekeeping...Chris is doing the tonight show with Jay Leno 11:35 pm ET
Also, my friend Robert Cox over at thenationaldebate.com is spreading a rumor about my
best friend and I (which happens to be true)...
http://www.thenationaldebate.com/blogger/archive/2004_07_01_TND-ARCHIVE.htm#108967886179409045
Someone in press finally caught the dynamism of Chris and filed this report from the
TV critics convention in LA: (de Moraes)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43466-2004Jul11.html
Dominic Bellone wrote, compiled and The Briefing from Washington, DC
Bush defends invasion of Iraq...President Bush defended his decision to invade Iraq
again Monday even as he conceded that investigators had not found weapons of mass
destruction. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5423244/
Officials to meet on election plans...Federal election officials will meet next week
with officials of the Department of Homeland Security to discuss whether and how they
would delay the November presidential election in the event of a catastrophic
terrorist attack, a top elections official told MSNBC on Monday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5426179/
Manila says it will quit Iraq...The Philippines said Tuesday that it would withdraw
its troops from Iraq "as soon as possible" in response to kidnappers' demands.
Philippine officials were quoted as saying they expected the hostage to be released
later Tuesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5396761/
Report: Bulgarian hostage killed...A militant group holding two Bulgarian truck
drivers said it had killed one of them, the pan-Arab television station Al-Jazeera
reports. (AP) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5431564
Gay marriage vote appears doomed...Senate leaders unable to agree on procedure (MSNBC)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5416297/
On the eve of a possible U.S. Senate vote to make gay marriages unconstitutional,
Rosie O'Donnell spoke out against the Bush administration's plans to ban same sex
unions during a stop on a gay-friendly cruise, according to Local 6 News. (Central
Florida News) http://www.local6.com/news/3524501/detail.html
North Carolina horse race numbers
http://www.usatoday.com/news/polls/tables/live/2004-07-12-nc-poll.htm
More American voters view President Bush as decisive and arrogant than Democratic
rival John Kerry, according to an Associated Press poll. But voters are more likely to
see Kerry as intelligent. (AP) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5429931/
Sen. John F. Kerry upset some families of 9/11 victims yesterday when he arrived -
late - to a private memorial dedication in a sirened motorcade and glad-handed as
though he were on the campaign trail. (Boston Herald)
http://news.bostonherald.com/election2004/view.bg?articleid=35436&format=text
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