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The next couple of weeks are going to be extremely crazy and busy for us as we prepare
to head off to the DNC convention in Boston so please don't be annoyed if the Briefing
is late or shorter than usual. We'll be broadcasting live from Faneuil Hall in Boston
on Friday night btw...
Tonight Chris is in Los Angeles again...We'll lead with the 9/11 report which is due
out on Thursday...We'll talk to a member of the Senate Intell Committee or another
appropriate expert
RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie stops by to give us his preview of the DNC convention and
what he expects...Think of it as a "pre-buttal" to the Convention...
We'll do politics with Barnicle, Fineman and The New Yorker's Hedrick
Hertzberg...Hertzberg has a new book out titled "Politics: Observations and Arguments,
1966-2004." He used to work with Chris back in their White House days and he's a
pretty sharp guy...
Barnicle and Fineman will do a sort of "run-up to the convention" kind of
thing...Shuster will do a live crosstalk with Chris on the legal strategies each
campaign is putting together for the battleground states for possible recounts and
voting challenges, etc.
We've also got NBC's Pat Dawson doing a spot on the campaigns' political ads and the
specific television shows they are targeting to run the ads...
Here's something fun we're planning for Sunday night...Special documentaries on Dem
convention eve...MSNBC premieres two special hours- "Picking Our Presidents: The
Greatest Moments" and "John Kerry: Bringing the War Home"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5425840
GOP pollster Bill McInturff, in a Saturday briefing for the Republican Governors
Association, presented survey results showing that voters are far more responsive to
Sen. John F. Kerry's economic message that talks about a middle-class squeeze than to
President Bush's efforts to change public perceptions by talking up recent economic
statistics. (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60377-2004Jul18.html
CableNewser: Liberal Groups Take Aim At FOX's "Fair & Balanced" At Press Conf., Slogan
Is Called "Consumer Fraud and False Advertising"
http://www.cablenewser.com/archive/2004_07_18_archive.htm#109024717660469266
Dominic Bellone wrote, compiled and edited The Briefing from Washington, DC
'Showtime' for Kerry as convention nears...Democrat's prime time speech to be a
crucial moment in campaign (Reuters) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5458313/
Democrats John Kerry and John Edwards will join their families Friday at Kerry's
birthplace in Aurora, Colo., starting a series of campaign events leading to the
Massachusetts senator's acceptance of his party's presidential nomination six days
later. (AP) http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040719/D83TTB1O0.html
Truth, consequences of Kerry's 'liberal' label...Democratic ticket's ideological
profile remains uncertain (The Washington Post) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5459683/
Campaigning in California with Republican Senate candidate Bill Jones, Arizona Sen.
John McCain repeatedly insisted Sunday that he would not replace Vice President Dick
Cheney as President Bush's running mate -- even comparing the job of vice president to
his experience as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. (AP)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/07/18/politics2130EDT0082.DTL
Union allies are threatening to walk out of a state panel hearing today should Mayor
Thomas M. Menino's last-ditch effort to achieve a police union contract before his
Democratic National Convention kickoff parties Sunday night be raised. (The Boston
Globe)
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/07/19/unions_eye_walkout_to_counter_bid_by_menino/
2nd day of deadly Iraq blasts...After the second deadly car bombing in two days killed
10 Iraqis in western Iraq, Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi announced that he will
create a new security service geared toward tackling the nearly 15-month-old
insurgency.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5322157/
9/11: The Iran Factor...The final report of the 9-11 Commission reveals troubling new
evidence that Tehran was closer to Al Qaeda than Iraq was (Newsweek)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5457389/site/newsweek
Iran denies cooperating with al-Qaida...Tehran calls reports that leaders aided 9/11
hijackers 'fabrications' (MSNBC) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5460688/
Edwards promises Florida no deja vu...Democratic vice-presidential candidate John
Edwards yesterday pledged from the pulpit of a black church that Democrats will work
hard to prevent a repeat of the 2000 election fiasco in Florida. (AP)
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040719-124725-9608r.htm
Cheney Family Values...Circled wagons: The Cheney clan is tightknit, politically
talented-and famously fearsome in the clinches. Just ask anybody who dares to cross
the veep (Newsweek) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5457379/site/newsweek
President still mum on agenda for second term...Bush promises 'safer, stronger,
better,' but provides no details (The Washington Post)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5457411/
CIA: New intel job not needed...The CIA's acting director says that a new national
intelligence chief, as the Sept. 11 commission is expected to recommend this week, is
unnecessary and that intelligence agencies have made changes since the 2001 attacks to
better protect the United States.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5456067/
Absentees may swing election...Presidential vote could hinge again on late-arriving
ballots (The Orlando Sentinel)
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/elections/orl-asecfedabs18071804jul18,0,455474.story?coll=orl-home-headlines
Democrats will conduct 100 training seminars during next week's convention in Boston
to instruct delegates and activists how to run campaigns, raise money, and mobilize
voters, in what planners are billing as the largest effort ever to transform the
energy of the party's convention into a victory in the fall. (The Boston Globe)
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/conventions/articles/2004/07/19/convention_to_launch_grass_roots_campaign/
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