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With just three days til Thanksgiving, Chris talks turkey tonight on the
congressional battle over the Iraq War with Reps. Harold Ford Jr. (D-TN) and
J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ). In case you hadn't heard, it was Hayworth's idea -- with
some help from Mrs. Hayworth -- to call for a vote this past Friday for
immediate troop withdrawal. The vote on the GOP measure led to some scalding
exchanges on the House floor which still has Ford and other Dems hot under the
collar.
Adding another chapter to the pre-war debate, Vice President Cheney gave a
speech today at the American Enterprise Institute in D.C. in which he again
slammed Dems for alleging the administration deliberately misled the country on
pre-war intel. But the veep toned down the GOP rhetoric regarding Rep. Jack
Murtha (D-PA), who triggered an escalation in words from both sides last
Thursday with a call to bring U.S. troops home. Hardball's David Shuster was at
AEI for the speech and will have all the latest on that.
Stu Rothenberg and Charlie Cook, masters of race-by-race analysis, will be here
to break down the political fallout for members of Congress and the president
from the increasingly caustic war/intel debate, the CIA leak and Jack Abramoff
scandals, and a streak of voter discontent in the polls. By the way, it's only
40 days until Election 2006 is officially underway!
Plus, Chris will talk with journalists Micah Garen and Marie-Helene Carleton
about Garen's abduction in Iraq and the harrowing struggle to get him back.
Garen has detailed it all in a new book called "American Hostage."
And you surely won't want to miss Newsweek's Howard Fineman and Tony Blankley
of the Washington Times when they share what they know about the CIA leak
scandal, the politics of the war/intel debate, and what Special Prosecutor
Patrick Fitzgerald has up his sleeve with a request for a new grand jury.
You'll learn something -- guaranteed.
Here are some things you might not have read yet today:
-- A recap of Cheney's speech http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10140228/
-- The Washington Post's ombudsman criticizes Bob Woodward
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10142152/
-- Fineman writes up of the Murtha storm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10118733/site/newsweek/
-- Newsweek pegs Armitage as a possible source for Woodward and Novak
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10117465/site/newsweek/
-- Doonesbury http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html
Brooke Brower humbly compiled the first "Hardball Briefing" of the post-Bellone
era in Washington, D.C. We miss you Dom and, once again, thanks for everything.
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