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On special occasions in the past, your Hardball team has encouraged you to
cancel/alter/ignore whatever plans you had at the time in order to watch the
show. Well, that goes for tonight...and you may want to go ahead and change
your plans for Sunday too. NBC's Tom Brokaw appears on Hardball tonight to talk
with Chris about his upcoming special called "Tom Brokaw Reports: To War and
Back." Airing this Sunday at 8:00 pm eastern, Brokaw's report will tell the
story of seven friends from Glens Falls, N.Y., who served in Iraq with the New
York Army National Guard. It's one of the first documentaries examining the
emotional and physical impact of the war on this nation's youth. Hardball will
have clips from the special tonight and an in-depth discussion with Brokaw
about what he saw and learned over 10 months with these young men. You don't
want to miss it and you can find out more about it here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10402820/.
Chris also will talk with Brokaw about Thursday's election in Iraq as well as
the multiple stories brewing about how the Bush Administration is gathering
war-related intelligence -- both abroad and at home.
Plus, NBC News terror analyst Roger Cressey will be here to talk about news
reports that President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to
spy on Americans in an effort to find terrorists. Here's this morning's New
York Times report that lit the match to start this fire:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/16program.html?hp&ex=1134795600&en=c7596fe0d4798785&ei=5094&partner=homepage.
Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), a member of the Select Intelligence and Armed
Services Committees, and Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), a member of the Homeland
Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, will talk with Chris about the
eavesdropping inquiries as well as the Iraq election and the still developing
fight on the Senate floor over reauthorizing provisions of the Patriot Act.
Newsweek's Howard Fineman and Anne Kornblut of the New York Times also will be
here to discuss the Times' report and all the other developing news.
And be sure to see Hardball's David Shuster's report on Rep. John Dingell
(D-MI)'s 50th anniversary in the House!
Here are some things you might not have read yet today:
--MSNBC reports on the president declining comment on the domestic spying story
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10488458/
--AP watches from the gallery as senators reject reauthorizing the Patriot Act
today http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10485860/
--Hardblogger Hill Insider Craig Crawford ponders the perils of propaganda
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10284912/#051216a
--MSNBC's Tom Curry explores complicated feelings over wartime measures
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10482508/
--AP hears Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT) reverse course on Jack Abramoff related
money http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10494660/
--NBC's First Read http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3626796/
--Doonesbury http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html
Brooke Brower compiled the "Hardball Briefing" in Washington, D.C.
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