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It's Day Three of the reaction to Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY)'s "plantation"
remark from Monday. Her defenders and the offended have been busy these past
couple of days. Here's today's report in the New York Daily News in which she
stood by her comments:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/story/383691p-325714c.html.
Tonight, Chris will have all the latest on the fallout from this with Dee Dee
Myers, former press secretary for President Clinton, Ed Rogers, former advisor
to the first President Bush, and Andrea Mitchell, NBC News' chief foreign
affairs correspondent.
Time's Mike Allen and Charlie Cook, an NBC News political analyst and publisher
of the Cook Political Report, will also be here to talk about the complicated
politics playing out on Capitol Hill in the run-up to the president's State of
the Union address on January 31. Plus, Allen and Cook will break down the
dueling lobbying reform plans on Capitol Hill and the still formulating
leadership race on the House side.
Rep. David Dreier (R-CA), who unveiled lobbying reform legislation with Speaker
Dennis Hastert (R-IL) this week, will also be here tonight to talk about their
plans to tighten the rules and explain how it differs from the Democrats' plan.
We'll also get his thoughts on the leadership race. Here's Reuters' report on
the lobbying plans: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10911498/.
Here are some things you might not have read yet today:
--NBC's Joel Seidman has the latest on rejected Abramoff-tainted money
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10910202/
--Newsweek has Sen. Joe Biden(D-DE)'s take on his own Alito performance
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10857677/site/newsweek/
--AP reports President Clinton can get his lawyer license back
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10904831/
--AP updates on President Ford's health http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10881028/
--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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