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President George W. Bush will deliver his fifth State of the Union address
tonight shortly after 9 pm eastern. The best advice your Hardball team can give
you now is to just turn the channel to MSNBC, put your feet up, and order some
take-out food. We'll be on all night to preview, watch, and analyze the
president's speech. There will be two live editions of Hardball (one at 5 and
one at 7 eastern). Chris also will be on "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" to
(literally) countdown to the speech. Then, we'll have live post-speech coverage
until 1 am eastern.
Hardball's David Shuster and MSNBC.com's Tom Curry will be reporting -- and
blogging -- live from the Bistro Bis restaurant on Capitol Hill to get
expectations and reactions on the speech from people watching. Check it out
here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5445086/.
We'll hear from those covering tonight's events: NBC News Anchor Brian
Williams, NBC News Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert, NBC News Chief White
House Correspondent David Gregory, NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent
Andrea Mitchell, MSNBC Chief Washington Correspondent Norah O'Donnell, CNBC's
Ron Insana, MSNBC's Tucker Carlson and Joe Scarborough, Hardblogger All-Stars
Pat Buchanan and Bob Shrum, and more!
We'll also have previews, reactions, and analysis from Senate Majority Leader
Bill Frist (R-TN), Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Sen. Dianne
Feinstein (D-CA), former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Sen. Barbara Boxer
(D-CA), Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL), Newsweek's Managing Editor Jon Meacham,
former Bush campaign chief strategist Matthew Dowd, former Clinton White House
press secretary Dee Dee Myers, and many more!
It's going to be a big night and you should join us for all of it!
Here are some things you might not have read yet today:
--AP reports on Justice Alito http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11111624/
--MSNBC has the latest on Iran's nuclear documents
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11105378/
--AP looks back at the life of Coretta Scott King
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11110291/
--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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