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Vice President Cheney spoke today for the first time about the shooting
accident last Saturday that put hunting companion Harry Whittington in the
hospital. Speaking with Fox News' Brit Hume, Cheney accepted responsibility for
shooting Whittington and said he had no regrets about the handling of the
situation since it happened. Here's more on what the vice president said:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11361657/.
Tonight on a special 7 p.m. eastern edition of Hardball, Chris will hear the
latest from NBC News' Chief White House Correspondent David Gregory. Plus,
Hardball Correspondent David Shuster will piece together the criticism directed
at Cheney's handling of the situation from fellow Republicans. Dr. Bernadine
Healy, MSNBC analyst and former director of the National Institutes of Health,
also will be here to talk about the information on Whittington's status shared
in today's hospital briefing.
New York Daily News Washington Bureau Chief Tom DeFrank, National Review White
House Correspondent Byron York, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, and
Washington Times Editorial Page Editor Tony Blankley will all join Chris to
discuss what Cheney said and didn't say. Read their respective pieces on the
matter from today:
--DeFrank: http://www.nydailynews.com/02-15-2006/news/story/391477p-332043c.html
--York: http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york.asp
--Ignatius:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/14/AR2006021401783.html
--Blankley: http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/tblankley.htm
Chris also will speak tonight with John Barletta, a former Secret Service
agent, about the protocol for handling such a situation.
Here are some things you might not have read yet today:
--Newsweek's Wolffe and Bailey opine on the Cheney effect for the White House
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11366583/site/newsweek/site/newsweek/
--MSNBC's Martin Wolk processes new Fed Chair Ben Bernanke's first Hill
testimony today http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11370247/
--AP watches Secretaries Rice and Chertoff get grilled today on the Hill
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11365518/ and http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11355684/
--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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