------------------------------------------------------
The Hardball Briefing On MSNBC
------------------------------------------------------
With top White House aide Andy Card packing his bags and Capitol Hill fighting
over illegal immigration, President Bush is fueling the jet tonight to head to
Cancun for a meeting with Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime
Minister Stephen Harper. But the trade talks are not likely to be the type of
spring break that the president could use right now. Tonight on Hardball, Chris
will talk about the divisive debate on illegal immigration and Democrats'
security push with Sen. George Allen (R-VA), who is running for re-election
this year and is thinking about a 2008 run to put another "George" in the White
House.
Dave "Mudcat" Saunders and Steve Jarding, authors of "Foxes in the Henhouse"
and campaign advisers to one of the Democrats looking to unseat Allen in 2006,
former Navy Secretary Jim Webb, will be here to talk about Democrats' hopes in
the South and the Midwest for 2006 and 2008. Here's more about their book:
http://www.foxesinthehenhouse.com/.
Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) also will be here tonight to talk about the changes in
the White House and say whether he thinks there should be more. In Roll Call
today, Lott was quoted as saying, "They still need men and women of stature and
gravitas in a number of slots there at the White House."
Plus, Rev. Al Sharpton and Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research
Council, will be here to discuss the media's coverage of Christian
conservatives. At a conference in D.C. Tuesday, Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) said that
"there always has been and always will be" a war on Christians in the U.S. Is
he right? Here's more from the Houston Chronicle:
http://chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/3755295.html.
Also, Newsweek's Michael Isikoff and Chris Cillizza, author of "The Fix" on
WashingtonPost.com, will be here to talk about White House changes,
congressional battles, and today's Abramoff developments. Check out Cillizza's
latest here: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/. And here's Isikoff's
report this week in Newsweek:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12017271/site/newsweek/.
Here are some things you might not have read yet today:
--AP reports on Jack Abramoff's sentencing in the Miami fraud case today
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12066674/
--Reuters updates on the Senate's immigration debate
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12063843/
--Hardblogger http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5445086/
--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.
=========================================
This e-mail is never sent unsolicited. You have received this The Hardball
Briefing Newsletter newsletter because you subscribed to it or, someone
forwarded it to you.
To remove yourself from the list (or to add yourself to the list if this
message was forwarded to you) simply go to
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7140407/, select unsubscribe, enter the email
address receiving this message, and click the Go button.
Microsoft Corporation - One Microsoft Way - Redmond, WA 98052
MSN PRIVACY STATEMENT
http://privacy.msn.com <http://privacy.msn.com/>
