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It's hard to imagine that less than 48 hours remain in Hardball's extraordinary
9th Anniversary celebration week, but Chris and your Hardball team are ready to
make the most of them. Tonight, with ongoing sectarian strife in Iraq and a
storm cloud forming over Iran's nuclear ambitions, Chris will talk with Sen.
Joe Biden (D-DE), top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an
aspiring 2008 presidential candidate.
Read the latest on today's attacks in Iraq and plans in Iran:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12302746/ and http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12297285/.
Also tonight, Hardball Correspondent David Shuster will have the latest news in
the CIA leak probe. Court filings show that Scooter Libby testified that
neither the president nor the vice president told him to give Valerie Plame's
name to reporters. Will Libby's attorneys call White House Deputy Chief of
Staff Karl Rove and former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer as
witnesses in the case? What about former CIA Director George Tenet? Newsweek
Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff and New York Daily News Washington
Bureau Chief Tom DeFrank will be here to discuss it all.
Plus, Jon Meacham, managing editor of Newsweek and author of "American Gospel,"
will have a report on religion in American politics. Read Meacham's report on
the Bush family and Rev. Billy Graham on MSNBC.com:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12271894/site/newsweek/.
And for more on the CIA leak investigation, the latest in the midterm
elections, and the progress of the presidential prospects, Chris will talk with
Charlie Cook, NBC News political analyst and publisher of the Cook Political
Report, and Jay Carney, Washington bureau chief for Time.
Here are some things you might not have read yet today:
--MSNBC previews the New Orleans mayoral debate moderated by Chris and WDSU's
Norman Robinson (watch Monday night!) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12167858/
--Hardball's Tipster-Pixster (join the party!)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11698847/
--Hardblogger (anniversary week edition!) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5445086/
--NBC's First Read (the best way to start your day!)
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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