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CIA Director Porter Goss has resigned after about 20 months on the job and it's
a full-blown feeding frenzy in the nation's capital tonight with that
surprising announcement. The White House said that it is unlikely that a
replacement for Goss will be named today. Here's a report from the AP:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12646394/.
In announcing the resignation, President Bush said Goss led the agency "ably."
But why is Goss going? Why wasn't there any rumor of his departure? Is this
just the latest piece of the White House's personnel changes? Tonight on
Hardball, MSNBC Chief Washington Correspondent Norah O'Donnell, sitting in for
Chris, will have all the latest on this breaking news with NBC's Andrea
Mitchell, the Washington Post's Walter Pincus, the Wall Street Journal and
CNBC's John Harwood, Newsweek's Michael Isikoff, and NBC News Analyst Bill
Harlow, a former CIA spokesman.
Meanwhile, police, politicians, and the press are piecing together just what
happened with Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) in the early morning hours on
Thursday on Capitol Hill. According to police reports and police union
officials, the congressman nearly hit a police cruiser at about 2:45 am
Thursday before hitting a security barricade. The congressman was neither
checked for sobriety nor arrested, rather police gave him a ride home. Kennedy
later said that he had not had alcohol Thursday night, had become disoriented
as a result of taking prescribed medicine, and will check into a rehab clinic.
Mike Viqueira, NBC News Congressional producer, and Lou Cannon, the head of the
D.C. Fraternal Order of Police, will be here to talk about that story. We'll
also hear what Kennedy had to say today in a Capitol Hill press conference.
Check out the latest on that incident from the NBC News Political Unit in First
Read on MSNBC.com: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3626796/.
Plus, it's Friday and you know what that means: Hardball HotShots. MSNBC's Rita
Cosby, Tucker Carlson, and Joe Scarborough join Norah to shed light on Goss'
goodbye and Kennedy's collision.
Here are some things you might not have read yet today:
--AP has a new poll showing conservatives down on the president
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12643666/
--AP reads the new economy numbers http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12643243/
--H-A-R-D-B-L-O-G-G-E-R 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.
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