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The Hardball Briefing On MSNBC
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Robert Redford plays Hardball tonight! The iconic actor and director shares
with Chris his thoughts on the war, the Bush Administration, energy, the
environment, the future for Democrats, and much, much more. Redford is in D.C.
today to take part in the Campaign for America's Future conference. Learn more
about that here: http://home.ourfuture.org/tba06/.
Also tonight, debate on the Iraq War takes center stage again this week after
Congress and President Bush spent last week talking about banning same-sex
marriage and repealing the estate tax. The AP has the latest:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13268742/.
Chris anchors Hardball live from Chicago and he'll talk about the president's
war council meeting today with NBC News Chief White House Correspondent David
Gregory. What does the president hope to get out of these meetings with top
military and civilian war advisers? Will there be any developments in deciding
when to bring U.S. troops home? What will Congress' debate on the war this week
do? Chris will ask both Rep. Jack Murtha (D-PA) and Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO). Plus,
what is the real impact of Zarqawi's death? The AP has more on the autopsy
report: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13275126/.
Newsweek's Michael Isikoff and the Washington Post's Jim VandeHei will also be
here to talk about the Iraq developments, the war debate in Congress, the
suicides of Guantanamo Bay prisoners, and more.
Plus, NBC News Political Analyst Charlie Cook, publisher of the Cook Political
Report, will be here to prime us for tomorrow's vote in Virginia, where
Democrats will pick between Jim Webb and Harris Miller to meet Sen. George
Allen (R-VA) this fall. They'll also talk about the new poll of Iowa voters
that found former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) as the leading choice among Iowa
Democrats for 2008. What does that mean for the rest of the potential field?
Speaking of polls, the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll will be released
on Wednesday. Tune in to Hardball Wednesday night to hear more about the
results!
Here are some things you might not have read yet today:
--MSNBC.com's Tom Curry reports on the blog-fest in Vegas this past weekend
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13190686/
--AP has news in the Safavian trial http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13281456/
--H-A-R-D-B-L-O-G-G-E-R http://hardblogger.msnbc.com
--NBC's (primary primer) "First Read" http://firstread.msnbc.com
--Doonesbury http://doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html
Brooke Brower compiled the "Hardball Briefing" in Washington, D.C.
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