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Summer sizzles tonight in Hardball Plaza! Live from Capitol Hill, Chris takes
Hardball to the street tonight for the hot headlines and steamy scuttlebutt
that's out there as we enter the dog days of summer for Decision 2006! Come
down and join the fun!
As reported first on television by Hardball Tuesday night, columnist Robert
Novak broke his nearly three-year silence today about his involvement in the
CIA leak probe. Here's Novak's full column:
http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-nws-novak12.html.
Tonight on Hardball, Chris will talk about the politics still swirling around
the investigation. Read coverage of Novak's news making in the Washington Post
and the New York Times:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/11/AR2006071100903.html
and http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/washington/12leak.html.
Plus, don't miss former General Electric boss Jack Welch for his take on the
state of the economy. The latest issue of FORTUNE magazine argues that Welch's
winning ways don't work anymore. He'll tell Chris why they're wrong! Check it
out here:
http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/10/magazines/fortune/rules.fortune/index.htm and
http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/10/magazines/fortune/welch_defends.fortune/index.htm.
Also in Hardball Plaza tonight, Chris Cillizza of WashingtonPost.com, A.B.
Stoddard of The Hill, Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times, and John McCaslin of
the Washington Times will bat around the latest developments for Decision 2006
and 2008. By the way, Esquire magazine takes a big look at Sen. John McCain
(R-AZ) this month. Read it here:
http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2006/060706_mfe_August_06_McCain_1.html.
Here are some things you might not have read yet today:
--NBC reports on President Putin's shot at Vice President Cheney
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12355000/
--AP runs through what's on the list of vulnerable sites
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13822662/
--H-A-R-D-B-L-O-G-G-E-R http://hardblogger.msnbc.com
--NBC's "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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