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Tonight on Hardball, attacks rage on as the Middle East crisis is now in its
7th day and the U.S. steps up efforts to evacuate thousands of Americans from
Lebanon. A leading Iranian lawmaker said today that no part of Israel is safe
from attacks. The AP has more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13913014/.
As diplomatic efforts continue, Chris will talk with Shimon Peres, former
Israeli prime minister and current deputy prime minister, about his country's
plans and whether the conflict can end soon. Chris also will talk with two
ambassadors to the United Nations, Nouhad Mahmoud of Lebanon and Bashar
Ja'afari of Syria, about what their countries are doing today to try to end the
conflict. The AP reports on Israel's plans for weeks of attacks:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13912000/.
NBC's Richard Engel will report from Beirut and NBC's Dawn Frantangelo will
report from Cyprus on the Americans being transported out of Lebanon.
Hardball's David Shuster and NBC's Jim Miklaszewski will have more on the
Pentagon's plans to get Americans out of the war zone. The AP has the latest on
the evacuations: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13914384/.
Chris also will talk with MSNBC's Tucker Carlson in Tel Aviv, NBC's Martin
Fletcher and Mark Potter in Haifa, TIME's Andrew Lee Butters in Beirut, and the
Wall Street Journal's Karby Leggett in Jerusalem.
Plus, in big political news today, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told
senators that President Bush himself stopped the Justice Department from
investigating the legality of the NSA's warrantless spying program. NBC News
Justice Correspondent Pete Williams and NBC Counter-Terrorism Analyst Roger
Cressey will talk about what that means for the Bush Administration. The AP has
more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13918661/.
Here are some things you might not have read yet today:
--AP reports on the failure of a gay marriage ban in the House today
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13918660/
--AP has the latest on the Senate's stem cell votes
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13903040/
--AP tracks primary day in Georgia (and a runoff in Alabama)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13921077/
--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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