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Tonight, Gov. Bill Richardson (D-NM) plays Hardball. Earlier this week,
Richardson brokered a 60-day ceasefire in Darfur between the Sudan government
and rebel factions
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/10/AR2007011002093.html)
- what would the governor do about Iraq if he was in the White House? And the
Democrats are heading to his part of the country for their 2008 national
convention in Denver. Are presidential plans in Richardson's future?
Then, Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA), the highest ranking military officer to serve in
the House, and Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA) join Chris to talk about the battle
brewing in the House over the president's plan for Iraq. Will Democrats in
Congress be willing to turn their fighting words into action? DNC Chairman
Howard Dean talks to Chris about what his party can do to stop the troop surge.
And the Dems go West for their convention next year, but what direction does
the party take in the meantime?
It's a dark afternoon in Washington but things are heating up in '08 politics -
Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and a Congressional delegation head to Iraq
(http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16594901) and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) announces
today he's standing by Bush (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16596330/). We'll dig
in with MSNBC Political Analyst and Newsweek's Chief Political Correspondent
Howard Fineman, Time's Mike Allen and Chris Cillizza from washingtonpost.com.
Read Cillizza's "The Fix" here:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/?nav=left, and the latest from Fineman
here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16408125/site/newsweek/.
Plus, GOP Strategist Frank Luntz helped craft the "Contract with America"
Republicans used to win back the House in 1994. Tonight, the author of "Words
That Work" rates the president's words from Wednesday. Read Luntz's OpEd in
today's LA Times on wartime linguistics:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-luntz12jan12,0,69016.story?coll=la-opinion-center
and go to www.politics.msnbc.com for the latest on all the day's political
news.
Stories you may have missed today:
-- Newsweek's Mike Isikoff and Mark Hosenball on "Bush's Best Democratic
Buddy": http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16585614/site/newsweek/
-- Clock ticking on 100-hour agenda for Congress, AP reports:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16593256/
-- AP: CA Congressman will no longer employ his fundraiser wife:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16596330/
-- Today's HotSoup: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16596330/
-- MSNBC's Political Calendar: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14708421/
-- NBC's First Read: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/
Shelby Poduch compiled the Hardball Briefing from Washington, D.C.
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