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We hope you've enjoyed MSNBC's live, non-stop coverage of the build-up to
President Bush's 6th State of the Union address. Stay with MSNBC tonight as
Hardball's Chris Matthews and Countdown's Keith Olbermann co-anchor the
president's speech and the Democratic response by Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA),
followed by reporting and analysis from NBC's Brian Williams and Tim Russert,
NBC correspondents Andrea Mitchell, David Gregory and Chip Reid, MSNBC's Joe
Scarborough, Tucker Carlson and Norah O'Donnell, MSNBC analyst Pat Buchanan,
along with the Hotline's Chuck Todd and Newsweek's Howard Fineman.
Go to www.politics.msnbc.com for the latest on all of today's political news,
and tonight, be sure to stay on www.hardblogger.msnbc.com for live blogging
before, during, and after the State of the Union from the Hardblogger All-Stars.
Tonight, the hottest political analysis and debate anywhere continues on
Hardball, live at 5 and 7 PM EST. Speaking to a Democratic controlled Congress
for the first time in his presidency, what will Bush say? How will Democrats,
already battling with the president over Iraq, respond? And what will it all
mean for the rest of Bush's term, and for 2008? Don't miss Chris with some of
the sharpest minds in politics, including:
--DNC Chairman Howard Dean
--former White House Chief of Staff Andy Card
--2008 presidential candidate Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT)
--Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen
--CNBC's Chief Washington Correspondent and Wall Street Journal Political
Editor John Harwood
--Newsweek Senior Editor Jonathan Alter
--Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-CA), House Armed Services Committee member
Plus, we'll have the latest on the CIA leak trial Scooter Libby. Did the White
House sacrifice Libby to save Bush political strategist Karl Rove? Read more
here http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16770023/.
Then, live at 7 PM EST:
--MSNBC's chief Washington correspondent Norah O'Donnell
--Senate Majority Whip Trent Lott (R-MS)
--House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD)
--MSNBC Political Analyst Pat Buchanan and MSNBC Contributor Mike Barnicle
--Eugene Robinson from the Washington Post
--MSNBC Political Analyst and Hotline Editor-in-Chief Chuck Todd.
If you haven't seen this already, take a look at Todd on Clinton vs. Obama:
Welcome to (The) O vs. C http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16675807/.
And it's going to be quite a night. Take a quick breather, and check out Chris
and Hardball getting spoofed on SNL http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16675807/.
Shelby Poduch compiled the "Hardball Briefing" from Washington, D.C.
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