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Tonight on Hardball - the Democrats attack...Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez,
top Bush adviser Karl Rove, and in the case of Clinton vs. Obama, each other!
It's day four of the Clinton/Obama clash and Clinton Communications Director
Howard Wolfson and Obama's Chief Media Strategist David Axelrod are putting on
the gloves for their candidates in tonight's Hardball Debate.
Earlier today on Capitol Hill, Senate Democrats called for a special counsel to
investigate whether Gonzales has lied under oath. This came as FBI Director
Robert Mueller told Congress that the government's wire tapping program was the
topic of conversation in a 2004 visit to then-Attorney General John Ashcroft's
hospital bedside - contradicting sworn testimony from Gonzalez.
Meanwhile, Senator Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee,
today announced the subpoena of President Bush's top political adviser, Karl
Rove.
Hardball's David Shuster will have the latest on all that, but first White
House Press Secretary Tony Snow will join us to respond to Mueller's statement
contradicting Gonzales. We'll also hear from Bruce Fein, former DOJ official
under President Reagan and former Democratic House Judiciary Counsel Stan
Brand.
And don't miss tonight's Hardball Panel: Stephen Hayes, author of "Cheney," a
new biography on the controversial vice president, and Sally Quinn,
co-moderator of "On Faith," a joint blog with Washington Post and Newsweek,
join NBC political director Chuck Todd to hash out all the hot political news
of the day.
For the latest on all of today's political news, go to the best political
website www.politics.msnbc.com powered by NBC News and the National Journal.
Don't forget to check out NBC's "First Read" http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/
and MSNBC.com's political calendar http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14708421/.
Shelby Poduch compiled the "Hardball Briefing" from Washington, D.C.
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