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Republican Sen. John Warner, just back from a tour of Iraq and viewed as highly
influential with moderate Senate Republicans, is now urging President Bush to
announce the start of troop withdrawal from Iraq.
With the new national intelligence estimate drawing yet another grim picture of
the war, can the president drown out the opposing voices and convince Congress
stay the course? Or will the September progress report open the door to begin
bringing U.S. troops home?
Hardball's David Shuster will have the latest on Warner and today's fallout
from the new NIE, which reports a laundry list of negatives, including high
levels of violence, continued fighting between sectarian groups, highly visible
terror attacks, and an expected drop in the effectiveness of the Iraqi
government. We'll talk about it all with the Washington Post's Rajiv
Chandrasekaran, former WP Baghdad bureau chief and author of "Imperial Life in
the Emerald City."
Then, will a California ballot initiative make the Golden State the biggest
battleground of '08? We'll walk through the new plan proposed by CA
Republicans to split up the state's electoral votes, plus the latest on the
race for '08 with NBC News Political Director Chuck Todd.
And in tonight's Hardball Debate, is the White House breaking the law by
declaring some of its email records are off limits in a civil law suit?
Melanie Sloan from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and
David Rivkin,a former Justice Department official under Bush 41, will be here
to duke it out.
Our Hardball guest host Mike Barnicle will have the top five political stories
you need to know about today, and we'll have more on all the big news with
tonight's Hardball Panel - Washington Post national political reporter Perry
Bacon, Julie Mason from the Houston Chronicle, and Business Week's Eamon Javers.
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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