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(Studio: Aaron Brown) "The Whip" introduced.
(Washington: David Ensor; White House: Suzanne Malveaux; New York: Jeff Greenfield) "NewsNight"'s major headlines previewed.
(Studio: Aaron Brown) Page two & a half: more stories previewed.
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) Report introduced.
(Washington: David Ensor) CIA director George Tenet's combative defense of the intelligence from CIA analysts before the Iraq war featured; details given of Tenet's specifics about CIA successes. [At Georgetown University, TENET - says the analysts painted a picture of a brutal dictator building weapons programs; states we may have overestimated; defends intelligence capabilities.] [Former CIA weapons inspector David KAY†- says Iraq had no large stockpiles of chemical & biological weapons; notes the lack of {weapons inspections} caseworkers fluent in Arabic.] [Senator Carl LEVIN - says the administration had made "certain" statements about the weapons.] The reaction of President Bush's administration to what Kay is saying discussed.
(Studio: Aaron Brown) Report introduced.
(White House: Suzanne Malveaux) Bush's aggressive campaign to defend his call to war against Iraq featured; details given of his re-election campaign strategy. [BUSH - says America "did the right thing" in Iraq by taking action to defend the American people against a madman; states America is safer....] [Secretary of State Colin POWELL - says the president made the right decision.] [Senator John KERRY - says the White House used the words "imminent threat."]
(Studio: Aaron Brown) Live interview held with "Newsweek" assistant managing editor Evan Thomas about Tenet & CIA intelligence. [From Washington, THOMAS - says Tenet was speaking to different audiences: the CIA, the press, the White House & Congress; assesses Tenet's speech in which he threaded the needle; notes Bush likes Tenet, which carries weight; asserts we expect too much out of intelligence, which has had an iffy history; questions whether an investigative commission will make things worse for the intelligence community, but the CIA has not been able to reform itself.]
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) Report introduced.
(Pentagon: Barbara Starr) The Defense Department's release of the first videotape {shot last summer} from inside the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, featured; video shown to illustrate life at the camp for the detainees; details given about how the prisoners are treated.
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) Announcement that Representative Richard Gephardt will endorse presidential candidate Senator John Kerry noted. [In taped interview, from Knoxville, Tennessee, Gen. Wesley CLARK - defends his candidacy; comments on President Bush's "astounding admission" that he would have gone into Iraq even knowing there were no weapons of mass destruction; states this administration has not levelled with the people, that the intelligence was nuanced & there was no imminent threat so the intelligence did not justify the action; says we did not finish the job against Al Qaeda & Osama bin Laden†† because of the focus on Iraq.]
(Studio: Aaron Brown) Howard Dean's last-bid gambit for a win in Wisconsin outlined.
(Studio: Jeff Greenfield) The implosion of Dean's campaign examined; various campaign scenes shown. [On "Meet the Press," DEAN - jokes "how the mighty have fallen."] The point that Dean's lead was not that big after all, that he made several mistakes & opponents Senators John Kerry & John Edwards got better noted. The initial poll numbers out of Wisconsin & how Dean could salvage his campaign discussed.
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) Report introduced.
(Atlanta: Brian Cabell) The flap over a Texas Eckerd pharmacist's decision not to fill a prescription for the morning-after pill for a woman who was raped examined; scenes shown of a demonstration outside the store. [Protestor Stephanie BESIER†- calls it a "second assault."] [Planned Parenthood Dr. Vanessa CULLINS†- defends emergency contraception.]
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) The status of several Senate office buildings following the ricin scare in Washington, DC; the status of the Robert Blake murder trial & the death of Vivian Mitchell, a witness in the Scott Peterson murder trial, reported.
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) Report introduced.
(New York: Allan Chernoff) The cross-examination in the Martha Stewart trial of former stock broker's assistant Douglas Faneuil about a coverup of her ImClone stock sale examined; Faneuil's e-mail messages criticizing Stewart quoted; courtroom sketches by Christine Cornell shown; details given of the questioning of Faneuil by co-defendant Peter Bacanovic's lawyer David Apfel†.
(Studio: Aaron Brown) Live interview held with former Wall Street insider slate.com's Henry Blodget† about the Stewart trial. [BLODGET - talks about the public perception of him; assesses Faneuil's credibility during his testimony; states Faneuil is more damaging to Bacanovic than to Stewart.]
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) The status of the Tyco trial; retail sales figures & Stock Market Report reported.
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) Report introduced.
(Savannah, Georgia: John King) CNN exclusive report on the return of First Lady Laura Bush to the campaign trail in 2004 presented. [BUSH - reacts to the Democrats saying terrible things about her husband, President Bush; worries about her daughters; says her position is as wife, not political adviser.] [In speech, BUSH - talks about the little perks.]
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) The headlines of tomorrow's morning newspapers presented; front pages shown from the papers from the "International Herald Tribune", "USA Today", China, Washington, DC, San Francisco, Boston, Detroit & Chicago.
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