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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(White House: David Gregory) Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan’s recommendations for reducing Social Security benefits featured; details given about the attention to the budget deficit in the presidential election and about proposed government spending. [GREENSPAN – comments on the demands of the baby boomers reaching retirement.] [President BUSH – says we’ve presented a plan to cut the deficit in half; states his view on Social Security.] [Concord Coalition Robert BIXBY†- comments on the fundamental irresponsibility of the last couple of years.]
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Toledo, Ohio: Carl Quintanilla) Reaction to Greenspan’s recommendation featured; NBC News/"Wall Street Journal" poll results cited. [Baby boomer April CARVOTTE‡, college student Britney DAVIS‡- react to Greenspan’s idea.] [AARP federal affairs director David CERTNER†- comments on the reliance on Social Security as many seniors’ only income.] [Presidential candidates Senators John KERRY, John EDWARDS – offer views on Social Security.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Capitol: Chip Reid) The debate over whether Congress should pass a law to shield gun makers and sellers from lawsuits arising from gun crimes examined. [Shooting victim’s husband Jim BALLENGER††- comments on his lawsuit against a Tacoma, Washington, gun store where the sniper suspects obtained the gun that killed his wife.] [Gun store owner John SHILAND‡, NRA Wayne LaPIERRE†- favor the legislation.] [Chicago Mayor Richard DALEY†- says this is a dangerous instrument that injures & kills people.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Statement from House Speaker Representative Dennis Hastert† that he will not support an extension for the 9/11 Commission’s report, and the Commission’s criticism of National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice for refusing to testify publicly noted.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) President Bush’s warning against Haitian refugees fleeing to the US to escape the uprising against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and the National Black Caucus’s request for the US to send troops reported.
(Port-au-Prince: Kerry Sanders) The rebellion in Haiti featured; details given about the organization and demands of the rebels; scenes shown of preparations for the anticipated assault on Port-au-Prince, and from the streets of rebel-controlled Cap-Haitien. [ARISTIDE – says they are terrorists.] France’s call for Aristide to step down noted.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Washington: Lisa Myers) NBC exclusive report on FBI investigators’ removal of items from the World Trade Center site as souvenirs presented; specific items listed; details given about the forced retirement of former FBI agent Jane Turner†, who reported that another agent had stolen a crystal globe from Ground Zero. [Victim’s widow Monica GABRIEL††– says taking something from that site is despicable.] [Senator Charles GRASSLEY†- comments on the failure to punish the agents while private citizens were criminally prosecuted.] [FBI Cassandra CHANDLER†- defends the agents.] [TURNER – says it’s amazing that the thief is still in the FBI.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Supreme Court: Pete Williams) The Supreme Court ruling that states may deny scholarships to divinity students featured; details given of Joshua Davey’s lawsuit against the state of Washington, which refused to let him use his scholarship because he was studying theology; Chief Justice William Rehnquist†’s opinion quoted. [DAVEY, Davey’s lawyer Jay SEKULOW†– say Washington’s action was discriminatory.] [Religious scholarship opponent Barry LYNN†- supports the Supreme Court’s decision.] The impact for advocates of vouchers that pay for public school students to attend religious schools noted.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) The assassination of a deputy police chief in Mosul, Iraq, and the crash of a US military helicopter in Haditha reported; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Washington: Robert Hager) The fallout from the National Academy of Sciences report on the mistakes & failures that led to a rash of animal deaths at the National Zoo in Washington, DC, featured; examples of neglect cited. [Resigning director Lucy SPELMAN††- says it’s time to move on.] [NAS Michael ROBERTS†- says there has been a pervasive weakness at many levels within the system.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) The indictment in Atlanta of Baltimore Ravens football star Jamal Lewis on drug charges reported.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Series on the crisis in health care costs continued.
(Rochester, New York: Robert Bazell) The prohibitive cost of cholesterol-lowering statins, drugs that reduce the risk of heart disease & stroke, featured. [Patients Beth STEINHAUSER††, Dennis RISING††- comment on their need for the drugs.] [University of Rochester Dr. Thomas PEARSON††- comments.]
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