The Sunday Morning Talk Shows - The Review
By podcasts@redstate.com (Redstate Network) on Special Features
Sunday, April 1, 2007
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Last things first. On CNN's Late Edition, Senator Diane Feinstein (D-California) declared that she opposes regime change in Iraq and will meet with the Iranians in Stockholm herself. She added, in essence, that last November's midterms voted the President out of power, so Congress must step up and in and act as President.
On MTP, Senator Orrin Hatch declared that the Democrats did not have a "shred of evidence" of any impropriety regarding the firings of the U.S. attorneys. Host Russert asked Pat Leahy about this, and Leahy admitted as much but claimed that this is why they had to investigate. Gonzales will testify on April 17, he said, and not one day before.
On TW, White House counsel Dan Bartlett called the Democrats' funding resolutions, with the timetables, a political game. Next up, famed Nazi hunter Dick Durbin accused the White House of playing a political game by claiming that the money for the troops in Iraq would begin to run out in mid-April without a supplemental in place.
On FNS, Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden declared: "U.S. attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President, not the dictate of the President." (In fact, he said it twice.) Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell seemed unfazed by Joe Biden's cleverness. He did not say whether he supported the Attorney General, but he indicated that what matters if that the AGAG enjoys the President's support.
On FTN, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee chairman Chuckie Schumer, who will be supervising the inquisition, allowed that Karl Rove and Harriet Miers may testify before his committee in private but with a transcript. They do not have to be under oath, he added, because they have to tell the truth anyway. Arlen Specter huffed that he had proposed the same thing two weeks ago. Schumer explained that he would not allow AGAG to testify before April 17 because he must first interview other JD officials to have them on record so that Gonzales could not get away with testifying differently.
Host Wolf Blitzer opened LE by talking to former British hostage Terry Waite. Waite, who spent about five years in captivity in Lebanon, said that the Iranian government and their Revolutionary Guard were "honorable" that this current hostage situation involved a dispute over territorial waters which could be solved diplomatically.
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