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What's on Tap for D.C. Today?

Aired August 05, 2002 - 06:11   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: And joining us now on the phone is our Washington deputy bureau chief Steve Redisch with a look at "What's on Tap" there today.
Good morning, Steve, what kind...

STEVE REDISCH, CNN WASHINGTON DEPUTY BUREAU CHIEF: Good morning.

COSTELLO: What kind of coffee are you drinking this morning?

REDISCH: I won't mention the brand name.

COSTELLO: Oh...

REDISCH: It's strong coffee, though.

COSTELLO: Hey, what's the president up to today?

REDISCH: President is leaving Kennebunkport today and he will go to Pittsburgh. After playing golf yesterday with his dad, he'll head to Pittsburgh to meet with the rescued miners and their families and deliver some remarks to them and the families and the rescuers that brought them out.

Go ahead.

COSTELLO: Oh, I'm sorry. Will he have any time to sign that controversial piece of legislation that's on his desk?

REDISCH: He will sign a piece of legislation that is called the Born Alive Infant's Protection Act of 2002. And what that's basically about is to appease anti-abortion advocates and allow all infants born alive, regardless of the stage or development in their -- in their -- in their development, to have all the legal rights of a human being.

COSTELLO: Got you.

Tom Ridge, he's talking homeland defense again today?

REDISCH: He is meeting with the mayor of Washington, D.C., the governor of Maryland and the governor of Virginia and some other officials of all three jurisdictions in order to better prepare the Washington, D.C. area on -- in case of a terrorism attack. Washington, as you know, was the site of the Pentagon hit; and there have been some studies done of how individual jurisdictions did in that attack and Ridge is going to meet with the officials today in order to better coordinate. COSTELLO: Yes, they weren't exactly all talking to one another on that day.

REDISCH: It was a difficult day all around.

COSTELLO: OK, let's talk about something good, how about them Redskins?

REDISCH: Not a difficult day all around yesterday. Actually it was Saturday night, Sunday morning here, and they were over in Japan. And the Redskins, under their new coach Steve Spurrier, 38 to 7 over the San Francisco 49ers in Osaka and big news here. Front page both yesterday and today.

COSTELLO: Oh I could only imagine. A lot of passing in that game, huh?

REDISCH: It's -- for the first time in a while, the Redskins seem to have an identity and the identity is the air attack.

COSTELLO: Steve Spurrier knows all about that too, doesn't he?

REDISCH: He's the ball coach that likes to throw it around and toss it around.

COSTELLO: I have to ask you about the crowd in Japan, were there a lot of people watching the game?

REDISCH: It looked like a packed crowd from what I saw. I caught the -- part of the second half on television and it looked like a packed crowd. And the front page of today's "Washington Post" has got a bunch of Japanese fans with signs in front of them about hail to the Redskins and it's -- with the hog pig noses.

COSTELLO: OK. I have to ask you -- I have to ask you one more question, did Daniel Snyder go?

REDISCH: I'm not sure if Dan Schneider went.

COSTELLO: I just wondered if he's staying out of things.

REDISCH: I doubt he will ever stay out of things.

COSTELLO: I think you're right about that.

Thanks, Steve Redisch, we'll let you get down to the Washington bureau and we'll talk to you tomorrow.

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