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What's On Tap For D.C. Today?

Aired August 29, 2002 - 06:04   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Joining us now on the phone from our Washington bureau is deputy bureau chief, Steve Redisch. He has a look at what's on tap there today.
Good morning -- Steve.

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

COSTELLO: What's the president up to today?

REDISCH: The president is going from Crawford, his ranch, to Oklahoma City and Little Rock today. He's got fund-raisers in Oklahoma City for Congressman Steve Largent and Senator James Inhofe, and then he goes -- and he also has remarks at a school event, before going off to Little Rock for another fund-raiser.

COSTELLO: And can we bet that in those remarks will be something about these terror suspects?

REDISCH: It could be. I don't -- I couldn't predict, and I'm not sure if the president is going to say much about the justice -- the judicial process taking its course. Usually, that's left up to the attorney general, John Ashcroft. But he may make some remarks regarding the war on terrorism or the situation regarding Iraq.

COSTELLO: Oh, yes, let's talk about Iraq, because Vice President Dick Cheney will be campaigning -- oh, is campaigning the right word, when we're talking about an attack on Iraq?

REDISCH: I don't know if you can call it campaigning, but he certainly will, once again, lay out the reasons why Iraq is bad and Iraq should be contained and dealt with. He'll be in San Antonio, where he'll address Korean war veterans, and our guidance is that he'll make pretty much the same remarks, same tone of remarks that he made on Tuesday.

COSTELLO: Got you.

This AAA survey coming out about how Americans feel about air travel, that sounds interesting.

REDISCH: We've all flown. I have been flying quite a bit in the last six months, and everybody developed these attitudes toward how you're being and all of the security precautions that are being taken. And AAA has done a survey of more than 1,000 people on what they think of air travel security, and what they believe is too heavy-handed, not enough.

One of the surprising results that -- or one of the results that we've seen is 8 in 10 people believe that the Transportation Security Administration should not miss its December 31st deadline of inspecting all bags -- x-raying all bags for bomb-making devices. And so it should be pretty interesting to see what the survey has in the next hour.

COSTELLO: Yes, you guys sound like you have a busy day, so we'll let you get back to it.

Thank you, Steve Redisch. We'll check back with you tomorrow.

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