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

Aired September 05, 2002 - 06:07   ET

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

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

COSTELLO: Let's continue talking about Iraq for just a second. The president is now going to meet with, not only members of Congress, but he's going to meet with leaders of other countries as well.

REDISCH: Yes, he will. He says he was going to meet with many leaders. He's going to the U.N. next week, and will have many bilateral meetings with world leaders, as well as deliver a speech next Thursday. And over the weekend, we expect to see Britain's Tony Blair coming to Washington to meet with the president.

COSTELLO: Do you have any sense -- is there some inside information that President Bush, from intelligence sources here in the United States, has some sort of concrete evidence that Saddam Hussein is working on nuclear weapons?

REDISCH: I really don't know what kind of evidence that President Bush has and holds, and what evidence that the intelligence community has and holds. It's the big complaint from Capitol Hill that they have not seen any new intelligence reports that show that the United States should take steps against Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

COSTELLO: And in the midst of all of this, the president is going to be doing some campaigning as well.

REDISCH: Today, he goes to Louisville, Kentucky and South Bend, Indiana. In Louisville, he'll meet with the Little League world champions, and then hold some economic -- have a round table, make an economic speech, and do some campaigning for Congresswoman Anne Northup in Louisville, and then later on in South Bend, he'll do another fund-raiser for a Republican congress candidate there.

COSTELLO: And something I find very interesting, there is also some kind of plan to deal with these credit card companies that target college kids.

REDISCH: Well, I'm not so sure it's a plan, but certainly it's going to be given a hearing to find out how to try and deal with it. Today, Senator Sarbanes is going to hold a hearing on how to make college students a little bit more financially responsible, and try and get them out of the debt that they seem to be accumulating.

COSTELLO: And a subject near and dear to Chad's heart, Steve Fossett. Chad, his balloon is going to be in the Smithsonian.

REDISCH: Not the balloon, but the capsule that carried him around the world will be unveiled today at the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum. Fossett will be there, and just another attraction to a museum that is very popular here in Washington, and has all kinds of great aviation and space stuff in there.

COSTELLO: Oh, it's a wonderful place to visit, and it's free. That's the best part.

Thank you very much, Mr. Redisch. We'll let you get down to the Washington bureau, and we'll check back with you tomorrow.

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