Return to Transcripts main page
CNN Live At Daybreak
What's on Tap for D.C. Today?
Aired September 17, 2002 - 06:09 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: President Bush hits the road again today.
Our Washington deputy bureau chief, Steve Redisch, is back with us on the phone this morning, before he heads on down to the Washington bureau.
Good morning -- Steve.
STEVE REDISCH, CNN WASHINGTON DEPUTY BUREAU CHIEF: Good morning, Carol.
COSTELLO: Fund-raising and the Pledge of Allegiance on the president's agenda today?
REDISCH: And before that, he talks about teaching American history at the White House, before he then goes to Nashville. He has a fund-raiser with Lamar Alexander, the perennial presidential candidate, who is now running for the Senate seat held by Fred Thompson.
And then, he goes to a school and conducts a nationwide Pledge of Allegiance, the Pledge Across America event this afternoon around 2:00 Eastern.
COSTELLO: The Senate will also hold closed-door meetings on Iraq. Can you tell us more about that?
REDISCH: The CIA chief, Director George Tenet, and the acting DIA director, Defense Intelligence Agency, will go up before the Senate Armed Services Committee, and they'll brief those senators on what may be the latest Iraqi intelligence, may be the intelligence that members of Congress are looking for in order to push them toward a resolution regarding attacking Iraq.
COSTELLO: Also, I understand federal baggage screeners -- they will finally be at Reagan National Airport. I would have thought they would have been -- that would have been the first airport to get the federal baggage screeners.
REDISCH: It certainly was the last airport to go back on line after the 9/11 terror attacks, but finally today, only a portion of Reagan National Airport will get the federal screeners, the 102nd airport to do so.
COSTELLO: And Lance Armstrong, he's going to be on the Hill -- some happy news now. REDISCH: The four-time Tour de France winner and the cancer survivor joins Senator Kennedy and Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee in what's being billed as new cancer care legislation designed to improve the quality of care people receive who have cancer.
COSTELLO: Oh, he's an amazing guy, isn't he?
Steve Redisch, thank you very much. We'll let you get down to the Washington bureau, because, you know -- well, we know from what he has just said, he has a busy day on tap.
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com.
Aired September 17, 2002 - 06:09 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: President Bush hits the road again today.
Our Washington deputy bureau chief, Steve Redisch, is back with us on the phone this morning, before he heads on down to the Washington bureau.
Good morning -- Steve.
STEVE REDISCH, CNN WASHINGTON DEPUTY BUREAU CHIEF: Good morning, Carol.
COSTELLO: Fund-raising and the Pledge of Allegiance on the president's agenda today?
REDISCH: And before that, he talks about teaching American history at the White House, before he then goes to Nashville. He has a fund-raiser with Lamar Alexander, the perennial presidential candidate, who is now running for the Senate seat held by Fred Thompson.
And then, he goes to a school and conducts a nationwide Pledge of Allegiance, the Pledge Across America event this afternoon around 2:00 Eastern.
COSTELLO: The Senate will also hold closed-door meetings on Iraq. Can you tell us more about that?
REDISCH: The CIA chief, Director George Tenet, and the acting DIA director, Defense Intelligence Agency, will go up before the Senate Armed Services Committee, and they'll brief those senators on what may be the latest Iraqi intelligence, may be the intelligence that members of Congress are looking for in order to push them toward a resolution regarding attacking Iraq.
COSTELLO: Also, I understand federal baggage screeners -- they will finally be at Reagan National Airport. I would have thought they would have been -- that would have been the first airport to get the federal baggage screeners.
REDISCH: It certainly was the last airport to go back on line after the 9/11 terror attacks, but finally today, only a portion of Reagan National Airport will get the federal screeners, the 102nd airport to do so.
COSTELLO: And Lance Armstrong, he's going to be on the Hill -- some happy news now. REDISCH: The four-time Tour de France winner and the cancer survivor joins Senator Kennedy and Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee in what's being billed as new cancer care legislation designed to improve the quality of care people receive who have cancer.
COSTELLO: Oh, he's an amazing guy, isn't he?
Steve Redisch, thank you very much. We'll let you get down to the Washington bureau, because, you know -- well, we know from what he has just said, he has a busy day on tap.
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com.
