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What's on Tap in Washington, D.C. Today?
Aired October 17, 2002 - 06:12 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: The North Korea situation is just on -- just one of the major issues the White House will be dealing with this morning.
For a look at what else is on tap there today, we want to check in as usual with our CNN Washington bureau morning producer Paul Courson.
Boy, that's a long title -- Paul.
PAUL COURSON, CNN WASHINGTON BUREAU MORNING PRODUCER: That's not what it says on my business card, but OK.
COSTELLO: OK.
COURSON: How are you?
COSTELLO: I'm fine. How are you?
COURSON: President Bush is coming to Atlanta today. I hope you're ready for that.
COSTELLO: Oh yes. Yes, streets are...
COURSON: What...
COSTELLO: ... going to be closed down, the airports...
COURSON: Right about when you get off, you're going to find motorcades and all sorts coming through Atlanta today. The president's got some travel on his agenda today. He comes to Atlanta for a Republican political event and then he goes on to Florida where he'll visit an elementary school near Daytona Beach, Florida and he'll have remarks on education.
Yesterday he hosted Israeli Prime Minister Arial Sharon at the White House. The two talked about Iraq and Middle East issues. Sharon today meets with Secretary of State Powell over at Blair House across the street from the White House. And then Sharon heads to Capitol Hill for meetings with key lawmakers.
Now we're supposed to have a photo op with Sharon, Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle and Senate Republican leader Trent Lott up on Capitol Hill during the day today. You can expect some questions to be launched at the group and perhaps we'll get some more answers on world affairs.
COSTELLO: Yes, maybe so.
The Pentagon is going to announce a design competition for memorial to the Beticon Attack (ph). Can you tell us about that?
COURSON: Well they had more than 1,000 entries from artists trying to come up with a design for a Pentagon 9/11 memorial, Carol, and today they're going to announce some of the finalists. That'll be at 1:00.
At 1:30, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs come to a news briefing. That'll be at 1:30.
And also we have on Capitol Hill today something important about the 9/11 situation. We have another hearing of the Joint Intelligence Committee trying to find out what went wrong in our intelligence gathering that could have prevented or somehow discovered plots that were afoot ahead of the 9/11 attacks in the last year. The big three that'll be on the Hill today are the heads of the CIA, the head of the FBI and the head of the National Security Agency. And this will be one of their first public hearings where they'll be taking questions from lawmakers on what went wrong.
COSTELLO: Should be very interesting then.
Thank you, Paul Courson, we'll let you get back to work down there at the Washington bureau.
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Aired October 17, 2002 - 06:12 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: The North Korea situation is just on -- just one of the major issues the White House will be dealing with this morning.
For a look at what else is on tap there today, we want to check in as usual with our CNN Washington bureau morning producer Paul Courson.
Boy, that's a long title -- Paul.
PAUL COURSON, CNN WASHINGTON BUREAU MORNING PRODUCER: That's not what it says on my business card, but OK.
COSTELLO: OK.
COURSON: How are you?
COSTELLO: I'm fine. How are you?
COURSON: President Bush is coming to Atlanta today. I hope you're ready for that.
COSTELLO: Oh yes. Yes, streets are...
COURSON: What...
COSTELLO: ... going to be closed down, the airports...
COURSON: Right about when you get off, you're going to find motorcades and all sorts coming through Atlanta today. The president's got some travel on his agenda today. He comes to Atlanta for a Republican political event and then he goes on to Florida where he'll visit an elementary school near Daytona Beach, Florida and he'll have remarks on education.
Yesterday he hosted Israeli Prime Minister Arial Sharon at the White House. The two talked about Iraq and Middle East issues. Sharon today meets with Secretary of State Powell over at Blair House across the street from the White House. And then Sharon heads to Capitol Hill for meetings with key lawmakers.
Now we're supposed to have a photo op with Sharon, Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle and Senate Republican leader Trent Lott up on Capitol Hill during the day today. You can expect some questions to be launched at the group and perhaps we'll get some more answers on world affairs.
COSTELLO: Yes, maybe so.
The Pentagon is going to announce a design competition for memorial to the Beticon Attack (ph). Can you tell us about that?
COURSON: Well they had more than 1,000 entries from artists trying to come up with a design for a Pentagon 9/11 memorial, Carol, and today they're going to announce some of the finalists. That'll be at 1:00.
At 1:30, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs come to a news briefing. That'll be at 1:30.
And also we have on Capitol Hill today something important about the 9/11 situation. We have another hearing of the Joint Intelligence Committee trying to find out what went wrong in our intelligence gathering that could have prevented or somehow discovered plots that were afoot ahead of the 9/11 attacks in the last year. The big three that'll be on the Hill today are the heads of the CIA, the head of the FBI and the head of the National Security Agency. And this will be one of their first public hearings where they'll be taking questions from lawmakers on what went wrong.
COSTELLO: Should be very interesting then.
Thank you, Paul Courson, we'll let you get back to work down there at the Washington bureau.
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