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10:00The Budget and the Deficit

In depth look at President Bush's final budget, the projected deficit and tough choices facing Congress and the president as they begin the debate the state of the nation's finances.

Guests

Jonathan Weisman, reporter, "The Washington Post"

Brian Riedl, senior budget analyst,The Heritage Foundation

Maya MacGuineas, President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and Director, Fiscal Policy Program at the New America Foundation

Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA), Member of the House Budget Committee and Assistant to the Speaker of the House, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

Rep. John Campbell (R-CA), Member of the House Budget Committee

11:00Pope Brock: "Charlatan" (Crown)

The bizarre story of "the goat gland man," John Brinkley, a marketing genius and medical fraud who amassed a fabulous fortune in the early twentieth century implanting thousands with goat testicles to restore sexual virility.

Guests

Pope Brock, journalist and author

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