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Guest host: Susan Page
The Treasury Department allows ten banks to repay government bailout funds. A bill giving the F-D-A authority to regulate tobacco products moves closer to becoming law. Chrysler finalizes a deal with Fiat to emerge from bankruptcy. A panel of journalists joins Diane for an analysis of the week's top national news stories.
Dante Chinni, Director of the Christian Science Monitor's "Patchwork Nation" blog
Jerry Seib, executive Washington editor, "The Wall Street Journal"
Margaret Talev, White House correspondent, McClatchy Newspapers
Guest host: Susan Page
A small island nation in the South Pacific agrees to take seventeen Guantanamo detainees. Iranians head to the polls to elect a new president. The United Nations considers additional North Korea sanctions. A panel of journalists joins Susan Page for analysis of the week's top international news stories.
Abderrahim Foukara, Washington burea chief of Al Jazeera Arabic
Daniel Dombey, U.S. diplomatic correspondent, "Financial Times"
Roy Gutman, foreign editor, McClatchy Newspapers; author "How We Missed the Story: Osama Bin Laden, the Taliban and the Hijacking of Afghanistan"
Warren Strobel, senior correspondent for foreign affairs, McClatchy Washington bureau
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