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10:00U.S. Troop Withdrawal from Iraqi Cities

Tomorrow, June 30th, U.S. combat troops will withdraw from urban areas in Iraq: An update on the process and challenges ahead for Iraqi security forces.

Guests

Paul Pillar, is a visiting professor at Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C. and a former CIA National Intelligence officer.

Kenneth Pollack, director of research at the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution; author of "The Persian Puzzle: the Conflict between Iran and America;" former director for Persian Gulf Affairs and former director for Near East and South Asian Affairs at the National Security Council; former Iran-Iraq military analyst, Central Intelligence Agency

Gina Chon, reporter, Wall Street Journal

Elise Labott, producer covering the State Department for CNN

11:00Colum McCann: "Let the Great World Spin" (Random House)

On a summer day in 1974 New Yorkers looked up to see an acrobat walking on a wire between the tops of the twin towers. In a new novel, Colum McCann imagines what was going on in the lives of the people on the streets below.

Guests

Colum McCann, author of the novels "Zoli," "Dancer," "This Side of Brightness," and "Songdogs."

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