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Guest host: Steve Roberts
The Friday News Roundup. The CIA is accused of lying to Congress. Democratic Senator Baucus says lawmakers are short hundreds of billions of dollars to pay for healthcare reform and the GAO discovers massive security failures in government buildings. A panel of journalists joins guest-host Steve Roberts for analysis of the week's top national news stories.
E.J. Dionne, Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution, Washington Post columnist, and author of "Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious Right" and of "Stand Up Fight Back."
Dante Chinni, Director of the Christian Science Monitor's "Patchwork Nation" blog
Karen Tumulty, reporter, "Time" magazine.
Guest host: Steve Roberts
The Friday News Roundup. China's president leaves the G-8 Summit to deal with ethnic violence in the nation's western region. Bomb attacks kill dozens in Iraq and Afghanistan. World powers disagree on targets for greenhouse gas emissions. A panel of journalists joins guest-host Steve Roberts for analysis of the week's top international news stories.
Andrei Sitov, Washington bureau chief for Itar-Tass
Farah Stockman, foreign affairs reporter, The Boston Globe.
Tom Gjelten, correspondent, NPR. Author of 'Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause'
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