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NBC led with what Tim Russert called the "bleak" results from its latest national opinion poll: 19% believe the country is on the right track; 23% approve of the performance of the Congress; 29% give President George Bush a positive approval rating. "People think Washington is broken," Russert concluded.
Meanwhile Congress issued sub-poenas for two former White House aides--Sara Taylor the one-time political director and Harriet Miers the one-time counsel--in its investigation into whether the Justice Department improperly responded to political pressure when it fired those eight US Attorneys last year. ABC had its legal correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg (no link) provide analysis, even though she declared that the scenario of sub-poena, executive privilege and contempt citation is "more of a political battle than a legal battle." She added that the White House believes that political operative Karl Rove "will be next," hence its strategy: "Strongly assert executive privilege and stay firm."
Turning to Campaign 2008, NBC News's poll numbers showed Hillary Rodham Clinton consolidating her lead among Democrats--"the two debates have been good for Sen Clinton," Russert declared--and her fellow New Yorker Rudolph Giuliani still ahead among Republicans, even though he "lost some points since April." Russert justified his network's horse race polling on the grounds that both nominees will be known eight months from now. "It is happening very quickly, breakneck speed."
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