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Iraq is the Story of the Day. All three networks led with their White House correspondents on the meeting between President George Bush and the Iraq Study Group led by former Secretary of State James Baker.

CBS' Jim Axelrod took the White House angle: its tardy move towards change and its likely resistance both to a troop pullout and to diplomacy with Iran. ABC's Martha Raddatz emphasized the Study Group itself: members "shook their heads" when they heard of Bush's policy snafus. New Democratic power was represented by Sen Carl Levin of Michigan, who landed a soundbite on all three networks. NBC's David Gregory contrasted his pullout call with the send-more-troops-in call from Presidential contender John McCain on his own network's Meet The Press.

Andrew Tyndall 11/14/06 7:56:06 pm

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