A House committee votes today to authorize subpoenas for White House officials about the firings of
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(21 Mar 2007) HEADLINE: Bush,
(21 Mar 2007) HEADLINE: Bush, Dems dig in heels on prosecutors
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CAPTION: President Bush and congressional Democrats are digging in their heels over the demand that top White House aides testify about the firing of eight federal prosecutors. (March 21)
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[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE]
[Notes:House subcommittee voting]
It's now a full-blown subpoena fight.
[Notes:Upsound voice vote]
A House panel has voted to authorize a demand for testimony ...
[Notes:File footage Karl Rove, etc.]
.. from top White House officials who played a role in the controversial firings ...
[Notes:File footage prosecutors (I think them taking the oath would work best here)]
... of eight federal prosecutors. Democrats, who suspect a political purge...
[Notes:Bush (from today's fotoop? or from some meeting with Rove, Miers, etc.?)]
... want President Bush's aides answering questions under oath.
[Notes:Snow walkup]
But the White House suggests their real goal is a partisan "gotcha."
SNOW: SOT (1:11 p.m.) "Do you want to get at the truth. Or do you want to create a political spectacle." Tony Snow, White House Press Secretary
[Notes:Fielding file]
The president's attorney has offered to let the officials answer questions, but ONLY in private, off-the-record sessions.
[Notes:Back to committee]
That was quickly rejected.
DELAHUNT: SOT (10:47:15) "To insist that these interviews be conducted privately, not under oath and with no transcript, I would suggest borders on insulting to this committee and to this Congress." Cong. William Delahunt, D-Mass.
[Notes:Wide shot committee]
However, Republicans think the insults run the OTHER way.
CANNON: SOT (10:23:10) "The only purpose of subpoenas issued to the White House is to fan the flames and photoops of partisan controversy." Cong. Chris Cannon, R-Utah
[Notes:More Bush looking presidential]
The president insists a constitutional principle's at stake: his right to speak to aides in confidence.
[Notes:Rice file footage (from when she was Natl Secy Adviser?)]
However, that principle's been breached before. Even the Bush White House allowed then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to testify before the Nine-Eleven commission.
[Notes:Standup close]
So the question is, which side will blink first? If neither does, the next stop could be the courts -- and months of legal wrangling the likes of which Washington hasn't seen since Bill Clinton locked horns with a Republican Congress.
MS, The Associated Press, the White House
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CAPTION: President Bush and congressional Democrats are digging in their heels over the demand that top White House aides testify about the firing of eight federal prosecutors. (March 21)
----------------------------------------
[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE]
[Notes:House subcommittee voting]
It's now a full-blown subpoena fight.
[Notes:Upsound voice vote]
A House panel has voted to authorize a demand for testimony ...
[Notes:File footage Karl Rove, etc.]
.. from top White House officials who played a role in the controversial firings ...
[Notes:File footage prosecutors (I think them taking the oath would work best here)]
... of eight federal prosecutors. Democrats, who suspect a political purge...
[Notes:Bush (from today's fotoop? or from some meeting with Rove, Miers, etc.?)]
... want President Bush's aides answering questions under oath.
[Notes:Snow walkup]
But the White House suggests their real goal is a partisan "gotcha."
SNOW: SOT (1:11 p.m.) "Do you want to get at the truth. Or do you want to create a political spectacle." Tony Snow, White House Press Secretary
[Notes:Fielding file]
The president's attorney has offered to let the officials answer questions, but ONLY in private, off-the-record sessions.
[Notes:Back to committee]
That was quickly rejected.
DELAHUNT: SOT (10:47:15) "To insist that these interviews be conducted privately, not under oath and with no transcript, I would suggest borders on insulting to this committee and to this Congress." Cong. William Delahunt, D-Mass.
[Notes:Wide shot committee]
However, Republicans think the insults run the OTHER way.
CANNON: SOT (10:23:10) "The only purpose of subpoenas issued to the White House is to fan the flames and photoops of partisan controversy." Cong. Chris Cannon, R-Utah
[Notes:More Bush looking presidential]
The president insists a constitutional principle's at stake: his right to speak to aides in confidence.
[Notes:Rice file footage (from when she was Natl Secy Adviser?)]
However, that principle's been breached before. Even the Bush White House allowed then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to testify before the Nine-Eleven commission.
[Notes:Standup close]
So the question is, which side will blink first? If neither does, the next stop could be the courts -- and months of legal wrangling the likes of which Washington hasn't seen since Bill Clinton locked horns with a Republican Congress.
MS, The Associated Press, the White House
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