Posted on 01/12/2002 1:14:09 PM PST by dickmc
Sunday's News Shows Lineup By The Associated Press,
Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:
ABC's ``This Week With Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts'' - Former Enron employee Roger Boies; securities litigation attorney William Lerach; Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich.; former Securities and Exchange Commission (news - web sites) Chairman Arthur Levitt. -
CBS' ``Face the Nation'' - Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. -
NBC's ``Meet the Press'' - Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del.; former presidential candidates Pat Buchanan (news - web sites) and Ralph Nader (news - web sites). -
CNN's ``Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer'' - Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn.; Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C.; Jack Kemp, co-director, Empower America; Gene Sperling, former Clinton economic adviser; James Carville and Paul Begala, Democratic political strategists; Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.; Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas; Jerry Bruckheimer, producer, ``Black Hawk Down''; Mike Goodale, former Army Ranger.
Fox News Sunday'' - Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich.; Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va.
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BTW, IMHO Fox could be doing a lot better with choices of guests lately!!!
I wonder if he has a brother named David????
Former Enron CEO Denies Wrongdoing
Dec. 22, 2001 15:29
WASHINGTON - Former Enron (NYSE:ENE) Chief Executive Officer Jeff Skilling, who abruptly resigned from the energy trading giant this summer after six months at the helm, denied and responsibility or wrongdoing in the company's massive collapse into bankruptcy, two newspapers reported on Saturday.
The New York Times and Houston Chronicle, in interviews conducted with Skilling, his attorneys and public relations staff in Washington, both reported the former Wall Street star's first detailed public comments since Enron spiraled into the largest Chapter 11 bankruptcy in U.S. history on Dec. 2.
``We're all trying to figure out what happened,'' Skilling told the Times. ``This was a tragedy. I had no idea the company was in anything but excellent shape.''
Skilling on Aug. 14 said he was leaving Enron for personal reasons, but speculation abounded that something was amiss at the energy trader. Its stock had steadily fallen during Skilling's term and he later admitted that had weighed on his mind when he decided to leave.
In both interviews, Skilling said that the off-balance sheet partnerships that are the subject of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation were not his idea, but rather ousted Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow's. Fastow was long Skilling's right-hand man and the whereabouts of both has been the subject of speculation since Enron's collapse.
Fastow has become the object of scrutiny since it was revealed that he served as managing partner of two off-balance sheet entities while he was Enron's top money man, which led to what Enron Chairman and CEO Ken Lay has called a conflict of interest.
Skilling told the Times he was stunned when he read an Enron regu latory filing made Nov. 8 that said Fastow had earned more than $30 million off the deals, and that several other Enron executives had been involved.
``I, along with a lot of people, were surprised when the 8-K was released,'' he told the paper.
Both Skilling and Fastow have spoken to the press in the company of their lawyers, but Fastow said nothing more than ''Hello. Happy Holiday season. Thank you for coming.'' That comment came at a packed press conference in the office of one of his lawyers, top-gun litigator David Boies, who prosecuted Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) on behalf of the U.S. Government and represented former Vice President Al Gore in his presidential election recount.
McCain was on Larry King Live for the full hour, extolling the virtues of Lieberman to run a non politically partisan ENRON hearing, and describing how well Lieberman and Thompson work together.
Lieberman and McCain + jealousy of President Bush = Their Dog and Pony Show
It will be interesting to see how they extoll the virtues of Commander In Chief Bush and VP Cheney, while they insinuate all sorts of evil connections to ENRON.
IMHO the money should go to United States citizens who suffered a loss on Sept. 11th.
Most likely to say something REALLY stupid: Biden
Scary, given the fact that he is only one of the three who wields real power.
We should get CBS the information regarding LIEberman/CitiBank/Enron.
ABC has Lerach? Lerach's firm did an analysis of Enron insider trading. Mr. Lerach is no angel -- he's received a veto for a Clinton donation.
It will be interesting to have them reconcile that charge with their decades-long class warfare strategy as in: "Republicans are for corporations while Democrats are for the people."
Funny that they now concede what we have known all along - that what's good for the corporations is usually good for the people as well.
Seems he wants a strong, multinational force to keep the peace in Afghanistan.
He wasn't talkin' about the UN either. This is his own little brainchild.
Maybe he's envisioning that new world order... people without nations.
What a piece of shit!
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