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Freeper Transcript of NBC-4 Los Angeles 11 PM News Conan Nolan: Now, it's up to Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante to set a special election date. But not so fast! Bustamante: I'm opposed to this recall. Conan Nolan: Bustamante said he will call for an up or down vote on Governor Gray Davis but says he will NOT plan for a second part of the ballot, the one with candidates to replace the governor if he's removed. That of course means that Bustamante would become governor! Bustamante: And, what we need to be able to do I think at this point...

12:58 P.M. EDT MR. McCLELLAN: Good afternoon. I'd like to go back over and highlight a couple of meetings the President participated in today. One, the President was pleased to receive an update from his Corporate Fraud Task Force that was created by executive order just over a year ago. This was an update on their first year's activities. During its first year, the President's Corporate Task Force has compiled a strong record in combatting corporate fraud and punishing corporate wrongdoers. Coordination by federal authorities has been significantly enhanced. By drawing on the expertise of the task force's membership and...

United States Department of Defense News TranscriptPresenter: Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, Commander, Combined Joint Task Force Seven (CJTF-7) Tuesday, July 22, 2003 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lt. Gen. Sanchez Press Briefing on Uday and Qusay Hussein Sanchez: Good evening. How are you all doing this evening? Q: (Off mike.) Sanchez: I'm going to give a short statement. I'll answer a couple of questions. And then tomorrow morning, Eastern Time, I will come back and present a detailed briefing on the operation that was conducted today. Today our coalition forces associated with the 101st Airborne Division, Special Forces and Air Force assets conducted...

(Fox News Sunday with Tony Snow) Mr. Snow: Today on Fox News Sunday, new evidence that North Korea has a second plan that produces weapons-grade plutonium, and American troops are under attack again in Iraq. That's next. Post-Saddam Iraq -- chaos, fighting democracy? We'll get a firsthand report from L. Paul Bremer, U.S. Civil Administrator of Iraq. President Bush sticks by his guns and the words regarding Saddam Hussein. President Bush: I strong believe he was trying to reconstitute his nuclear weapons program. He was a threat. I take responsibility for dealing with that threat. Mr. Snow: What kind of...

THE PRESIDENT:Thank You for Coming. I'm Honored to Host My Friend, the Prime Minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi. It's such an honor for us to welcome -- I say "us," Laura welcomes him, as well as I, to our ranch. We welcome the Prime Minister as a good friend, and he represents a country which is a strong ally to America. Welcome. THE PRIME MINISTER: Thank you. THE PRESIDENT: I want to thank him for being such a gracious host during our trips overseas, and we're really pleased to return the hospitality. Last year, on America's Memorial Day, Prime Minister...

For Immediate ReleaseOffice of the Press SecretaryJuly 19, 2003 President's Radio Address      Audio THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Next week, the United States Treasury will begin printing and mailing more than 25 million child tax credit checks, putting over $12 billion back into the hands of American families. These rebates are the result of the Jobs and Growth Act I recently signed into law, which increases the child tax credit from $600 to $1,000 per child. And because this new law reduced income tax rates, businesses earlier this month lowered tax withholding for worker paychecks. Now, those workers and their families...

Editor's note: On his new nationally syndicated radio show, "WorldNetDaily Report," WND founder and Editor Joseph Farah recently interviewed best-selling author and popular WND columnist Ann Coulter. Ann's latest book, "Treason," has burned up the charts since its release June 24. Farah featured Coulter as his first guest on his first show earlier this month. "Treason," a follow-up to Coulter's best-selling "Slander," contends that liberals have been wrong on every foreign-policy issue from the fight against communism at home in the early Cold War days to the struggle with the Soviet empire to the current war on terrorism. FARAH:...

(Editor's note: Prime Minister Blair delivered this address to a joint meeting of Congress yesterday.)Members of Congress, I feel a most urgent sense of mission about today's world. September 11 was not an isolated event, but a tragic prologue, Iraq another act, and many further struggles will be set upon this stage before it's over. There never has been a time when the power of America was so necessary or so misunderstood, or when, except in the most general sense, a study of history provides so little instruction for our present day. We were all reared on battles between great...

(excerpted, full text below) ...Governor Jeb Bush's notion of school reform is to send black children to reform schools. His exit tests threaten to bar third-graders from advancing to fourth grade and high school seniors from graduation. Florida loses nearly half of its Black and Hispanic students before they graduate. Which brings us to Jeb Bush's One Florida Initiative - the first time any state's governor abolished affirmative action in higher education, government employment, and state contracting. Maybe that's why he's not here - this time, the Supreme Court didn't bail him out. The Bush brothers are big on preemption....

Tony Blair's speech to the US Congress Friday July 18, 2003 "Thank you. Mr Speaker and Mr Vice President, honorable members of Congress, I'm deeply touched by that warm and generous welcome. That's more than I deserve and more than I'm used to, quite frankly. And let me begin by thanking you most sincerely for voting to award me the Congressional Gold Medal. But you, like me, know who the real heroes are: those brave service men and women, yours and ours, who fought the war and risk their lives still. And our tribute to them should be measured in...

PRESIDENT BUSH: Good afternoon. It is, once again, a pleasure to welcome the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, and Cherie Blair to the White House. Mr. Prime Minister, fabulous speech. Congratulations. (Applause.) In his address to Congress this afternoon, Prime Minister Blair once again showed the qualities that have marked his entire career. Tony Blair is a leader of conviction, of passion, of moral clarity, and eloquence. He is a true friend of the American people. The United Kingdom has produced some of the world's most distinguished statesmen, and I'm proud to be standing with one of them today. The close...

<p>Mr. Speaker and Mr. Vice President, honorable members of Congress, I'm deeply touched by that warm and generous welcome. That's more than I deserve and more than I'm used to, quite frankly.</p> <p>And let me begin by thanking you most sincerely for voting to award me the Congressional Gold Medal. But you, like me, know who the real heroes are: those brave servicemen and women, yours and ours, who fought the war and risk their lives still.</p>

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH -- (House of Representatives - July 16, 2003) ---    The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Gingrey). The gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Weldon) is recognized for 40 minutes.    Mr. WELDON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, enough is enough. I sat in my office last night and listened to Member after Member on the other side rail about President Bush and whether or not we could trust him in the Iraqi situation. I have listened to my colleagues tonight. Enough is enough. Mr. Speaker, this is just outrageous.    So what I have done is I have got a whole file here,...

Mr Speaker, Mr Vice President, Honourable Members of Congress. Thank you most sincerely for voting to award me the Congressional Gold Medal. But you, like me, know who the real heroes are: those brave servicemen and women, yours and ours, who fought the war, and risk their lives still. Our tribute to them should be measured in this way: by showing them and their families that they did not strive or die in vain but that through their sacrifice, future generations can live in greater peace, prosperity and hope. Let me also express my gratitude to President Bush. Through the...

12:38 P.M. EDT MR. McCLELLAN: Good afternoon. The President had his usual intelligence briefings this morning. Following that, the President was pleased to welcome Prime Minister Spidla of the Czech Republic to the White House this morning. The President expressed his strong appreciation for Prime Minister Spidla's leadership and support. The Czech Republic is a close friend and NATO ally. The two leaders discussed a number of issues, including Iraq and trans-Atlantic relations. The President also met with Secretary Powell earlier this morning. That was one of the regularly scheduled meetings he has with the Secretary. This afternoon, the President...

Ann Coulter is a syndicated columnist and author of three best-selling books, including her latest, "Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism." She recently spoke with Lee Webb about the book on The 700 Club. Lee Webb: Ann, it's a pleasure to welcome you back to The 700 Club. Ann Coulter: Thank you, it's nice to be here. Lee Webb: Now you have made a reputation writing provocative books and making provocative statements over the years, but wow, you've really tackled a big one here with your latest book defending Joe McCarthy. And just to...

<p>CNN) -- The allegations made by President Bush in the State of the Union address that Iraq tried to buy uranium in Africa has set off a political firestorm in Washington. The White House now says the claim was unsubstantiated, and CIA Director George Tenet Friday took responsibility for the mistake.</p>

Sunday, July 13, 2003 Rumsfeld on ABC STEPHANOPOULOS: Our first guest, the Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld -- welcome. RUMSFELD: Thank you. STEPHANOPOULOS: Overnight, the 4th Infantry Division in Iraq has launched a new operation -- Operation Ivy Serpent, I think it's called. What can you tell us about the mission? RUMSFELD: Well, it is part of a continuing effort in the country to try to find and stamp out and capture or kill the remnants of the Saddam Hussein regime. These are Baathists and Fedayeen Saddam and special Republican Guard types that didn't -- were never engaged in war....

Sunday, July 13, 2003 Rumsfeld on NBC RUSSERT: Secretary Rumsfeld, welcome back to "Meet the Press." RUMSFELD: Thank you. RUSSERT: The country very much focused on Iraq. Let me bring you and our viewers back to May 1st, when the president addressed the nation. Let's watch. PRESIDENT BUSH (from videotape): My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed. RUSSERT: Since that evening, 79 American soldiers have died in Iraq; 382 have been wounded or injured. Was the president too premature in uttering those words? RUMSFELD:...

Sunday, July 13, 2003 Secretary Rumsfeld Media Stakeout (Media Stakeout Outside ABC Studio) Q. (Inaudible) RUMSFELD: Well first of all, I think you phrased it not quite precisely, you said, "mistake in intelligence." It is not clear -- first of all the statement, I'm told -- that the statement in the President's speech is correct, not inaccurate -- the way it was phrased. The mistake was having it in there, not because it was known that it was wrong, but because it didn't rise to the stature or status of a presidential speech, and Director Tenet is a terrific public...