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    Rudolph Giuliani: The Image and the Reality

    Polls show that Republicans don't care as much about social issues this year as they did in the last two presidential campaigns. Is that why Rudy Giuliani is still in the lead? We hear who's advising the former Mayor of New York and what that tells tell prospective voters about what he might do in the White House.  Also, President Bush picks another fight with Democrats, and in Iraq, Ahmad Chalabi rides again.

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    By Warren Olney • Nov 13, 2007 • 1h 0m Listen

    Polls show that Republicans don't care as much about social issues this year as they did in the last two presidential campaigns. Is that why Rudy Giuliani is still in the lead? We hear who's advising the former Mayor of New York and what that tells tell prospective voters about what he might do in the White House. Also, President Bush inflames Democrats again today, vetoing a domestic spending bill as too expensive, and Ahmad Chalabi claimed Saddam Hussein had nuclear weapons. When that turned out to be false, he lost favor with the Bush Pentagon. We'll hear how he's re-emerged as a figure of power and influence in Iraq.

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    3 stories
    1. 1:39

      Bush Vetoes Domestic Spending Bill, Signs Defense Measure

      President Bush picked another fight with Democrats in Congress today, vetoing a domestic spending bill as too expensive while signing a Pentagon spending measure with an even bigger increase.  Dave Clark is in the Senate Press Gallery for Congressional Quarterly .

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      6 min
    2. 7:24

      Rudolph Giuliani: The Image and the Reality

      For political pundits, the big surprise of this year's presidential campaigns has been the continuing lead among Republicans of Rudolph Giuliani . Conventional wisdom has it that the former Mayor of New York is liberal on social issues and conservative on foreign policy.

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      33 min
    3. 40:02

      The Political Resurrection of Ahmad Chalabi

      Before the Iraq war, Ahmad Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress got millions from the Pentagon, but his claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction turned out to be false.  Not long after the US invasion, the military raided 11 of his properties in Iraq, and he was accused of passing secrets to Iran.

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      11 min
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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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    In this episode

    3 stories
    1. 1:396 min

      Bush Vetoes Domestic Spending Bill, Signs Defense Measure

    2. 7:2433 min

      Rudolph Giuliani: The Image and the Reality

    3. 40:0211 min

      The Political Resurrection of Ahmad Chalabi

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