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		<title>Sam Husseini following Gaza Freedom March</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2009/12/28/sam-husseini-in-gaza/</link>
		<comments>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2009/12/28/sam-husseini-in-gaza/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editors</dc:creator>
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The Washington Stakeout&#8217;s Sam Husseini is in Egypt, accompanying the international component that hopes to meet the &#8220;Gaza Freedom March&#8221; in Gaza. Egyptians and internationals have assembled in Cairo with hopes of visiting Gaza on the year anniversary of Israel&#8217;s bombing and invasion last January. Egypt has prevented participants from traveling so far. This past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Deck This Sunday</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2009/12/18/on-deck-this-sunday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2009/12/18/on-deck-this-sunday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editors</dc:creator>
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Talking Points Memo gives us the line-up this week and it&#8217;s the Stakeout&#8217;s understanding most if not all of these guests will be in the studio come Sunday.



ABC, This Week: Senior White House Adviser David Axelrod, Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL), Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ).
CBS, Face The Nation: Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feingold on War Constitutionality, Israeli Nukes, CBO Scoring Single Payer</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2009/12/06/feingold-on-war-constitutionality-israeli-nukes-cbo-scoring-single-payer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2009/12/06/feingold-on-war-constitutionality-israeli-nukes-cbo-scoring-single-payer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congressional Budget Office]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>
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Is the Afghanistan War Violating the Constitution?
We asked: &#8220;You, as all senators, are pledged to uphold the Constitution. Article 1, Section 8 says that Congress has the power &#8216;to declare war&#8217;. Aren&#8217;t we operating in an unconstitutional manner?&#8221;
Feingold stated that Congress &#8220;should actually be declaring war in such situations&#8221; (which &#8212; perhaps unintentionally &#8212; implies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A call for questions</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2009/12/06/a-call-for-questions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2009/12/06/a-call-for-questions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editors</dc:creator>
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The Washington Stakeout takes a weekly look at the Sunday talk show guests and tries to ask good questions of the guests we think we have a chance of questioning. We&#8217;d like your help!


By the end of the day on Friday we&#8217;ll post to the blog the list of guests we&#8217;re aware might be taking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senators Deny Insurance Company Money Sways Them</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2009/09/15/senators-deny-insurance-company-money-sways-them/</link>
		<comments>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2009/09/15/senators-deny-insurance-company-money-sways-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Domestic Policy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As politicos left the Sunday morning talkshows this week, I asked about money in politics, specifically, from insurance and finance and if politicians were not doing the bidding of Wall Street in the healthcare debate.
Snowe: &#8220;Nothing to do with the contributions I receive&#8221;

I asked Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), if the problem &#8212; as the California [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Crawford asks Sec. Sebelius why Single Payer is off the Table</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2009/07/07/dr-crawford-asks-sec-sebelius-why-single-payer-is-off-the-table/</link>
		<comments>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2009/07/07/dr-crawford-asks-sec-sebelius-why-single-payer-is-off-the-table/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sam</dc:creator>
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Write up at SinglePayerAction. 
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		<title>Questioning Insurance Exec on Healthcare</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2009/05/27/questioning-insurance-exec-on-healthcare/</link>
		<comments>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2009/05/27/questioning-insurance-exec-on-healthcare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 23:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video here. Writeup by Russell Mokhiber who asks the first questions here. 
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		<title>Powell Denies Knowledge of Torture-War Link</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2009/05/25/powell-denies-torture-war-link/</link>
		<comments>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2009/05/25/powell-denies-torture-war-link/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 18:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sam</dc:creator>
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Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson, Colin Powell&#8217;s former chief of staff, recently wrote:
&#8220;What I have learned is that as the administration authorized harsh interrogation in April and May of 2002 &#8212; well before the Justice Department had rendered any legal opinion &#8212; its principal priority for intelligence was not aimed at pre-empting another terrorist attack on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John McCain Questioned about Wall Street Money</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2009/05/10/john-mccain-questioned-about-wall-street-money/</link>
		<comments>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2009/05/10/john-mccain-questioned-about-wall-street-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 20:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sam</dc:creator>
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Sam Husseini: &#8220;Senator, your five biggest funders are PACs and others related with Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan. Given the huge Wall Street bail-outs, why shouldn’t concerned Americans conclude that Wall Street has basically bought off not just you, but a large chunk of congress?&#8221;
John McCain: &#8220;Well let me just point [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leahy Again Avoids Impeachment Question</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2007/04/22/leahy-again-avoids-impeachment-question/</link>
		<comments>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2007/04/22/leahy-again-avoids-impeachment-question/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2007 22:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sam</dc:creator>
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For recent background on this issue, see: Dave Lindorff&#8217;s &#8220;Huge Win for Impeachment in Vermont.&#8221;
Note that on March 25, Leahy avoided the question of impeachment from Washington Stakeout.
Also see &#8220;Democrats Take Cover from Impeachment by Focusing on Gonzales&#8221; at husseini.org.


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Sam Husseini: The Vermont State Senate just voted overwhelmingly for an impeachment resolution against Bush and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sen. Hatch on the Democrats and war funding, reports of U.S.-supported militia attacks on Iran</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2007/03/28/sen-hatch-on-the-democrats-and-war-funding-reports-of-us-supported-militia-attacks-on-iran/</link>
		<comments>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2007/03/28/sen-hatch-on-the-democrats-and-war-funding-reports-of-us-supported-militia-attacks-on-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matt</dc:creator>
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On March 25 Sam Husseini spoke with Senator Orrin Hatch outside of CNN&#8217;s Washington studios. Hatch claimed that Saddam kicked out the UN weapons inspectors, contradicting the public record that the inspectors were withdrawn. Hatch also claimed that Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the IAEA, told him that the inspectors could not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraqi Ambassador questioned on Iraqi opinion, U.S. support of Kurdish militias attacking Iran, oil law, and U.S. bases</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2007/03/28/iraqi-ambassador-questioned-on-iraqi-opinion-us-support-of-kurdish-militias-attacking-iran-oil-law-and-us-bases/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matt</dc:creator>
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Samir Al Sumadaie, the Iraqi Ambassador to the United States, was questioned outside the studios of CNN in Washington, D.C. on March 25.Continue reading for a transcript of the exchange.

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Sam Husseini: A majority of Iraqis in poles seem to want to view the US as negative and to be wanting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sen. Hagel: On news of US-supported attacks on Iran, war funding and his war support</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2007/03/28/sen-hagel-on-news-of-us-supported-attacks-on-iran-war-funding-and-his-war-support/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matt</dc:creator>
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Senator Hagel was questioned about recent reports of Kurdish militias receiving U.S. support and operating out of Iraq to launch attacks into Iran. The Senator said he had no knowledge of these reports. Sam Husseini also questioned Hagel about his vote to give the President the authorization to use force and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leahy avoids impeachment question</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2007/03/28/leahy-asked-if-impeachment-investigation-is-warranted/</link>
		<comments>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2007/03/28/leahy-asked-if-impeachment-investigation-is-warranted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matt</dc:creator>
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Sam Husseini asked Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont about investigating the White House in regards to impeachment proceedings. The Senator spoke about other investigations under way, but did not address the issue of impeachment. This exchange took place on March 25, 2007.
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		<title>Feinstein on cluster bombs, demurring on Iraqi oil law</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2007/03/19/feinstein-on-clusterbombs-iraqoil/</link>
		<comments>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2007/03/19/feinstein-on-clusterbombs-iraqoil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matt</dc:creator>
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After her March 18 appearance on CBS&#8217;s Face The Nation, Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA), spoke with the press gaggle outside the studio. Sam Husseini, with The Washington Stakeout, asked her about stalled cluster bomb legislation she has proposed and then about the Iraqi oil law that the Bush administration has backed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cornyn on Possible Iran Attack and Filibuster</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2007/03/19/cornyn-on-possible-iran-attack-and-filibuster/</link>
		<comments>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2007/03/19/cornyn-on-possible-iran-attack-and-filibuster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matt</dc:creator>
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On Sunday, March 18, Sam Husseini spoke with Senatory John Cornyn (R-TX), outside of the studios of ABC News. Cornyn, who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee among his other assignments, expressed the opinion that Iran represents &#8220;a very real threat&#8221; but that he did not anticipate the US to attack Iran [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rice Questioned on Pre-9/11 Statements that Iraq Had Not Rearmed</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2007/02/25/condi-rice-slides-by-on-a-slippery-morning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 01:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colin Powell]]></category>
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Outside the Capitol Hill studios of Fox News, Sam Husseini asked Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice about claims she made — as National Security Advisor with then Secretary of State Colin Powell in 2001 — that Saddam Hussein&#8217;s &#8220;military forces have not been rebuilt.&#8221; Claims made not too long before the 2003 invasion of Iraq [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edwards&#8217; Mid-East policy doesn&#8217;t admit Israeli nukes</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2007/02/25/edwards-middle-east-policy-doesnt-acknowledge-israeli-nukes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matt</dc:creator>
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Leaving the studios of CBS, presidential candidate Senator John Edwards repeated his position that he was for direct engagement with Iran. That position is qualified by Edwards also insisting that &#8220;all options are on the table.&#8221;


In January, in a satellite broadcast to the Herzliya Conference in Israel Senator Edwards asserted a domino theory-like prediction, &#8220;once [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schwarzenegger dismisses single-payer healthcare</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2007/02/25/schwarzenegger-dismisses-single-payer-health-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2007 20:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matt</dc:creator>
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Dismissing the idea of a single payer health care system in his state, via the specter of an imagined inefficient government bureaucracy, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke of a health care system where all citizens were &#8220;insured.&#8221; His vision seemed to keep firmly in place a private layer of industry between citizens and health care [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kennedy calls for Congressional authorization of &#8220;surge,&#8221; dodges oil profit question</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2007/01/21/kennedy-accountability-iraqioil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2007 21:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matt</dc:creator>
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Coming out of the studios of Meet The Press today, Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) said he expected President Bush to &#8220;describe a different Iraq than &#8230; most Americans understand and recognize&#8221; in Tuesday&#8217;s upcoming State of the Union address. He also said &#8220;the American people are entitled to require the President to come to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brent Scowcroft on Iraq sanctions, lead-up to war</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2007/01/10/brent-scowcroft-on-iraq-sanctions-lead-up-to-war-in-iraq/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matt</dc:creator>
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These questions took place outside of the studios of ABC News in Washington, D.C.  on January 7, 2007.



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Sam Husseini: You, of course, were National Security Advisor under the first Bush Administration&#8211;


Brent Scowcroft: Yes.


SH: and one of the policies after the Gulf War was to maintain the sanctions regardless of what the Iraqi regime did? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sen. Biden, staffer, queried on pre-war hearings</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matt</dc:creator>
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These questions took place outside of the studios of NBC News in Washington, D.C.  on January 7, 2007.



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Sam Husseini: Let me read you what Scott Ridder wrote on July 30th, 2002 about the hearings that you were just about to convene as head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, &#8220;For Senator&#8221;&#8211;you were head of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rep. Obey queried on Congress&#8217; war powers, obligations</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2007/01/09/rep-obey-queried-on-congress-war-powers-obligations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
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These questions took place outside of the studios of ABC News in Washington, D.C.  on January 7, 2007.



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[Note: David Obey is chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.]

Sam Husseini: Why not withhold funds for a surge? The troops aren&#8217;t there.


Representative David Obey: Well the troops are gonna be there before we really have any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pressing Colin Powell about his Security Council speech, Hussein Kamel</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2006 02:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matt</dc:creator>
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Sam Husseini: Do you know that Hussein Kamel said that there were no WMDs? Did you know that?


Colin Powell: What&#8217;s that?


SH: You cited Hussein Kamel in your UN testimony. Did you know that he said that there were no WMDs, did you know that at the time?


CP: I only knew what the intelligence community told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senator Reid questioned about war budget, support</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2006/12/17/senator-harry-reid-questioned-about-war-budget-war-support/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2006 02:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
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As Senator Harry Reid (D &#8211; NV) left the set of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week with George Stephanopoulos,&#8221; Sam Husseini asked him about withdrawing troops from Iraq and whether supporting the war budget wasn&#8217;t also support for the Bush Administration&#8217;s prosecution of the war.
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