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Friday, October 5, 2007 at 10:00 AM EDT
Week in the News
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Fireworks all over this week. Jimmy Carter loses it with Sudanese security in Darfur. Congress tees off on Blackwater. Romney goes after GOP front-runner Giuliani. Hillary Clinton’s money machine blasts past Obama’s.

In Washington, the President vetoes SCHIP, child’s health care, and gets heat from fellow Republicans. Clarence Thomas delivers a memoir, and the high court opens a new term.

We’ve got Isiah Thomas and Marion Jones in trouble, Limbaugh in the hot seat with his “phony soldiers” jab.

This hour, On Point: a week in the news.

-Tom Ashbrook

Guests:

Liz Mair, political blogger and columnist for The New York Sun.

Dahlia Lithwick, legal analyst and senior editor at Slate.

Jack Beatty, On Point news analyst and senior editor at The Atlantic Monthly.

 

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