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Friday, April 24, 2009 at 2:21 pm

Veteran presidential advisor David Gergen said today on the show that he had “serious, deep reservations” about the Obama administration launching any prosecutorial effort against officials who authored the so-called “torture memos.”

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Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 10:44 am

We asked former Senator Bob Graham about the heated debate over torture now raging in Washington.

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Monday, April 20, 2009 at 11:09 am

Does it make any difference that journalists already revealed many of the torture details? Does that justify the release of the torture memos?

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Monday, April 20, 2009 at 10:00 am

Torture memos, Obama Justice, and national security. What kind of change is Obama bringing to Bush-era policies? We’ll hear the debate.

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Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 10:00 am

We’ll hear the red-hot debate over whether top Bush administration officials could – or should — be prosecuted for crimes against the constitution.

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Poker: America’s Game
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Poker and American history. How the game of presidents, cowboys, gangsters, and online gamblers helped shape America.

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Google vs. Murdoch
Thursday, November 19, 2009 image

Rupert Murdoch wants to block the search giant from scooping free content from his newspapers. We’ll look at the staredown.

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On Point Blog
Michael Wolff and Jeff Jarvis on Murdoch v. Google

We had a rousing discussion about Google vs. Murdoch, and what it says about the whole future of news, with Michael Wolff, Jeff Jarvis, and Steven Brill. Here’s what Wolff and Jarvis had to say about the delusions of both Murdoch and Google.

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Video: Google CEO Eric Schmidt

Last week, host Tom Ashbrook was on stage with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, asking him about some of the biggest technology and business issues of our time.

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California, here we come! And we need your questions!

On Point is headed west!
No, no. Not for good. Only for one show. But it’s a very special show!  The NPR station in Thousand Oaks, California – KCLU – is celebrating their 15th anniversary. We’re lucky to have been on their airwaves for nearly seven years, and they invited us out west to host a live [...]

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