Washington Week Show - # 4451
Washington Week Show - # 4451
Washington Week Show # 4451 - Facility Under Scrutiny (Guantanamo Bay Prison), Losing Steam, The Central Point, Judicial Fairness. Host Gwen Ifill, guests include Michael Duffy, Linda Feldman, David Broder, Joan Biskupic.
Washington Week Show - # 4451
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Washington Week Show - # 4451
Do not use still photos. Composite footage (unclean) with Washington Week title and text: Senator says "Guantanamo Bay is an international embarrassment to our nation, to our ideals; it remains a festering threat to our security." Senator Bill Frist says "I believe absolutely that we should not shut it down." Guantanamo Bay guard tower, President Bush waving as he exits helicopter, split screen as he salutes marine and social security cards and $10 bills being printed, President George W. Bush seated in Oval Office wearing eye glasses looking at paperwork, sweat shop - women seated at sewing machines, President Bush says "The United States Congress needs to pass the CAFTA trade agreement now. (Central American Free Trade Agreement)." Supreme Court building, supreme court judges, inmates in prison yard (shot below the waist), empty hall of jail.
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Washington Week Show - # 4451
Moderator Gwen Ifill begins by stating the two major questions legislators are discussing regarding Guantanamo Bay: How are the detainees being treated and should the facility exist at all? Senator Richard (Dick) Durbin (D - IL) says "You would most certainly believe this must have happened by Nazi s, soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime or others that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that's not the case. This was the action of Americans in treatment of their own prisoners."
Washington Week Show - # 4451
Vice President Dick Cheney says "If we didn't have that facility at Guantanamo to undertake this activity, we'd have to have it someplace else. Because they re a vital source of intelligence information ...". Various shots at Guantanamo prison. Discussion on the benefits and drawbacks of the facility ensues.
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Gwen Ifill segues into other issues facing President Bush (Iraq, tax reform, social security, etc. ) and how he will handle them. President George W. Bush says "It is the philosophy of the stop sign, the agenda of the road block in our country and our children deserve better." Discussion on how the President will work with Congress.
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Gwen Ifill changes the discussion to trade expansion (CAFTA) and the battle between the President and Congress.
Washington Week Show - # 4451
Gwen Ifill turns to a Supreme Court decision to overturn a 1985 murder conviction of an African American man due to racial jury exclusion. This brings up the discussion between race and the criminal justice system.
Washington Week Show - # 4451
Gwen Ifill signs off/credits