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Can the U.S. Attorney General hold on to his job?

Hello again, I'm Armin Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

A daily look of the issues, Americans care about most.

Advanced copies of what Alberto Gonzalez will tell a Senate committee tomorrow have failed to silence

his critics. Republican Senator Arlen Specter questions whether Gonzalez is capable of

administering the Department of Justice. Democrat Charles Schumer says the hearing will

make or break the Attorney General.

On to the point, it's all about Gonzalez's role in firing U.S. attorneys.

What did politics have to do with it?

What about Carl Rove and missing Republican White House emails?

On reporter's notebook later on, in the Middle East, Iran's Sunni rivals look at developing nuclear power.

First, here's the news.

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International Program Fund, whose contributors include the Ford Foundation and the John D. and Catherine

T. MacArthur Foundation. Hello again, Warren Alney, back with To the Point. Senators of both parties

are less than impressed by what Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez plans to tell their committee

tomorrow. On To the Point is influential conservatives call for Gonzalez to step down. We'll hear

about Carl Rove, missing White House emails,

and the role of politics in the administration of justice. On reporters' notebooks, Saudi Arabia,

Turkey, and Egypt want to develop nuclear power. Is it for energy? Or to counter Iran?

First, this news update. At least 22 people were killed today, some of them students, many more injured on the campus at Virginia Tech University.

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