Fred Thompson Makes It Official
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2007
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
While eight Republican candidates were trudging through yet another debate in New Hampshire last night Fred Thompson upstaged them -- from Los Angeles. He went on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and finally announced he was running for the White House. Also, more grim news on Iraq, and investors question whether Apple has stumbled with its new iPhone. Jim Sterngold guest hosts.
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| 0:00.0 | From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point. |
| 0:08.5 | Can Fred Thompson's dramatic flair beat persistence in the race to the White House? |
| 0:16.3 | I'm Jim Sterngold, sitting in for Warren Only, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International, a daily look at the issues Americans care about most. |
| 0:24.6 | Former Senator Fred Thompson has entered the presidential race months late. |
| 0:28.6 | His campaign staff has been in turmoil, and critics question his social values. |
| 0:32.6 | Has he found the formula for success? |
| 0:34.6 | In his first day as an official candidate for the Republican |
| 0:37.8 | nomination, Thompson has already dominated the headlines. Can he hold the spotlight he has |
| 0:42.7 | so cleverly seized? On reporter's notebook later on, Apple's iPhone was introduced three months |
| 0:48.2 | ago with enormous hype and a whopping price tag. Now Apple has slashed the price by $200. Is this an ill omen for the electronics market? |
| 0:57.9 | First, here's the news. Support for To the Point comes from subscribers of KCRW Santa Monica and from the Public Radio |
| 1:05.4 | International Program Fund, whose contributors include the Ford Foundation and the John D. and |
| 1:10.5 | Catherine T. MacArthur |
| 1:11.4 | Foundation. I'm Jim Sterngold sitting in for Warren Only, back with To the Point from PRI. |
| 1:17.1 | While eight Republican candidates were trudging through another debate in New Hampshire last night, |
| 1:21.8 | Fred Thompson upstaged them from Los Angeles. He went on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and announced he was running for the White House. |
| 1:28.7 | Some experts say his announcement was big news only because the field's so weak. Does Thompson have the substance to win over conservatives? |
| 1:36.0 | On reporter's notebook, after a string of slick successes, has Apple stumbled with its new iPhone. |
| 1:42.1 | First, this news update. In a week of dark assessments about Iraq, |
| 1:46.4 | a panel of experts has delivered more grim news, this time about the police force. A 20-member |
| 1:51.9 | commission led by a retired Marine General found that the Iraqi army was slowly improving, but that |
| 1:56.9 | the police force is so riddled with militias that it could not be trusted and ought to be disbanded. |
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