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I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

Dana Milbank, the White House correspondent for the Washington Post, wrote this week that, quote,

The Flowering of the Enron Bankruptcy scandal has reintroduced a strange animal to the White House briefing room, the press corps foil.

We have some tape from a briefing last week where White House spokesman Ari Fleischer wields

the press corps foil like the skilled fencer he is. In this case, the foil is a Mr. Goyle of the Indian

Globe. Go ahead, David. Ari Fleischer has just taken a question from a reporter about Enron.

Enron had made this case across the street of the treasurer.

It's a pretty specific question.

About that Enron made the case across the street?

When Enron called, what started...

This Enron stuff is just not going to stop.

And then some other Enron officials saying it would be a systemic... The press spokesman is ready to make his move.

Where is Mr. Goyle?

He's usually in the back of the room.

For the broader economy.

Wait a minute, I've spotted him. There he is.

We'll come back.

Let me follow that, all right.

Go up ahead.

If I may go back to India and Pakistan, these days, very high-level visits are taking So Dana Milbank, what exactly and from India?

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