Monica Goodling Testifies
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2007
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Monica Goodling, a former top aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, admits she let politics play a role in hiring employees and denies ever talking to Karl Rove about the firing of US Attorneys. We’ll hear about her much-awaited testimony. Also, a rundown on the Congressional oversight Democrats promised when they took over Capitol Hill.
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| 0:00.0 | From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point. |
| 0:08.0 | Congressional Oversight and Ethics Reform. |
| 0:14.2 | Hello again, I'm on Alley, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International, a daily look at the issues. |
| 0:19.2 | Americans care about most. |
| 0:25.6 | A former top aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez admits she let politics play too much of a role in hiring career employees, but Monica Goodling denies ever talking to Carl Rove about |
| 0:32.3 | the firing of U.S. attorneys. On To the Poet, we'll hear about her much-awaited testimony, |
| 0:37.4 | will it help or hurt |
| 0:38.4 | Gonzalez's effort to hold on to his job? Also today, a rundown on the congressional oversight |
| 0:43.8 | Democrats promised when they took over Capitol Hill as it damaged the Bush administration. And |
| 0:49.3 | what about ethics reform also promised by Democrats? Are the practices of veteran members making it easier |
| 0:56.0 | said than done? First, here's the news. Support for To the Point comes from subscribers of KCRW |
| 1:02.9 | Santa Monica and from the Public Radio International Program Fund, whose contributors include the Ford |
| 1:08.5 | Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. |
| 1:11.9 | Hello again, Mormon Alney back with To the Point. A former top aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez |
| 1:16.4 | gave Democrats less than they hoped for today in their probe of politics in the Justice Department. |
| 1:21.6 | We'll hear about Monica Goodlings, much-awaited testimony. Also today, congressional oversight led by Democrats, |
| 1:29.0 | is taking its toll on the Bush administration, but despite their promise of ethics reform, is it still business as usual on Capitol Hill? |
| 1:35.6 | First, this news update. At the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut today, |
| 1:39.6 | President Bush warned once again that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, KS.M, the mastermind of 9-11, wanted to |
| 1:46.0 | implement Osama bin Laden's order to use Iraq as a staging ground against U.S. targets. |
| 1:51.7 | Our intelligence community believes that KS.M brought Alsali to meet Osama bin Laden, |
| 1:56.9 | where he pledged his loyalty to the al-Qaeda leader and offered himself up as a martyr. |
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