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A House committee opened hearings today into the White House's improperly obtaining FBI background files on top Republicans. While the committee looks into the matter, the White House has appointed Charles Easley, a career civil servant originally appointed during the Reagan administration, to be the new head of security. He'll run the office which obtained the files. NPR's Peter Kenyon has more on the story.

Noah talks with Brad Stillman, the telecommunications policy director for the Consumer Federation of America, to discuss Westinghouse Electric's three-point-nine billion dollar acquisition of Infinity Broadcasting and what it means for consumers.

Today, India's Prime Minister P.V. Narashima Rao said he would resign. This after his ruling party suffered huge losses in national elections. Robert Siegel talks with Edmund Roy, a correspondent with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in New Delhi, about the defeat of the largest and oldest party in India's democratic history.

Linda talks with senior citizens who live at the On Top Of The World retirement community in Clearwater, Florida. This is a community of mostly Republican seniors that has served as a stopover for political candidates. Florida has cast its votes for the Republican presidential candidate since 1976...but these seniors seem to have a lackluster support for presumptive Republican nominee Bob Dole.

NPR's Ann Cooper reports from Moscow on the continuing shake-up in the Kremlin. Russian President Boris Yeltsin today fired three of the most powerful members of his administration. The dismissals included his personal security chief, the head of the Federal Security Service...what used to be the K-G-B... and a hard-line deputy prime minister.

Commentator Fred Grandy applauds Robert Dole for rattling GOP cages with his statements about abortions and urges him to take his rattling a step further: dump the whole GOP mission statement. He says such statements are old fashioned and open to scolding by the press.

via video was the focus of the Whitewater trial yesterday. In a surprise move, the defense rested its case as soon as the President was finished.

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Robert talks with Newsweek Washington correspondent Michael Isikoff about today's report that Bruce Lindsey, a close advisor to President Clinton, has been named as a co-conspirator in the current Whitewater trial. Although Lindsey is not being indicted, this latest news is more trouble for the White House.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports the House of Representatives today passed a bill that would impose sanctions against foreign individuals or companies investing in Iran or Libya's oil industries. The legislation is similar to the Helms-Burton Law, which punishes certain foreign firms doing business in Cuba. As with Helms-Burton, the Iran-Libya bill is raising the ire of America's trading partners, who say it violates international rules of free trade.