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Robert talks with NPR White House correspondent Mara Liasson and national political correspondent Elizabeth Arnold about preparations Bob Dole and President Clinton are making for Sunday night's debate, new campaign ads and other developments this week in the presidential campaign.

Commentator Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, says the anti-terrorism bill that just passed the House is a sham. He says it does nothing to prevent terrorism because it is a piece of toothless legislation. Foxman adds there is no contradiction between freedom and security.

As Congress comes back into session, commentator David Brooks, senior editor at the Weekly Standard, notes that until now, House Speaker Newt Gingrich was the revolutionary bomb thrower of the Republican Party. Now, Gingrich looks pretty tame alongside Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan.

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports that American Multi-Cinema wants to build what are being billed as the world's largest movie houses. Some of the first will open in suburban Chicago, where they're meeting local resistance as residents fear the developments will ruin their neighborhoods.

Former Mayor of Cleveland, Carl Stokes, died today at age sixty-eight. Harry Boomer from member station WCPN in Cleveland reports that Stokes, who grew up in a housing project and was the great-grandson of a slave, was the Mayor of Cleveland for eight years.

Host Liane Hansen reviews the news of the past week with oyle McManus of the Los Angeles Times and David Corn of The Nation magazine. opics include the budget deal between the White House and Congress and national Take Our Daughters to Work Day".

NPR's Brian Naylor talks with Robert about what this latest development in the Gingrich investigation could mean for the House. Some Republicans had said earlier that they would not vote for Gingrich as Speaker next month if the ethics committee's work is not wrapped up.

it is harming the Middle East peace process with its decision to go ahead with a huge housing project on disputed land.

The House is preparing to vote on a republican welfare reform bill. It would transfer control of much of the system from the federal government to the states. It would limit benefits to five years and require recipients to work after two years. NPR's Brian Naylor reports.

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports from Atlanta on a group of high school students who travelled to that city after being promised work and housing at the Olympic games. Once they got there, they found neither, and now city officials are trying to figure out how to send them home.