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Earlier this week, television network representives met at the White House and agreed to a proposal to broadcast three hours of quality T.V. fare for children. Former network correspondent Linda Ellerbee has been producing programs for children for several years. She tells Linda that this agreement is an effort to make television for children better.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Fred Barnes of The Weekly tandard and David Corn from The Nation magazine about the week's news, ncluding the White House summit of Middle Eastern leaders, the restructuring of he CIA, proposed new rules on software encryption, and the umps versus baseball layers over the Alomar incident.

Linda talks to House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt (D-MO). The Congressman has been telling delegates in Chicago that this election is "for all the marbles" and that may explain why he and other Democrats are willing to overlook differences within the party, particularly concerning welfare.

Though it's been the Republicans who've pushed the Line-Item Veto bill through both houses of Congrees, Commentator Mickey Edwards says the line item veto is not traditionally a conservative idea. In fact, the line item veto in principle goes contrary to conservative doctrines.

The Senate has approved the Kennedy-Kassabaum portabililty bill which protects the health insurance coverage of those with pre-existing conditions, even if they lose or change jobs. The Senate bill would require that mental illness be treated the same as physical health problems. But the Senate and House bills are very different, meaning compromise could prove difficult.

Daniel speaks with John Fuhrer,(FURE er) Deputy Chief of Mission at the United States Embassy in Monrovia, Liberia about the latest news there. Fuhrer says so far, 14-hundred Americans and foreign nationals have already been evacuated and 20-thousand a being housed at an embassy compound.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past week's news, including Bill Cosby, President Bill Clinton, White House Special Counsel Lanny Davis, Senator Fred Thompson (R-TN) and Don Beebe of the Green Bay Packers.

- The White House released more documents about Democratic fundraising strategies, and the reaction was mixed. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports some critics are saying a series of meetings between campaign donors and President Clinton were inappropriate, if not illegal, while Democratic Party officials are defending them as politics-as-usual.

Satirist Harry Shearer has created a hypothetical cellular telephone conversation in which the GOP tries to formulate a plan for repairing the damage inflicted on the Republican party by the House investigation into Speaker Newt Gingrich's ethics. (4:15) ((ST

NPR's John Ydstie reports that in Washington today a coalition of liberals and conservatives announced a renewed attack on what they termed "corporate welfare." The group, led by House Republican John Kasich of Ohio, will target a variety of programs in the federal budget, from subsidized energy research to financial aid for foreign investment.