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10:00State of the Union Analysis

Analysis of President Bush's State of the Union address and his priorities for the coming year on national security, health care, Katrina recovery plans and the U.S. economy

Guests

E.J. Dionne, senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, Washington Post columnist, and author of "Stand Up Fight Back."

David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union and managing associate with Carmen Group, a D.C.-based governmental-affairs firm

Norman Ornstein, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute

11:00Michael Mandelbaum: "The Case for Goliath" (Public Affairs)

Many bemoan the dominance of the United States in world affairs. Foreign policy expert Michael Mandelbaum explains how the U.S. acts as the world's government, and why, if America gave up this role, the world would be a worse place.

Guests

Michael Mandelbaum, Professor of American Foreign Policy at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and author or co-author of nine books, including "The Ideas that Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-first Century."

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