TPMtv Guide: Monday, April 30

Ben Craw | April 30, 2007, 3:35PM

"The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." So said President Bush in his State of the Union address on January 28, 2003. 16 now infamous words.

After receiving a subpoena last Wednesday from House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) regarding, among other issues, those words and how exactly they found their way into the President’s address in the midst of the march to war with Iraq, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice went barnstorming across the Sunday Shows yesterday to explain why she feels entirely uncompelled to comply with Waxman and testify before his committee. The crux of her argument: this one’s already been fully investigated; nothing to see here.

In today’s episode of TPMtv, Josh responds to Secretary Rice’s rationale. Sure there have been some investigations into the Niger uranium claim, but thus far all of those investigations have been controlled by Republicans.

Read more »