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WNYC's political director Andrea Bernstein and Micah Sifry, co-founder of Personal Democracy Forum and the editor of Techpresident.com play excerpts and discuss last night's CNN/YouTube Republican Debate. Michael Weitz, one of the YouTube questioners drops in. What did you think?

--Who won the debate and why? ...

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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is denying a report that he billed tens of thousands of dollars in security expenses to little-known city departments for trips to the Hamptons. WNYC's Andrea Bernstein has more.

The report on politico.com was based on documents and American ...

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In a blow to the presidential campaign of Rudy Giuliani, former New Jersey Governor and chairman of the 9/11 commission Tom Kean has endorsed Senator John McCain for President. Kean and McCain held a press conference to announce the endorsement at Boston's Logan Airport this ...

Andrew Sullivan, Atlantic Magazine columnist, and author of The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back (HarperCollins, 2006), and Andrea Bernstein, WNYC political director, run down the most recent in the slew of democratic debates.

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Surrounded by members of New York's Democratic delegation, Governor Elliot Spitzer announced he is abandoning his plan to issue driver licenses to illegal immigrants.

REPORTER: Polls showed the plan was very unpopular and Spitzer said he didn't need a stethoscope to hear the public's heartbeat on ...

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NEW YORK, NY November 14, 2007 —Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani is finally joining his republican rivals on the television airwaves in New Hampshire. WNYC's Andrea Bernstein reports.

REPORTER: Despite having spent a large portion of the last four weeks in New Hampshire, Giuliani's poll numbers there ...

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Former Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik is vowing to fight the sixteen felony charges unsealed Friday. WNYC's Andrea Bernstein reports.

REPORTER: Standing in a drizzling rain before a line of dozens of reporters outside the federal court house in White Plains, Bernard Kerik said he was prepared ...

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Bernard Kerik pleaded not guilty to charges that include tax fraud, receiving gifts from a company seeking city contracts while he was a public official, and lying to the White House during his failed bid to become Homeland Security chief.

WNYC’s political director, Andrea Bernstein, talks ...

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Former Police commissioner Bernard Kerik has pleaded not guilty to 16 count federal indictment in White Plains, New York. WNYC's Andrea Bernstein reports.

Wearing a blue suit and a red tie an impassive Kerik sat before the judge and said he didn't commit the crimes he ...

WNYC Political Director Andrea Bernstein looks at some of the people around Rudy Giuliani.

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Federal prosecutors in White Plains today were pressing for an indictment of former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik on corruption charges.

The case includes allegations he accepted free renovation work on his Bronx apartment from a contractor who was seeking city approval to run ...

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Yesterday, Rudy Giuliani was endorsed by Christian conservative Pat Roberton. Today, the campaign may hit a roadblock with the indictment of Giuliani's former police commissioner, Bernard Kerik. WNYC's Andrea Bernstein has more.

The charges stem from an investigation of Kerik's acceptance of renovations on his apartment ...

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Most New Yorkers are watching the presidential election from the nosebleed seats or like most sports fans on TV. But in Iowa, fans get to sit court side as WNYC's Andrea Bernstein found out.

Slideshow: Campaigning in Iowa

REPORTER: If you’re following the ...

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There were no fewer than five presidential candidates in Iowa this weekend and a few more are on the way. WNYC's Andrea Bernstein has also flocked to Iowa to catch up with the campaigns and she joins us now from Des Moines.

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After a week of hammering from her Democratic rivals over driver's licenses for illegal immigrants and other issues, New York Senator Hillary Clinton is barnstorming her way through the state of Iowa. WNYC's Andrea Bernstein has been traveling with the presidential candidate and reports from ...

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Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani is touting having survived prostrate cancer in a new radio ad running in New Hampshire. WNYC's Andrea Bernstein has more.

REPORTER: Trailing former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney in the polls in New Hampshire, Giuliani's making a big play for the state, spending ...

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Presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani is applauding the confirmation of a conservative Mississippi judge to a federal bench one level below the US Supreme Court. WNYC's Andrea Bernstein has more.

Giuliani, who has supported gay rights and abortion, has been assiduously courting conservative voters. On the stump, ...

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Governor Spitzer is issuing the first-ever U.S. regulations to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. They generate a quarter of the state's greenhouse gases.

REPORTER: The regulations would require all power plant owners to pay for the right to emit carbon dioxide. For the next ...

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Rudy Giuiliani's presidential campaign has hired the former mayor's own security firm for $131,000. WNYC's Andrea Bernstein reports.

Election law experts say there's nothing unlawful about the payments to "Giuliani Security," which emerged in this week's federal campaign finance reports. But the payments highlight the complexity ...

WNYC Political Director Andrea Bernstein and Massie Ritsch of the Center for Responsive Government dig deeper into the latest campaign finance filings for Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani, as we continue our latest crowdsourcing project, Hillary Rudy Money.

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