Topics and Guests: Jan. 17

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• The Supreme Court today upheld Oregon's one-of-a-kind physician-assisted suicide law, rejecting a Bush administration attempt to punish doctors who help terminally ill patients die. Major Garrett has more.

• The White House accused former Vice President Al Gore of hypocrisy today for his assertion that President Bush broke the law by eavesdropping on Americans without court approval. Carl Cameron has a report.

• And Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld today condemned in harsh language the leader of Iran and his suspected efforts to develop a nuclear weapon. Secretary Rumsfeld suggested that the U.S. military has the resources to do something about Iran if it becomes necessary. Bret Baier has the details from his interview with Rumsfeld.

• President Bush's domestic spying program faces legal challenges by civil liberties groups who said today they will seek court orders to stop it immediately and permanently. Jim Angle has the details on the fight over wiretapping authorization.

• Then, as lawmakers continue to discuss lobbying reform, Brian Wilson updates us on the latest news concerning the race for GOP leadership.

• The small coastal town of Arcata, California, has a city council made up of four Green Party members and one Independent. In the past few years they have voted not to enforce the Patriot Act, to withdraw from Afghanistan and Iraq and now to impeach President Bush. Claudia Cowan has a report.

• Plus, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said today that Iran could not hope to resume talks with the European Union unless it returns to the uranium enrichment moratorium it broke this month, but he indicated Moscow was not yet ready to refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council. James Rosen has more.

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