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Can McCain be trusted?

John McCain made claims that the 2008 election “is about trust and trusting people’s word,” but can the American people trust someone who has flip flopped on so many issues?

McCain, gas prices and the Enron loophole

A Countdown Special Report on how John McCain’s chief economic advisor and others in his campaign helped create and defend legislation that enabled speculators to run up gas prices.

Primaries '08: The highlight reel

Video: Countdown takes a look back at the highs and lows of the 5-month 2008 primary season.

Nightly News

Bill-O's ranting remix

Please stand well back from the screen and don your protective head gear as we present the real Billy in the "Fully tanked" remix of "We'll do it live!"

Podcasts: Watch and listen anytime, anywhere

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Countdown is pre-empted July 3 for the holiday weekend. We're back at our regular time slot, 8 p.m. ET, weeknights, on MSNBC.

Special Comments

Sen. Barack Obama is going to suffer political attacks no matter how he votes on the FISA bill but he can still stand on principle and score a political win by promising to take advantage of a loophole in the bill allowing criminal prosecution of anyone who collaborated with the Bush administration to spy illegally on Americans. Read the Special Comment

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The Newshole

Richard Wolffe

is Newsweek’s Senior White House correspondent, a frequent political analyst on MSNBC.

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Interactives

Nexus of politics and terror

Did terror alerts suspiciously follow bad publicity about the White House? Check out this timeline and draw your own conclusions.

Slideshow: Apology Hall of Fame

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Obama 'puzzled' by Iraq remarks furor

Barack Obama said his plan to end the Iraq war was unchanged and he was puzzled by the sharp reaction to his statement that he might "refine" his timetable for withdrawing U.S. combat troops.

Analysis: McCain struggles to regain footing

NYT: McCain battles the teleprompter

Dems hit GOP on Medicare cuts

Former Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86

Jesse Helms: Polarizer, not a compromiser

Weird News

Jeff Barnard / AP

Lawn chair balloonist achieves his dream

Gas station owner Kent Couch has realized his dream of flying a lawn chair rigged with more than 150 helium-filled party balloons across the Oregon high desert to Idaho.

FedEx delivers pot to wrong spot

Cops: Man hid pound of cocaine in undies

2 charged for riding snowmobiles on lake

Crazy cat mends ways under house arrest

Entertainment

Lionel Cironneau / AP

French locals indifferent to Brangelina

Residents of Nice, France, where actress Angelina Jolie awaits the birth of her twins, aren't impressed by celebrity. Stars who escape there aren't hounded by autograph-seekers.