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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R - Tenn.) discusses the newly passed $350 billion tax cut plan, new legislation that will provide funding to combat AIDS worldwide, reconstruction in Iraq and the debate over Medicare.

Prospects for a summit between Israelis and Palestinians have raised new hopes for Middle East peace. But how realistic are they? Gwen Ifill gets some perspective from Stephen Cohen and Shibley Telhami.

Margaret Warner reports on military tribunals for the alleged terrorists who are held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Guests incude Ruth Wedgewood, a professor of international law at Johns Hopkins University; and David Cole, a law professor at Georgetown University Law…

The Senate approved a $330 billion compromise tax cut Friday morning that included a reduction of taxes on stock dividends and capital gains, $1,000 child tax credits and a reduction of the so-called marriage penalty tax.