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  • June 26, 2009 02:04 PM EDT by Web Producer

    Latest on climate bill, deadlines, apologies, and..affairs

    We're expecting the Climate Change Bill to come up for a final vote sometime between 6:15 and 6:30pm tonight and we will have it live.   Republicans  are saying the bill includes "the largest tax increase in American history," but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has pledged to get the legislation passed before the July 4th recess.  A Number of conservative Democrats have already come out against the bill.. but the Democrats are doing the counting and still are moving it to the floor..  this will be a nail-biter.. and a true test for Speaker Nancy Pelosi..  ---Mike Emanuel continues to cover this story for us.

    As the June 30th deadline for pulling US troops out of major Iraqi cities US officials SAY that Iraqi forces will be up to the increased responsibility for security.  Even though the US military will be less visible, they can still intervene if necessary and according to Chris Hill, the U-S ambassador to Iraq,  "We're getting to one of the major milestones of the security agreement....And this is an agreement which will really govern our relationship for, we hope, decades to come, that will involve our 600_iraqeducational exchanges, economic relations, various political exchanges."   But there are problems and concerns about the safety and security not only of those Iraqi cities.. but of US troops themselves.   Jennifer Griffin reports from the Pentagon---

    More than 40 years after the Civil Rights Act was passed, the US Senate adopted a resolution offering a formal apology for slavery.  "It's long past due. A national apology by the representative body to the people is a necessary collective response to a past collective injustice," said Tom Harkin (D-IA).  Molly Henneberg has this story-

    Fox News Correspondent James Rosen takes a look at the recent history of high-profile sex scandals...Most recently South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, former NY Governor Eliot Spitzer, former President Bill Clinton, Sen. John Edwards...and he will take a look at who has survived these sanford-statehouseaffairs and the tactics used to deal with them. Marianne Silber has the latest on Gov. Sanford (R) who today apologized to his cabinet.... and said he would pay for one trip to Argentina on the taxpayers dime.. during which he saw his mistress.

    Wendell Goler has a follow up on the situation in Iran... and the President's comments today about Iran alongside the German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

    On the panel tonight--Juan Williams, Nina Easton and Charles Krauthammer---discussing the climate bill and we have our Friday Lightning Round!!

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