CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Secretary of State Colin Powell testifies again on Capitol Hill this morning, but this time it's budget business. Our Washington producer Paul Courson joins us live with a preview. Good morning. Do you think Powell will also be asked about the 9/11 Commission's work?</s>PAUL COURSON, CNN WASHINGTON PRODUCER: Probably so. You know he's agreed to meet with the panel on the events that led up to the 9/11 attacks. The commission wants more time for -- to complete its work, Carol. And yesterday House Speaker Denny Hastert said he's not going to go for it. Mr. Hastert says he -- if we need to get out there with intelligence corrections or ways of looking at things, we need to do it sooner rather than later. And he doesn't want to give the panel some extra time. So what will probably happen is that Secretary of State Powell will be before the lawmakers today and perhaps will be asked well what are you going to tell the panel when you meet with them. And he's got some other issues on the agency today as well. We've got Haiti to deal with and that could be an expensive prospect diplomatically, not necessarily monetarily. But of course the diplomatic talks that are going on, as you mentioned, there's a State Department source that it might be a negotiated departure for the Haitian president, perhaps not. And Secretary of State Powell will probably take questions on that. We've also got North Korea to deal with, Carol, where we've got the talks under way in Beijing right now. The lawmakers might ask Secretary of State Powell whether anything the North Koreans tell us is believable at this point. A report came out from the State Department yesterday that describes the North Korean regime as one of the world's most inhuman regimes. So he may elaborate on that.</s>COSTELLO: All right. Paul Courson, live from D.C., many thanks. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
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