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BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Jim in Kansas City, Missouri, I'm glad you called, sir. Welcome to the EIB Network. CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks for taking my call. RUSH: Yes, sir. CALLER: Earlier you had mentioned that when the time comes, you're going to announce or get behind somebody, and I'm just wondering, what's your selection criteria for picking a candidate, and two, how do you decide when that time is that you're going to announce? I'm more interested in how you pick a candidate. Because especially this year with -- there's really not a true conservative. How do you narrow it...

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WASHINGTON - Interrogators from the CIA, FBI and a foreign security service are working against the clock to get inside the head of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed about impending terrorist operations and the location of al-Qaida leaders and cells. Whether the CIA can learn anything useful from the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind depends on the skills and methods of the interrogators, Mohammed's willingness to talk and perhaps simply time. Captured early Saturday in a raid in Pakistan, he is now believed to be in U.S. custody overseas. Of top priority during the questioning is gaining intelligence that could help quickly disrupt...