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between Congress and the White House. House Speaker Newt Gingrich says Republicans would raise the debt ceiling before a potential default on March 1st if the White House agreed to add deficit reduction measures and a small tax cut to the package.

NPR's John McChesney reports on the controversy surrounding the investigation and arrest of computer hacker Kevin Mitnick. The FBI described Mitnick as the nation's most wanted hacker, but others say Mitnick was never the threat the FBI and others made him out to be. Two books about Mitnick have just been published...and the authors take very difference views of the threat he represented.

Robert has the story of a costly error on the part of wireless communications company -- the difference between $18 million dollars and $180 million.

A concert with LOUDAN WAINWRIGHT III. he performs songs from his new album "Grown Man." by Virgin Records. This is his 15th album.Fresh Air's Rock Critic Ken Tucker conducts the interview.

on a new AIDS drug.

Noah talks to John Shattuck, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, about his trip to Srebrenica over the weekend. Shattuck describes visiting the warehouse where hundreds of Muslims were believed to have been slaughtered.

Robert and Linda read from another batch of listeners' comments.

David Culhane reports from Paris on a shakeup in the French defense industry. The government offered the biggest overhaul and the most comprehensive review of French military strategy since World War II. President Chirac announced in an address to the nation today that over the next 6 years military conscription will be replaced by a professional army.

Danny talks with Stephen Ansolabehere, author of "Going Negative, How Political Advertisements Shrink and Polarize the Electorate" (The Free Press, Simon and Schuster). Ansolabehere says that contrary to popular belief, negative ads don't cause voters to change their minds. In fact, according to one study Ansolabehere and his colleagues completed, negative ads reenforce voters pre-existing political views, with one glaring exception, independents. In this case, Ansolabehere says, negative ads tend to make independents stay home and not vote at all and since independents tend to be the moderating force in elections, the fact that they are discouraged from voting by negative ads may be leading to the polarization of American politics.

Commentator John Rosenthal is a photographer and at a wedding he was working at he befriended a little girl in a white dress and patent leather shoes who wanted to pose for a picture. She also wants to know why he is taking so many pictures if he doesn't know anyone at the wedding.