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House Democrats are meeting near Pittsburgh today, reviewing the 2000 presidential election and trying to come up with a strategy for dealing with President Bush's legislative proposals. The president himself stopped by today to try to convince them to support his agenda. NPR's Eric Westervelt tells Lisa who is winning over whom.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with NPR's Cokie Roberts about President Bush's recent efforts at bipartisanship and the outlook for the president's legislation on tax and social policy.

A Senate banking committee claims U.S. banks are giving the green light to money laundering by failing toclosely monitor their relationships with overseas financial institutions. NPR's Emily Harris reports.

Steve Tripoli of member station WBUR in Boston reports on Roman Totenberg, the 90-year-old concert violinist whose decades in music are now bridging the gap between two very diverse musical periods. A concert tonight in Boston will honor Totenberg on his birthday. (Roman Totenberg is the father of NPR's legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg).

The mauling death of a 33-year-old woman in San Francisco by a 120-pound dog has raised many questions about the owners -- two prison inmates with alleged ties to a white supremacist group, and an illegal dog breeding scheme. Jay Field reports from San Francisco.

Weekend All Things Considered begins a new monthly feature. It's called Along For The Ride. Each month, we invite a creative person to act as a guest reporter and share with us a special point of interest to him or her. Today, writer Amy Wilensky, takes us to the cheese department at Fairway, a New York City grocery, where cheese guru Steven Jenkins has a passion, if not an obsession for cheese!

Host Lisa Simeone talks with Jon Cohen, author of Shots In The Dark: The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine, about efforts over the last decade to develop a vaccine to eradicate the spread of HIV and AIDS. Cohen's book details the different ways -- legal, political and financial -- in which the development of a vaccine is hindered or blocked.

NPR's Jason Beaubien reports that the nation's largest cranberry-growing cooperative of farmers is on tenuous financial ground. It wants growers to be required to reduce cranberry production.

NPR's Eric Westervelt reports on President Bush's appearance at the Democratic legislative retreat in Pennsylvania yesterday. Mr. Bush continued his attempt to charm the opposition. Though some members seemed charmed, he faced tough questions from Democrats, many of whom remain skeptical of finding common legislative ground with the new president.

NPR's Melissa Block reports that four men go on trial today in New York for bombing the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. The men are suspected to be tied to a radical terrorist organization led by Osama Bin Laden.