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. >> warner: and i'm margaret warner. on the newshour tonight, we have back-to-back interviews with the author of the n.r.a. proposal and a gun control advocate. >> woodruff: then, as north korea promises to restart its plutonium reactor, we examine the communist nation's nuclear capabilities. >> warner: we talk to former maine senator olympia snowe about the future of the republican party and the partisan gridlock that prompted her to retire from congress. >> woodruff: we update the atlanta school cheating scandal, as indicted educators begin turning themselves in at the county jail. >> warner: and poet gerald stern reflects on his working class upbringing and 70 years of writing verse in a conversation with jeffrey brown. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by bp. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance t

i'mudwoodruff >> warner: and i'm margaret warner. on the newshour tonight, we assess the latest rhetoric. is it just brinkmanship, or does it reflect the communist state's ability to mount an attack? >> woodruff: then, we update two shootings. texas rangers hunt for the killer of a district attorney and his wife, and prosecutors in colorado seek the death penalty for the gunman in the movie theater massacre. >> warner: from india, fred de sam lazaro reports on efforts to tackle violence against women, after the gang rape and murder of a medical student last year. >> any woman is subject to some kind of punishment. the men don't see it as harassment. >> woodruff: hari sreenivasan examines the case for and against using public money to help pay for private schools. plus, on the "daily download," the conversation about same sex marriage turns facebook red. >> it raises the visibility, i think, in a way that we haven't seen and probably energizes those who feel like this is the moment that gay marriage is finally getting cultural accepta

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. >> ifill: margaret warner looks at a billion dollar trove of picasso and other important cubist works, given by one man to the metropolitan museum of art. >> woodruff: and we close with a cuban activist's reflections on freedom, oppression and life as a dissident in her home country. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the cor

. >> ifill: and margaret warner talks with the author of a new book about shadow warfare waged by the c.i.a. and special forces. >> a week after 9/11 president bush gave the c.i.a. lethal authority to capture and kill al qaeda members so they become much more into the killing business and the military. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy, productive life. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you.

margaret warner has the story. >> warner: american food aid goes to places where the need is dire: toan, where thousands of syrians have sought refuge from civil war; to haiti, after the devastating 2010 earthquake and to pakistan that same year, when floods forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes. the budget for what's known as food for peace is $1.5 billion a year, managed by the u.s. agency for international development, or a.i.d., and the agriculture department. the idea came from president eisenhower nearly 60 years ago. >> it is to explore anew with other surplus producing nations all practical means of utilizing the various agricultural surpluses of each in the interests of reinforcing peace and well being of people throughout the world. in short, using food for peace. >> reporter: until now, the commodities have been bought from u.s. farmers and shipped overseas on u.s. vessels, to be donated to local governments and non-governmental organizations. but president president obama's new a.i.d. budget proposal, presented by aid administrator calls for scaling back

margaret warner has more. >> warner: philanthropist leonard lauder-- an heir to the estee lauder estates giving the met his entire collection of cubist art. the 78 paintings, drawings and sculptures are valued together at more than $1 billion. they include 33 pieces by pablo picasso, like "woman in an arm chair" from 1913. 17 works by georges braque, including "bottle of rum" from 1914 and other major pieces by fernand leger and juan gris. for more on the collection and itsignificance, turn to rebecca rabinow, a curator from the met's department of modern and contemporary art. she joins us from san francisco. thank you for joining us. what is the-- how unusual and how important is this bequest, both as a body of work and in itself, and also for the met? >> it's extraordinary in every possible way. on the one hand, you have eye collector who has really focused so intently, and so in-depth at one particular moment bung the best of the best. so it's an extraordinary collection. and in giving it to the metropolitan museum of art, mr. lauder has transformed our holdings. especially the 20th

margaret warner has our look. >> warner: after months of negotiations, a bipartisan group of senatorslly rolled out a sweeping immigration overhaul today. the gang of eight's bill would establish a pathway to citizenship for the estimated 1 million undocumented people currently in the country. the process would take 13 years and applicants would have to pay a fine and back taxes, learn english, and pass a criminal background check among other hurdles. but before that system can even be set up certain security goals must be met, including improvements to the border fence. one member of the group, senator lindsey graham of south carolina said failing to change the nation's immigration system would be economicide ice oly waymera loses is to do nothing. and to the who bieveat we don'tl immigration in the future, you're in denial about the demographics. and to those who say this costs more to take people out of the shadows and put them a legal status where they pay taxes, you've certainly lost me. that makes no sense. >> warner: for more now we turn to illinois democrat dick durbin, the ma

. >> warner: and i'm margaret warner. on the newshour tonight, we assess the latest rhetoric.s it just brinkmanship, or does it reflect the communist state's ability to mount an attack? >> woodruff: then, we update two shootings. texas rangers hunt for the killer of a district attorney and his wife, and prosecutors in colorado seek the death penalty for the gunman in the movie theater massacre. >> warner: from india, fred de sam lazaro reports on efforts to tackle violence against women, after the gang rape and murder of a medical student last year. >> any woman is subject to some kind of punishment. the men don't see it as harassment. >> woodruff: hari sreenivasan examines the case for and against using public money to help pay for private schools. plus, on the "daily download," the conversation about same sex marriage turns facebook red. >> it raises the visibility, i think, in a way that we haven't seen and probably energizes those who feel like this is the moment that gay marriage is finally getting cultural acceptance. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour.

. >> warner: and i'm margaret warner. on the newshour tonight, we have back-to-back interviews with the author of the n.r.a. proposal and a gun control advocate. >> woodruff: then, as north korea promises to restart its plutonium reactor, we examine the communist nation's nuclear capabilities. >> warner: we talk to former maine senator olympia snowe about the future of the republican party and the partisan gridlock that prompted her to retire from congress. >> woodruff: we update the atlanta school cheating scandal, as indicted educators begin turning themselves in at the county jail. >> warner: and poet gerald stern reflects on his working class upbringing and 70 years of writing verse in a conversation with jeffrey brown. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by bp. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance t

it came after both parties heard mounting frustration from passengers who faced flight margaret warneras the story. >> two-thirds being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. >> warner: just before leaving town for a week-long break, the house voted by a lopsided 361 to 41 to let the f.a.a. use some $250 million in unspent to get air traffic controllers back on the job. last sunday, the f.a.a. began furloughs of its 15,000 controllers and thousands of others, cutting their work schedules one day every two weeks. that triggered hundreds of delayed flights, the agency's head, michael huerta, insisted wednesday that mandatory budget cuts-- the so-called "sequester"-- had forced his hand. >> the hardest thing that we have to do is reduce these hours. but in order to hit the target we need to hit, we don't have... we don't really have any choice. >> warner: democrats and republicans disagreed over how many of the flight delays could be attributed to furloughs, but they agreed on the need to act. st

. >> ifill: and margaret warner talks with the author of a new book about shadow warfare waged by the c.i.a. and special forces. >> a week after 9/11 president bush gave the c.i.a. lethal authority to capture and kill al qaeda members so they become much more into the killing business and the military. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy, productive life. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: new details emerged today in the investigation of two chechen-american brothers in the boston bombings. and as authorities worked to build their case, two more victims of the city's week of terror were laid to rest. family and fr

. >> woodruff: then, margaret warner looks at congress's sudden push to get airlines back onime after spending cuts caused wide-spread delays. >> brown: in bangladesh, the death toll in this week's tragic collapse of a garment factory has passed 300. ray suarez explores the role of american retailers in keeping workers at their overseas suppliers safe. >> woodruff: mark shields and

margaret warner begins our coverage. >> warner: britain's longest serving prime minister of the 20th century dieded this morning after suffering a stroke. flags at number 10 downing street and buckingham palace were lowered to half staff. as an impromptu memorial appeared outside her london home. honoring the steely woman who had transformed her nation's economy and politics and reasserted its voice in the world. current prime minister david cameron, like thatcher, a conservative, reflected on her legacy. >> as our first woman prime minister, margaret thatcher succeeded against all the odds, and the real thing about margaret thatcher is that she didn't just lead our country; she saved our country. and i believe she'll go down as the greatest british peacetime prime minister. >> warner: thatcher came from humble beginnings, the daughter of a grocer in central england. yet she rose through conservative party ranks, winning a seat to parliament in 1959 and later serving as minister of education. then in 1979, after years of labor party domination, thatcher led a tory resurgence that cat

margaret warner sat down with him recently, and began by asking when it first became apparent the line between spies and soldiers had blurred. >> i started covering the military shortly before the september 11 attacks and in the months and years afterwards a lot of what i was reporting on was these efforts by rum rum and the defense secretary to basically get soldiers outside of the declared war zone, to basically send them around the world. and that meant changing not only the authorities that the pentagon had to do that but to build the budgets and build the capabilities of special operations troops. and rumsfeld was furious at the pentagon he inherited and wasn't equipped to fight this kind of war. so he was trying to push them more and more into intelligence gathering, man hunting in some now famous memos that rumsfeld wrote that sort of expressed his concern about these things and what we saw with the c.i.a. was weak after 9/11. president bush gave the c.i.a. lethal authority to capture and kill al qaeda leaders which it hadn't had for decades so they become much more into the kil

margaret warner reports. >> warner: the disclosure came initially from defense secretary chuck hagel,veling in abu dhabi. >> u. intelligence communi assesses with some degree of varying confidence that the syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small scale in syria, specifically the chemical agent sarin. >> warner: at the same time, the white house released letters using exactly the same words from legislative affairs director miguel rodriguez to senators carl levin and john mccain. in the letters, rodriguez added: but he said the u.s. would need more definitive evidence before deciding to act. >> given the stakes involved, and whate have learnedrom our own recent experiences, intelligence assessments alone are not sufficient. only credible and corroborated facts that provide us with some degree of certainty will guide our decision-making. >> warner: at the capitol today, secretary of state john kerry said the u.s. belieives chemical weapons have been used in two instances, but did not specific when or where. for months, president obama has warned the syrian government against u

margaret warner picks up the story from here. >> warner: for more on the prospect of hostilities between the two koreas, and the implications, we turn to retired marine lt. gen. chip gregson, former commander of u.s. marine forces in the pacific, and assistant secretary of defense for asia in president obama's first term. he's now with the center for the national interest. and patrick cronin, senior director of the asia-pacific security program at the center for a new american security. welcome to you both. patrick cronin, what do you make of the dia reports that came out yesterday about the prospect of north korea having a nuclear warhead that could fit atop a missile. and then the rollback by the head of the director of national intelligence and the pentagon? >> well, based on the excerpt of the dia report, it seems that the defense intelligence community is saying its he reasonable to assume that north korea has overcome the major hurdles to miniaturizing a warhead so it can be place add top a missile. but we don't have evidence of that. we don't have direct evidence. and so i think t