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we'll explore those questions tonight on "washington week." more than anyone else in washington, the president hopes the new year will be better than the lousy old one. >> i firmly believe that 2014 can be a breakthrough year for america. >> there's some optimism in congress too. >> i think the pendulum is starting to swing back towards the center. john: one early test will be whether congress can raise the debt ceiling without a congress. >> i doubt if the house or for that matter the senate is willing to give the president a clean debt ceiling increase. >> the debt ceiling is raised simply to pay bills that we have already accrued. the responsibility of congress is part of doing their job. john: lawmakers from both participants face the ballot in november.n >> the president won't be on the ballot but his allies will be. john: republicans square off against each other. >> we all know if we took on the washington establishment, the establishment would fight back and it's going to take time to change washington to turn this country around. >> i'

nation's capital, this is "washington week" with ifill. corporate funding for "washington week" is provided by -- additional corporate funding for byshington week" is provided prudential. additional funding is provided foundation, the corporation for public and bysting contributions to pbs stations from viewers like you. thank you. once again, live from washington, moderator gwen ifill. gwen: good evening. whenar is too far to go national security is at stake? that question is at the heart of roiling debate over how the nation spies on itself and on others. they the president went to justice department to declare there can and should be reasonable limits. >> those who are troubled by our existing programs are not repeating the and those who1 defend these programs are not liberties.of civil the challenge is getting the detail right and that is not simple. what and that is exactly still bothers the administration's critics. >> i want to stand up and cheer what he justze told me was all these great things about my privacy except for he really

it a try tonight on "washington week." >> our system of government is premise that depend on the good intentions of those in power. it depends on the law to in power.those gwen: with new n.s.a. revelations dropping from the sky seemingly every week, obama announces new limits on how, where and on whom can spy while defending the n.s.a. they're not "bbc world abusing authorities in order to listen phone calls or read emails.

we'll explore those questions tonight on "washington week." more than anyone else in washington, the president hopes the new year will be better than the lousy old one. >> i firmly believe that 2014 can be a breakthrough year for america. >> there's some optimism in congress too. >> i think the pendulum is starting to swing back towards the center. john: one early test will be whether congress can raise the debt ceiling without a congress. >> i doubt if the house or for that matter the senate is willing to give the president a clde

judy's off, so i thought i'd sneak in for a little pre- washington week news analysis from brooks and marcus. that's new york times columnist david brooks and washington post columnist ruth marcus. mark shields is off tonight. so we get to play in their absence, so david today a very newsy week. today we saw the president's speech on privacy and surveillance and the nsa. did he go far enough? >> he went not far far-- very far. you know, he sort of said i feel your pain. you people who are worried about nsa surveillance. you people who are worried about the invasion of privacy. i get it. i sort of see the argument. but ultimately the president represents institutions. and he gets a daily intelligence brief. he represents the intelligence community. and you could tell today that he basically is grateful to that community. basically has a great deal of faith in that community. and so he more or less sides with them on most issues, not on all issues but on most issues and hi think they till have a fair -- >> did he succeed in making the case that they are essential? >> i'm going to actual

that is tonight on washington week. judy?oduff: on tomorrow's edition of pbs newshour weekend correspondent william brangham reports from inside iran on how economic sanctions are affecting everyday iranians. and we'll be back, right here, on monday. that's the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff, have a nice weekend. thank you and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> charles schwab, proud supporter of the pbs "newshour." >> 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. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> translator: this is "nightly business report" with tyler mathisen and susie gharib. brought to you in part by -- >> the street.com. founded by jim cramer, the

the rhetoric, the reality and the reaction, tonight on washington week. judy >> wooduff: tomorrow's edition of pbs newshour weekend reports on a darker side of the super bowl. the spike in prostitution and sex trafficking around the big game. and we'll be back, right here, on monday. with a look at how established names from traditional news media are moving to new online news outlets. that's the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff, have a nice weekend thank you and goodnight. >> 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 corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> this is "bbc world news america." >> funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation, n

why now, we'll tackle it all tonight on washington week. judy? on tomorrows edition of pbs newshour weekend, correspondent william brangham looks at germany's push to reconcile it's nazi past. and a quick editor's phot before we go. in our report on wednesday on investing in infrastructure, i mispronounced the skaj-it river. and we should have said the i-35 bridge that collapsed in 2007 connects two areas of minneapolis. when we make a mistake, we want to set it straight! that's the newshour for tonight, i'm judy woodruff. have a great weekend. thank you and goodnight. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> charles schwab, proud supporter of the pbs "newshour." >> 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. >> this is "bbc world news america." >> funding of this presenta

tonight on "washington week." >> i come before you this evening as someone who has been falsely and wrongfully accused in his public service has been wrongfully attacked. >> mistakes were clearly made and as a result we let down the people we're entrusted to serve. gwen: they were both on the vice presidental short list. 2016 was on their horizons. but virginia's bob mcdonnell and new jersey's chris christie are now each on separate slippery slopes. will they survive? >> i think all of us share the belief that

street.com/nvr. apologizes, robert gates confesses and democrats debate income inequality tonight on "washington week." am but i'm not a bully. >> chris christie the tough hands on new jersey governor who has his eye on the white house says he was betrayed. i am embarrassed and of liated by the conduct some of the paoepeople on my te. out of a ory straight hollywood script about politics, ambition christie takes center stage. >> as a result of what has been governor hasy this a lot of explaining to do. >> while in washington another figure former e defense secretary robert gates

couldn't move forward, and while the senate has a few more days left of work this week they don't expect to be in washington next week. if they can't move any future efforts now, many will be left waiting to see what happens next. it comes down those who want to see how they'll play for those bills. >> libby casey on capitol hill. thank you very much. >>> and from capitol hill we turn to the white house, president obama said he's not going to wait around for congress to get things done. making that clear when he spoke not long ago in raleigh, north carolina. he talked about boosting the rae manufacturing hub. mike viqueira is in washington and the president calling this the year ofove or work around se gridlock that libby just described on capitol hill. he said he has a pen, this is what he said, the implication is that he has a pen, and he's not afraid to use it. this is part and parcel with last year, the promised zone and economically depressed areas around the country. these are the manufacturing sides, manufacturing hubs in raleigh north carolina of action washington one way or another. >> we've made p

the republican national convention is meeting in washington this week, and this is the first time theyave arranged to have their meeting to coincide with this event, so they are trying to connect those two events. libby casey from washington, a cold washington, d.c. libby thank you very much. ♪ >>> it was another mixed day of trading on wall street. the dow right now down 35 points. the blue chips are being pulled back by ibm after the company reported disappointing earning sales. >>> almost all of the smallest cars failed when it came to protecting passengers. out of 11 mini cars tested only the chevrolet spark received an acceptable rating. >>> unrest in syria, and the widening gap between rich and poor awrong the topics of discussion in switzerland. >> reporter: it is often described as a giant networking event or a constellation of egos in an orgy of adulation. many of the top people are here again. the headline appearance will likely be that of iran's president. his country may have been invited and then uninvited at talked aimed at peace in syria, but his invitation here is secur

tonight on "washington week," the prospects for immigration reform and peace in the middle east, a look ahead to the political fights in 2014. on tomorrow's edition of "pbs newshour weekend," correspondent josh aronson looks at a program bringing music to low-income neighborhoods to improve education. here's an excerpt from his report. >> he lives in one of the poorest neighborhoods in of los angeles and like many of her friends she was struggling in school. >> okay. >> her interest in learning music prompted her parents to enroll her in a music program in their neighborhood called the harmony project. in the three years since much has changed in her life. >> muss sick like a dialogue because we can play a certain thing, let's say the violins can play something, it can be the same melody, different notes. and it's like a conversation talking back and forth. >> serving more than 2,000 students with a budget of 2.5 million dollars, the mostly privately funded harmony project is filling a gap in low income areas where schools have cut music education programs. students get at least five ho

i'm ray suarez. 280 american mayors were in washington this week where the president told them he didn't have to wait around for congress to get things done. one exception is immigration reform. the immigrant profile is not exactly uniform. they go to some places and not to heirs. and we have the handful of cities that have not attracted immigrants lately. is this a big part of pittsburgh future. >> it's what built the city to begin with. my own grandfather came to pittsburgh to be able to use his back and arms to work at columbia steel for 38 years working the night shift. that's how pittsburgh was built. the immigrants of today are coming to use their minds. our pan asian immigrants are the highly educated and highest salary. we've lost on lower skill workers but we've attracted scientists, engineers, doctors coming to our universities, medical centers and staying. we need to do a better job of tracting more. if i had a magic wand and i could pass one thing in congress i would pass rather than early childhood initiatives would be the visa staple to every diploma. instead of training th

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history was made in washington this week. the senate confirmed janet yellin the first woman to lead the federal reserve in the 100-year history. that will make her the most powerful person in finance. and will take over end of the month. the fed released minutes from the december meeting. it showed members debating their decision to scale back the bond buying purchases. and cautious and all but one fed members agreed to trim its $85 billion in bond purchases by $10 million. and the cash keeps rolling in for apple. the company announcing customers spent $10 billion last year. including $1 billion just in d.ecembe.cecember alone. disappointing jobs number, slow start for the new year. joining me is chief economic strategist and the chief economist at moody analytics. thank you for being here. really strange numbers came at us this week. friday's jobs report. something a lot of people are scratching their head about. what does it all add up to? >> nugothing. they're not consistent with any data we have gotten. and probably would

the rnc met in washington last week for it annual meeting. they voted to make the primary time shorter for prime -- for candy -- four candidates running for the primary position. they effectively extended the general election for the chosen nominee. over the three-day meeting, there were several figures, including former arkansas governor, mike huckabee. he spoke for half an hour on a wide range of topics including issues important to women voters and health care law. [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. thathe was getting introduction, he's been talking about all these things and i was getting nervous. one of these days, he will find something he's good at. an honor to be here. he was talking about the musician part of me. last night, i was in anaheim, california, playing with bernie williams, an amazing guitar player and skunk baxter from the -- thebrothers will stop doobie brothers. i wanted to bring them with me. you would have loved them. but i would have laid with them and you would not have love that. i've got to be back in ca

nominee of the new re established national security council show that only gets his visit to washington next week is gaining more attention than it might have done before experts say china and japan to raul has the potential to become even more emotionally charged as the two nations one policies are based on strong nationalism. and this they say would further escalate already heightened tensions in northeast asia and then ten years. at the nation's top off this president talking heads first overseas trip of the new year will take her to it yet and switzerland. she will embark on a nine day tour of the two nations next wednesday our presidential office correspondent james to pass the tests. three the economy will be the key theme as president next trip to india and switzerland. the concept encourages collaboration between creative ideas and designs and technology sector to produce a new bread and chips for the honeybee. yet president beck is scheduled to hold bilateral talks with prime minister manmohan singh and a cure expected to discuss cooperation in the sectors of security trade and investmen

washington. it has been a wild week in politics. lawmakers back on capitol hill and back up old habits, squabbling over expending unemployment benefits. a firestorm over excerpts from robert gates' new memoir that cast key members of the administration in unflattering light. and in new jersey, chris christie known for his combative governing style is the butt of jokes and forced to try humility after a smoking gun e-mail ties his office to a nightmarish closing of access to the george washington bridge. >> i am responsible for what happened. i am sad to report to the people of new jersey that we fell short. >> to discuss all of this week's headlines, we begin with george will, bob woodward of "the washington post," gop mastermind karl rove, fox news political analyst juan williams. let's start off with chris christie. this is a huge political story. a lot of people say, george, he did himself a good service on thursday when he came out and forthrightly addressed it. let's start by chris christie denying any connection to what happen

washington bridge. >> i am responsible for what happens. i am sad to report to the people of new jersey that we fell short. >> to discuss all of this week's political headlines, we begin with our sunday group. syndicated columnist george will. bob woodward of the "washington post." gop master mind karl rove. fox news political analyst juan williams. let's start off with chris christie. because this is a huge political story. a lot of people say, george, that he did himself a good service on thursday when he came out and forthrightly addressed this. let's start by chris christie denying any connection to what happened with the george washington bridge. >> i had no knowledge or involvement in this issue. in its planning or its execution. and i am stunned by the abject stupidity that was shown here. >> chris christie, of course, the republican front-runner at this point for 2016. has this damaged his chances? >> i don't think so. assuming what he just said is true, and i'm prepared to assume that, it's still too soon to say. the american people are convinced not without reason that the political class is largely composed of synthetic figures cobbled t

. >>> president obama is back in washington after two weeks in hawaii for the holidays. the president and his two daughters stepped off air force one after an overnight flight to joint base andrews. first lady michele obama is staying in hawaii a few extra days to celebrate her 50th birthday with friend. back to work for congress. republicans plan to challenge parts of the president's health care law. the house will address the nsa spying program. democrats will press to raise the minimum wage. tomorrow the senate is also expected to vote on a three month extension of long term unemployment benefits. >>> temperatures above freezing for most of us right now but get ready. ready. they are going to my dad has aor afib.brillation, he has the most common kind... ...it's not caused by a heart valve problem. dad, it says your afib puts you at 5 times greater risk of a stroke. that's why i take my warfarin every day. but it looks like maybe we should ask your doctor about pradaxa. in a clinical trial, pradaxa® (dabigatran etexilate mesylate)... ...was proven superior to warfarin

." >>> this week on "the journal editorial report," from washington to wall street and aaron the world, our look >>> this week from wall street to washington to around the world a look at 2014 after obamacare's rocky rollout can the president get back on track and push forward with his populist jane did a? will 2014 be another big year for stocks? are there signs of a slowdown? are there be historic peace accords? welcome to "the journal editorial report." this week we are looking ahead to 2014 and the challenges face it is obama administration at home and abroad. we start on the home front where the president no doubt is happy to put 2013 behind him. can the white house move past their obamacare woes? push forward with what's shaping up to be a populist agenda. let's ask dan hager. assistant editorial page editor james freeman. dan, the president has has a comeback strategy, i suspect. what sit? what are the prospects? >> i think it is going to be difficult for the president himself to come back, paul. i think that the -- damage that was done to his credibility with obama kir is prett

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appreciate it. >> the republican national committee is meeting in washington this week to map out a strategyo win back the senate and the white house. it involves getting a bigger share of the female vote. which is why some comments made by a party leader are drawing so much scrutiny tonight. lisa stark is life at the site of this meeting in washington, d.c. what did former presidential candidate have to say? >> well, mike was frying to turn the table on the democratics democrats have accused rebrandings of waging a war on women, he said that many women he knows believes it is the democrats who view women as helpless, and hopeless creatures. whose only goal is to get government contraceptives. our party stands for the recognition for one, and for the democrats want to ink as a result the women of america by making them believe that they are helpless without uncle sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control, because they cannot control their lib bid does or their repatrol ductive system without the help of the government, then sobeit, let us take that di

. >>> president obama is back in washington, d.c. after two weeksthe family vacationing in hawaii. but what the president is returning to, may look like what he left behind in 2013, including lingering trouble with obamacare, dwindling poll numbers for his approval rating, as his administration will try to push congress on immigration reform and looming flight over unemployment benefits. james rosen with more on this. james? >> harris, good evening. president obama returned to the nation's capital with less political capital than he had a year ago. the gallup poll find out went in ten americans approve of his job and that is down from the start of his second term. to regain the ground, the president plans to pursue a populous tone and agenda in this cycle, including a push this week for extension of unemployment benefits. >> just a few days saver christmas, more than 1 million lost a lifeline, that helps folks meet ends meet while te look for a -- while they look for a job. >> gallup said the poor ratings were not due to the economy, but to the fall

the washington redskins have a decision to make this week regarding brandon meriweather. according to the washington post, the safety's contract is void five days after the super bowl making him a restricted free agent. the league year starts march 11th. >>> it's starting to get comical. for the sixth time this season the wizards have knocked on the door of a winning record, but nobody has been home to let them in. it's not for lack of trying. on the west coast trip now the wizards got back to .500 with a big road win against the warriors. last night they couldn't clip the clippers. the wizards were down 16 at one point and cut that deficit to one point early in the 4th quarter. wizards have a chance to get back to .500 this saturday when kevin durant and the thunder come to d.c. >>> the washington capitals going for their third straight victory and stop redemption in columbus tonight. a couple weeks ago the blue jackets slammed the capitals 5- 1. highlights at 11:00. >>> finally attention to our high schoolers and the parents, a chance attorney a college scholarship. find

that did disturb me a lot. >> it's comments like those from fo bob gates that have disrupted washington this weeks excerpts from his memoir were released. in it, he takes harsh aim at the dysfunction in washington and congress, but it's the criticism of vice president biden and president obama that's had washington buzzing. gates notes that he almost never agreed with the vice president and that he believed biden has been, quote, wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue. ouch. while gates says he essentially agreed with president obama's decisions, his harshest criticism focuses on the commander in chief's conviction and passion behind decisions about the afghanistan strategy. writing about a meeting in the situation room, he says, quote, as i sat there, i thought the president doesn't believe if his own strategy and doesn't consider this war to be his. for him, it's all about getting out. but is criticizing a standing president's war strategy appropriate while we still have troops in harm's way? even republican senator john mccain took issue with the timing of the b

-canada-mexico summit in washington last week, in preparation for our leaders, who will focus on increased efforts in our hemisphere. we renewed educational exchanges. after a decade, that was perhaps uniquely and in many people's view unfortunately, excessively defined, foremost, by force, and our use of force, we are entering an era of american diplomatic engagement that is as long and as deep as at any time in our history. and such are the responsibilities of a global power. the most bewildering version of this disengagement myth is about a supposed retreat by the united states from the middle east. my response to that suggestion is simple. you cannot find another country. not one country. that is as proactively engaged, that is partnering with so many middle eastern countries as constructively as we are, on so many high-stakes fronts. i want to emphasize the last point -- partnering. we have no pretense about solving these problems alone, nor is anyone suggesting, least of all me, that the united states can't solve every one of the region's problems, or that everyone of them can be a p

host: she will be presenting it in washington this week. there isn.org --guest: going to be a big promotion. it talks about how one in three women, 42 million women, and 28 million children live in the brink of poverty. poverty, the way that it looks today, very different than what was 50 years ago when her father, sargent shriver was wet as head of the war on poverty. by the way, was very effective in taking people out of it. the face of that poverty are low income women and children. we need to make sure that the women that are the engines of our economic growth, and the children, are put in a position where the american dream is not being taken away from them. there are demographic differences as well. minority women are the hardest hit, and they believe that the government needs to be a partner in the type of structures and changes that need to be taking place in the workforce. more policies that focus on single-family households, more policies that focus on the changing family today. more policies that focus on job retraining, and the

. >>> republicans meelting in washington this week can smell victory in the freezing arctic air there of past election defeats hurt their efforts to build a kinder gentler brand. nbc's casey hunt is live in washington, d.c. this afternoon. i know there's a session today at the meeting about the changing the republican convention making it earlier than it was in 2012. walk us through the thinking behind that. >> sure, there's -- the establishment thinking on that in particular is that the convention last time around was in august, which was pretty late. and the obama campaign spent the summer on the air waves hammering presidential nominee mitt romney and he had not enough money to respond. so moving the convention up would give whoever is the nominee a little bit more money, a little bit earlier in the procession. now detractors say it jams it together and would make it hard to plan for a convention. so there are both sides of the equation here from establishment members. but they are going to start to talk through later today exactly what they are going to do next. >> abortion front

committed in syria but on the issue of whether to include iran in the geneva peace talks next week washington is sending mixed signals. i think we would welcome participation of around is coming to participate for the purposes of the conference but iran has yet to state whether or not it supports implementing the geneva one communique which calls for nothing more than the mutual consent of the parties to a transitional governing process to make peace and we ask around i invite around today to join the community of nations the thirty nations that are already prepared to come and be a constructive partner for peace that's the invitation he was simply stating that there are ways around could show the world that they want to see a positive outcome and if they did so obviously that would mean that if they wanted to play a role in geneva two on the sidelines we would look more favorably on that but certainly no one was indicating an openness to inviting them are these are things that if they do they would definitely be invited there are just things that they could do to show that they want to effec