. >> american tradition institute, restoring science, accountability... >> hockenberry: the group requestingatharine hayhoe's e-mails is the american tradition institute. >> ...argument behind the climate movement that didn't withstand scrutiny... >> hockenberry: here is their chief lawyer, chris horner, who wrote the request. chris horner would not speak with frontline on camera, but ati told us they were just looking for insights into how scientists made their deliberations. texas a&m scientist andrew dessler is an expert on how clouds relate to climate change. he became a target of the american tradition institute after one quote in a front-page new york timarticle. dessler received a legal request for e-mails the next morning. >> and i actually had the first quote in the story. and within hours of that story coming out, the university received a foia request for my e-mail. the goal of this was to try to find something in the e-mails that would be used to embarrass climate science. they were just rolling the dice. it was completely random. they had no reason to think that there was anythi

notion of america in radical welcoming and openness, bring your traditions, plant those seeds in american soil, let them grow into institutions and into congregations that are welcoming and open to others. and so that spirit of welcoming and openness i think is at the heart of the american tradition, i think it's at the heart of islam as well, and nobody articulates that better or more beautifully than that poem. so, i need to confess i get emotional when i talk with people about the issues we're going to be addressing tonight. particularly the issue of interfaith religiouses and also the issue of the idea of america. right after 9/11, several of us, a lot of us gathered at a mosque here near usc and i heard a sentence that changed my life. and it was this. to the unless the 21st century is to be interreligious. and it is that dedication that draws me to eboo and the way he thinks. so i'm going to apologize only once for being emotional about these things. if i get choked up, you'll just say, -- chalk it up to that. but one of the great moments in his book is his telling about the genesis moment for this book. so, eboo. >> th

american tour. the performance is a milestone on the long journey of recovery for afghan music which was banned by the former taliban regime as unislamic. ♪ >> students from the afghanistan national institute of music performed traditionalfghan tunes. in new york's prestigious carnegie hall on tuesday. the school was established in 2010 under the afghan administration of education with hefty financial support from abroad. half the school's 140 students are orphans or street children. one-third of them are girls. musicians ranging in age from 10 to 22 also enjoyed the rare opportunity to perform alongside a local american high school orchestra. >> because they're in afghanistan, no girls play music and i'm happy, i'm lucky. >> translator: my goal is that one day i'll be a good musician, a good music player. then i can show other people around the world that afghans are good at playing music. ♪ >> the orchestra's tour schedule also includes performances in boston as well as at the kennedy center in washington, d.c. >>> and that's going to wrap up our bulletin. i'm patchari raksawong in bangkok. >>> emerging economic powers still struggling with poverty. embolden citizens still demanding democracy. the threat of violence.

compared with the institutions and traditions of the catholic church, we as a nation are a spring chicken. but within our own timetable of american history, our national history, one of the most ancient rituals and traditions that we have as a nation is something that will happen tomorrow, the state of the union address. the state of the union is one of those very specific things like the post office or the census that is called for explicitly in the united states constitution. article 1 in the constitution is about the congress, the legislative branch. article 2 is about the presidency. article 3 is the judicial branch. and the part of the constitution that calls for the state of the union message is in article 2, section 3. and since it is in the constitution, we have been doing this from the very beginning. the first one was january 1790, george washington. he delivered his state of the union address to congress. he made his recommendations to them for action. george washington was of course the first president. john adams was the second president. by the time we got to the third president, thomas jefferson, jefferson thought

american education. with two million students now enrolled in more than 5,000 such institutions across the u.s. bridgeport academy middle school in bridgeport connecticut is one of them. like traditionallic schools, it receives per-pupil funds from the state of connectict. but it is allowed to operate independently from the local district and uses a blind lottery for enrollment. the school is part of the larger nonprofit achievement first network of 22 charters along the east coast serving mainly low-income minority students. >> what is the word for a gas... reporter: at bridgeport academy middle school the ultimate goal is to close the so-called achievement gap between rich and poor students. its principal is morgan barth. >> bridgeport is on the bottom end of connecticut which has the biggest achievement gap in the country. our kids are great. they come to school with some really heart-breaking deficits in their academic skills. on average a fifth grader comes to our school at least two or three grade levels behind. >> reporter: these kinds of educational deficits have caused lingering problems for a city where one-third of all students fail to graduate on time. >> we have to make s

american education. with two million students now enrolled in more than 5,000 such institutions across the u.s. bridgeport academy middle school in bridgeport connecticut is one of them. like traditionalschools, it receives per-pupil funds from the state of connecticut. but it is allowed to operate independently from the local district and uses a blind lottery for enrollment. the school is part of the larger nonprofit achievement first network of 22 charters along the east coast serving mainly low-income minority students. >> what is the word for a gas... reporter: at bridgeport academy middle school the ultimate goal is to close the so-called achievement gap between rich and poor students. its principal is morgan barth. >> bridgeport is on the bottom end of connecticut which has the biggest achievement gap in the country. our kids are great. they come to school with some really heart-breaking deficits in their academic skills. on average a fifth grader comes to our school at least two or three grade levels behind. >> reporter: these kinds of educational deficits have caused lingering problems for a city where one-third of all students fail to graduate on time. >> we have to make sure

american enterprise institute was that i thought the best place to start was with children. you know, these are children who due to no fault of their own were brought here, and we do have a tradition in our country. we are a country of immigrants. i'm a second generation american. my grandparents left the pogrom in arussia to realize a better life. again, these children were taken due to no fault of their own. it seems to me that's the place to start. >> you support the dream act? >> i have put out a proposal. i don't know what the dream act at this point is. what i say is, we've got a place, i think all of us can come together, and that is for the kids. >> can you bring conservatives look to supporting a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants who are here without having to first leave the country? >> there is a lot of movement right now in the house and the senate, both sides of the aisle, with folks having a lot of different ideas. i think -- >> yes or no to that question? you could really do it. if you went all in, you could bring along the right in the house, couldn't you? >> i think a good place to start is with children. here's the difficulty in this issue, i think. a

american institution. dating back to the founding of our nation when it was enshrined in article 1 of the constitution. and saturday delivery has been part of that tradition for the past 150 years. the men and women who don the blue uniform of the usps are visible in every street in every community. at a recent "washington post" story recounted, mail carriers have been known to report crimes, detect gas leaks, and check on the elderly. many serve the same routes for years, taking note of the comings and goes in their -- goings in their neighborhoods and offering a set of watchful eyes. they are the first responders in many of these communities. eliminating saturday mail service would result in the layoff of more than 50,000 letter carriers. . this only exacerbates this problem. suppose savings would clearly be offset if these unemployed middle-class workers then need federal assistance to make ends meet. upon closer inspection, the economic case for eliminating saturday delivery is specious at best. the postmaster general claims it will save $2 billion but it does not include the lost revenue or the broader economic ripple effect. a report commissioned by