hari sreenivasan ske earlier today, through a sky video connection, with freelce journalist ansel hz. 's been a radio porter in haiti for e past four months. we staed by asking him to describehe last 24 hours. >> reporter: extremely hechtnd i can crazy since the eahquake struck. i basicallleft my house, which shook quite a bit but thangod it did not fall, unlike manyf e military story houses and buildingin the neighborhood, which have fallen. i've basically jusbeen in the streets shooting footage and talking to people. i made a point of ying to get downtown and seeing the nation tower, for example, it collaed in on itself, in differe parts. also theeadquarters of the international peacekeeng force here, bacally collapsed entirely. and so theeacekeepers are really occupy, ihink, with a lot their own personnel who have died. people are basally inhe streets ying to stay away from buildings and walls and ings that could clapse. they're ying to survive at this point. there's not much in the way rescue efforts, really notng inhe way of rescue efforts that i've seen in e streets. and i ink h

ansel to work out? >> guest: it didn't work at all during the fdr years and that is the whole problem is that all the right wingers are complaining about how big results deficits were but the problem is they were nearly big enough and then at the point which the deficits were starting to have a good impact roosevelt got talked into balancing the budget in the federal budget from a deficit of 5.5% of gdp in 1936, into a complete balance budget in fiscal year 1938. so we took 5.5% of gdp and out of the economy that would have otherwise been stimulus of and as a result wasn't until world war ii that the depression really ended. >> host: to make -- arizona, andy on are democrats line. >> caller: good morning. i am looking at the kind of economists that the republicans in washington and groups like the u.s. chamber of commerce are trying to support, the lassiez-fare tax cuts and trying to say that tax cuts create jobs and i've never seen any evidence of that in my lifetime. i'm also wondering what you think

. >> sreenivasan: we catch up with journalist ansel herz, who survived the earthquake in haiti and has been covering it ever since. and on our education site, "newshour extra," haitian students in the u.s. describe what it's like to watch the crisis unfold from a distance. betty ann bowser updates us on the healthcare debate and prospects for agreement on a final bill. chris cillizza of "the washington post" provides details on the unexpectedly competitive race to fill ted kennedy's massachusetts senate seat. and last week, jeffrey brown interviewed the head of the national endowment for the arts, rocco landesman, and now it's your turn to ask the questions in a follow-up forum on "art beat." all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. judy. >> woodruff: and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. >> lehrer: and i'm jim lehrer. "washington week" can be seen later this evening on most pbs stations. we'll see you online, and again here monday evening. have a nice weekend. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour is provided by: chevron, human e

>> charles v was the holy roman emperor ansel leamond the magnificent was they tense saltz on of the ottoman empire, and it's too caymen to clash in vienna in 1527 and 1532, and it really was a clash of empires and a clash of civilizations and a clash of religions. so we think after 9/11 we were the only ones that never have this experience of jihad versus brisÉ, but this is what i have been really doing for the last four books, is reminding people of the episodes in history where christianity and islam came into conflict. >> what was the result of this battle? >> the result was that the ottoman turks, the islamic forces were stopped at the end of and had they not been stopped what sulamon the magnificent want to do was go alta way to the rhine river so heady prevailed that the anna, europe would have been islamic to the rhine river in 1527 and so it is a major turning point in history. >> when you are working on this ancient history, what are your sources? >> i have an office at the library of congress and the library of congress is the best library in the world by far, so there are

. >> i guess i would just built on selina's, ansel lien certainly has more of a first-hand account butinly for me and many others, the panthers were a symbol of resistance in standing up but i think something that gets left out sometimes and as i read about fred hampton them in, the young man, but the man. i am reminded of the panthers that they knew in detroit and there was this notion of certain people, so there was defiance against the police in a push back against a level of unapologetic and unabated police violence in the cities but there also was this sense of humility in, this sense of humanism, and the same young men who were with blackjack, with paray standing tall against the police were also serving eggs and pancakes in the free brett risk program. traditionally women's work, so i was impressed by the combination of service and struggle in for me that combination was powerful and dangerous, because it can transform us as well as transform the enemies of people, so-- >> by 1969 the panthers were three years old. they had 30 chapters around the country, one in every major city

at an unfathomable cost, america ansel the -- answered the call and a merged an international defender of individual freedom and liberty, but two world wars were not the ends of our trials and the 20th-century. in vietnam, thousands of men and women fought in dark juggles around the world, but there was another war at home, a war within the national conscience as america struggles ever closer to liberty and justice for all. that struggle was led by brave georgians simply blocks from here. our nation's stories unfolded through the centuries, gives us much needed perspective about where we are and what we face today. it teaches us that each generation faces their own challenges. they face every enemy and for every cost to create a better nation for their children and grandchildren. what stands out most to meet is each generation's willingness to pick up the yolk and move our nation forward. it has not always been pretty, what happens is to drop -- what never happens is that they drop the yolk and leave others to pick it up. neither have they weighed them down with unbearable burdens. fri

has not already done this is to evaluate what steps were taken in the wake of that 2004 fpi warning ansellet me just quickly ask, has anything been done in that regard and it's not will you commit on their behalf to do a review of what was done in the wake of the 2004 warning? >> we are constantly in the process of reviewing that which we can do better. i am not familiar myself with the statement but we will look at that. i will certainly equate myself with that statement and what caused the statement to be made and we will review what the justice department has done since that time. and make the results of that search available to you. >> what time-- timeframe to you think? maybe i will ask you to get back to us what a reasonable timeframe for that evaluation. >> i don't think it should take an awful long period of time. we are constantly in the process of trying to with gallie wait what it is we have done and how we can improve on what we have been doing so getting that information to you should not take long. >> as part of that would i would like to indicate to you is i have been told