all right. >> because you're so smart. >> woodruff: ruth marcus and bill kristol, we thank you both. >> thank >> ifill: still to come on the "newshour": a report card on the administration's environmental record; state pension funds at risk in the markets and growing up as the soviet union fell apart. but first, with the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: nato is showing the first signs of a possible split over the mission in libya. italy called today for a halt to military action. foreign minister franco frattini said the fighting needs to stop, to allow access for humanitarian aid. he also said civilian deaths from nato air raids should be investigated. france and britain rejected the appeal. the british insisted the alliance is holding strong. a security court in bahrain sentenced eight top shi-ite activists and opposition leaders to life in prison today. the court action stemmed from pro-democracy protests this past spring. we have a report narrated by jonathan rugman of "independent television news." >> reporter: this was the pearl roundabout, the sy

previews the president's speech from the white house and we get analysis from ruth marcus and bill kristol. >> woodruff: then, we examine the obama administration's record on climate change as former vice president al gore criticizes the president's failure to take bold action on global warming. >> ifill: from rhode island, paul solman reports on the risk to retirees and taxpayers alike when billions of dollars from state pension funds are tied up in the stock market. >> we'd be asking people, do you want to pay higher taxes in order to avoid taking the risk in the stock market? i think most people would say no to that. >> woodruff: and we continue our collaboration with "the economist" magazine to highlight the art of filmmaking. tonight, jeffrey brown talks to "my perestroika" director robin hessman about children growing up as the soviet union fell apart. >> for every individual, it was a complicated process and still is today. there are many conflicting feelings on the changes and the effects of those changes on their everyday lives. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour

host: bill kristol, reaction? guest: i agree with that in this respect -- a little surprised he is running against the president he served loyally for two years. he has to explain how he squares that circle and what he disagreed with and whether he raised the disagreements. but it is a free country. it is a little and often that he is doing what he sees an opening. john weaver, his top strategist, was a top mccain strategist, was looking for a different kind of candidate. he is very unhappy, i think with the conservative drift. i think john will actually run the mccain-2000 campaign, anti- establishment, sort of anti conservative campaign. a lot of attempts to get the media to -- mccain did great job and 99 and in 2000 -- a huge start -- if you are rick santorum, whenever you think of him as a senator from pennsylvania for a couple of terms, lost badly in 2006 but has a distinguished record in the senate -- host: twice in the senate and house. guest: swing state, series die. -- serious guy. and you wonder why is j

our guest tomorrow bill kristol, who is considered the tom hanks of the neo-conservative world. [laughter] here it is, your moment. of zen. >> a man in west virginia faces assault charges after police say he passed gas in front of the officer. [laughing] the man was already arrested for d.u.i. r

our guest tomorrow bill kristol, who is considered the tom hanks of the neo-conservative world. [laughter] here it is, your moment. of zen. >> a man in west virginia faces assault charges after police say he passed gas in front of the officer. [laughing] the man was already arrested for d.u.i. according to police reports -- y comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> stephen: tonight, i await the fec's decision on my pac. change is coming -- and hopefully a lot of large bills too. [laughter] then, a survey names america's least active city. it's a big announcement, so put on your formal sweatpants. [laughter] and my guest, gary sinise is here to talk about entertaining the troops. luckily, this is their favorite show. [laughter] every time god closes a door, he opens a window. clearly, he's not the one paying for air conditioning. [laughter] this is "the colbert report." captioning sponsored by comedy central ["the colbert report" theme music playing] [cheers and applause] thank you very much. [cheers and applause] [crowd channeling stephen] --] c

let's let bill kristol bring order to this circus. >> well, i guess it's great.n never -- we'll raise it by $2 trillion, $1 trillion a year forever because everyone will say the markets will panic, we can't cut any programs, we're going to let whatever administration in power, demagogue, if i send a letter to social security. >> let me ask you a question, bill. if the hume scenario were to play out and we get in the final week and the social security administration says. >> or some other agency. >> chris: yes. but says, you know, we're going to run out of money and your checks may be late, does it give democrats the upper hand? or the republicans end up at the last moment at a disadvantage? >> well, the house should pass legislation then saying here is what you should pay for, for the revenues coming in. pay off the debt. pay the military. pay social security. you should pay medicare. they should prioritize. >> the g.o.p. will get hit hard on this if they think that is a winning hand. >> thank you, panel. see you next week. don't forget to check out panel plus, w

and two leaders of i'm absolutely delighted to welcome our longtime friend and colleague, bill kristol, currently editor-in-chief of the weekly standard, a commentator on fox news, former chief of staff for vice president dan quayle, and a true freedom fighter who has been in the trenches with us for a long time also on health care. bill and i first really got to work together during the 1993-94 health care debate when hillary clinton was proposing probably actually at this point a much less aggressive form of health reform and has been enacted under the obama administration. and bill was really remarkable. he was the master of the facts at the time which was the latest technology to help people understand what was really in the law. and really thrilling and a pleasure to have him here today to talk a little bit about where he sees the politics of health care today. bill, welcome and thank you so much for all you do. [applause] >> thanks, grace-marie, and thank you for inviting me to join you. i'll speak briefly and i have an appointment i had to run off to. i did want to come partly b

bill kristol of the weekly standard and fox news analyst wulse - on juan williams. you make of the anthony weiner story and the latest turn of him seeking treatment and get a leave of absence but top democrats nancy pelosi saying get out. >> i think he is done. it looked like he would be in the middle of the scandal and refused to do that. he's made one giant to the exit with a leave of absence. i don't see how that works and by the time he gets back from that and pronounced himself cured of sending dirty picture to people. his political career is over. >> chris: it is interesting. he had a conversation with nancy pelosi and i want to seek treatment and she said no it is not enough and they issued a call and dramatic to hear. three in a row from the democrats and he's held on firm. he will do a leave of absence. >> only somebody's constitients can get them out of office. however in the end. anthony weiner will not come back after the 2012 election because the new york state legislator will redistrict him out of the seat. the only ones that are helped is the new york

bill kristol of "the weekly standard." mara liasson from national public radio. er bush press secretary dana perino. and bill burton, former deputy press secretary to president obama who now heads priorities usa, an independent political group. welcome, bill. good to have you on the panel. >> thank you. >> chris: the president submitted a budget in february, bill, which he replaced with an outline in april. congressional democrats didn't pass any budget last year. and the senate democrats haven't written a budget this year. is that any way to leave the country? >> no. >> chris: i'm asking him. not you. >> my answer is no. you can explain that it's really a good way to leave the country, back off the original budget submitted months ago that laughably doesn't address the debt and deficit. to criticize paul ryan's serious attempt for the debt and deficit in april in a demagogic way and not have particulars and the senate which the democrats control have not passed the resolution. republicans have passed a budget. >> chris: what do you think that's about? >> i think

bill kristol of "the weekly standard." mara liasson of national public radio. erley strassel of the "wall street journal." and john podesta, bill clinton's former white house chief of staff who now heads the center for american progress. well, kim, both the "new york times" and the "wall street journal," i was amused to see yesterday, used exactly the same metaphor to describe the economy in may. "running out of steam." how much should we read in the may numbers? >> the white house right now is struggling to suggest we are still in the hangover phase of the 2008 financial crisis that we had. i think the bigger question is whether or not what we aren't seeing is the consequence of the white house policy, itself. you talk to anybody out there in the business community and what they say is uncertainty is absolutely killing us. a lot of it has been created by this administration. so, you know, trade deals that haven't been done in years. what is going to happen to spending? because businesses say look, if this deal doesn't get cut, it's big reforms aren't made, tax

and i put it on this table behind my desk, and i remember our editor, bill kristol, come anything andooking at that and saying it's truly a neoconservative office. we have a shrine to fdr here. [laughter] i think, you know, who knows? i mean, it's always difficult to tell what historic figures would think about anything after their death. i mean, democrats are always lecturing republicans confidently about what lincoln would think about things, you know, he'd be horrified by the republican party today. um, some -- [laughter] somebody asked, somebody asked me the other day on a panel what would, what would people like franklin roosevelt think of annie wiener. [laughter] -- anthony weiner. and i said, first of all, the first 20 minutes of my answer would be explaining to him about computers and the internet and twitter which many people alive today don't fully comprehend. so, i mean, it's an unanswerable question. however, to answer your question i think roosevelt gets an unfair rap about that. i think that, i mean, 25 words or less, i think at yalta he was, he and churchill were presen

bill kristol, mara liasson, kimberly stros sell and john podesta. both the new york times and the "wall street journal" i was amused to see yesterday used the same metaphor to describe the economy in may. running out of steam. howchow much do we read into te may numbers? >> the white house is starting to suggest that we are in the hangover phase of the 2008 financial crisis that we had. i think the bigger question is whether or not what we aren't seeing is the consequence of the white house's policies itself right now. talk to anybody out there in the business community and what they say is uncertainty is absolutely killing us and a lot of it has been created by this administration. so, you know, trade 2k50e8s that haven't been done in years. what is going to happen to spending because if businesses say look if this deal doesn't get cut if big reforms aren't made, tax hikes are coming we have to pay them. regulations from the health bill, from the epa frrk, from e dodd frank financial regulation. and since they don't know what is coming they are not

two more zero "washington journal on," bill kristol will be here to talk about politics and we'll talkay and lesbian victory fund and we will talk about the drive to elect openly gay officials and finally we will talk about some of the agriculture spending including food aid, food stamps and what is happening in the house. thank you for being with us. happy father's day. enjoy the rest of your sunday. ♪. ♪. ♪ >> this morning on c-span, newsmakers is live with philadelphia mayor michael nutter, a democrat and republican oklahoma city governor on the conference of governors meeting this week. after that, a house hearing on a gun smuggling sting operation that later, defense secretary gates at a senate hearing on the president's 2012 budget request. >> the c-span coverage of the national cable telecommunications association's 2011 cable show continues today at 5:15 p.m. eastern. the fcc chairman julia's jan schakowsky is interviewed by the former sec chairman michael palle who has thencta. at 6:30, a look ahead to next year's presidential election with a former obama presidential adviser

they have been articulated by the administration and ironically by conservative advocates like bill kristol. we are in libya because we are averting a probable massacre against civilians. we are in libya because our nato partners need our help. refusal to act there would send a message to our nato allies who are putting their forces on the line in afghanistan that we are not a dependable partner. we are in libya because our friends struggling for democracy in the middle east are watching events there. if we fail to act or worse seek withdrawal today, what will you be saying to the activist in tunisia and egypt whose fragile movements for democracy could be stifled by the destabilizing effect of a gaddafi-led government remaining in power. and what message would we be sending to assad and the other dictators and enemies about our staying power? . a gaddafi who is unleashed to commit acts of terrorism around the world will do so with unspeakable barbarity. we know his willingness to use terror, especially now he has nothing to lose. i cannot think of a more compelling rationale. i object that

, they have been articulated by the admistration and ironically by conservative advocates like bill kristol. we are in libya because we are averting a probable massacre against civilians. we are in libya because our nato partners need our help. refusal to act there would send a message to our nato allies who are putting their forces on the line in afghanistan that we are not a dependable partner. we are in libya because o friends struggling for democracy in the middle east are watching events there. if we fail to act or worse seek withdrawal today, what will you be saying to the activist in tunisia and egypt whose fragile movements for democracy could be stifled by the destabilizing effect of a gaddafi-led government remaining in power. and what message would we be sending to assad and the other diators and enemies about our staying power? . a gaddafi who is unleashed to commit acts of terrorism around the world will do so with unspeakable barbarity. we know his willingness to use terror, especially now he has nothing to lose. i cannot think of a more compelling rationale. i object that the