captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> brown: good evening. i'm jeffrey brown. president obama said today the u.s. won't miss a beat in the afghan war effort after the ouster of commanding general stanley mcchrystal. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the "newshour" tonight: afghan and other allies embraced mcchrystal's replacement, general david petraeus, and the senate set confirmation hearings for tuesday. we get three views on what will be different with petraeus in charge. >> brown: then, marcia coyle of the "national law journal" walks us through today's supreme court rulings narrowing the scope of a law used to convict prominent white-collar criminals. >> woodruff: we tell the tale of the longest match in tennis history, finally won by american john isner at wimbledon after 11 hours of play over three days. >> brown: paul solman has a very different kind of sports story: basketball star lebron james' economic impact on the city of cleveland. >> no one really knew where cleveland was. maybe is it close to new york? is it close to chicago? now lebron ja

. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, a new law would establish regulation aimed at preventing another wall street meltdown. >> woodruff: then we explore why senate republicans blocked the extension of jobless benefits. >> brown: betty ann bowser looks at the mental health struggles for crisis-weary citizens of the gulf the people who live in southern louisiana are trying to work their way through another disaster but this time the psychiatric consequences may be more long lasting. >> woodruff: mark shields and david brooks offer their weekly analysis. >> brown: and margaret warner reports on world cup fever in bra expwril looks ahead to the report she's preparing on the impact of the gulf oil daft disaster on brazil's offshore drill plans. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. chevron. this is the power of human energy. and the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these

. >> brown: i'm geoffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, judy woodruff gets the latest on today's court appearance and looks at efforts by the u.s., afghanistan and pakistan to fight terrorism and step up negotiations with the taliban. >> ifill: >> ifill: then, we examine today's supreme court ruling upholding a law banning aid to terror groups, with marcia coyle of the "national law journal." >> brown:@- e talk to two reporters about the investigation about what went wrong before the well exploded. >> ifill: paul solmon reports on small businesses still caught in a credit crunch. >> i don't think you can walk into a bank and get any type of money for an i.d. anymore. you have to be able to cash flow it within a short amount of time and show a return on it otherwise it will be tough. >> brown: we update the world cup on and off the field as a scandal grips the french team. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> chevron. this is the power of human

. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, with hundreds of thousands of oily patches in the gulf, and tar balls on the shore, we look at cleanup efforts likely to stretch into the fall and beyond. >> ifill: then, as two new jersey men are accused of plotting violence with suspected terrorists in somalia, we look at home-grown conspiracy. >> this is a very real danger. it's one of the department of justice and our law enforcement partners take very seriously. >> brown: ray suarez gets a mostly "good news" update about cancer treatments, unveiled at a meeting of specialists in chicago. >> ifill: fred de sam lazaro reports on a housing program in kenya, helping the very poor escape nairobi's slums. >> to houses like that, that are cheerful and airy with bathrooms. to me it was almost a sign of you just got to keep going. >> brown: and judy woodruff previews tomorrow's coast-to- coast primary contests with amy walter of "hotline" and dan balz of the "washington post." >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight

. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, it was a 5-4 vote, with the court deciding that chicago's law aimed at curbing gun violence was unconstitutional. marcia coyle of the "national law journal" fills in the details, and we get two views of the ruling. >> ifill: then, we turn to the future of the supreme court, as senate confirmation hearings begin for nominee elena kagan. >> i will do my best to consider every case impartially, modestly, with commitment to principle and in accordance with law. >> brown: we get the latest on the arrest of ten russians allegedly acting as long-term deep-cover spies in the u.s. >> ifill: and we remember west virginia senator robert byrd, who died today at age 92. >> could i ever imagined that i would become the longest serving member in the history , the great history of the united states congress. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundati

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. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour, damages will reach into the billions. the man in charge of the claims fund said initial payment elizabeth made within 60 days. >> lehrer: then judy woodruff gets an update on the bloodshed in krygyzstan. >> brown: ray suarez looks at the new -- obama administration's pressure on china over their currency. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> this is the engine that connects abundant grain from the american heartland to haran's best selling whole wheat, while keeping 60 billion pounds of carbon out of the atmosphere every year. 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. >> brown: there were some signs of progress today in the battle to contain or st

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> brown: good evening. i'm geoffrey brown. supreme court nominee elena kagan was pressed today by her decision to bar military recruiters at harvard. >> ifill: i'm gwen ifill. on the newshour tonight, day two of the supreme court nominee's confirmation hearings. we have full coverage of the proceedings plus analysis from marcia coyle of the national law journal. >> brown: then interrupts from another confirmation hearing, this one for general david petraeus, the newly named u.s. commander in afghanistan said the u.s. has a long-term commitment to the war. >> it is going to be a number of years before afghan forces can truly handle the security tasks in afghanistan on their own. >> ifill: we examine the fallout from yesterday's arrests of 11 alleged russian spies living undercover in the united states. >> brown: ray suarez talks to film maker carol dysicker. her documentary explains whether afghan army troops are trained and ready. >> a lot of what i saw and came away feeling was not that there was so much something wrong, you

. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight: the churning surf also pushed more oil onto gulf coast beaches. we get an update on the growing storm. >> ifill: then, we have a newsmaker interview with richard holbrooke, the u.s. special representative for afghanistan and pakistan about the firing of general stanley mcchrystal and about the war. >> brown: kwame holman takes us through day three of the confirmation hearing for supreme court nominee elena kagan and judy woodruff gets analysis from marcia coyle of the "national law journal." >> ifill: tom bearden reports from florida on scientists going deep underwater to explore the damage caused by the gushing oil well. >> the whole idea about oil impacting known delicate ecosystems is really a new one. toxicity studies done in the lab do not come close to replicating the impact this might have. >> brown: and poet benjamin saenz talks of living and writing amid the violence of the u.s./mexico border. >> this is the place that really defines me, because it

jerry brown is the candidate to do it. i could not be more proud to be supporting jerry brown. [applause] i could not be more proud to be a democrat and getting california working again. [applause] i have the honor of introducing a man who lini know does not endorse a democrat everyday. he does from time to time. he is a guy who i have known since the 1980's. he has been in law enforcement official here in los angeles county for virtually his entire life. he stood for the idea that real law enforcement is not just about addressing the symptoms of lawlessness. it is about investing in people. whether it has been the issue of gangs or against or prevention or intervention, this is a man who thinks out of the box and who addresses the root causes of crime. he has been one of the more successful law enforcement officials and their city's history. i want you to help me welcome my friend the sheriff of the county of los angeles leroy baca. >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome to club nokia. thank you for taking time from your busy life to share this moment. if there were a time to start

campbell brown announcing she's leaving. the stories about larry king not pulling in the numbers he did before. that's the immediate issue i guess, right? is deal ing with that prime time programming. >> you know, it's interesting. so far this year the networks' prime time ratings are off by 40% which is really dramatic especially compared to that of its competitors. the challenge for cnn was really underscored when campbell brown asked to be released from her contract. she released really a remarkable statement saying plainly not enough people are interested in the show that i'm putting on. i think that kind of summed up the challenge cnn faces. it still has that brand and that identity of the place that people turn to for breaking news. but when that news subsides it doesn't offer the kind of really polarizing opinionated provocative host that you can find on fox news and ms-nbc in prime time. the question they're wrestling with right now internally is what do they do? they are not going to abandon that dedication to, as t

>> brown: this is a funny man. this is a natural story teller. >> of the highest order. >> brown: does that help you put it out there? >> it's fantastic. it's fantastic. i wish i could tell stories as well as i know he did. >> brown: as an actor doing a one-man play like this, you go from being an elderly man to young. you have to put... present what is in essence a 90-minute speech. how do you pull that off on stage? >> well, that's why i'm the actor. (laughing) that's why they call me an actor. we do that. you hear this thing, you know, the one-man show, the one-person show, blah, blah, blah. i have a scene partner. my scene partner is the audience. i get a new scene partner every night. and i have to sort of read the room, you know, and sort of check the temperature of the room all the time to know where or how to take the audience on the journey that i'd like to take them on. >> brown: nobody else on stage to playoff of. >> but someone certainly to play with. and to listen to. >> brown: lawrence fishburn best k

. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight: tony hayward denied he was stonewalling ouse committee and said the company is doing everything possible to contain the spill. we have excerpts of his testimony and the latest from the gulf. >> there is a lot of tension and it's still quite volatile. humanitarian aid is coming tre but it is quite difficult to deliver the aid in appropriate way to the people who are suffering. >> lehrer: we have another in our blueprint america series on infrastructure. miles o'brien reports on dubuque, iowa-- a rustbelt city with big hopes for a green and vibrant future. >> it is a community where you can live, you can go to the grocery store, the drug store, the doctor's office, you can get all over... around that neighborhood and around the city without ever having an automobile. >> brown: and we update europe's debt crisis as governments across the continent announce big spending cuts. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour h

jeffrey brown looks at a dancing phenomenon. >> brown: almost 30 years after appear in "sophisticate ladies" maurice hines is still at it. ♪ if it ain't got that swing ♪ >> brown: at 66, the man who gained fame tapping away with his brother, gregory, remains a marvel-- dancing, creating the choreography, and taking audiences through a review of the life of one america's greatest musician, duke ellington. >> it's the celebration of the greatness and genius of man. he really was quite exceptional as a musician. and as a personality, of course, when we said, "i love you madly, we love you madly," you can't make those things up. you can't make those things up. i'm the happiest i have been on the stage, with the exception of working with my brother. even with injuries, which you do get as a dancer, i can't wait to get on that stage. >> we, love, you, madly. ( applause ) >> brown: and there's added history to this revival being presented by arena stage. it's performed at the historic lincoln theater. ellington got his start in a club in what's now the theater's basement. and which sits in

jeffrey brown has the story. 7 ♪ >> brown: if it's nashville and there's a need to rouse the communityat, better way than music? last night, the capital of country music staged a special benefit concert dubbed, "nashville rising," to aid victims of the floodinging that hit this city and early tennessee in early may. in a 24-hour stretch, beginning may 1, nashville and the surrounding area got drenched in 13 inches of rain, causing the bank of the cumberland river to overflow. more than 30 people died in the region. at least 12,000 homes were damaged or destroyed. parts of downtown nashville were inundated with water. and landmarks, including the grand ole opry, were hit. weeks later, with a benefit concert about to get under way, we found a mix-- continuing loss and worries about the future alongside a steady rebuilding effort and a strong determination to show that nashville is well on its way back. even as the rain was falling, officials with hands on nashville, a local volunteer group, were localizing thousands of people to organize aid and rescue efforts. >> are you the host church

jeffrey brown has the story. >> brown: as the school year comes to an end across the country and withtate budgets facing tens of billions of dollars in shortfalls, cuts in the classroom are looming. education secretary arne duncan has said 100,000 to 300,000 public school employees are at risk of losing their jobs. unions put the number of potential teacher layoffs at 160,000, with the biggest cuts projected to come in states like new york, up to 16,000, and california, as many as 36,000. a year ago, states were confronted with the possibility of making similar cuts but federal stimulus funds helped avoid them. this year, no apparent relief is in sight. the threat of layoffs comes as school systems from coast to coast seek to implement major education reforms, including the often contentious issue of how to weigh teacher experience against teacher performance. >> where's civilization? inside or outside? >> reporter: that includes washington, d.c., a reform effort we've been chronicling for the past few years where just yesterday the teacher's union ratified a new contract. it gives sc

. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on tonight's newshour, the market fall came after news of a disappointing jobs picture in may. we'll look at the numbers and the state of the recovery with economist lisa lynch and market analyst liz-ann saunders. >> woodruff: then, an update on the situation in the gulf of mexico as president obama made his third visit to the region. plus, spencer michels looks at how the oil spill is affecting louisiana's lucrative drilling industry. >> there are thousands of oil production platforms like this in the gulf of mexico. now, there is fear that there won't be any more drilling, and that will affect the economy of the region. >> brown: we get the weekly analysis of mark shields and david brooks. >> woodruff: and paul solman talks to harvard economist ben friedman about the college graduates who still flock to wall street, three years into the financial crisis. >> it's all the more troubling when i think that, after they leave us, so many of them go into activities that are not economicall

>> brown: what about when you're a couple both writing books on happiness? >> i think that elevates the happiness even more. i recommend it to any couple. write different books, noncom petative books about the same subject, and you have guaranteed interesting dinner table conversations for months on end. >> brown: thank you for talking to us. >> thank you so much. thanks for having us. >> thank you. it was a pleasure to be here. >> lehrer: again the major developments-- b.p. treated a robot-guided saw that got stuck. the newshour is always online of course-hari sreenivasan in ow newsroom previews what's there. >> on the oil spill, underwater footage from explorer jean-michel cousteau. we talked to him about his team's dives into the gulf last week. all that and much more is on our web sites. >> ifill: and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm gwen ifill. >> lehrer: and i'm jim lehrer. we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening. thank you, and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> this is the engine that connects zer

geoffrey brown spoke with him earlier today at the studios of sirius-xm radio in washington. >> brownhel cousteau, welcome. >> thank you. >> brown: today government officials confirmed what everyone filled, these large plumes of oil lurking below the sea. what does that mean? what is going on beneath the ocean? >> first of all, what it means is instead of letting the oil go to the surface to recover it , dispersants have been put, chemicals have been put into that oil to keep it below the surface. so now you find that oil pretty much all along the water column or the 5,000 feet of depth. some of it stays on the bottom because of dees dispersants. but a lot of it is kind of in mid water which means it will be affecting the entire water column. >> brown: we all talk now a lot about the world underneath the surface. that's your world. i mean under the sea. what should we know about life, the eco-system? >> well, we need to learn. we need to learn more because we know very little . i know it's a cliche. we know more about the other side of the moon than we know about our own ocean. there'

jeffrey brown has our book conversation. >> brown: in late april, american troops withdrew from the corn gal valley in eastern afghanistan, a six-mile sliver of rock canyon high in the mountains bordering pakistan. for much of the five years americans fought that there, the korengal was controlled by rotating companies of u.s. troops trying to wrest control from the taliban and other insurgents. during 2007/2008, author and journalist sebastian judger took five one... junger took five one month trips there to chronicle the soldiers of battle company that the 173rd air airborne. it's now a book called "war and a documentary film titled to "es reprep poe. s reentrepreneur poe." you've taken a big war and honed in on one group of soldiers. what were you after? >> what i wanted was to understand the sort of universal experience of combat. i had the idea that that doesn't change much for the soldier on the ground war to war, censure troy century. >> brown: wherever you are. >> wherever you are. so i picked one platoon, second platoon of battle company. they were at a very remote out post call

. >> brown: thurgood marshall would go on to become the nation's first black supreme court justice. >> my professional life has been marked by great good fortune. >> reporter: and now one of his former clerks solicitor general elena kagan is president obama's nominee to follow in his footsteps. >> thurgood marshall who did more to promote justice over the course of his legal career than did any lawyer in his lifetime. >> brown: marshal's legacy will surely resurface during the upcoming confirmation hearings. in the meantime theater-goers

he was a political strategist for the scott brown campaign in massachusetts. he was executive director of the massachusetts republican party where he expanded the gop. i want to thank you both for being here. let me start with a softball question. what have you all found is the key or silver bullet to engaging young voters? >> we have to listen to young voters. the candidates to understand the needs and wishes and desires of young of voters3 . young voters are paying more attention to the nuts and bolts details of these campaigns than most of the other voters. you cannot bs them. that is a critical thing. politicians?kc, especially bely politicians, tend to be full of political rhetoric that they live and breed here in washington, d.c. if they use that rhetoric and continued to espouse what the talk is here in d.c., they will perform pretty poorly against a challenger or someone who does a much better job of connecting and understanding the needs and wishes of young voters. understanding and listening to young voters and what they need is really key. >> let m

[applause] failure seems to follow jerry brown everywhere he goes. it is a record of promising much and delivering little, of saying one thing and doing quite another with disastrous results. for jobs, during his last term as governor, california's on employment rate nearly doubled to a then-record 11%. [boos] for spending, while he was governor, state spending went up by 120%. he raised taxes and still left a $1 billion budget deficit. [boos] for education with jerry as mayor, oakland schools deteriorated to the point where the state had to intervene. overall, a record of higher and higher taxes, more and more spending, and near-record unemployment. in other words, a 40-year record of politics as usual. [boos] i say california can do better. [applause] because, while politics is jerry brown's business, my business is creating good new jobs. [applause] it is time for a different style of leadership, a new beginning. not put it, not plumber, not glibness but got. -- a governor with the guts to do the hard work that is required to turn california aroun

supreme court, including brown vs. board of education, and i am sure he told the clerks, here is what i want you to look at. i am the one who is making up my mind on this. here is what i want you to look at. i talked to a lot of people who served as clerks with different justices, both republican or democratic justices across the political spectrum and the clerks tell me the justices normally tell them, look out for certain things. i am particularly interested in such a thing. i am particularly interested -- get me the law that goes to that point. a clerk does what the justice tells him to, but the clerk is not the justice, and the justice in this case is a giant -- the giant of the court, thurgood marshall, he made up his mind of how he was going to vote. justice brennan was another person who spent a great deal of time trying to figure out how he was going to bring both sides of the court together. justice stevens has a reputation of being able to do that. i have no idea what justice stevens or justice brennan told t

senator brown, i think you were flying back to massachusetts. that could 0 not have been very much fun. the first witness is senator john kerry. he's a senior united states senator from massachusetts. he's chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. i've had the privilege of serving with him ever since he came to the senate, and he's a decorated vietnam veteran from his ground breaking work on the iran-contra scandal to his leadership and global efforts to combat aids. senator kerry has distinguished himself as one of our nation's most respected voices on national security and international affairs and chairs the prestigious foreign relations committee. so senator kerry, chairman kerry, we're pleased to have you before our committee today. please go ahead, sir. >> thank you very much, chairman leahy, for those kind words of introduction. ranking member sessions and to all my colleagues on the important judiciary committee at this important moment. members of the committee, mr. chairman, 16 years ago, i had the privilege to introduce step

failure seems to follow jerry brown everywhere he goes.livering little, of saying one thing and doing quite results. for jobs, during jerry brown's last term as governor, california's unemployment rate nearly doubled to a then record 11%. for spending, while jerry was governor, state spending went up by 120%. he raised taxes and still left a $1 billion budget deficit. for education, which carry as mayor, oakland schools deteriorated to the point that the state had to intervene. overall, record of higher and higher taxes, more and more sppnding, and near-record unemployment. in other words, a 40-year record of politics as usual. i say, california can do better. because while politics is jerry brown's business, my business is creatinn good, new jobs. it is time for a different style of leadership, a new beginning. not blitz, glamour, worked -- not glitz or glamour, but guts. a governor who is willing to do the hard work to turn california around. so tonight, i ask all californians, republicans, democrats, independents, asians, african-americ

david brewer and henny brown.brewer and brown deferred to each other, but president harrison said elected brewer first. brown returned to the support at six u.s. circuit judge had given him by recommending jackson it to fill the 1893 vacancy created %+ justice lamar's death. jackson's friendship with benjamin harrison from the senate overcame theer partisan differences. nor, did the republican majority delay jackson'')s confirmation despite the lame duck status of the appointing president. let's turn to 20th-century justice louis brandeis had only been on the court of few months when he became one of several high ranking supporters of clark. president woodrow wwlson named clark to run unsuccessfully for the presidency n 1916. not surprisingly, it is a chief justice william howard taft, the only individual to serve as the head of executive and judicial branches, is among the top two or commanders of nominees to the president. his chief rival in this connest was chief justice warren burger. although most scrawlers a

the 1954 case of brown vs. board of education of topeka, the greaa landmark supreme court case that ended the separate but equal fallacies that our government and laws labored under since plessy b. ferguson. the chief counsel, thurgood marshall, later one of the great justices of our supreme court. the naacp's contributions also have included support for and rallying and lobbying for the %% 1957, 1960 and 1964 civil rights acts, the 1965 voting rights act and the 1968 fair housing act where clarence mitchell led the way with the naacp. and, of course, the court case that the naacp was involved in, loving vs. virginia, that turned over the laws in this nation in 1967. a set of laws that our precursors to other laws that still are in debate in this nation today. but the fight didn't end there, which brings me to my second point. today we're reminded of the naacp's mission, to ensure quality of rights of all persons, eliminate racial hatred and discrimination. it's as important as relevant as it was decades ago. j

meg whitman will face off against state attorney general jerry brown for governor. in south carolina's republican gubernatorial primary, nikki haley received 49% of the vote, just shy of the majority she needed to avoid a runoff later this month. her opponent will be congressman gresham barrett. haley overcame allegations of infidelity by two men in recent weeks which she vehemently denied. she says south carolina voters had had enough. >> we said no to inside deal making and backroom politics. and this last two or three weeks we said no to the dark side of politics. >> woodruff: haley, an indian american, would be the first woman and racial minority to be elected governor of south carolina. and to make sense of last night's results, we are joined once game by amy walter, editor and chief of the hotline, national journal's political daley. ask dan balz, senior political reporter for the "washington post." thank you both for being back with us. a lot to cover. dan, i'm going to start with you. any overriding message out of what happened yesterday? >> well, i think in

jerry brown. former hewlett-packard ceo carly fiorina defeated two republicans -- two other republicans with more political experience. in nevada, tea party candidate -- tea party-backed candidate sharon ankle will face off against senate majority leader harry reid on election day 2010. we will get to all the results during the first hour this morning. we also want to hear from you, how do you read the election results so far during this election cycle. you can start dialing in now. phone number is are on your screen. joining us from hot line is john mercurio, executive editor. he will be with us for the first half hour and then his colleague amy walter will join us for the last half hour of this morning's hour-long segment. john mercurio, let's dig in little deeper. starting with blanche lincoln's win in arkansas. now, what does she face going forward this general election? guest: make no mistake, blanche lincoln is still the most vulnerable senate incumbent up for reelection in 2010. there has n

senator brown, you're recognized. >> thank you. thank you, secretary clinton for everything you are doing. i have a great concern about iran. i find that their nuclear ambitions are more destabilizing. i am wondering, in your negotiations with russia, have you been able to approach that subject with russia? i cannot imagine it would like a nuclear iran to help destabilize the region and potentially export their brand of terrorism, in many instances, around the world in the region. any comment on that? >> thank you, senator. welcome to this committee. >> thank you. >> i think your concerns are well placed. the four of us and many others in the government spent a great deal of our time thinking about iran, how to prevent it from obtaining nuclear weapons. i believe that our close cooperation with russia on negotiating this new start treaty added significantly to our ability to work with them regarding iran. three quick examples. because we developed very good working relationships, despite our disagreements, between our military and