>> brown: yeah.hen i'm getting kind of the crap beat out of me outside in the political spectrum, i'm like, "psh, this is nothing. bring it. let's go. next." >> stahl: scott brown has needed that "bring it on" toughness in washington, where he's showing everyone he's his own man, with a voting record that has his fellow republicans in a dither. >> brown: i look at each and every bill on its merits, regardless of party affiliation. party plays no bearing whatsoever, at all, in any of the votes that i take, period. so to say, "well, the party wanted this." i don't care what the party did. >> stahl: you don't hear that kind of talk every day. while brown votes with the republicans against tax increases, he has broken ranks on other major issues, like a jobs measure, and ending the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. whichever way you vote, you're very likely to tick off the tea party or massachusetts. you're right caught in this horrible vise. >> brown: well, i don't know if i'm ticking off the p

i'm ray suarez. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. we had hoped to bring you betty anne bowser's story about a clinic working to prevent diabetes. our egypt coverage ran longer than expected. we'll air that story soon. for now 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: >> you can't manufacture pride. but pride builds great cars. and you'll find it in the people at toyota all across america. >> okay, listen. somebody has got to get serious. >> i think... >> we need renewable energy. >> ...renewable energy is vital to our planet. >> you hear about alternatives, right? wind, solar, algae. >> i think it's going to work an a big scale. only, i think it's going to be affordable. >> so, where are they? >> it has to work in the real world. at chevron, we're investing millions in solar and biofuel technology to make it work. >> we've got to get on this now. >> right now. >> and by bnsf railway. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting sc

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. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, we talk to white house budget director jack lew and ohio republican senator rob portman about cuts, taxes, and the political battles ahead. >> ifill: then, margaret warner, just back from cairo, helps us look at the role social media and mainstream media played in the egypt uprising. >> brown: and we report on a battle that pits human champions against a machine. our science correspondent took the challenge. >> i'm miles o'brien. i just played jeopardy against a very smart computer. it was great for the computer. i'll tell you about artificial intelligence and the pursuit of language understanding. for machines. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: breathe in. breathe out. as volatile as markets have been lately having the security of a strong financial partner certainly lets you breathe easier. for more than 140 years, pacific life has helped millions of americans build a secure financial f

. >> brown: i did. i did. >> stahl: you were playing with matches? >> brown: i was, yeah. that's the garage i almost burned down. ( laughs ) >> stahl: he seemed to want to show us the low points of his childhood. >> brown: yeah, well, this is... used to be a record store. i stole some records there. ( laughs ) >> stahl: you... this is the record store... >> brown: yeah. >> stahl: ...where you stole the records? >> brown: yeah. well, it was one of them. and then this is... park snow used to be, and this is where i stole the suit. and this is the... used to be the old a&p. >> stahl: you stole food? >> brown: stole food from there, yeah. >> stahl: his crime spree ended when he was caught walking out of this mall with black sabbath records in his overalls and arrested. he was 13. lucky for him, a sympathetic judge let him off. you came perilously close to being a juvenile delinquent. >> brown: yeah.

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. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight, protesters in cairo's central square were enraged after muburak spoke. we get the latest on this dramatic day 17 of the uprising from margaret warner in cairo. >> people were pretty quiet and then suddenly you could see the deflation and then the anger. >> lehrer: we have two egypt analysts to explain what mubarak's speech means. >> brown: and we discuss the situation with former presidential national security advisors zbigniew brzezinski and stephen hadley. >> lehrer: then, republican darrell issa and democrat elijah cummings debate the push to ease government regulation of business. >> we're going to have to do more with the president to really find ways to reduce the size of the burden of government to get people working again. >> i want jobs very badly, but i also want when people go to work, i want to know that they're going to come home because they're working in a safe environment. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for

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captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> brown: good evening. i'm jeffrey brown. bloody battles erupted between pro and anti government factions in the streets of cairo today. >> suarez: and i'm ray suarez. on the "newshour" tonight, we get the latest on the confrontations in the egyptian capital and look at who's behind the clashes. >> brown: then, kwame holman updates the massive storm paralyzing cities from the midwest to the northeast. >> suarez: we examine what's next for states and consumers after four differing court rulings on the new health care law. >> brown: and we talk with charles sennott of "global post" about his interview with general david petraeus on the afghan war effort. >> clearly a lot of this hinges on the ability of afghan forces to do more as we do progressively less, we're not just going to say, "tag you're it, we're out of here." >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> i mean, where would we be without small businesses? >> we need small businesses. >> they're the one

. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, we have the latest on the bloody revolt gripping the north african country. >> ifill: then we look at the death of four americans, hijacked by somali pirates. >> brown: judy woodruff talks to marcia coyle about a supreme court case that began with a jilted wife, and now raises important tenth amendment issues, plus a ruling today that shields vaccine makers from lawsuits. >> ifill: charles sennott of "global post" examines the role of the muslim brotherhood in post-mubarak egypt. >> they call themselves the brothers, and they have decades of experience providing social services to egypt's poor. they became key to holding the revolution's infrastructure together. >> brown: and we go beyond wisconsin to explore the showdown over labor rights and tight budgets, now spreading to other states. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> oil companies have changed my country. >> oil companies can make

let's will come mayer brown. -- welcome mayor brown. >> when mayor newsom telephoned me and asked if i would be available to participate in the effort to make sure that all san franciscans assumed collectively the responsibility to put this institution on sound financial grounds, now and going forward, obviously, i could not turn down that request. i suspect every other san franciscan would do likewise. he told me the city attorney's office would do what would need to be done to make sure that we would have the opportunity to do it. he said there were some people already pledged on the foundation side to be a part of the effort. obviously, it is going to take lots of hard work, but it is, frankly, a joy to be part of maintaining, and hopefully, perpetuating one of the flagship cultural institutions in this city. this city is about culture. this city is about pride in ethnic heritage. this city is about an appreciation of the extraordinary talents of people on the arts side and to have 6000-year-old pieces that you can see no other place in the world come and to have the collection he

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de jerry brown? ---- el deficit.take vo ----- el gobernador pidio a los legisladores "que permitan a los votantes californianos decidir" la direccion en la que nuestro estado debe encaminarse, asi lo dijo. ----brown quiere que haya una eleccion especial en el proximo mes de junio. ---- durante esa votacion, se le preguntaria a los ciudadanos si consienten ... en extender algunos aumentos temporarios en los impuestos ..... take sot "california is facing a crisis that is real and without precedent" .... take vo - cesar ---- california esta padeciendo una crisis fiscal sin precedentes, dijo jerry brown. ---- el estado enfrenta un deficit de 25 mil 400 millones de dolares .... ----- brown solicito .... que los congresistas "dejen de lado sus diferencias" .... por el bien del estado. ----- mas adelante, estaremos analizando este discurso con nuestro analista politico el profesor miguel chacon .... takevo ---y a ella no se le veia desde que perdio las elecciones con el actual gobernador ... si... hablamos de meg whitman...

. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight: we have the latest on the violent crackdown and examine the civil unrest spreading in the arab world. >> lehrer: then, two takes on state budget problems. ray suarez reports on the wisconsin firestorm over taking away collective bargaining rights for public employees. >> brown: and betty ann bowser looks at the move in arizona and elsewhere to cut medicaid funding. >> this state is no different than most of the others. it has a major budget crisis and some of the remedies under consideration by officials here would be painful. >> lehrer: senators saxby chabliss and mark warner discuss their bipartisan approach to addressing the debt crisis. >> brown: plus, from mexico, bill neely of "independent television news" continues his series on the war against violent drug cartels. tonight: the story of one city's new 21-year old chief of police. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> you can't

captioni macneil/lehrer productions >> brown: good evening. i'm jeffrey brown. egypt's military promised today not to fire on peaceful protesters, and organizers of the demonstrations called for a massive turnout tomorrow. >> warner: and i'm margaret warner. on the newshour tonight, we get the latest on the uprising from independent television news correspondents on the scene in cairo and alexandria. >> brown: then kwame holman reports on washington's response to the crisis. >> it is not up to us to determine when the grievances of the egyptian people have been met by the egyptian government. >> warner: we assess the prospects for a peaceful transition to democracy. >> brown: and ray suarez examines how protesters and governments have used communications technology, in egypt and beyond. >> warner: plus, our economics correspondent gets a firsthand look at whether electric cars can go far enough on new and better batteries. >> brown: and we talk with author and essayist roger rosenblatt about the art of writing. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major fundi

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> brown: good evening. i'm jeffrey brown. libyan security forces fired on demonstrators, leaving hundreds dead or wounded as antigovernment protests engulfed the capital, tripoli, for the first time. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, we get the latest on this bloody challenge to moammar gadhafi's 42-year regime. >> brown: then, two budget stories: an update on the "week of rage" over union bargaining rights and benefits in wisconsin. >> woodruff: and we look at the political face-off here in washington after the republican controlled house voted to cut federal spending this year by $61 billion. >> brown: plus, margaret warner explores the problem of sexual harassment and violence against women in egypt, and whether the revolution will change it. >> woodruff: and we have the story of one activist who became a symbol of the young protestors after she took to the cairo streets. >> i told you this day was coming. you didn't believe me. now it's here. i feel as though i've been vindicated. >> brown: that

. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, margaret warner reports from cairo with reaction from people inside and outside the city's central square. >> ifill: and we assess the state of negotiations aimed at ending the uprising. >> brown: then we look at president obama's outreach to corporate america in a speech to the u.s. chamber of commerce. >> but i want to be clear. even as we make america the best place on earth to do business, businesses also have a responsibility to america. >> ifill: judy woodruff talks to actress and playwright anna deveare smith about her one- woman play on facing the end of life. >> i say that it is about the vulnerability of the human body, the resilience of the spirit, the price of care. >> brown: and we examine aol's big buy of the web site the huffington post, with arianna huffington and aol chief tim armstrong. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> breathe in. breathe out. as volatile as markets