senator brown, good to see you. i will start by saying i think senator brown is a nice guy.is race is about is about the issues. it is not when someone says a few good things some of the time, but what someone says all of the time. senator brown wants to raise an issue about my character. i will lay it out there. when i was going up, these are the stories i knew about my heritage. my mother and my father and my aunts and my uncles -- i believed them. i did know this about my parents. the mother and dad loved each other very much. it wanted to get married. my father's family said no. my mother was part delaware and part cherokee. that was a good part of the separation in our family. i never used it for getting into college. i never used it for getting into law school. people who hired me for my jobs all made clear they did not know about it until long after i was hired. it is out there with the story is. what i want this race to be about is the issues, not about my family, but about families across the commonwealth of massachusetts. >> thank you. rebuttal? >> i know you are a

. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, we debate the candidates' policy prescriptions, and the impact of the new numbers on any bounce for democrats after their convention. >> woodruff: ray suarez examines the pakistan-based insurgents known as the haqqani network, designated a terrorist group by the state department. >> brown: what will it take to convince voters still on the fence? margaret warner talked to a group of undecided virginians who watched the president's speech last night. >> i would have liked a lot more optimism, a lot more energy about moving forward. >> it didn't change my mind. it didn't change my opinion. it didn't offer anything that i didn't really know before. >> woodruff: back from two weeks of political conventions are mark shields and david brooks. >> brown: and who's calling the penalties and signaling the touchdowns? the football season begins with replacement referees. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been pr

scott brown won in 2010.did that by winning central part of the state and northeastern part of the state, boston is totally democratic except for south bob where the white unionized workers live. those people supported scott brown. the mayor of boston has been endorsed elizabeth warren and says he will send his political machine into south boston. and the head of the afl/cio has been pleading for them not to vote against elizabeth warren. that is where the battleground. >> paul: we have to take one more break. more break. when we come back hits an [ female announcer ] need help keeping your digestive balance? try the #1 gastroenterologist recommended probiotic. align. align naturally helps maintain digestive balance. ♪ ooh, baby, can i do for you today? ♪ try align today. >>. >> paul: for hits and misses of the week. >> here a hit to the n.f.l. and referees for striking a reasonable labor deal this week. n.f.l. got a chance to move to 401-k plan and got more flex wnilt hiring. referees got a pay increase. >>

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good evening, i'm jeffrey brown. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the "newshour" tonight, we get two views of benjamin netanyahu's speech in which he warned that tehran could be capable of making an atomic weapon next year. >> brown: then, was the attack on the u.s. mission in libya the work of al qaeda? we take a look. >> woodruff: from our american graduate series, ray suarez reports on growing pains for north dakota schools brought on by the oil boom. >> i always make it very clear to any perspective teachers of what they are really getting themselves into. i tell them this is the new wild west. >> brown: on the "daily download," we examine how the candidates are using video games to push early voting. >> woodruff: and regular pro referees are back on the football field tonight after three weeks of questionable calls by replacements. we talk to npr's mike pesca about the deal struck with the nfl. >> brown: that's all ahead. on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. b

of the economy. >> brown says you're a threat to free enterprise. >> i truly do believe scott brown will say all kinds of things but the reality is what i want is a level playing field where everybody gets a chance to compete. i believe in markets. i love markets. but markets work only when there's a level playing field and only when there's transparency about those transactions. >> the adds on the tv says you're trying to out middle class the other guy. how do you win that fight. >> this is what i've been working on for the last 20 years. washington doesn't get it. the army of lobbyist and the army of lawyers i reached a point where i couldn't stand it any more and i through myself into this fight. >> after a high profile speech at the democratic national convention she's now leading in most poles and pushing her middle class message. >> massachusetts. >> the republicans have made it clear. you cut taxes for the richest slice at the top, and you let everybody else pick up the ticket. >> but brown's every man appeal will make him hard to beat he has a 55 percent approval rate. >> the rep

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now scott brown is a very good campaigner. interestingly, i have spoken with republican professionals from all different points on the ideological number line in terms of how conservative they are as republicans and they all describe scott brown as one of the most talented republican campaigners they have ever seen, ever. until this month, he had been running mostly ahead in the massachusetts polls against his democratic challenge elizabeth warren. now he's slipping behind. in four of the five most recent polls in the senate race, elizabeth warren is now beating scott brown. we got their first debate last week. and scott brown decided what he was going to make that debate about, what he was going to bring up unprompted repeatedly, what he's decided to make his campaign mostly about now is his judgment on elizabeth warren's racial heritage, her family heritage, her race. >> professor warren claimed that she was a native american, a person of color. as you can see, she's not. that being said, she checked the box and she had an o

brown had his man beat. michael huff on the outroute that ball was thrown about five yards to the outside. >> ian: 33 pass attempts, no sacks. for oakland. and clean uniform for number seven. third and long for the stoolers. first possession, second half. they have more than doubled oakland's yardage total. feeling some pressure, roethlisberger on the road to mike wallace for a first down. roethlisberger took a shot. and limping as he grabs at that left leg. >> dan: philip wheeler with the hit on roethlisberger. that should be a penalty, you cannot do that to the quarterback. you cannot go low on the quarterback like that. wheeler gets away with it. that's definitely illegal. >> ian: 22 yard hook up to wallace. new set of downs for pittsburgh just across the 35. a hand off, keeps the legs churning as he crosses the 40 yard line. mcclain and bryant combine on the stop. >> dan: go back to that hit on roethlisberger. beecham is 68 he's going to push wheeler, wheeler continues to crawl then hits roethlisberger b

scott brown won in 2010.e did that by winning central part of the state and northeastern part of the state, boston is totally democratic except for south bob where the white unionized workers live. those people supported scott brown. the mayor of boston has been endorsed elizabeth warren and says he will send his political machine into south boston. and the head of the afl/cio has been pleading for them not to vote against elizabeth warren. that is where the battleground. >> paul: we have to take one more break. when we come back hits and misses of the week. we're not in london, are we? no. why? apparently my debit card is. what? i know. don't worry, we have cancelled your old card. great. thank you. in addition to us monitoring your accounts for unusual activity, you could also set up free account alerts. okay. [ female announcer ] at wells fargo we're working around the clock to help protect your money and financial information. here's your temporary card. welcome back. how was london? [ female announcer ]

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and senator brown last fall voted against three jobs bills in a row.bs bills that would have put 22,000 people -- supported 22,000 jobs here in the commonwealth of massachusetts, a jobs bill that would have prevented layoffs of teachers, firefighters and police officers. >> three jobs bills she refers to with all due respect would have raised your taxes $450 billion. i'm not going to raise taxes. i'm going to protect the pocketbooks and wallets of everybody listening. if you want someone who's going to spend your tax dollars, give it to professor warren. she'll spend them. >> senator has voted to let taxes go up on hardworking families. he has said he will defend the top 2% and top 3% so that they don't have to go back to the tax rates of the clinton years and he will hold the other 98% of families hostage. >> that was republican senator scott brown of massachusetts and elizabeth warren, his democratic challenger, tonight, who he referred to over and over and over and over and over again as professor as if this is gilligan's island. joining us now for

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. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, we wrap up the day's ceremonies at the world trade center site, the pentagon, and shanksville, pennsylvania. >> ifill: then, as striking teachers stay away from chicago classrooms for a second day, we assess rising tensions between unions and financially strapped school systems. >> brown: what are the competing claims of the presidential campaigns on health care reform? paul solman offers a comparison. there is a lot of evidence that the health care in general is either misuse,ed, overused and underused for treatments. getting the efficiency in the health care sector is the key. >> the way the republicans have set it up, it will actually just shift the costs on to the beneficiaries themselves. >> ifill: margaret warner examines a new war of words exchanged by the u.s. and israel as prime minister netanyahu calls for a tougher stand on iran's nuclear program. >> brown: and we explore why the opening of the september 11 museum has been delayed for another year a

i'm jeffrey brown. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, we have new details about the killing of the u.s. ambassador in bengazi and the film that fueled the anger there and elsewhere. >> brown: plus, we get perspective on the middle east nearly two years after the arab spring uprisings. is it now a more dangerous place? >> woodruff: then, as the federal reserve unleashes a new program to encourage job creation, we assess the potential impact on consumers and the u.s. economy. >> brown: fred de sam lazaro reports on a helping hand for low-income american entrepreneurs, inspired by loans offered in the developing world. >> i used it to purchase about 30 handmade senegalese drums. >> we used the money to fix the store. >> we used the microgrant dollars for, at the time, was to... more signage. >> woodruff: and on the daily download, margaret warner examines how the presidential campaigns are using social media to amplify their messages. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newsho

scott brown described elizabeth warren yesterday as offensive. she is the one that's offensive here, according to scott brown. these are his staffers. senate staffers. we pay their salary. today the chief of the cherokee nation put out this statement. "the cherokee nation is disappointed in and denounces the disrespectful actions of staffers and supporters of massachusetts senator scott brown. the conduct of these individuals goes far beyond what is appropriate and proper in political discourse. the use of stereotypical war whoop chants and tomahawk chops are offensive and downright racist. the individuals involved in this unfortunate incident are high-ranking staffers in both the senate office and the brown campaign. a campaign that would allow and condone such offensive and racist behavior must be called to task for their actions. i will not be silent when individuals mock and insult our people and our great nation. we need individuals in the united states senate who respect native americans and have an understanding of tribal issues. for that

. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, we assess what's fueling the anger in the muslim world, and what can be done to tamp it down. >> woodruff: then, ray suarez examines the move to end a rite of passage on some college campuses that's turned dangerous and sometimes lethal. >> today we saw students that were a part of it and that were excited about it, that were standing up saying i commit to end hate. >> brown: we go behind the frontlines with the rebels in syria to a town that's turned into a vicious battleground, its people ravaged by war. >> a year ago none of these men had ever carried a gun or a bomb. today they're making them. >> woodruff: we update the presidential race as mitt romney releases his 2011 income taxes, showing he paid at a rate of 14%. >> brown: and mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine

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