let's cheer brown on. >> ♪ go brown, go brown ♪ go brown, go brown ♪ go brown, go brown ♪ go brown, goo blood. i'm not doing that. >> ♪ go brown, go brown ♪ go brown, go brown ♪ go brown, go brown >> uh, now what? >> uh, one pint. >> get him up. >> get your hands out of my pockets. no, madea, i don't want you to kiss me. no! >> mr. brown. >> no, don't kiss me. please. aah! >> mr. brown. >> cora. cora, is that you? >> yes. >> ooh, i just so -- i'm so disney. i just felt like i died and went to heaven. >> hello, brown. >> ah, who left the gate open? >> oh, shut up before i take another pint of blood out of you. >> cora, how much did they take, cora? felt like they cut off my arm. help me. >> okay. all right. here you go. here you are, mr. brown. >> what's this? >> that's the results from the dna test. sasha ran the test when you passed out. >> oh. cora, am i your daddy? >> mr. brown... >> cora, don't tell me. i don't wanna know! if i'm not your daddy, who's gonna love me? who's gonna love me like you? >> mr. brown! >> nobody. >> i'll always love you. you'll always be my daddy. >> well, c

in concerts throughout the country. ♪ take a train and go back home ♪ >> brown: >> brown: online youon with audra mcdonald, where she discusses the stamina required to play "bess," and how hard it was to "leave her" at the theater. >> ifill: again, the major developments of the day. the u.s. supreme court struck down a key provision of the voting rights act, effectively blocking enforcement of the landmark civil rights measure. president obama announced executive action to force reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, especially from coal- fired power plants. and russian president putin rejected u.s. appeals to hand over edward snowden, the man who leaked news of secret surveillance programs. he apparently remained at a moscow airport. >> brown: also online today, journalists and members of congress come to blows, all for a good cause. hari sreenivasan has more. >> sreenivasan: the annual congressional women's softball game pits members of the d.c. press corps against members of congress, and playing right field for the "bad news babes" is newshour's own christina bellantoni. watch a

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. >> brown: i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, we examine the report from federal reserve economists finding the average household has regained less than half its wealth since 2007. >> woodruff: then we debate what's to be done about student loans as president obama pressed congress again today to prevent a doubling of some key interest rates july 1. >> brown: we get two stories on syria's civil war and its impact on the wider middle east. margaret warner is on the ground in beirut and spoke with the leader of the free syrian army. >> he said "i cannot understand why our friend in the west don't help us when they see how much the iranians and the russians are doing for assad's forces." >> woodruff: and ray juarez looks at the plight of hundreds of thousands of syrian refugees who have pored into neighboring jordan. >> brown: plus mark shields and david brooks onl analyze the week's news. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> i want to make things more secure. >> i want to treat more dogs.

i'm judy woodruff. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight, now that u.s. intelligence believes assad's government has used chemical weapons, we debate the american response with two former foreign policy advisers: zbigniew brzezinski and vali nasr. >> woodruff: then, ray suarez gets the latest on detroit's dire financial situation, after the city's emergency manager said it will default on $2.5 billion of debt. >> brown: six months after the tragic shootings in newtown, margaret warner updates efforts to push for gun control legislation. >> woodruff: mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. >> brown: and we wrap up our week of stories on food security. tonight, the demand for dairy and what that means for california farmers. >> many people in the industry believe we make too much milk. my view is we don't make enough milk here in california. if you take a global view of the international dairy market, there's actually a shortage of milk around the world. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newsh

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good evening, i'm jeffrey brown. >> warner: and i'm margaret warner. on the "newshour" tonight, we examine what did and didn't make it into the final senate bill and the challenge ahead as the fight over immigration shifts to the house. >> brown: then, president obama kicks off a six-day swing through africa. we discuss the past, present and future of the u.s. presence on the continent. >> warner: they're young, they're talented, but the new generation of classical performers are struggling to find work. paul solman reports on how hard economic times haven't deterred some starving artists. >> we don't go into music for the money. we go into music because it's part of our soul. it's part of who we are. it's what we have to do. >> brown: we move ahead to the new battlegrounds in the fight over same-sex marriage on the heels of yesterday's landmark rulings from the supreme court. >> warner: and ray suarez looks at the new federal rules, aimed at making meals and snacks offered in schools healthier. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour."

good evening, i'm jeffrey brown. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the "newshour" tonight, we get the latest on the fire outside colorado springs which continues to burn out of control. >> brown: then, the supreme court rules unanimously an isolated human gene may not be patented. we examine what the decision means for the future of medical research. >> woodruff: our series on food security goes to india, where farmers are looking to the past for better ways to cope with changes in the climate down the road. >> brown: ray suarez gauges attitudes in the u.s. toward gays and lesbians on the heels of a new poll pointing to increasing acceptance. >> woodruff: spencer michels reports on how california is preparing for a major decision on same-sex marriage. >> brown: and we close with a conversation with author walter mosley about his famous fictional detective, "easy rawlins", and more. that's all ahead on tonight's

. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight, we examine the action on this last day of the term with analysis from marcia coyle, plus reaction to the much-awaited decisions. >> ifill: then, ray suarez reports on a resilient fungus being spread by the hot, dry, dusty winds of the mojave desert and causing serious infections. >> i thought i was dying. that first weekend, i thought, i mean, i thought for sure. i've never been this sick in my life. >> brown: we recap a dramatic night in the texas state senate, where a marathon filibuster and chanting activists foiled a last-minute push to pass new restrictions on abortions. >> ifill: and margaret warner updates the mounting tensions in egypt, as president mohammed morsi addresses his nation and the opposition plans large scale protests. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> supported by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant a

>> governor brown is the stingy guy in the room. he said we just came through a decade of terrible budget deficits. billions of dollars that we had to cut every single year. let's be really careful with this and conservative in the amount of taxes we will get and take the extra money and let's save it. >> what are the lawmakers saying? >> they are saying, we have cut and cut and cut. now we have a lot of democratic votes here. let's restore funding for schools. let's restore funding for public services and let's give more money to the corps that are keeping their funding level. we are about $2 billion apart here. if you go back over the last two years, that's nothing. there is still a lot of differences hashed out in the next few weeks. >> they will reconcile or trying to reconcile because they need to pass a budget by june 15th. does governor brown have the upper hand in this? he is doing phenomenally well in public opinion polls. he is being referred to as the only adult in the room when problems need to be fixed. does he have the

the other way now comes dustin brown. brown with a shot here that goes over top of the glove. williams. now brown again. ends up around the boards. regehr for the left point. dustin brown tried to go back to kopitar. kicked out in front of the chicago goal and toews starts it back the other way. regehr back to play it. hands it off. jumps over the stick of kopitar. reaches ahead to get it to brown. sends it in deep. hjalmarsson pulls a helmet off. chipped ahead for sharp. but blocked on the way through and picked up now. here's lewis and an l.a. player falls down that was going to the net. oduya starts it back the other way. lifted in to the los angeles zone. sharp's going to get there. rod value. rozsival off for sharp. tried to go back there for

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captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> brown: the u.s. government has secretly collected a massive log of phone records from millions of americans, part of an ongoing counter-terrorism effort. good evening, i'm jeffrey brown. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the "newshour" tonight, we get two views of the national security agency's phone tracking program, which has sparked a debate over privacy versus security threats. >> brown: then, margaret warner has another on-the-ground report from beirut, on the increased role of lebanon's hezbollah in the syrian civil war. >> woodruff: as congress considers cutting the food stamp program, we debate the potential impact on the roughly 46 million americans who receive assistance from it. >> brown: paul solman has the second of two takes on policy- making in times of economic crisis. tonight, he talks to nobel- prize-winning economist paul krugman. >> it's all very easy now, now that it turned out that we did not have a collapse in the auto industry to say, oh well everything would have been fi

no, no. >> come on, uncle brown.ta help me. >> no. >> look, i'll get you that new polyester steamer you want. >> the one with the kung fu grip on it? that let out the steam that just -- oh. oh, yes. yes. count me in. dinner for two. >> all right. >> okay, i'm gonna stop by whitmore's wings on m.l.k. >> whitmore's? the health department shut them down. >> oh, that was last month. they back open frying chicken now. it's whitmore's chicken and suits. yeah, you can get a chicken breast and a double breast all at the same place. >> whoa. why don't we go to the italian place that we love so much up in buckhead? >> oh, you're talking about oay, oay boujay. >> oui, oui bougie. >> oh, sí, seÑor. [ doorbell rings ] >> joaquin...why didn't you get the door? >> why should i? you're closer. >> hey, christopher. what are you doing here? >> you asked me to come over. >> oh. yeah. >> so you wanna go over some trigonometry? >> [ laughs ] she can't even spell that. >> ha. whatever. t-h-a-t. >> it's gonna get really bad when your looks

i'm margaret warner. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown."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 has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> 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. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> rose: welcome to the program. we begin with a look at one of the most important events in the art world. we talk about the venice biennale. >> it's a form of perceptual jim fast i cans in which we practice to understand what we don't understand and that's what i love about art and what i think would encourage people to become familiar with art. not to go

. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, we get analysis from marcia coyle on that and other rulings today, plus a debate about what the high court's limited decision on affirmative action means for the future. >> ifill: then, n.s.a. leaker edward snowden remains on the run. from hong kong to moscow, to who knows where next, margaret warner looks at how the u.s. is trying to track him down. >> brown: ray suarez has our coverage of opening statements in the trial of george zimmerman, charged with second- degree murder in the shooting death of florida teenager trayvon martin. >> ifill: and judy woodruff talks to two authors who are tracking the shift of power from washington, d.c., to the cities and states, launching a "metropolitan revolution." i think when you have coalitions of mayors, civic leaders, business leaders all coming together and showing that change can really happen on the ground, that is a powerful example for washington. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major fundin