his counterpart, david brown and paul, who heads up the backbone of the office, felony trials. mark smith could care less. >> i know my kid, and that's wrong of them to hold him 12 months, you know. >> what do you think should happen? >> i think he should be compensated for time he's been locked up for nothing. >> reporter: his 16-year-old son was released after the judge ruled the police violated his right to remain silent. >> now his reputation is united, he, ruined. >> the judge agrees elvis had limited involvement. >> he made the right decision to separate himself from the event and left the scene. >> it's up to the new d.a. too decide who will be prosecute. >> i don't know. he didn't have a decision he could tell me. >>> it was an overflow crowd of mourners who paid respect to a bay area soldier killed in afghanistan. the funeral was held at st. gregories church. the soldier's body arrived in california yesterday, about a week after a suicide bombing. he was in the bay area two months ago celebrating his 21st derth, birthday. >>> the oakland city council voted to proceed w

his counterpart in west contra costa county, david brown and paul is a coria, who heads up the backbone of the office, felony trials. but mark smith could careless. >> i know my kid, you know, and that's wrong of them to hold him 12 months. >> what do you think should happen? >> i think he should be compensated for the time that he's been locked up for nothing. >> reporter: his 16-year-old son cody smith has been released after the judge ruled richmond police violated his right to remain silent in gang rape investigation. >> now his reputation is ruined. >> reporter: the june agreed that elvis terentez had limited involvement. >> he made the right decision to separate himself from the event, to leave her alone, and he left the scene. >> reporter: now up to the new da to decide who will be prosecuted; but with key prosecutors demoted -- >> i don't know. >> he didn't have a decision he could tell me. >> reporter: in martinez, robert lyle, cbs5. >>> and, again, the judge decided five of the six defendants should be tried on charges that could lead to life in prison. a sixth suspect faces a

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bruce nine, responsible for misdemeanor trials, his counterpart in west contra costa county david brown paul sea core ya who heads up the so-called bad bone of the offers. but mark smith could careless. >> i know my kid you know, and that's wrong of them to hold him 12 months, you know. >> what do you think should happen? >> i think he should be compensated for the time that he has been locked up for nothing. >> reporter: his 16-year-old son cody smith has been released after the judge ruled richmond police violated his right to remain silent in the gang rape investigation. >> now his reputation is ruined and he is not going to be able to go to school around here. >> reporter: the judge also agreed 23-year-old elvis stolen texas had not to go do. >> he made the right decision to separate himself from the scene and he did leave. >> reporter: with key prosecutors demoted. >> how much does it take? >> he didn't have a decision he could tell me. >> in martinez robert liles, cbs5. >>> animal control officers have managed to catch up to one of those pit bulls suspected of viciously attacking

more now from david curley. >> mr. brown of massachusetts. >> reporter: democrats brought two tax proposals on the near, to force the republicans to say no to continuing tax breaks for the majority of americans, in order to protect tax breaks for the wealthy. first, a proposal to make tax breaks for those making less than $200,000 permanent, failed. and then making up to $1 million, also failed. >> the motion is not agreed to. >> no republicans voted for either measure and were joined by a few democrats. the votes each bill did receive would have been enough to pass under the old rules about with republicans threatening a filibuster, no such luck today. >> this saturday session is a total waste of the american people's time. >> i'm very disappointed the senate did not pass legislation that already passed the house of representatives. >> the president promised to redouble his efforts to make a compromise with -- republicans. >> with so minute at stake the vote cannot be the end of the discussion. >> the president announced th

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brown: and to the analysis of dionne and gerson. that's "washington post" columnists e.j. dionne and michael gerson. mark shields and david brooks are off tonight. welcome to you gentlemen. >> thank you. >> brown: and happy new year. >> happy new year. >> brown: so it is the end of the year, so we're a hawed to think big. not just the week. what defines, what defines this year in politics? >> i don't know, i think it was a year of impatience. the american public -- >> impatience? >> yes, the american public was impatient with the democratic congress that seemed to be, you know, be on every issue except the ones they were concerned about. impatient with a president that didn't seem either as inspiring or effective as he seemed two years ago. impatient with an economy that didn't kick into gear, you know. and i think it was evidenced in the election cycle but americans want results. and that's really a warning to republicans and to democrats. kind of moving forward into the next year. >> were they right to be impatient? >> i think so. you know, i think that they were, it was not just a-- an undifferentiated impatience with

greg brown and honeywell c.e.o. david cote. >> ifill: and we track the progress on congressional action to extend tax cuts. first, kwame holman reports on the its lopsided senate passage today. >> lehrer: and judy woodruff gets the views of two house members on changing the estate tax. >> ifill: margaret warner interviews elizabeth bumiller of the "new york times" about new intelligence reports on the afghanistan war. >> lehrer: and jeffrey brown profiles the unexpected partnership of a city and a leading dance company.çç hari sreenivasan almost three years ago, renown choreographer tray mcintire surprised a lot of people in the dance world by making boise, idaho, the home of his new company. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> well, the best companies are driven by new ideas. >> our history depends on new ideas. we spend billions on advanced technologies. >> it's all about investing in the future. >> we can find new energy-- more cleaner, safe

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of promises that it was a labor party manifesto commitment by tony blair then gordon brown of course and then david cameron famously in oppositions gave a cast iron guarantee that he would have a referendum on the subject so once i realized it was vance i thought yeah hold on this is wrong and i do believe we've been denied our democratic right so that's why i'm involved in the you referendum company it would be costly to implementing a referendum on being in e.u. i mean the u.k. is already a member of the european union isn't it better just to let sleeping dogs lie yes he would be costly but it's costly to be in it it's costing the british taxpayer forty eight million pound a day to be in the e.u. we've just given the island another seven billion pounds of our money saw another four hundred fifty million pounds in the budget increase it's going to be even more than that so it's costly already and anyway i'm not saying vote to get out what i'm saying is let's have the discussion you know on the b.b.c. and on programs where there is you know the pros and cons of europe so that the british public can

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david curly reports from washington. >> mr. brownf massachusetts. >> democrats brought two tax cut proposals to the floor not expecting them to win but they did expect them to say no in order to protect tax breaks for the wealthy. first a proposal to make tax breaks for those making less than $200,000 permanent failed. and then giving a break to anyone making up to a million dollars also failed. >> the motion is not agreed to. >> no republicans voted for either measure and they were joined by democrats. the 53 votes each bill did east would have been you enough under old senate rules to pass. >> this saturday session is a total waste of the american people's time. >> president obama reacted quickly. >> i am very disappointed that the senate did not pass legislation that had already passed the house of representatives to make middle class tax cuts permanent. >> the president promised to redouble his effort to reach a compromise with republicans in the coming days. the president did have some good news for the economy announcing the co

david cameron was very keen to have them because he was pretty certain he could outdebate gordon brown in the elections. others judge whether he was right or wrong. and he completely, in my view, underestimated the appeal of the liberals who was able to say, well, you two keep arguing about it but the reality is something else usually. and so the first time the liberal man was the outstanding winner of that debate and the polls went up. by the second one they got a better way of handling him and they got it right. but it was quite interesting. >> our audience had the opportunity to watch all three of those debates and was fairly impressed by the pace of them compared to ours, very fast-paced. let me show you another clip. you brought up the bbc and mrs. thatcher. here's another moment from 88. >> television is part state and part private. we have a dual system that is the bbc which is done under the act of the parliament. they've got a charter, and they collect the proceeds of the license fee. every television owner in this country pays about what is it, it would be about $100 a year,

salute him for it. >> let's show we're doing something but scott brown is already on the record. >> that's good. this ties into what david was saying about the fact that secretary gates and others are not going to do this overnight. during a hearing, a very important hearing a couple of weeks ago, senator brown got assurances that he would not implement this until he was absolutely sure that they are worried about is taken care of. it's important to know that when the president signs this, it could be some time. >> as long as they are activating their grass roots on policy issues, this ties into it. >> just a fire drill? >> absolutely. even when you look at histories and in '64, they say we trust your word john f. kennedy, lbj, we're not going to back off the pressure until we actually see it get done. >> this presidencies himself, this one will express their opinion and lee stand above it all and bring them together at the end to work it all out. powerful intellectual ability. but that's not leadership. i think that's sometimes why you see his base disappointed saying, you should be out there on this issue and other iss

david curly reports from washington. >> mr. browntax cuts to the senate floor neither expecting either to win but they forced republicans to say no for continued tax breaks to a vast majority of americans in order to cut tax breaks to the wealthy. and then given a break to anyone making up to a million dollars also failed. >> the motion is not agreed to. >> no republicans voted for either measure and they were joined by democrats. the 53 votes each bill did receive would have been enough under the old senate rules to pass but with republicans threatening a filibuster no such luck for democrats today. >> this saturday session is a total waste of the american people's time. >> president obama reacted quickly. >> i am very disappointed that the senate did not pass legislation that had already passed the house of representatives to make middle class tax cuts permanent. >> the president promised to redouble his effort to reach a compromise with republicans in the coming days. >> with so much at stake, today's vote cannot be the end of the

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