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. >> suzanne: good eveng everyone. president obama willell the nation tonight that alth care reforms central to repairing the economy. if it fails, the predent warns yo insurance premiums and out of pocket costs wi skyrocket. health care reform is boggin down in congressand tonight's newsonference is part of an effort to get it back track. but as darren gersreports, the key answered question is still how to control cos. >> reporter: with negotiatns over healtcare reform in intensive care, house decrats like xavr becerra stressed the need to cut costs in a stem everyone agrs is inefficient. >> in a two and a ha trillion dollarystem, you should be able tfind the savin you need to pay for any reform.lth e do repter:ealth care experts do agree on where to find a chunk of those savgs. starting with medicare, whe more efficnt delivery of services cld save more roughly $120 billion a year. reducing the employetax inceive to offer health surance, some $250 billion a yearwould also save money by forcing businesses to ek out mo

. >> suzanne: my guest ts eveng, tricia neuman of t kaiser family undation. paul: big blue is getting a little bigger. i.b.m. today saiit's paying just over a billion dollars r buness analytics software maker s.p.s.s. software. the $50 a share all-ca deal has manyn wall street hoping for a return tthe boom days in e m&a market. but as scott gurvey repos, the jump ideals may be just a case of opportunity knocking. >> reporter: i.b.m. bbles up s.p.s.s. spri swallows virgin mobile. agilent gulps downarian, and that's justwo days of headline m&a activity. from amazon anzappos-- to bristol-mys squibb and medare- mergers and acquitions seem to be breaking out all over wall stre. omas burnett of wall street access says that's a sn of a change in outlook >> corporate boardooms are beginning to seehat we're through the worst ofhe overall economic recsion and that going forwarit looks like we can envisionrowth. it may not be this quart, next quarter or ear in 2010, but going foard we're through the worst and thgs are going to start to get better. >> reporte but if conf

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potential savior will have be encouraged by his dramic arrival in an airplane over th capital sunday eveng. he vowed to continue his efforts to return tois homeland. >> i wanted t land. if the pilot had lded, i would be on e ground and would have faced e military. i'm not afrd. i had no problem, but the piots, once they saw the truck, did not want to land. they were right. they could not maneuver the plane. >> the call on the soldier of nduras to lower their rifle but there is no evidence of disunity in the military and a bstantial proportion of the popution in honduras do n want him as eir president. despite near univers support internationally, he has mor challeng to overcome before being reinstated. in honduras, there was a heavy police and mility presenc over night to force a curfew. the army is al in forcihe airpor authorities a wondering what the president's xt move might be >> it ruled mexico for most of the 20th-century and now it's making a political comeback. the institutional revutionary party has defeated theenter- right natial action pty of the mexicanresident in conessional e

. >> susie: good eveng everyone. what shape is theconomy really in? that what investors were asking today as ey evaluated comments or the weekend from the obama administrationthat it quote "misread" the natios economic problems. commodity ices, like oil, go, copper and wheat tumbled on concerns thu.s. economy is not y recovering. day, the a.f.l.-c.i.o., the nation largest labor group, newed its call for another stimulus packa to boost the econy. erika miller lookst the new debate about smulus. >> repter: many economists are clamoring for more govnment stimulus to help the rovery ga traction. not bob brusca. >> i tnk this is jumping the gun. i think it's notnly jumping e gun, but it's probably something th's unnecessary. and if we think back tthose thriing days when they put that big stimulus ogram togetherlet's remember how much they haggd. les remember all the junk that got int. and let's asourselves, why do we think it would be any diffent this time? reporter: he points out tha so far, only 10% of e $787 llion stimulus package passe in februarhas hi

. >>> good eveng. i'm martisavidge. all this week we've been tang younside the war against the talib with the help of our "worldfocus" parers. as that battle intensifiesn both afghanian and pakistan. tonighte're going to focus on pakistan, where the governme, under pressurerom the united states, has been conducting largscale military operatio against the extremists. thgovernment says its offensive in one ar, the at valley was successful, bu it took aig humanitarian toll, dving some 2 million people from their homes. this week, some ofhose displaced people beg to return to the swatalley, including the capital of the area, mi minga. in tonight'sead focus we want to show you what it was likes they made theiway back. kamal der of al jazeera english was with some of the >> reporter: more andore peple are cominback and by whater means available fblt. some a on acres while others walk alongwith their ivestock, likthis old man who gives a helping hand tois animals. as the waits get longer at some checkpoints, somcomplain they'r

gwen: good eveng. if you ver wondere whether race was the third rail of our time, this wek may have provid the answer. it all started wi a disputed arst and ened with preidential intervention. the plight the henne lewi gates jr the african-american scholar rrested on his ront porchn what some called minderstanding and othe called racia profiling ecame the president's prolem, too, when he said this-- >> idon't know, not aving be there and not seeing all the facts what rolerace play in that. but i thinkit's fair to say, number one, any ofuswould be pretty angry. number two, tha the camidge olice acted stupidlyin rresting somebody whn there was alreadyproof that they we in their own me. gwen: the ambridge policewere insulted, the blog exploded. so today the president stepped in againwith a surpse visit to the white hou pressroom. >> becae this has been ratcheting up ad i obviously helped t contribute atcheting it up, i want to make clear that in my choice of word, and i think i unfortunatel gave an impres

. >>> good eveng, lester. president obama's arrival ends weeks of eager anticipation, and it was more than apparent in the days leading up to his visit. on the streets of accra, and the party started long before the guest of honor arrived. members of this fan club, friends of obama, have been celebrating all week. >> translator: welcome home. welcome to africa. welcome to ghana. >> reporter: this man believes president obama's visit will inspire the entire nation. what does this torch represent? >> we are lighting this torch because president obama is coming to ghana to signify that from this time on we will change the way we think and go about everything we do. >> reporter: ghanaians are welcoming obama like a native son. for vendors selling souvenirs, it makes no difference that president obama's family is from an entireldifferent country. >> barack obama is kenyan, but ghanans are proud of him. >> he is african. we are proud of him. >> reporter: the anticipation isn't just on the streets it is pervasive. yo

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. >> good eveng, keith. never r estimate when a rprise puppet might maken appearance on this sho i'm just saying. >> i'll be right over. >> thanks, keith. >> thank you at home f sying with us r the next hour. we wl have more tonight on the secretive, religious group the family that pears to be the connective tissue of the sator ensign s scandal and the governor mark sanforof south carona sex scandal. jeff arlett who infiltrated and wrote the book on th little understooorganization wille back with us tonight. and congresswoman jan schawsky of illinois be here to pln her charge that the ci kept its own director inhe dark about a secret program. so, melissa harris will be here to decipher the repubcan playbookn the sotomayor heings which start on monday and will discuss sarah pal's future and an odd public pearance she's made tonight th ana marie cox, all comi up in the nextour. >>> we sta tonight with a mystery. a mystery that's uolding alongside the two major politil scandals of the summ. it's a myste that co

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. >> good eveng, keith. >> president bush directly ordering, orchestrating the infamous expedition to hospital bed of attoey general ashcroft lonsuspected, long reported, w official. for at might be the first time the answer to at kind of mystery was confirmed to be viceredent cheney. how significant is the official natu of this investigation? well, i've always thought it was conven for people to lay all e blame at dick cheney's door. it was convenient r the sh adminiration officials because they cou pnt president bush as being good cop to the bad cop of dick cheney, convenient for bush's critics as ll because th had someone easy to caricaturendortray as being unmitigatingly evil and then you've gotonvenient for dick cheney because he can seem scarier than reality. in actual fact, what you hav here ia real undermining not just of the bush/cheney dynamic but thself-image of president bush of someone who playedy the rules and haa common sense of decency no matter whaheas up to anreally this gets to the heart of that. itndermines that self-image becausthis wn't just the sort of midnight

. >> reporter: camereras capture e van approaching the h house thurursday eveng just afterer 7:00. can en be seenen leaeaving the housuse just five minututes lat. >> i will share this with you. i thin we were surprirised wit the e rapidi of the cre. >> r reporter:nvestigators say they stil have not established motiveve for the attacks on bur and melaniee billings. >> home invasion canan occur beuse i'm the to burarize the or i uld know youave large ounts of jewelry a and cash. >> r reporter:eanwhile, in the mmunity there is an outpourg of syympathy for the e eight adopted chilildren, me with special l needs, who were inin house. they were unhurt ysically, but onof the children told a school bus driver r he missed h mom and dad. >> i said, yeyeah, any time you wantnt to talko them, just l lo up t to heave and they'll alway be there. i sasaid but they'll b the in spiririt alws watching out forr you. >> reporter: t those cldren are now bein cared for b by relativs at an undisclosed location. >> reporter: bacack to t investstigation. detectives s say that ey are loing for a third m who

good eveng. >> hi, keith. >> t caveats in a moment but is something likely to hpen in e way of special prosecutor now? >> the question of course is what will happen? what he's described more of a bonsai plant than a prosecutor that you can twist and resain to grow the wayou want. it's n special prosecutor. for some libertarians i think they'd rather have nothi at all rather thawhat he is suggesting. the biggest prlem is that holder and president obama appear to be rewti the law we created in nurmberg. convicted people like herbert clem, who was convicted with esother judges. this was the third of the 12 trials of nuremberg. he was a justice officl in t nazi regime. he was concted for his legal opinions that allowed for wa crimes. we tried him. we created that rule. principl four of the nuremberg w specifill says folling superior orders is n a defense. so the obama adminisation are reiting nuremrg with all es preconditions, and they're rewriting it in a very ioble and in my view immal image. >> so ishe obama administration shiftg? this an answer to those who say,o, youave to do more bec

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richard, good eveninin >> good eveng, keith. what -- do we have to poioint out that therere is no sh thing? whwh does say abobout the candidy from last octoberer and november of this campai? >> ass we like say down on the fish farm, thers nothing quite soead as a dead fish. and is is a dead f fitsh of ana idea. lookthere wereclues in this mpaign i don't knowow if youemember that whole fruitit flyncident th i loved so muh. is wasot someone who took the e job serisly, the candidacy riously. didn't benenit from all of thee resources that a natitional presidential camampaignould and would row a her. and it's quite clear fromhat weaw from td periodham's fabulous piecece in "vanity fai thathe didn't want t prprep, she was zy, she waignorant. look, shshwasn'teady for prprinltim i'm not susure she w ready for daytime. >> will leave the possibity here o on thathe rest of it, it'sme, not her, w's not making sensehere, butut thi one poinint about r hatred and her convtion that the mainstreamam media is here toto stort what she h has to say

tonight we take a lookt health care refm, first, the president's ime time press conferencehis eveng. and then peter orszag, president oba's principal budg offial, the director ofthe fice of management and budget. >> ts is a very iortant sector of the ecomy. it has importa implicaons for households and state governmes and all of us and, again, there's aeason this hasn'tappened in 50 years. this is hard to do. but if you lookat the aliment of forces and look at the progresshat has been made, it's qte significant. >> rose: we conclud with dr. denis cortese. he's a physician and c.e.o. of the mayo clinic, one of e leing medical cente the world. the problem is we don have a health care system. there's nevebeen one designed. nobody h consously said what do we rlly want outf health care? we've never sat down to desig a system because if we've had, where are if sysm engineer who design it so we can blame them. >> rose:an't find them. >> there ist one. so that... frankly, though, that thought is powerful liberating cause it says if we realize we don't have a system, maybe we can sit back and