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bufor now, back to gwen. ifill: and now, to the potics of national security, especially theole congress plays. for that, we are joid by new jersey democrat bi pascrell, jr.-- a member of the hoe homend security committee. and utah republin jason chaffetz, who rves on the house coittee on oversight and government reform. >> gwe congressman, i want to start with you. you were the spons of the bill in congress at forbade e use of the whole bod scanrs. you hed governor thompson that said you andthers were spooked privy extremists. do agree with him on that? >> you have to understand th actual bill. the bill was n a ban on the use ofhe machines. they sd they couldn't use it as a primary screeng but use it osecondary screening. this cason the 25th. this guy was a pter child of who should of gone thrgh the sendary screing. absoluly the machines could be deployedation wide, inteationally. we have reason to use them, absolute use them. 99% of of ericans you don't have to use on every peon. govenorperson. >> bard on th

. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. on the pbs newshour tonight, 1,500 marines were told they'll ship out before christmas. >> lehrer: the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, admiral mike mullen, briefed soldiers and marines today. we'll talk to him about what he said. >> ifill: also tonight, as the climate change conference opened in copenhagen, new rules were announced in washington declaring greenhouse gases dangerous to public health. we get details from administrator lisa jackson at the environmental protection agency. >> lehrer: then, ray suarez begins a weeklong cross-country series about the u.s. economy. patchwork nation, tonight from philadelphia. >> they were too big to fail, i would say that cities are too important to fail. >> ifill: and jeffrey brown reports on new york's latest cultural struggle. >>> how can they survive and thrive, here at the metropolitan in new york we'll talk to the man in charge and opera star renee fleming. >> lehrer: that's all coming up, on tonight's "pbs newshour." major fundi

. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. on the "newshour" tonight: will the public insurance option be a casualty of that deal? >> lehrer: we assess the agreement and look at the political battles ahead. >> ifill: then, what's at stake for the u.s. and the world at the climate talks in copenhagen. judy woodruff reports. >> lehrer: alleged terrorist david coleman headley was arraigned in federal court in chicago. we'll go to sebastian rotella of the "los angeles times" for the details. >> ifill: our series on the nation's economy continues-- ray suarez reports on some of the challenges facing tractor country. >> i thought i could weather the storm but i've had enough, you know. i've done enough bleeding that i want to quit before i'm bled out. >> ifill: that's "patchwork nation," tonight from sioux city, iowa. >> lehrer: and pianist richard glazier: keeping the gershwins' music alive. >> to the younger generation, they're discovering something completely new. and music and song that are e mortal and timely that will live for

gwen ifill recorded this yesterday. after ten years of -- wars a tacks and economic booms and busts, we take a look back tonight at the decade in politics and governance, through the eyes of three newshour regulars who have helped us cover it all. amy walter, editor in chief of the hotline national journals political daily, andrew kohut for the people and the press and presidential historian michael burblove. starting with you, michael. what would you say is the signal event of this decade? >> it would have to be the attack of september 11th -- 001 because not only has that caused all sorts of obvious changes in american society but look at the the kind of events that led to. george w. bush declared a war on terrorism, lead us to a war in afghanistan, iraq, used very harsh measures against terrorism. in 2004 i think andy would agree with this, george bush was re-elected largely by people who may have been concerned about his other policies, but were worried about terrorism. 2080 t very unlikely that barack obama would h

. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. on the newshour tonight, the president today promised to act quickly to fix flaws in the nation's security system. >> brown: we'll look at the clampdown at airports and the potential trade-offs of stepped-up screening. test. >> spendthrift, it's an inconvenience to passengers. there are questions. >> what were the suspect's connection to yemen? >> ifill: and what were the suspect's connections to yemen, the embattled arab nation that has become a bastion for al qaeda terrorists. >> brown: then, ray suarez looks at a plan to fight poverty by improving education and healthcare south of the border. >> a mexican program designed to improve the lives of the poorest of the poor is being copied and studied around the world. i'll have a report. >> ifill: and the search for treatment for the mentally ill on the streets of india. >> brown: that's all ahead, on tonight's pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour is provided by: >> this is the engine that connects abundant grain from the a

i'm gwen ifill. president obama said today he's getting 95% of what he wanted on health care, as the u.s. senate prepares to vote. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the "newshour" tonight, jim lehrer's full interview with the president, conducted at the white house this afternoon. >> this notion that somehow the health care bill that is emerging should be grudgingly accepted by democrats as half a loaf is simply incorrect. this is 9-tenths of a loaf. >> ifill: also tonight, public outrage in mexico, where criminal gangs murdered four members of a soldier's family-- payback for his role in a drug raid. >> woodruff: then to somalia and its ongoing crisis: we get an inside look, reported by john lee anderson of "the new yorker." >> ifill: and, he wasn't just a great composer. ♪ it turns out handel was a smart investor too. >> this was the route to becoming rich quickly and handel was young, he was an eager beaver. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's "pbs newshour." major funding for the pbs new

. >> ifill: i'm gwen ifill. on the newshour tonight, the stage is set for a critical christmas eve vote. >> brown: we'll talk to senators sherrod brown and lindsey graham about the bill's components, compromises and politics. >> ifill: then thousands of iranians turn a funeral for a dissident cleric into a full- scale street protest. margaret warner looks at what's next for the opposition in iran and their supporters here. >> brown: what happened in copenhagen and what now. >> now it's up to people to come together because we need a deal that is real. >> brown: ray suarez just back from the climate summit explains. >> ifill: and we'll take a second look at john merrow's reports on an attempt to overhaul a major urban school system, whatever it takes. >> compassion . i think that when you're doing the kind of work that i'm doing in public education where the lives and the futures of children hang in the balance, you cannot ... you can't play with that. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's pbs newshour. >> majo

earlier this week, gwen ifill spoke with john to get an upon where things stand now. she began by asking him whether there is still a standoff between chancellor rhee and the unions over contract negotiations and her decision to lay off teachers. >> reporter: that's where we are now. the union appealed that decision and the judge looked over the facts of the case and threw out the appeal, so she won there, but there is not any movement on the contract. that's been going on -- those negotiations have been off and on for the entire time basically, and they're basically off right now. >> ifill: both of us have been watching reports with interest, want to know the bottom-line answer to the question about what improvement -- how you measure improvement. do we know if what a school chancellor like michelle rhee is doing -- do we know if it's working? >> reporter: there is one piece of solid evidence. there is a national test called the national assessment of educational progress or nape and that's the gold standard, gwen, and only four states and the district of columbia sh

but for now ck to gwen. >> ill: and still to come on the newsur: the nigerian man who tried to blow up a us pne and his links to yemen; raising healthier, bter educat children in mexico; and helpor the mentally ill in india. but fit: striking the right balance tween security and sacrifice: the costs of preventing the next atck. for that, we turn toary schiavo, forr inspector genel of the department of transporation. she's now anviation attorney in private practice, a represents many of the filies whose relatis were killed in the 9/11 attacks. and david schanzer. he's the director of the triangleenter on terrorism and holand security at duke university and the univeity of north calina. i want to start by asking yo what the preside had to say toda he saithere was a systemic failure, a mix of human and systemic failure. what does that meato yo >> well, that means that there's more than one il. obviously first an foremost that peoplfollowed the screeninthat failed, but obviously the various tch list. the watch listwere targeted and revealed to be a probl in the summ of this year. there waa

i'm gwen ifill. president obama made his first public statement about the failed plot to blow up an airplane, and said the u.s. would keep up the pressure on terrorists. >> warner: and i'm margaret warner. on the newshour tonight, the president outlined stepped-up security measures for air passengers. >> ifill: how did the bomber get through security? and what can be done to prevent another attack? we'll sort it out. >> warner: then, authorities in iran arrested key opposition figures after weekend protests that killed at least eight. >> ifill: a different angle on the health care debate. ray suarez has the story from south of the u.s. border. >> thousands of americans that can't afford the health care they need, are heading abroad to search for it, i'll have a report from mexico. >> ance end of the year conversation about the financial collapse with >> warner: and an end-of-the- year conversation about the financial collapse with writers andrew ross sorkin and john cassidy. >> it seems to be alive a

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dedicated just to reading with a special task light and whole basket full of books next to it. >> gwen ifill if you want to see on a "after words" -- >> "after words" with jane goodall and john goodman continues. >> host: welcome back to "after words." we are speaking with jane goodall about her new book, hope for animals in their world, and i would like to talk a little bit about children and nature because in this country there is not any evidence that kids don't play outside anymore the way they used to. i have young boys and they play outside a lot but mostly, they play on fields surrounded by their parents. they don't crawl around in the stream bed. i don't know of anybody in my neighborhood that has a tree house, and only one of them likes animals and a significant way and there is a concern that academics in this country have that a conservationists in this country have because that is happening we will be raising a generation that will be less interested in saving some of these animals that you write about in this book. have you heard about this phenomenon? does it happen now s

m gwen ifill. president obama made his fit ublic statement about the failed plot to blow up an airane, and said the u.s. would keepp the pressure on terrorists. >> warne and i'm mgaret warner. on the newshour tight, the president outlid stepped-up security measures for air passengers. >> ifill: how dithe bomber get thugh security? and whacan be done to prevent another attack? we'll sort it out. >> warner: th, authorities in iran arreed key opposition figures aftereekend protests at killed at least eight. >> ifill: a different anglen the health cardebate. ray suarez h the story from southf the u.s. border. >> thousands of america that can't afforthe health care ey need, are headi abroad to search foit, i'll have report from meco. >> ance end of the yar conversation abt the financialcollapse with >> warner: d an end-of-the- year conrsation about the financl collapse with writers andrewoss sorkin and john csidy. >> seems to be alive and well and frankly there hasn'been much reform out of washington. >

today's attacks aren'the beginning of the end of that. >> well certaiy this is a ty that's on edge, gwen. everyone is expecting more violence in the n-up until the elecons in march now. we've seen that in aust. we've seen thain october with major bombings of ministries. this was kind of morof the same. the attacks were governmen institutions. in fact, two of th connected to t finance ministry and the justice ministry were bad in buildings that were tually moved after their major ministries we bombed rlier in the year. so this really is connected a lot of people think to underming the government, undeining faith in the security forces d a lot of people believe gredality influencing e election. ifill: that's what i was gog to ask next whether it's a coincince that these attacks should occur just as ty were announcing the date for these ections. >> probably not a cocidence but certainly e feeling is that it takes mo time than a coup of days to plan these kinds attacks. the cycle of what 've seen is actlly they've been about two months at a ti. now the have probably been in theorks and proba

gwen ifill has our coverage. >> ifill: at least four separate car bombs rocked the iraqi capital in late morning. two of the strikes appeared to be suicide attacks. the first targeted a police patrol in the city's dora district. the new location of the finance ministry was also hit, as was a court complex, and a judicial training institute. the worst was at the courts complex, where a bomber plowed through a checkpoint and detonated a carload of explosives. the blast brought down parts of buildings and killed several judges, among dozens of others. the attacks shattered a month of relative calm. violence in iraq has diminished over the last 18 months and november saw the fewest civilian deaths since the u.s. invasion in 2003. still, militants have continued to mount spectacular, mass- casualty strikes. in late october, bombings outside three ministries killed more than 150 people and in august, attacks on two other government targets killed 122. amid today's violence, iraqi leaders announced long-delayed parliamentary elections will take place on march 7. that's two months later that ori

gwen? >> ifilland that's the "newshour"or tonight. i'm en ifill. jim? >> lehrer: thanks, gwen.ee you on-line, andgain here tomorroevening. i'm jim lehrer. thank you and go night. majofunding for the pbs newshour is ovided by: >> what e world needs now is energy. the engy to get the economy humming again. the energyo tackle challenges li climate change. what is thatnergy came from an energy company? everay, chevron invests $62 million in peoe, in ideas-- seeking, teaching, building. fueling growth around the world move us all ahead. this is the power of hum energy. chevn. bnsf, the gine that nnects us. intel. supporting coverage of innovationnd the economy. and by toyota. and monsanto. the william and fla hewlett foundation, working solve social and envonmental probms at home and around the world. and with thengoing support of these institutions and undations. and... this pgram was made possible the corporation for public broadsting. and by contributions tyour pbs statiofrom viewers like you. thank you. 3i- aptioning sponsoreby)x- acneil/lehrer productis #x aptied by2i- ed acces

personalization of conflict, that we were not fighting with any degree of complexity, we were fighting gwen a single evil -- against a single evil, slobodan milosevic. and all the problems in iraq were caused by a single individual, saddam hussein. i think there's an effort in sudan as a single individual is the cause of the problem. not to whitewash the actions of these people all of whom were, indeed, criminal persons who did very criminal things, but to suggest that certainly the case of yugoslavia there were many villains, and this was a very complex war which cannot be reduced to single personalities. but never the less, there was an effort to simplify it by reducing it to single personalities because that plays much better in public relations terms. what's very striking is not that it

that would have impact on not only what you have to do and impact on who the fees would be assessed gwen and they might want to have some input on that as well. if you are able to do that. i see my time is up. i think some of the other questions were touched on and the fallback provisions and the -- i don't want to repeat myself on the other comment that i made earlier that we are obviously not looking for fairness that i don't know that you can get fairness, but looking here for the focus is the justice and realliance they made not on independent investment decisions but on what the government assured them through both this program after the fact and through the assurances that being registered and the fund is coming under the s.e.c. as well. thank you. >> all right. gentlelady from california. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i guess my first question is to you, mr. harbeck. i have only been around here for less than two year. but my take on what happens is basically that the industry gets a license do a lot of things and then fails at it and we're left to pick up the pieces. if you look at

gwen ifill has o look. >> ifill: when the senate vos out s version of health care reform thursday moing, hundreds of millions of doars will have be spent lobbying for and againsit. the center for resnsive politics finds the hlth care sect spent nearly $400 million on the effort duringhe first nine months of ts year. th includes lobbying congress, federal agencies a the white hoe, high-priced persuasion practiced byospitals, doctor oups, nursing homes and othe players. not included in thatigure: another 22 million spent by the insurancindustry during the same period. r more on how the money was spent and wh results it did or did t produce, we turn to dave levinthal of the centefor responsive pitics, a not-for- profit group that tracks mon politics. nice to have you here. some peoe say unless you're the table you're on the menu and that what drives loyists to do what they do. how ch money was really spent and on what? >> orall, you've had $2.5 billion spt on lobbying in neral. and a od portion of that has been spent on health car refo legislation. it's just taken so lg for this to develop

that would have impact on not only what you have to do and impact on who the fees would be assessed gwen and they might want to have some input on that as well. if you are able to do that. i see my time is up. i think some of the other questions were touched on and the fallback provisions and the -- i don't want to repeat myself on the other comment that i made earlier that we are obviously not looking for fairness that i don't know that you can get fairness, but looking here for the focus is the justice and realliance they made not on independent investment decisions but on what the government assured them through both this program after the fact and through the assurances that being registered and the fund is coming under the s.e.c. as well. thank you. >> all right. gentlelady from california. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i guess my first question is to you, mr. harbeck. i have only been around here for less than two year. but my take on what happens is basically that the industry gets a license do a lot of things and then fails at it and we're left to pick up the pieces. if you look at

georgia, gwen on the democrat line. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. i have a comment from the senator. rich republicans not though and speaking what the american people want about insurance. there's a whole lot of poor people that need insurance desperately. you all are not in contact evidently with the poor people of this country. i worked for 39 years and seven months. i am retired. i paid in my dues. and i have insurance from my job and i have medicare and, medicare a and b. but there is people that don't even have it. i'm willing to pay whatever taxes i can under my under $55,000 a year income to supplement people from this country. >> host: senator, what about provisions in this bill and house bill would expand medicaid to more families? >> guest: the expansion of medicaid to include more people will give coverage to the people the debate is will they get health care? if they get medicaid card, we know medicaid reimburses doctors and hospitals so poorly, half of the doctors in the country don't take patients on medicaid. that continues to be a pr