. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight: analysis of the president's statement on the high-level review of security lapses, from two members of congress and two counter-terrorism experts.

and to jeffrey brown. >> brown: history was in the air a year ago as barack obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the united states. an economic crisis was at hand, the country was involved in two wars, and the first african- american had been elected to the white house, heading a sweeping victory for his party. so, where is he, and where are we now? we talk with: cynthia tucker, political columnist for the "atlanta journal-constitution;" riehan salam, who writes "the agenda" blog for the "national review" online, and is a fellow at the new america foundation; and historian and newshour regular richard norton smith of george mason university. cynthia, i'll start with you. how has reality matched up with expectations a year later? >> well, the expectations of the president were impossibley high. many people were absolutely euphoric, if you the inauguration a year ago. the honeymoon was very, very brief because the president had a very tough set of problems. the economy especially still dogs him. he has not been able to solve those problems as quickly as many people had hoped. som

jeffrey brown has our profile. >> brown: rocco landesman is a successful broadway producer, whose companycyn, owns five major theaters in new york and has presented numerous award-winning plays, including "angels in america", and "the producers". ♪ now landesman has given up the bright lights of broadway for the halls of washington's bureaucracy. as head of the national endowment for the arts, he manages a federal agency that's seen its share of ups and downs: started by congress in 1965 to foster and bring the arts to all americans, but a frequent target of conservatives for funding of controversial works. landesman wasted no time raising eyebrows: he called nea funding "pathetic", and suggested money should go to programs based on merit, not automatically to all congressional districts. "i don't know if there's a theater in peoria," he said in an interview, "but i would bet that it's not as good as steppenwolf or the goodman," referring to top chicago companies. that didn't play well in peoria. but recently, landesman paid a visit, answered questions, and made amends. >> look at that >>

jeffrey brown has the story. >> brown: the labor department numbers today fell well short of hopes in some quarters that the economy might have added workers at the end of 2009. instead, 85,000 americans lost their jobs last month, led again by hits in the construction and manufacturing sectors. the unemployment rate held steady at 10%, but that's because more than 660,000 people gave up looking for work. president obama cited the numbers this afternoon, as he announced new spending to create jobs in renewable energy. >> the jobs numbers that were released by the labor department this morning are a reminder that the road to recovery is never straight, and that we have to continue to work every single day to get our economy moving again. for most americans and for me, that means jobs, that means whether we are putting people back to work. we have to continue to explore every avenue to accelerate the return to hiring. >> brown: overall, more than 15 million americans are out of work now, and nearly 40% have been looking for a job for six months or more. that's the highest percentage in

jeffrey brown has the story. >> brown: it was an unusual sight in beijing this morning as a handful of people created a makeshift memorial outside google's offices, responding to news that the internet giant might pull out of china. in response to attacks on its web site, including breaches of email accounts belonging to human rights activists. there was praise for google's move. >> ( translated ): they are letting us know the truth. >> brown: and worries about the impact. >> ( translated ): i feel it is a pity. even though it doesn't affect all of my life, but it is a real hassle if we don't have google. >> brown: the world's leading search company announced yesterday it had discovered what it called a "highly sophisticated and targeted attack" on it and perhaps 34 other companies, adding that the attacks clearly came from within china. as a result, chief legal officer david drummond wrote: google launched its google.cn site in china in 2006, agreeing to abide by government strictures that filter out searches for certain banned topics, such as taiwan, tibet, or the tianamen square mas

jeffrey brown has our story. ♪. >> brown: from the beginning 51 years ago the alvin ailey american danceater has been a celebration of african- american culture and black dancers and choreographers who found few opportunities elsewhere to work. ♪ on a recent night at the city center theater in new york, the celebration continued. now focused on the woman who has long been the face of the company, judith jamison, dancer, choreographer and artistic director who has just announced she's stepping down next year. >> what we tried to do is express our humanity as we're showing you these not just steps but we're showing you parts of life. our movement to what we're doing.... >> brown: you're showing parts of life. >> we are. in its abstract form. >> brown: jamison grew up in philadelphia, her father a carpenter, her mother a school teacher. she began to dance at age 6. her first stage was a sheet on a backyard clothes line. at home she learned her mantra for success. >> prayer, prepare and proceed. >> brown: prayer, prepare and proceed. >> there's always a lot of prayer in my house. preparing,

. >> ill: and jeffrey brown looks atyber-attacks and censorship--oogle's threat to pull out of ina. >> lehrer: that's all ead on tonight'"pbs newshour." jor funding for the pbs newshour iprovided by: >> what e world needs now is energy. the energy to get the onomy humming again. the energy to tackle challges ke climate chang what if that energy me from an energy company? ery day, chevron invests $62 million in people, in ids-- seeking, teaching, buiing. fueling owth around the world to move us all ahead this is the por of human energy chevron. >> bnsf railway. toyota grant thornton and by the alfred p. sloan the nationalcience foundation. supporting education and research across all fids of science anengineering. and th the ongoing support of these institutionsnd fodations. and. is program was made possible by the corporation for public broadsting. and by contributions to ur pbs station fr viewers like you. ank you. >> lrer: hundreds of buildings were destroyed, and the haian president sa 30,000 to 50,000 pele could be dead. other estimas ranged as high 500,000. u. officials were chec

. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight: with a republican winning the seat long held by edward kennedy. we look at what scott brown's victory means for president obama's agenda. >> ifill: then, a powerful aftershock hits haiti as victims are still being pulled from the rubble. and doctors struggle to provide even basic care. >> we are running our operating rooms without electricity, without oxygen, without proper anesthetics. >> brown: margaret warner gets the latest on the situation in port-au-prince from jason beaubien of n.p.r. >> ifill: paying for the "new york times" on line, but will readers buy in? >> brown: and body scanners in airports. ray suarez reports on a continuing debate. >> they're going to detect prosthetics. they're going to detect vasectomy scars, sex change operations, adult incontinence. >> are they perfect? no. but do they take us very much further down the road to security against this kind of device? the answer to that is yes. ... >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's "pb

jeffrey brown has our report. >> this is tunisia in nearly the 20th century. "national geographic" society in washington d.c. bonner, theç archivist oversees a collection of some 11.5 million images. >>ok without the excavation around. >> brown: there's everything from an expedition at the north pole inç the late 1800s to hunters in zanz bar several decades later. Ñi coal miners in england in 1938 to mount rushmore under construction in 1947. 5a >> just can't wait for people to see some of these things. >> brown: bonner's underground world is made up of aisle after aisle of envelopes and boxes containing images that for the most part went unpublished, called them theç outtakes from thousands of assignments and expeditions. vintage black-and-whites and transparencies asçó well as the first commercially successful color photographs produced on glass and known as w3 autochromes. there are also 12,000 pieces of original art commissioned by the society includingç this wyeth painting titled sea monsters now to be worth several million dollars.ç millions of more

. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, judy woodruff gets two views on what should be done to hold financial institutions accountable. >> lehrer: then, the state of state budgets. we hear from six pbs correspondents around the country. >> brown: three auto-related stories: a report from detroit, where manufacturers hope their new models will lure back customers after a very rough year. >> this is a second chance, and i'm personally grateful for this. i know all the employees at gm are grateful for the opportunity. we will not disappoint. >> lehrer: gwen ifill looks at automakers expanding into new markets, including china, now the world's largest. >> brown: and a conversation with a one-time auto worker, who became a pulitzer prize-winning poet. >> lehrer: plus, a look at sports and drugs, after home run king mark mcgwire admitted using steroids. that's all ahead on tonight's pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour is provided by: >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated

>> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, a case in federal court stems from a ban on gay marriages approved by california voters in 2008. spencer michels reports from san francisco, and ray suarez debriefs margaret talbot of the "new yorker." >> ifill: then, a debate on how to pay for health care reform. >> brown: special correspondent kira kay looks at the race against time to rebuild the poorest nation in the western hemisphere. >> some say that we just want to get out of misery to get into poverty. and i believe that is a beautiful sentence for haiti, because it is exactly what we are aiming for right now. >> ifill: the supreme court revisits a case it decided last year, this time with a new justice on the bench. margaret warner gets the details from marcia coyle of the "national law journal." >> brown: and the latest late night drama, as nbc drops jay leno from its primetime lineup. >> you know, actually if they did cancel us, it would be an easy move for me, because i still haven't unpacked from

i'm jeffrey brown. in haiti, the search for survivors of the earthquake continues with some still being pulled from the rubble. >> suarez: and i'm ray suarez. on the newshour tonight, thousands continue to wait for food, water and medical aid. we get the latest from port-au- prince, and talk to the u.s. ambassador there. >> brown: tom bearden reports on the surge in donations to help victims of the quake via cellphones. >> i got a text message that said please donate $10 to the haiti relief fund. all's i had to do is respond to the text which i did. >> suarez: then, new violence in afghanistan: margaret warner reports on taliban attacks in the heart of kabul, killing at least 12. >> brown: the surprisingly tight senate race in massachusetts to fill the vacancy left by the late edward kennedy. we get an update. >> suarez: and a martin luther king holiday conversation about black power and black leaders with historian peniel joseph. >> what's interesting is that it's the black power movement, self-determi

. >> lehrer: now to jeffrey brown. he spoke earlier today with tina susman of the "los angeles times" in port-au-prince. >> reporter: tina, thanks for joining us. you are at the airport so tell us first what's the situation there in terms of supplies being able to get in. >> well, today appears to be the first day that things have really gotten under way here at the airport. up until this morning they were having problems landing planes full of people and supplies because of crowd on the runway. but just today there have been, for instance, several cargo planes bringing people in, among them 250 doctors, nurses and medical experts including veterinarians, sent out from the health and human services department by the state department. they just arrived this afternoon. and aid agencies are expecting some cargo planes to come in. in fact they are expecting 18 metric tons of supplies arrive on a cargo plane this afternoon. >> reporter: give us a sense, if you would, about how hard it is to get around the city for you, for

. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. the haitian government begins work on setting up camps outside port-au-prince for 400,000 people. >> lehrer: we get reports from jay newton small of "time" magazine in port-au-prince, and our own ray suarez on the border with the dominican republic. >> i visited a hospital in the border town, jammed with patients who streamed over the border from haiti seeking treatment for injuries sustained in the earthquake ten days ago. >> brown: then, the economic and political fallout from some stunning events this week. judy woodruff takes a look with david wessel of "the wall street journal". >> lehrer: mark shields and david brooks offer their analysis. >> brown: and a look at who controls the internet as the u.s. challenges china on its censorship policies. >> countries that restrict free access to information or violate the basic rights of internet users risk-- they will selves off from the progress of the next century. >> lehrer: that's all ahead... on tonight's newshour. major funding for

. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight: analysis of the president's statement on the high-level review of security lapses, from two members of congress and two counter-terrorism experts. >> lehrer: then, ray suarez updates the h1n1 flu pandemic and the vaccine campaign. >> this see -- flu season generally lasts until may and although flu is way down, we don't know what the future will hold. >> brown: we look at violence in professional sports after basketball player gilbert arenas is suspended for bringing guns into the locker room. >> lehrer: and gwen ifill talks to biographer joan biskupic about supreme court justice antonin scalia. >> he says i read text, i read the constitutional, i'm an originalist, i do not let my religious views come in. and i don't let any other personal views come in. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour is provided by: >> what makes us an engine for the economy? plants across america. nearly 200,000 jobs created. we see

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and we catch up with jeffrey brown, who is at the sundance film festival, where he's a juror on the documentary review panel. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. judy. >> woodruff: before we go, an editor's note about the toyota recall story we aired last night. we received letters from viewers asking for more information about what to do if the accelerator sticks while driving. here's a fuller explanation, as recommended by toyota: to stop immediately, step on the brake pedal with both feet and apply steady pressure. don't pump the brake. shift the gear into neutral while pressing the brake to make a controlled stop, then turn off the engine. if the car won't shift into neutral, shut the engine off by turning the key, but don't remove the key. doing this will disable power brakes and steering, but toyota says that manual steering and braking control can still be maintained by the driver. if the car uses a button for ignition, press the button steadily for at least three seconds to turn the engine off. for the record, toyota is a newshour underwriter. that's the newshour for

jeffrey brown begins our coverage. >> brown: it was a five to four decision-- to wipe away limits on corporate and labor union spending in campaigns for president and congress. justice anthony kennedy wrote the majority opinion-- joined by chief justice john roberts, and justices samuel alito, antonin scalia and clarence thomas. they threw out key provisions of campaign finance laws dating back to 1907, plus two of the high court's own decisions from 1990 and 2003. specifically, the justices overturned a ban on letting companies and unions tap their own treasuries to produce their own campaign ads. the decision also eliminated the so-called mccain-feingold ban on issue-oriented ads within 30 days of a primary, and 60 days of a general election. the justices dissenting from those conclusions were john paul stevens, ruth bader ginsburg, stephen breyer and sonia sotomayor. the case at issue involved a 90- minute film attacking hillary clinton during her 2008 run for president. >> hillary rodham clinton has undoubtedly become one of the most divisive figures in america.... >> brown: the

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i'm jeffrey brown. on this first day of the new year, a suicide boer killed dozenst a volleyball urnament in pakistan. >>uarez: and i'm ray suarez. on the newshour night, the attackccurred in the northwest ibal region. we'll lookt the 2-front waagainst the taliban in afghanian and pakistan. >> brown: onhe economic front, it's good riddance to 2009 a some hopes and fears for 20. >> anybody who says that t rates dot have to go up is smoking something thatou probably can't do inost states. >> we're going to ha more foreclosures, 're going to have morjob losses. but i think that sloy but surely we' going to be climng out of this over the course of the year >> suarez: an enre report from ina on a state of the art eye care center that bieves in sharing costs anprofits. >> the patients are amg the rld's poorest people, rare ly -- e diseases. >> brown: plus the wkly analysis andew year's resoluons of mark shields and david brooks. that's all ahead on tonighs pbs newsho. major nding for e pbs newshour is prided

captioning spoored by macneil/lehrer produions >> brown: go evening. i'm jeffrey brn. the cia announced day that 7 of its employees were kill by a suicide mber in afghanistan. six others were injud. >> suarez: and'm ray suarez. thdead included the chief of the rgeted cia post. the newshour tonight, the latest detailsbout one of the adliest attacks on cia personnel in the agency' histy. >> brown: also tonight, federal judghas dismissed all chars against 5 blackwater security guards accuseof killinunarmed civilians in baghdad. >> suarez: the presint gets a preliminary report intthe attempt to bw up a u.s. airler. we'll talk tintelligence commity veterans about what went wrong. >> brown: then, a econd look' asaul solman asks economists one central questionbout the recessio >> why didant -- why didn't the fed tell us? >> why didn't warn you. >> yes >> suarez: gwen ifillooks back at a dmatic decade in u.s. politics. withmy walter, andy kohut and michaebeschloss. >> brown: and thpoetic partnehip between one of russia's leadingriters and the husband who trslates her. >> this