she is having a great time at the point position. >> jim: jim watson, lisa leslie and mary murphy courtsideway from the ball. ogwumike. she got shoved. she's twice been named pac-10 player of the year. she's having a breakout season. >> mary: she really is. you see her trying to get that post position. this is what gets johnson into so much early foul trouble. she just gets in and gets physical, an obvious foul. they need johnson on the floor for more minutes. >> jim: down low, appel picks it up and deflected by tennessee, so stanford keeps it. >> lisa: that time you see appel being double-teamed. she'll have to make much better passes. she knows they're not going to let her stay isolated on that block. the tennessee defense will swarm her every time. >> mary: talking to jayne yesterday, she said she never knows what to expect. sometimes they double, sometimes triple, sometimes one-on-one coverage. >> jim: high-low. rosalyn gold-onwude, strong off the heels. touched it last. goes over to tennessee, the lady vols. recovery defense got a break. >> lisa: even though the play didn't finish the

back to jim and phil. jim: j.b., thank you. playing hurt today, j.b. gaffney goes out of bounds at the 45. that's about two yards short of a first. phil: we talked so muchturing game about the eagle offense, how they can get hot. denver's offense is rolling. they have this eagle defense sitting back and reacting instead of attacking and setting the pace. phil: two full yards to go for the first. orton. scrambles away. plants the feet, fires it incomplete. boy, he threw that one against some more heat, going for brandon lloyd. phil: the question is, do you go for it here on fourth down or do you punt it? i think you punt it. your defense has really got philly's offense doing nothing. jim: the pass was behind lloyd. phil: yeah, good thing, though. macho harris was in front. had to be came. jim: haven't seen jackson, the league's leading punt returner do anything. hasn't had a chance on the return game. berger will no doubt try to angle it away from him. kicking it high and -- bring on the fair catch. 26 yards. ♪ excuse me. when you get a minute, can -- (

i got you. >> jim: thank you, lisa. >> mary: let me know when you guys find some hay. >> jim: appellate the top. handoff to pohlen. >> mary: bass is all over ros gold-onwude. >> lisa: you can see tennessee has tightened up their defense. they're doing everything they can to keep stanford from scoring. j.j. hones is, like, no way. i got a chance to get to the basket and knock it down. >> jim: i think she kicked her heels when she hit that shot. >> mary: two acls. it was a devastating loss had she went down with her acl the second time. that's when jeanette pohlen was moved to point guard and they made it to the final game. it was an extraordinary game for stanford considering the situation. >> jim: j.j. hones, a torn acl, then came back, came in with such high hopes and has battled back as the shot clock runs down on tennessee. >> mary: struggling to get open shots. everything seems like a force, lisa. >> lisa: i think that time -- angie bjorklund should have passed the ball in there to alyssia brewer. that time i just thought she forced up a bad shot. >> jim: pohlen outside. pulled down

i'm jim moret from inside edition. golf superstar tiger woods' bombshell announcement that he'll take an indefinite break from golf. we'll have his full statement for you in just a moment. what happens for tiger and the sport. he clearly he loves so much. will his career, his marriage and his brand survive? we'll have a full panel of guests ready to discuss of this. but the first, the very latest with susan candiotti. susan, what's the latest in. >> reporter: all of this began on thanksgiving night. two weeks later, as tiger woods' personal life crashing around him. first, he spoke of transgressions. for the first time, he's admit to infidelities. here's how his statement reads in full -- >> jim: s again, it's been quite two weeks for tiger woods. the question is, what difference this will make in the public's eyes and in the eyes of family? >> jim: i'm looking at the same, tiger is asking for forgiveness from his fans, his tours he's not commenting about sponsors. >> we haven't heard any reaction yet. no one has seen

♪ >> jim: welcome back to larry king live. i'm jim moret sigtting in for larry.hristine brennan, we reported earlier today on "inside edition" that tiger woods may be leaving country with his wife elin on their $22 million yacht. getting out of the country. getting out of dodge. trying to make the first steps to repair their marriage and then this announcement that tiger woods is leaving golf indefinitely. from your perspective, what does his departure mean and then as a woman, he has a lot more work to do at home than on golf course clearly. >> certainly as a sports journalist looking at tiger, this is the punctuation mark, the exclamation point on the wildest sentence we have seen maybe ever in sports. this tiger woods saga, the greatest fall from grace, i believe, in the history of sports of an athlete. i know others have other ideas, but this is extraordinary. these two weeks are stunning. for golf, this is a huge blow. the game is kind of reeling, anyway with the economy, the sponsor. there's no sponsor name, jim. on the tournament in san diego that would ha

i tell you, jim, spike the football, 15 or 14 seconds left. then the chargers almost will have to get out of bounds -- they can kill the clock, maybe. time to get up there. then how long the gain is gives kaeding a chance to kick a fieldgoal. time out cincinnati. there's a flag on the field, too. >> referee: cincinnati. >> jim: maybe another one we're going to ignore. >> phil: in case somebody tuned in late. we have had a -- >> referee: put 1-6 on the game clock, please. >> jim: another two seconds. >> referee: thank you. >> jim: palmer going for season's best 300 plus today. his career best against san diego in 2006. 440 was looking forward to this time to come down here and play with some 65 members of his fan club, family and friends in the stands. >> phil: the team that struggled to get near 200 yards throwing the football in the last six weeks. >> jim: been right around 100 of the last six weeks. >> phil: so many times, just like last weeks. good pass rushing team in minnesota, a young offensive line, crowd noise, getting behind. no chanc

jim: miles austin to the 10 to, the four. phil: going to kill the clock. jim: lob it away. there's not enough time to pull off all the miracles you need to be able to come up with two scores. [the captioning on this program is provided as an independent service of the national captioning institute, inc., which is solely responsible for the accurate and complete transcription of program content. cbs, its parent and affiliated companies, and their respective agents and divisions are not responsible for the accuracy or completeness of any transcription or for any errors in transcription.] [closed captioning provided by [closed captioning provided by cbs sports division.] phil: the record says you -- the you are what the record says you are. jim: you look at the cowboys, about to drop back now to 8-5. giants and philadelphia tonight. green bay with a win today. 9-4. phil: green bay, they turned it around, fought through injuries. at times, i thought playing bad. that's the only way to say it. bad football. and they fix it up, get some different guys in the lineup. it's worked o

big effort by jim there. runner up twice both this rio and on the grass at the hall of fame. >> a low ball never easy. sampras makes it look that way. this one earns him the short ball and the racquet head drops below the ball quickly at the back. really apunderrated serve. everyone talks about his ground serve but serving the forehand put those in combination, tells you what courier is all about. >> wow. >> nothing like a break in the serve in the opening game of the set to change your perspective on how you're playing and your chances. he looks like a different man from the opening set. >> oh, man. that exemplify what is both have done as they've gotten older. net one was as strong on the backhand as they were on the forehand, and probably still aren't, but so badly want to improve. >> a rematch of the '93 wimbledon final. a couple of tiebreakers in the first two sets. courier i think won the third set. but sampras up two sets, had a little bit of room to work with. >> and it had been three years between sa

, jim, jim, jim, jim, jim, jim. [laughter] come on, now. the first thing you said is, race matters. and then you tell me you wouldn't talk to him about it. what's going on here? it does matter, right? but you can't have a conversation with a potential employee who's black--you can't discuss it with him. >> no, no, i didn't say that. >> ogletree: well, let me-- >> jim, as your lawyer, i would suggest that you consult with the e.e.o.c. guidelines on interviewing before you answer that question. >> ogletree: it's too late; it's on tape. [laughter] but talk to craig. i mean, the point is that craig has great potential. i understand his father's connections, but i'm going to put that aside. but you have an issue. you don't have a staff that reflects the city's diversity. that's a fact. craig, talk to him, and ask him if your race matters. he's very interested. talk to him. >> i'm really interested in the paper. i've had a long interest in journalism. one of my concerns is, do you have any other black reporters working on

[applause] >> thank you, jim. and i really want to thank those of you who are friends of mine for being here tonight, who are packing the house. by way of background, my father graduated from law school here in cleveland, what was then western reserve university, immediately went into world war i along with four brothers. they all served in the service. and when he was released from active duty, married my mother, who had just graduated from oberlin, and settled in youngstown. he opened his law practice as a sole practitioner so that when the stock market crashed one month after i was born, and by the way, he did consider trying to return to the hospital but they would not take me back. he realized that things were happening so quickly, but he didn't really grasp the significance of what was going on in the economy for over a year. but when he finally realize the magnitude of the crisis, he began writing in longhand a diary on almost a daily basis. and in retrospect, i think one of the things that he was doing was

you know, jim mcgovern knows and jim you should know, i'm somebody that really believes in deliberation in the people's house. we would certainly welcome that. but there can be no mistaking here that an american success in afghanistan is the imperative that must be the objective of this nation and in my judgment the president has made the right decision in deciding to deploy reinforcements. we ought to support that without the artificial time lines for withdrawal. we ought to support it as strongly as we can. >> lehrer: quickly, gentlemen, has a practical matter isn't that barn door already opened? some of these marines are going before christmas. isn't this a moot issue, congressman mcgovern some. >> the troops are already going. i don't think congress is going to have a opportunity to deliberate the way i think we should when it comes to issues of war. but, look at. we are making a major financial commitment. we are putting our young men and women 's lives at risk for an incompetent and corrupt government. our enemy is in pakistan. al qaeda is our enemy. let's go after the bad guys an

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you know what, jim baron, he'll live with that play.al breakout layup like that as opposed to the turnovers in the early part of the press. >> tim: rebound of the cothran shot. biko paris with a stop and go move but he spun off. rakim sanders. raji gets the offensive board. and the putback. i believe trapani got that one. >> mike: good weak side action. raji makes that play by getting the initial offensive rebound. this is an area they need to dominate rhode island in the second half to get back in this game. >> tim: we'll see if that helps trapani get going, mike. i think they need for him to score some in this second half. out of bounds. last touched by boston college. and at halftime our jenn hildreth had a chance to talk with jim baron. >> jenn: what mike said about rebounding, certainly that's going to be a key for rhode island. they know that's where boston college wants to bring it. that's what jim baron said, we have to do a better job of that. we have to be physical and aggressive. very clear he did not want his team to let the

tragically, jim never made it that far. he died that day due to cardiac arrest caused by the blunt force from physical trauma. why was nevada's only level 1 trauma center closed for those ten days? due to a simple fact. the to come ters coul doctors cd medical liability premiums and there were not enough doctors to provide the caremen care. ultimately the state had to step in and take over the liability for these doctors and this level 1 trauma center in order to reopen this level 1 trauma center. more than 35% of the neurosurgeons have altered their emergency or trauma call coverage because of this medical liability crisis that we have in america. this means that patients with head injuries, those who are in need of neurosurgical services must be transferred to other facilities, delaying much-needed medical care. dr. alamo of henderson, nevada, brought another example to my attention. dr. alamo was presented with a teenager suffering from myastinigravis. she was in a crisis at the time and needed immediate medical treatmen

i'm jim lehrer. secretary of state clinton tried to jumpstart the stalled climate talks today in copenhagen. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the "newshour" tonight, we get the latest from ray suarez on the diplomatic maneuverings at the summit. >> suarez: as heads of state arrive in copenhagen, the pressure and the attention of the rest of the world is focussed on two giants: the u.s. and china. i'll have a report. >> lehrer: then white house aide david axelrod's take on copenhagen and the push in the senate for health care reform. >> woodruff: a report from india about moves to combat one of the country's main sources of pollution. >> lehrer: our special correspondent for education john merrow reports from arizona on a special way to help troubled public schools. >> i was shocked. it really took me back. >> to... >> to just see what was possible. you know, i just kind of had to pause and say, you know, what a difference this makes. >> woodruff: and an inside view of the mexican army's war on

i'm jim lehrer. troops across the country received their deployment orders for afghanistan. >> 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 char

>>bsolutely, jim. wh you consider where we were a year ago, on thdoorstep of nancial collapse that could have uered in a second great depressionnd you consider the indefatigable effos of chairman bernank he deserves a cond term. that's why the predent nominated him and he conties to sport him. >> lehrer: all rig. david axelro thank you very ch. >> okay, good to be wi you. >> woodruff: now, anotr take on clima change, a look at reducinglobal warming-- one stove at a time. ecial correspondent fred de sam laza reports from a viage in nor india. >> reporr: it is sunny most mornings in khairatp, but you can hardly tel at least not until some time after everne's had breakfast. that's becau here and in millns of villages in the developing world, od is cooked with wood or cow dung. the sootr black carbon from incompleteombustion causes not only lung diase but global warming,ays climatologist v. ramanathan, whis with the scripps institutioat the universityf california, san diego. >> and this iseing done by over

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captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> lehrer: good evening, i'm jim lehrer. there was congressional and administration action today aimed at reforming the ways of financial regulation and corporate salaries. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, a report on the proposed regulations for wall street. plus an interview with kenneth feinberg, the government's pay czar. >> lehrer: ray suarez wraps our series on the recession, from a small tourist town in the pacific northwest. >> the speculators are in the town like the romans, you know. >> lehrer: that's patchwork nation: tonight, in lincoln city, oregon. >> woodruff: then, from europe, margaret warner's latest dispatch on attitudes toward afghanistan. >> germany has the third largest contingent ofo troops in afghanistan but so far has resisted on sending more. i will explore way in a special report from berlin. >> lehrer: and mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. that's coming, on tonight's pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour is provided by: monsanto. producin

very happy with that victory for jim baron. al skinner's team drops to 6-4.k home losses, to harvard and now rhode island. we'll come back with some interviews, we'll talk to the victorious rams. stay right where you are as we continue with "acc sunday night hoops." it's 400 calories but... something's definitely missing. - here it is! - kentucky grilled chicken. all that great kfc taste for 395 calories? - and for $3.95? - how do they do it? think watching your calories can't be delicious? - it's time to unthink. - two pieces. - green beans. - mashed potatoes. - and gravy. - i love gravy. all for 395 calories and just $3.95. colonel, i like your number. unthink. and taste the under 400-calorie side of kfc. comedian: stroke's no joke. >>> rhode island fans just beginning to file out of the conte forum after a huge road victory. jimmy baron going over to salute that healthy congregation that made their way over from rhode island. now he's with our jenn hildreth. >> jenn: coach, i saw you going a ago over to your fan. you gave them a good show out here tonight.

coach jim valvano's most famous quote was don't give up. don't ever give up. never did his words have more meeting on the basketball court than the night in 1983 when his underdog wolfpack tried to conquer the high-flying cougars of houston. >> driving for the basket. down to the second. clinton berg. it's a long way. they won it! >> they used to see outfielders crash into the wall to make a play. but in 1981, riley mccray took his commitment of dense to a whole different level when he ran through the fence at portland's park. mccray was lucky and walked away with only minor scrapes and bruises. >>> sock iris the most popular sport on the planet. except, of course, in america. so when the world famous david beckham went looking for a new team to play for, who expected him to come to the states? >> the decision to join the galaxy wasn't hard. >> $250 million over five years is what david will make. >> i'm coming there not to be the superstar. i'm coming there to be part of the team on the american side. it's very exciting for me and my family as well. ? fans ha

reports from ann arbor, michigan, a college town prospering in an economic depressed state >> ifill: jim, we turn our attention now to this week's big meeting in copenhagen on climate change, and a new decision from the obama administration. newshour correspondent kwame holman begins with more about the meeting in denmark. . >> reporter: diplomats from 192 nation its gathered in copenhagen today for the largest and potentially most important u.n. climate change conference ever. their goal to shift away from fossil fuels and get rich countries to send billions of dollars to poorer ones to help them adapt. organizers warned this could be the critical last chance to curb global warming. >> the science has never been clearer. the solutions have never been more abundant. political will has never been stronger. and let me warn you, political will will never be

and jim cooper in the house. and i hope that some point the conference or something will go about looking at some of the series recommendations of how you truly been to the curb. and i am still hoping and i'm not going to be critical of our president and till he does something that deserves to be criticized on, on the health care, the final version. that's where we are attempting to focus next year on the process. if they pass a bill that's as bad as you infer, then it will become part of the political dynamics in a big way in november. not to the positive happening from my party. >> on that happy note. [laughter] >> i want to thank our panel. i think they deserve some applause for the work they have done. [applause] >> i think all of you for good questions. i'm told that if you want to read his report and don't want to take in any trees in the process, you can go to www.budget reform.org. thank you very much. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] a couple of live events today about today >> america

i always thought jim baker had the best line on the whole situation. because if you had reagan and -- reagan and ford elected as president and vice president, would you address ford as mr. president, mr. vice president or address him as

i support jim jones on the other level of government. you cannot keep coming back to this well anymore. we are about dry. they're going to have to find new ways to deliver services. they will have to make resources that they have go further. some governors have done that very successfully and others who do not, they will be shortly replaced, i suspect. >> and never really gave a written how peoria thought about it. it was texas i was concerned about. [laughter] therefore, what we hope as a commission is that these suggestions will create the dynamics of some kind of a political will that will demonstrate to the people in 435 districts in 50 states what they should or should not be for. there will be those who will be opposed to a lot of these suggestions. that is part of the american way. advice to states -- i remember well and we ended revenue sharing -- when week ended revenue sharing because we were out of revenue and that was a big deal back then because many local and state, they loved spending the money that i was having to raise t

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i'm jim lehrer. senate democrats reached a compromise on health care reform. >> 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 s

i'm jim lehrer. president obama went after top u.s. bankers today to help the economic recovery by lending more money. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, full coverage of that white house meeting, plus the perspectives of the administration and the financial industry. >> lehrer: newshour correspondent tom bearden focuses on the impact of the credit crunch on small businesses. test entrepreneurs say a credit clock is ticking and their very existence is in jeopardy. i'll have a report from denver. >> woodruff: then ray suarez has an update from copenhagen where developing world nations ended a boycott of the climate change summit. >> lehrer: we'll have a report on how green technology is helping and hurting china. >> woodruff: and we'll remember nobel prize-winning economist paul samuelson. who died yesterday, at 94. people like me who live through the great depression are in great demand because the other people don't have a clue as to what this kind of situation is. >> lehrer: that's come >> lehrer: that's com

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accoing to separate testimony by both general jim jones, the national security viser, and then general david praeus, in public words, there are fewer than 100 al qaeda operatives in afghanistan today. those are the people who attaed this country it remains mystery. >> charles? i thinkt was a reasonable policy that decided to announ, but i thoug the speech was awful. the policy ielf is problematic because all ous are skeptical aboutll to the success in this kindf war. but i trustespite my own skepticism, the judgment and honor ofenerals petraeus and chrystal, who think there is a chance o success knowi that it will cost american lives. th speech, however, was tru astonishing. as many have observed, notust me, but some on theeft and center, it was one of e most odd calls to battle er in american history -- and the fallen, conflicted, a -- ambivalent, conflicted, as mark indicate with a built-in exit strategy, and oks like a policy in which he ds not have his heart. that could ultimaty develop into our achill' heel, the commander-in-chiefho may not be ultimately commitd to the very missio

jim demint -- it is not true.e could bring up the tsa nominee when everyone's but he wanted a voice vote -- jim demint just once at an open debate about the man's qualifications. i believe the way we pass things is, get people where they want to go, you have to buddy, buddy up with obama and what obama wants. it is amazing that no one wants hearings on these people. we just put it and like all of our czars. 33. not a hearing or anything. just put it in. they are the best people for the job. unbelievable. the people fall for this. look at the people he is surrounded by. i just don't know -- people need to watch c-span the rest of the day. host: the netherlands, the hague, associate press saying the dutch government says failed christmas day airline attack was "professional but executed poorly." we do have this e-mail from nancy in tucson. host: again, if you want to send us an e-mail, journal@c- span.org. marinette, new york, karen on our democrats line. caller: i'm calling because i'm getting really frustrated and

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 newshour is provided by: ♪ ( laughter ) >> we are intel, sponsors of tomorrow. >> chevron. this is the power of human energy. and by toyota. and monsanto. the national science foundation. supporting education and research across all fields of science and eng

t for now, back to jim. lehrer: this is make-or-bre week for negotiars at the clate summit in copenhagen. rasuarez is there, reporting for e newshour, the word from him tonight is that efforts craft a deal areoving very owly. >> srez: it was one more demonstration of howough it will be get agreement in copenhagen. a 1997 treaty, the kyo otocol, threw the 2009 talks into temporary disarray. >> suarez: a bloc of developg nations, led bafrican counies, walked out. they said deloped nations had done too little to cut greenhouse gases, under oto. lumua diaping of sudan heads the 135-nation blo >> we are not afraid. we know that the develed untries have made that decision that they wouldant to kill the kyoto protocol inrder to change the lance of obligations between develong countries and developed countries and thats absolutely unacceptable. >> suarez: the prost had the supporof china, the world's largest emitter ofreenhouse gas. the developing nations a oking to extend kyoto and wo out a new deal f poorer countr

of course as you know john lewis and jim were attacked. that's one of the pictures you see quite often. the white females, sue herman and wilder were on the bus. john seigenthaler was there but he was trying to rescue the two ladies. they didn't know who he was so she said, get in this car and one of the ladies said we don't know who you are and we are not going with you because we are supposed to be with this group. they were dedicated and determined to stay with that group. we don't know what happened to them because he finally got them into the car and was hit over the head with a pipe and he was out for he said half an hour, and we were talking about earlier. we would love to find out where is sue herman and xu wilbur to hear their stories as to what happened to them after seigenthaler was knocked out. whether they got away in the car or what. we don't know. we were arrested in jackson mississippi. i finally went down with a fairer way to arrest in jackson mississippi. we had the national guard from montgomery all the way to jackson, t

with that kind of introduction, jim mentioned, only book out there on congressional procedure.ut anyway, whatever -- thank you. people like jim, anybody who introduces someone, you know, they always have to make a statement about the person they are introducing otherwise, why are they there? we have a lot of story tellers on the hill. majority whip simpson, republican from wyoming and he tells a story that applies to all lawmakers and have to go back to states and speak before distinguished audiences like that and introduce highlights all that simpson has done for the great state of wyoming. and all he has done for the united states of america and lists the achievements. does president stop, all that he has done to promote world peace. at the end of the statement, he finally says well, now for the latest dope from washington, here's senator simpson. i'll give you my intellectual spin and we have roughly an hour or so and king henry viii said to his wives, i won't keep you long. i want to make a few general observations about the lobbying business and then i'll do what jim sugge

. >> jim curtis: it's cold. it's cold. the electric's shut off.as is shut off. >> pelley: jim curtis's home was auctioned on friday. it went into foreclosure after his payments doubled, and then he lost his job. curtis moved his wife and boys out well before the auction to get it over with. when you received that foreclosure notice, what did you think? >> curtis: i let me my family down. i've always kind of taught... sorry, i've always been kind of taught to stand on my own two feet and that i'm responsible for taking care of them. and it's tough on us. >> pelley: curtis built a career, 24 years, at airborne express, later bought by d.h.l. the courier's national hub was wilmington's old air base, what they now call the air park. curtis managed more than a hundred people in the hazardous materials department. but when d.h.l. express closed its domestic delivery service, 10,000 people lost their jobs. when we visited last december, d.h.l. was counseling workers on unemployment and retraining. and like many, lora walker was scared. >> lora walker: to

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he told jim ziegler they had to go to the restroom. of cartoons on the walls, and they were all about president clinton. [laughter] you know what? he said, those are pretty good. i think i got some better than that. how about i send you one? send it over, mr. president. he is in his last week. a couple of days later, here it comes. a great cartoon. signed by the president of the united sites. -- states. i had a great laugh. there were six different pieces. basically, the republicans had called him and put him in a straitjacket in all with an elephant on top of the whole. finally, the last frame, it said, i think you got him this time. [laughter] we did a lot of great things together. the things mentioned, and i was proud of the balanced budget. we did other things that we don't always remember life saved drinking water. the kennedy bill, a list of things that we found a way to come together. we were sort of the triangle. newt was part of that, too. even though we had differences, we found a way to come together. i always admired the jo

time has to be dedicated to this. >> thank you, jim.i want to give you a chance to comment as well. and for those of you on the panel, if you want to interject, just raise your name tag upward. i will get you any moment. jim, i want to ask you if the concerns, you know, the two scenarios that i have played out are just that, they are two scenarios. you know, is there a larger concern represented here? are these antidotal stories? how do we measure the significance of this issue? >> well, i think a thing to with the senator is it different that we look at them and recognize the role of trial and error, and discovering what problems exist and how to address them. these are two errors of the varying degree that taught various communities of various things. we all know raced to be the first at any meeting about privacy as a deity can be rectified. you know that yahoo case. and we race at nice to talk about how the deacon and then went. and also broader communities in the public can learn from these errors. those lessons promulgating out acr

. >> brown: jim asked the president in that terview earlier thiseek. so let's take look at president's answ to get starte >> i think that we have maged an economic isis of monumental proportis, two wars, a whole host of other challeng, very well. i am entirely dissisfied with where we are rightow in terms of jobs and the facthat families out theren the eve of christmas are ill really worried about being ab to pay the bills or send eir kids to college or haveealth care for emselves. and so don't pat myself on the back at the end of this ye, but what i do have confince in is that we've de good decisions, that wee applied sound judgments to se very difficult siations, and that -- ah, if we staon a path where we are -- ah, workg hard, intaining a -- a -- a sense of possibili for the future, 're willing not to fer tough decisions around heth care or energy or education so that somedy else deals th them -- that america will be strong againand i think that -- think i've shown, ts year, that i can make hard cisions -- even when they're not pular -- and that i

you know, it ces down to, jim, how pple want to make theiown judgement about it. i do think that the final analysis that probably se form of trigger is easier to sell but u know, right now aryou trying to get 60 votes. >> yeah, still assume they will get to those . from my reading ofhe moderates i don't thk you e the firm opposition to withstand all the pressure you would take but there h en this shift in public opinion overhe last week tw d quite negative it i mean the cnn poll which is ybe a little advanced had i think 61% opposition and the support was only 30. that is a little higbut still significant majori opposition, signicant minori support and whether that affects what actually going on side rry reid's office i'm not re but the public is getting more skeical. >> there is urgency of time i think that is what the consequence of that is, the longer it goesi think the ugher sellt becomes. that's why try to get it do before christmas becomes so important. >> oka mark did, thank you both ve much. >> woodruff: again, thmajor developmen of the day. the s. house a

i'm jim lehrer. a deadlock at the climattalks in copenhagen. >>rown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight, hundredsf protesters tried to disrupt the conference. >> lehrer: we'll get theatest from ray suarez at the summi suarez: another day of netiations here have still fail to produce a text world aders can embrace here, but the u.n.ecretary general told the "newshour,he still believesgreement is possible. i'll have a report. >> bro: there were some steps forward today, includingledges to prote rainforests. 'll see how that could play out in themazon. >> lehrer: then, a perfoance review for federal reserve chairman b bernanke. economisjames galbraith and formered vice chair alice rivlin date his record. >> brown: and the levance in our time of hn maynard keynes: "newshour" ecomics correspondent paul solman haa someat off-beat explanation. ♪ my general theory made quite a impression i transformed e econ profsion, you know me, modesty say it loud and say itlear, we're l keynesians now. >> lehrer: that's alahead on tonight's "pbs newshr." major funding for e pbs neh

ptioning sponsored by macneil/lehr productions >> lehr: good evening, i'm jim lehrer. president obama acpted the nobel peace prize today. >> brown: and i'm ffrey brown. on the newshour tonigh a report on the ceremonynd spee where the president said, wars are sometimes nessary and justified. >> clear eyed, we can derstand that there will be warnd still strive for peace . we cano that, for that is the story of human progress. lehrer: we'll get reaction d perspective from presential historian michael beschloss, the rerend james forbes and editor joseph btum. >> brown: th, the arrests of five american muslims in pakistan: we lk at who they are and how they were capted. >> lehre the top u.s. military commanr in afghanistan talked about securi and fighting corruption, we havexcerpts from his conversatn with our s colleague, charlie rose. >> bwn: new claims for unemployment benefits rose faster than expectedfter thanksgiving. tonight, econocs correspondent paul solman talks to older americans looking fowork. >> it don't matter if you're , it doesn't matter if you'r 70 years o

. >> brown: jim asked the president in that interview earlier this week. so let's take a look at president's answer to get started. >> i think that we have managed an economic crisis of monumental proportions, two wars, a whole host of other challenges, very well. i am entirely dissatisfied with where we are right now in terms of jobs and the fact that families out there on the eve of christmas are still really worried about being able to pay the bills or send their kids to college or have health care for themselves. and so i don't pat myself on the back at the end of this year, but what i do have confidence in is that we've made good decisions, that we've applied sound judgments to some very difficult situations, and that -- ah, if we stay on a path where we are -- ah, working hard, maintaining a -- a -- a sense of possibility for the future, we're willing not to defer tough decisions around health care or energy or education so that somebody else deals with them -- that america will be strong again, and i think that -- i think i've shown, this year, that

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