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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 so

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> lehrer: good evening, i'm jim lehrer. deadly bombings in baghdad killed more than 100 people. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the pbs newshour tonight, the coordinated attacks targeted government sites. we get the latest from the iraqi capital. >> lehrer: also tonight, on afghanistan the u.s. commander and the top diplomat told congress the boost in troops will halt the taliban within a year. >> woodruff: meantime, britain marked its 100th combat death in afghanistan this year. the newshour's margaret warner is in london. >> warner: prime minister gordon brown has pledged to send an additional 500 troops to afghanistan. but the war is increasingly unpopular here. i'll have a special report from britain. >> lehrer: president obama outlined new stimulus and jobs proposals and he called on americans to spend their way out of recession. we'll have a debate about his proposals. >> woodruff: and ray suarez continues our series on the nation's economy. tonight, how ann arbor, michigan, is being helped by a cockroach. >> so

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 charg

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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

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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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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

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

i'm jim lehrer. a deadlock at the climate talks in copenhagen. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight, hundreds of protesters tried to disrupt the conference. >> lehrer: we'll get the latest from ray suarez at the summit. >> suarez: another day of negotiations here have still failed to produce a text world leaders can embrace here, but the u.n. secretary general told the "newshour," he still believes agreement is possible. i'll have a report. >> brown: there were some steps forward today, including pledges to protect rainforests. we'll see how that could play out in the amazon. >> lehrer: then, a performance review for federal reserve chairman ben bernanke. economist james galbraith and former fed vice chair alice rivlin debate his record. >> brown: and the relevance in our time of john maynard keynes: "newshour" economics correspondent paul solman has a somewhat off-beat explanation. ♪ my general theory made quite an impression i transformed the econ profession, you know me, modesty say it loud and say it clear, we're all keynesians now. >> lehrer: that's all

i'm jim lehrer. president obama shoved senate democrats toward a final vote for health care reform. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, a deal would set the stage for congressional passage by christmas. >> lehrer: we'll talk to two journalists who are on the deal- making story. >> brown: then, terror suspects from guantanamo bay in cuba will be moved to a prison in rural illinois. margaret warner reports. >> lehrer: a showdown in copenhagen between china and the u.s. on fighting global warming. ray suarez is at the climate talks. >> brown: plus, a very unusual look at climate change, seen from inside one of mount everest's glaciers. >> lehrer: and paul solman talks to economist and statesman george schultz, who believes no financial institution should ever be considered "too big to fail." >> there's an underlying principle here that has got lost sight of, and that's the importance of skin in the game. when you have some of your own money involved, you pay a lot more attention. >>

and he told "the newshour's" jim lehrer he plans to be heavily involved in reconciling the two bills into a final version. >> we hope to have a whole bunch of folks over here in the west wing, and i'll be rolling up my sleeves and spending some time before the full congress even gets into session, because the american people need it now. >> reporter: mr. obama has said he hopes to have a health care bill on his desk before delivering his state of the union address early next year. >> we have been coughing the battles on capitol hill for "the wall street journal" and has more about the pitfalls ahead. and a half tali, thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> woodruff: they've been at this for years, months on this particular piece of legislation, how big a deal is this. >> i actually think it's a hauj deal. for a century liberals have been fighting for something like this never before has even one chamber of congress come close to considering this and now you have both chambers passing it. you know, as recently as a few months ago after all the tea party demonstrations in au

." >> sreenivasan: tomorrow night on the newshour jim lehrer will have an interview. republicans have picked up another vote in the u.s. house. freshman democrat parker griffith of alabama announced today he is switching sides. he opposed the economic stimulus package and health care legislation, and had one of the most conservative voting records of any house democrat. democrats still control the house by a substantial margin. in economic news, re-sales of existing homes soared in november to the highest level in nearly three years. the national association of realtors said it was due to low mortgage interest rates and a federal tax credit. the housing data helped wall street rally. the dow jones industrial average gained more than 50 points to close near 10,465. the nasdaq rose 15 points to close at 2,252. negotiations intensified today for a prisoner swap between israel and hamas. the islamic militant group that rules gaza has offered to release israeli army sergeant gilad shalit. he was captured more than three years ago. in turn, israel would free 1,000 palestini

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 countries. de

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. >> if you watch booktv recently you have seen gwen ifill on breakthrough and with jim lehrer's newshour. with your new job do you have time to read and what are you reading? >> after writing the book i had no time to read anything that had to do with a book that actually now that it's out i started reading all kinds of things again. i am in the middle now of reading john stupak's book about antonin scalia, supreme court justice. i'm reading david paul's book about the campaign of course because trading dreams at midnight by by ann mckinney who writes these wonderful fictional stories about women, african-american women in the inner city so that was my fun book and still kind of a downer. crusco what is your preferred place to read? >> guest >> i read a couple of different ways. i read on planes. i have a kindle sali can travel with different books. on at home i have a special chair 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 contin

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>> guest: i didn't actually but jim lehrer who spoke to him after me did.e expects to have people down to the white house to really be in the middle of this conference process which i thought was interesting. he has taken a very hands-off, personally a hands-off approach to this. there have been white house officials in, every time you walk around the capitol you run into one. you can't turn around without running into somebody from the white house. they have definitely been involved but they have really wanted to leave this, it has been very difficult for both the house and senate to work this out obviously both bills passed with not a vote to spare. in the house, even though there is large democratic majority, you had, three dozen democrats did not vote for the bill. in the senate they obviously needed every single member of the democratic caucus and got it but it was not easy. clearly there was a lot of arm-twisting and deal-making. and that happened. but i think now in this conference process the president said to jim lehrer he expects to have negotiato

last night, jim lehrer interviewed president barack obama. >> we have the strongest health care reforms we have ever seen in this bill. the whole argument about a patient's bill of rights in the 1990's -- this is patient's bill of rights on steroids. it reduces the deficit. . c-span >> i think that would have helped. >> the message from the new york stalt young democrats. they write, they are pleased they will pass the healthcare reform so we can all have coverage. >> and a writing set to be on a slate of provisions set to kick in six months. those changes wouldn't fafkt people to who buy insurance on their own. later on, the most powerful insurance markets don't take affect until 2014. and insurance companies plan to get all healthy people into the system before. starting that, insurers would no longer be able to charge older people more than three times as much for insurance. democrats thinking that what we have done so will blow over, they are very wrong. >> anthony on the phone, you are opposed to the bill. >> very much so. >> tell us why. >> i'm 68 years old. i worked until i was 6

last night, jim lehrer interviewed president barack obama. >> we have the strongest health care reformshave ever seen in this bill. the whole argument about a patient's bill of rights in the 1990's -- this is patient's bill of rights on steroids. it reduces the deficit. . c-span >> i think that would have helped. >> the message from the new york stalt young democrats. they write, they are pleased they will pass the healthcare re c all have coverage. >> and a writing set to be on a slate of provisions set to kick in six months. those changes wouldn't fafkt people to who buy insurance on their own. later on, the most powerful insurance markets don't take affect until 2014. and insurance companies plan to get all healthy people into the system before. starting that, insurers would no longer be able to charge older people more than three times as much for insurance. democrats thinking that what we have done so will blow over, they are very wrong. >> anthony on the phone, you are opposed to the bill. >> very much so. >> tell us why. >> i'm 68 years old. i worked until i was 65, for my own be

. >> lehrer: tomorrow night ray 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

lehrer: tell them what it is. >> you kw, i think you can make a case that iis a step ay from the public option that was celebrated. 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: a