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so i turned to judy and said, judy, let's sing. and she said, no, girl, i'm not doing that.hter] so then i said, well, we've got to do something. and i still don't know where this song came from, it just came out of the sky or something because i don't know who taught it to me. but in the silence i stood up, and i started walking toward the front of the hall and singing this song that i don't know where it came from, and the song went -- ♪ i don't know why i have to cry sometime. ♪ i don't know why i have to cry sometime. ♪ it would be a perfect day, but there's trouble all in my way. ♪ i don't know why, but i'll know by and by is. >> and when i got to the front of that auditorium, everybody had learned this song, and everybody was singing, and the mood changed. and everybody stood up and joined, and we were back. we were one again, and we were ready to take on the challenges that we were, that were ahead of us. that was the end of it. after that judy and i went on to separate projects, and later in the summer after it was clear that they were dead i joined the group, the te

. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, we get the details from the report's authors, and look at how the military can prepare for an end to the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. >> lehrer: then, kwame holman reports on president obama's meeting with congressional leaders. >> a stated aim of today's white house meeting was to resolve major issues in the lame duck congress. it was an early barometer of how the president and the opposition will get along in the next congress. >> woodruff: we have a newsmaker interview with white house senior advisor david axelrod. >> lehrer: margaret warner examines the decrease in schools known as "dropout factories" and the rise in high school graduation rates. >> woodruff: and gwen ifill talks to marcia coyle about today's supreme court arguments over moving inmates out of california's crowded prisons. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foun

judy. okay, now, see all you all think we are sitting here looking really calm; right? we saw this book for the first time five days ago. [laughter] we screamed. we look like we are normal, but we've been working on this book for 15 years, and we are so happy, yeah, hello. [applause] we are so happy to be sharing this with so many of our brothers and sisters, so i would like you all, i'm not asking you to stand up because we have been sitting here, but could you all, just anybody who worked with sncc put your hands up? all right. sncc is in the house. hello. .. they will see themselves and they will see that they can do it, too. it's about stepping out on faith and you don't know whether you're going to succeed but you've got to do it because if you do nothing nothing changes. okay, now what i'm going to say is talk about very quickly i grew up in new york, the home of the arthur washington irving, so i went to irving high school and our football team was the hit lists horsemen. [laughter]

of the year is judy from francisco middle school. she brought have her school with her. she has inspired by her staff and students every day. if she more recently was inspired by one of our chinese citizen after being at the school for a week created a beautiful movie with beautifully drawn visuals, a perfect english with a strong and confident voice. judy, congratulations. >> thank you all for being here. it is with deep appreciation that i look out and see members of my school community, my school family, really, my own family, my mom whether in a storm today to be here -- weathering the storm to be here. thank you, mom, for being here. thank you for being here and lot in my life. i wanted to just say that i feel a little uncomfortable accepting this award because, quite honestly, the best work that happens in a school happens when a team. here we are. i see parents, volunteers, our wonderful staff, our faculty, and we work together as a team with good spirit everyday working hard, and i thank you for trusting me. i want to also th

. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the "newshour" tonight: we talk to senators dick durbin and john barrasso about the deal- making ahead in the closing weeks of the session. >> ifill: then, debt commission co-chairs alan simpson and erskine bowles explain how they plan to win support for cutting the federal deficit. >> woodruff: two takes on the mexican drug wars-- tom bearden reports on the reach of the cartels 1,000 miles north of the border. >> the drug dealers are sent from mexico to run these cell organizations in small town america and their goal is to sell as much drugs and make as much money as they can. >> ifill: and margaret warner gets an update on the violence, and the crackdown, on drug kingpins from nicholas casey of the "wall street journal" in mexico city. >> woodruff: plus, we have a second look at spencer michels' story behind the story of a surprising bestseller. >> mark twain decreed that his autobiography couldn't be published until 100 years after his death. that's this year. >> ifill: that's

they are passional too, judy. maik no mistake about it. there are radical centrists out there, a lot of them. >> woodruff: kiki mclean we looked at who was involved today. democrats, independents, former elected republicans. no current republicans. what does that say? >> i think it says we had a good mix of folks there today. we had folks with a lot of points of view. a room with 1100 people that also had a lot of lot from across the political spectrum and trnd the country. i think it says that this is a starting point for a conversation. today was a lunch, a kick-off. we look forward to seeing it grow as word spreads across the country. >> woodruff: mark mackinnon, you are a republican. what about that? >> listen. we had great republicans there. david gergen, david brooks, tom daves. a lots of folks interested in making sure that we work together. these are people who have been part of the process, seeing what works and what doesn't. evan buy is an outgoing member. joe manchin an incoming member. lots of reflections on what works and what

i'm judy woodruff. bombs rocked the chilean and swiss embassies in rome today. >> warner: and i'm margaret warner. on the "newshour" tonight: we'll talk to two former top u.s. intelligence officials about what's being done to meet heightened security fears in europe and the u.s. as the holidays begin. >> woodruff: as the united nations reported more than 170 deaths in ivory coast, we talk to deputy assistant secretary of state william fitzgerald about the growing turmoil gripping the african country following its disputed presidential election. >> warner: special correspondent john tulenko reports on the controversy spurred by the success of small, alternative schools in the new york city system. >> when the city closed a large high school with say, 2,000 students, it was replaced by small schools serving, in most cases, hundreds of students less. and each time that happened, all those left over teenagers had to find somewhere else to go to school. >> woodruff: with south korea's on-going military exerc

. >> lehrer: and judy woodruff has a book conversation about passing on life lessons, with co-authors andrew young and his godson, kabir sehgal. >> i would not listen to parents, but i found out that i absorbed.

miller reporter judy miller for credulous reporting that she did that helped lead us into war in fact it wasn't fox news that led us to war more than any other media outlet in the united states it was the new york times that led us to war but michael gordon another palace court journalist he just by palace court i mean somebody who just he basically neal's before power and repeats what they tell him and michael gordon had written several of those same offending articles with judy miller and he's still there talking as a matter of fact about iran nuclear weapons program nobody knows for sure if they have one he's writing about it as a matter of fact this is a big problem because our biggest media the media that is most important for shaping opinion is still not getting things right or being careful enough they're still basically slaves to power in the u.s. that means basically governments and corporations and if i go to jeff i mean i don't want to ask you to be a foreign policy expert here ok but if we just put her. ok do you think. the blog sphere is mature enough that if the right wa

brady. >> you made the point for me, judy.ll and allow taxes to go up, damage our families, damage our small businesses, we're going to fight hard against it. >> woodruff: we hear you and we will leave it there for now. representative brady, representative pomeroy. >> thank you.çç >> ifill: next, new intelligence reports on the war in afghanistan and to margaret warner. >> warner: tomorrow, the white house presents its long-awaited review of how much progress has been made in the afghan war since the president's surge of u.s. forces there. today, the "new york times" and "los angeles times" reported on two classified national intelligence assessments-- one of afghanistan, one on pakistan that have gone into that review. the nie's represent the collective view of 16 u.s. intelligence agencies. they were said to offer a gloomy view of the state of play, especially when it comes to pakistan's unwillingness to take out afghan militant sanctuaries on its territory. for more, we go to elisabeth bumiller, a pentagon correspondent f

ladies and gentlemen, judy collins. thank you so much. our guest has been judy collins.pression, the arts, and america. i hope you can join us then for speaking freely. captioning provided by the first amendment center, funded by the freedom forum. captioning by captionmax www.captionmax.com >> with my artists, eight of them are working in tehran, iran, the capital city, and one is an iranian american based in san francisco. the problem is really a collective exploration in the day and the life in tehran. it is the largest city in the middle east. for the gallery, one of the first pieces you see is one piece which is a laser-cut peace, it taken directly from the map of the city itself -- a laser-cut piece. it represents the geography of the city. it is positioned right next to another work by an artist who took a 77 taxicab runs and let the potholes and the city turns of tehran dictate how the city would be portrayed. >> [singing] >> one of the other pieces that to experience in the one-day exhibition is from another artist, a recording of state radio from tehran, and is

. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the "newshour" tonight: we recap the administration's review of the war strategy and get two views on whether progress is being made. >> lehrer: then, we excerpt today's senate debate on a new nuclear arms treaty with russia. >> arms control treaties are an integral part of this country's modern history premised on the shared belief that a world with fewer nuclear weapons is a safer world. >> the united states must be able to rapidly adapt and respond to new threats to our security. now's the time for more flexible deterrent capability, not less. >> woodruff: and we debrief political editor david chalian about the politics of the agreement. >> lehrer: plus, jeffrey brown looks at changes in the cable news business as larry king hosts his last cnn program tonight. >> woodruff: and ray suarez remembers the life of legendary hall of fame pitcher bob feller. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> opportunity can

jimmy. >> thank you, judy.y dad loved talking about a sound dollar and talking about a dollar that would be as good as gold. and after the success of kemp roth in 1981, monetary policy and addressing the soundness of the dollar was the next task on his list. it never got finished in his time, but as the head of the jack kemp foundation, whose goal is to develop, engage, and recognize exceptional leaders one of the levels of engagement is on the critical issues and our monetary policy and soundness of the dollar is certainly one of the key issues that my dad cared about deeply and believed is the foundation not just for us met to live within our means, which i agree people want our government to live within our means, and dad appreciated that. but what dad got and what you and i each understand is that we don't want to just live within our means. we want to grow into greater means. and you can't do that without a sound dollar. and so having this discussion it's incredibly exciting for me because i got sick and t

. >> judy kurtz reveals the song, that toped the list. judy?cording to youtube" views, 2010 is remembered for vampires, smelling good and a lot of song paritys.3 look at this year's most watched videos on the site. this trailer for the twilight %-viewed clip.s eight most 17,000,000 people wanted to get a sneak peek of whether bella would choose edward or jacob. number five is the man, your man, could smell like. >> anything is possible when your man smells like old spice and not a lady. >> old spice commercial became a "youtube" sensation this year, garnering 25,000,000 views. but only one clip could claim the number one spot on yootube's most watched video list. and all it took was a infamous ♪ >> ♪ >> this music viieo of alabama resident antwan dobson on a local news station raked inneau view after view on "youtube". it is callld bed intruder song and watched 47,000,000 timms since beinn posted onn"youtube" in late july. for the full list of top @%outube" videos, you can check out my blog, on foxbaltimore.com/"word on the web" blog. i am judy

judy kurtz reveals when facial recoggition technology is comin3 to facebook.@ judy?and family too. the site said that soon it will rollout a feattre that can identify the faces of your friends in photos you ost. new tool is called tag facebook said if using facial scanning technology to examine user picks. if it ffnds a face that it it could make tagging easier and quicker. but new feature is raising serious privacy concerns. some crrtics compare it to bbg brother. facebook said that users can opt -ut of tag suggestions by disabbed the option in their @%count settings. the aciaa scanning software should e availlble to most users next week. and you can join the3 conversation, and more than@ 30,000 other fans of fox 45 on facebook. get breaking news and behind thh scene nff on our page. go to foxxaltimore.com/fox baltimore and become a faa today. i am judy kurtz and that's tonight's "word on the web." >> four games, that's how lonn3 it has been since the ravens' offense reached the end zone in the second half. what cam cameron said must change, in the final weeks, obvi

judy, judy! give him a lap dance.lk to you about our new six-month cd. [ laughter ] it's all part of the stimulus package." my mom's a little concerned, 'cause she's on that fixed income and i try and calm her down, like, "mom, don't worry, the president --" "the president --" "mom, what's the matter with the president?" [ laughter ] "what?" "adam, the president is black." [ laughter ] i'm like, "mom, you don't have to whisper. he knows he's black." [ laughter ] and it's kind of unfortunate my mom has that thought, but, as long as it's there, i don't mind exploiting it for my own amusement. [ laughter ] i called her the other day, i go, "ma, did you see the news? in order to qualify for health care, we're all gonna have to play basketball. [ laughter ] can you box out with your hip? can you?" [ laughter ] i am so glad the roots are laughing right now. [ laughter ] i am so glad you guys got that. i was this close not to doing it, jimmy, but -- she's in a better mood now, my mom, 'cause i've -- i've given her some good

judy, remember this. it's hard to convince republican voters or democratic voters to change their hart party preference. it's really hard. if you're a partisan republican you're going to vote republican. the way you really change the make-up of congress is through redistricting, by redrawing the districts. it only happens once every ten years. >> woodruff: how much of this, shall we say, david, guided out of washington? i mean, we know there are a lot of folks in this city watching this... these numbers very closely today. >> washington political professional plays a huge role in this. no doubt about it. it also has guided in the state capitals across the country too. there are whole as i said before sort of cottage industries set up with their computers and now it's so easy with kpurs, right, you take your mouse and can literally move a line block by block. people have dedicated their professional lives to try to draw this for a partisan advantage. we have to remember these numbers obviously affect the e

also unusual is this rolling bed tray.i said judie, this is for you.show you how this works and so i showed it to her and i said you can sit, you can have your laptop computer on here, you can have your wonderful champagne in the morning, it didn't take long to convince her. mary ann says having stories for and knowing the pieces in your home is a great way to entertain friends. you see their eyes traveling around the room and thinking oh, where did that come from and so it helps in the conversation as well.it also helps when you have as much fun decorating as a 'barrel of monkeys.'i call this home my sophisticated whimsy, i just think it's fabulous and it's romantic and every room that you go into, you just want to, i want to crawl in that bed me tooyeah, absolutely proof that wine country living can be a barrel full of fun it's really delicious, mom. it's not too well done? nope. but it is a job well done. what are you reading, sweetie? her diary. when you're done, i'd love some feedback. sure. your mom and i read that thing cover-to-cover. loved it.

there is no magnet effect here, judy.people in mexico are watchig this debate and they're thinking, hey, i can come over and get status for my kid, no way. you have to have been here, let's say it passes this month. if you weren't here in december 2005 or before that, you don't qualify. so there is not a magnet effect. this is for kids. these are for kids we've already made an investment inch now we want to make sure they're paying their tax, that they get a higher education or that they serve in our military. it's a very limited proposal for a very important group of people. >> reporter: so it sounds like a methodical, step-by-step approach. >> the problem is several. first of all, i have a 15-year-old. and if i were to take him and sneak into mexico and live there, which is very difficult to do because they're much more serious about their immigration laws than we are, he would remain psychologically an emotionally an american because, yes, he's still a kid, but he's already... his identity has been formed here. that's