judy as sort of like another person, but i am grateful for the time that judy was in my life.cause judy did keep me alive when all hope seemed to be lost in the life that i was living. >> in the end, joseph feels his story isn't so remarkable, not in the big picture sense anyway. it has some unusual complications and is full of painful struggles, but still, he says, it's just a story of the search for love and belonging. >> the day-to-day life of, you know, people in a relationship. you come home to your spouse every night, and you have dinner. you sit together on the couch and watch television or a movie together. you go to bed. you wake up the next day and go to work. you know, it's family. it's about family and about loving and caring for another person. and that makes me no different than anybody else on the planet.

stay with us. ♪ [music break] ♪ [music break] >> judi bar"who bombed judi bar" i want to think the students today. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the controversial anti malaria drug known to induce psychotic behavior, did it helped cause the massacre of 17 afghan civilians by u.s. soldier earlier this month? that is the question posed by new exposÉ and having to impose. reporter mark benjamin has revealed the pentagon recently launched an emergency review of mefloquine, also known as lariam. the drug is used to protect soldiers from malaria, but has been known to have side effects including psychotic behavior, paranoia, and hallucinations. it has been implicated in a number of suicides and homicides. in 2009, the army decreed that soldiers who have suffered a traumatic brain injuries should not be given the drug. the pentagon initially ordered the review of mefloquine in january, but this month, just after nine days after staff sergeant robert bales was detained for killings of 17 afghan civilians in a shooting rampage, the army issued

. >> good evening, i am judy woodruff. >> a and i am again eiffel we will have the latest results and analysis on this pbs special report on today's voting from alaska to georgia .. >> mitt romney had hoped to over wellment his rivals tonight, instead he found himself in a fierce struggle with rick santorum. >> romney claimed wins in three states, massachusetts, where he was once governor, and vermont and virginia. but santa santa bested him in the north dakota caucuses and the oklahoma and tennessee primaries. >> and newt gingrich came up with a single win in his home state of georgia. >> one of the night's biggest prizes, ohio, remained too close to call, with santorum and romney in a virtual tie. romney spent this election night in massachusetts and addressed his support in other words boston, here is some of what he said. >> this, it is wonderful to be able to go home tonight for the first time in two months. [ cheers and applause ] >> and what cash ann said it right. what a great night. we are so excited to be in the bay state tonight, celebrating with family, with friends who ha

judy has a history of dalliances with women. her husband isn't threatened. >> my husband thought it was great. turned him on. but then i met this person. and fell head over heels. got a divorce. we moved in together. and the rest is history. >> we're going to louisburg. and to millie's bookstore. the coffee hound. >> reporter: carole and judy rolled along happily in a committed lesbian relationship. but in 1996, a health care scare tilts their world on its axis. carole has breast cancer and needs a mastectomy. she survived the cancer. but losing the breast stirs up long-suppressed feelings. >> it was a relief to get rid of it. that was the first little clue i got that maybe i was transgendered after all. after all those years of just putting that aside. and i immediately wanted the other one off. >> do you see we hung your pictures? >> yes, they look great. >> reporter: carole restarts her life as macklin, mac, for short. and starts using male pronouns. but he needs more. he needs to be physically transformed. he begins taking t

i agree with judy. i mean, i think if someone came in and said, "you know, i really want to question "whether this is really appropriate for somebody in the fourth grade," i would want to talk about that. and it would depend on what the person said

on the panel this week, pull lidser prize winning journalist, judy miller. and radio talk show host, monica crowley. jim pinkerton, american conservative magazine and political commentator, alan colmes. i'm jon scott. fox news watch is on right now. now. >> . >> jamie: well, in what many in the mid yeah call a must win for mitt romney, landed a one-two punch. hoping to ride a win against rick santorum. these are the headlines, romney averts disaster and chicago tribune, romney holds off santorum's surge and the boston globe, romney wins hard fight in michigan, cruises in arizona and romney's home state m michigan, tough win for romney, that in the detroit free press. jim, does it seem the media were picking sides in this fight? >> well, i think the media are sort of following the election returns here. romney having dipped substantially now, made michigan almost seem like an upset in terms of him-- certainly a comeback, and i also think that in the minds of media, not only on the left, but also now on the right, santorum sort of jumped the shark a little bit

here is something that judy mentioned before.s is an article that man on thursday's washington post. s shea must goes to the story, when in an overcrowded station wagon, mitt romney puts the dog on the roof on a dog carrier, and sheltered from the wind and gail has mentioned it 50 times. >> shame must the star. and he should deal with the dog and-- >> first he said the dog loved the open air and then he said the dog was in an airtight box, so we've got to go one explanation. >> sort of like barack obama on one hand when gas prices he went up over george bush and it was his fault and now that he's president. it's-- >> i come from the west, and i used to have a pickup truck and a dog and my dog loved riding in the bed of the pickup truck. >> did the dog have an open air or air top box either way t someone had to wipe the windshield. >> did you strap him to the the truck. >> and someone claimed that this network is schilling for mitt romney and herman cain and he has been on more than he has. >> and let's play the clip on brian kilm

. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the "newshour" tonight, we get the latest on the mounting anger around the country and look at why the incident has touched a national nerve. >> brown: then, ray suarez assesses troubles in afghanistan and pakistan with author and journalist ahmed rashid. >> woodruff: from our series on coping with climate change, hari sreenivasan reports on two texas towns finding different ways to deal with record heat and ought. >> i never take a bath, take shower, wash a load of clothes that i don't think "save water." all those things that maybe people in wetter areas do, we don't. >> brown: and we preview next week's health care arguments facing the supreme court with marcia coyle and susan dentzer. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy productive life. and with the ongoing support of these institutio

i'm judy woodruff. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, marcia coyle walks us through the steps ahead as the justices begin their deliberations. >> woodruff: then, we look at apple's agreement to work with chinese supplier foxconn to improve salaries and work conditions at factories that manufacture iphones and ipads. >> brown: margaret warner examines new details of osama bin laden's undetected life on the run for almost ten years in pakistan after 9/11. >> woodruff: mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. >> brown: in the second of two reports from burma, kira kay examines the nation's first steps to allow greater freedom for the press and political activism. >> reporter: this newsroom is a proving ground for nascent freedoms in the notoriously repressive country of burma. in a sign of wider change, burmese exile media groups have been allowed to return to the country and report. >> woodruff: and we close with a look at the frenzy surrounding tonight's lottery drang f the largest jackpot in world h

i'm judy woodruff. the polls have just closed. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the first results are coming in on this super tuesday and the first winners are being called. based on exit polling, the associated press and others have projected, in fact, the associated press has just called newt gingrich the winner in the state of georgia. that's a state he once represented in congress. it was deemed a must-win for his chances of staying in the race. >> ifill: for more on the races we're watching most closelyncluding that one in georgia, we turnto stert rothenberg of roll call newspaper and newshour political christina bellantoni. >> newt gingrich had to win georgia and everyone thought romney would be declared the winner out of virginia immediately. it was only him on ron paul on the ballot. this is sort of a nice little momentum shift for gingrich to be able to be declared the winner. we don't have any

i'm judy woodruff. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. on the newshour tonight, we have the latest on the war strategy, and we update the case against army staff sergeant robert bales, who stands accused of killing 16 afghan civilians. >> then we examine the supreme court arguments about life in prison without parole for teenagers with marcia coyle of the "national law journal." >> ifill: ray suarez reports on a proposed colorado law that would require welfare recipients to pass drug tests. >> woodruff: we ask what's behind the partisan stand-off in congress as house republicans offer a budget plan with steep cuts in taxes and spending. >> ifill: paul solman gets author charles murray's take on white working class americans, laid out in his new book, "coming apart." >> have you ever held a job that caused a body part to hurt at the end of the day? few can answer yes to that question. you are in big trouble in trying to understand the country you live in. >> woodruff: and jeffrey brown talks with condoleezza rice and joel klein about the c

i'm judy woodruff. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, we detail the charges, and examine the challenges ahead for both prosecution and defense. >> woodruff: then, margaret warner assesses new counter- terrorism guidelines for storing and analyzing private information about ordinary americans. >> brown: ray suarez reports on a new international news network paid for by the chinese government, with studios in washington and an american audience. >> we uphold the traditional journalistic values, of objectivity, truthfulness, and public accountability. >> i have my doubts about the journalistic integrity of the organization at this point. >> woodruff: we have the weekly analysis of mark shields and david brooks. >> brown: and we close with "the hunger games" phenomenon-- first, the books; now, the movie. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: bnsf railway. >> the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental probl

. >> jon: judy miller, new york daily news columnist, andrea tantaros, jim pinkerton, the editor the american conservative magazine and usa today and daily beast, kirsten powers, i'm jon scott, fox news watch is on right now. what does is say about the college co-ed suzanne fluke, who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex. what does that make her? it makes her a slut, right? it makes her a prostitute. she wants to be paid to have sex. >> this is the mistake i made, in fighting them on this issue last week, i became like them. i descended to their level when i used those two words to describe sandra fluke and i again sincerely apologize to miss fluke for using those two words to describe her. i do not think she is either of those two words. . >> jon: conservative radio host rush limbaugh using choice words about sandra fluke, georgetown law students, and activist who testified on behalf of the obama mandate for free contraceptives, following allout attacks on the left and some on the right he apologized a few times. the question t

. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, we look at what's known about robert bales and assess some of the issues raised in the case. >> brown: then, ray suarez gets an update on the shooting of an unarmed black teenager in florida by a neighborhood watch leader. >> woodruff: is a child conceived after his father's death entitled to social security survivor benefits? margaret warner talks to marcia coyle about that case, argued today at the supreme court. >> brown: hari sreenivasan looks at what's causing the early bloom of the cherry blossoms in the nation's capital. >> it's much warmer this year than what it has been in the previous years and the trees are simply reacting to the temperatures. >> woodruff: and we close with one group's radical solution for breaking the partisan gridlock in washington. >> people say to me, oh, you're supporting a third party. you might be supporting an independent. no. this is a bipartisan ticket. this would be the first bipartisan ticket in modern american history.

the gas prices are real, judy. and it's been cushonned somewhat by the sustaining of the payroll tax cut. and by low energy costs in this very mild winter. so people have, a couple of extra bucks. but it's going to start feeling. and it looks that gas praises are going to continue to go up. and that is a problem that became a problem politically yesterday when the president keystone pipeline. he had to scramble to stop the number of democrats defecting to support the republican position by is basically a jobs and gas prices, vote to limb at this time to 11. so i think that was a direct reflection of gas prices. >> woodruff: and then you have the debate, david, where the president or on one side the argument is there is only so of the president can do about gas prices and the republican its will argue there is a whole lot more the president should be doing. >> and he's more or less right. he, i do agree with the republicans the decision not to build the keystone pipeline was an insane decision it didn't do anything