i ving kristol is bill kristol's father, he's considered one of the founders of the ne-yo conservative. i'm reading from cnn wires to you. but the information is that irving kristol has passed on, he was 89 years old. be right back. >>> two pictures, one old and one new. occasionally we're going to see video of some tragic events and wonder why didn't the person who was shooting it put the camera down and just go and help? well that's not what we're talking about today. today it's about people who did help. and the small boy who is alive because of it. let's start fotos. >>> we showed you the first part of this story when it happened in july. let me set the scene for you. milwaukee, wisconsin, an suv hits a tree, flips and bursts into flames. bystanders help the woman and two-year-old girl to safety. but a 5-year-old is trapped. two offduty firefighters, brothers, happen to be close enough to help. and they do. i'll let you see it. and then i'll explain it. go ahead, roll some of this for the viewers. >> there's a baby in there! >> you hear what he says there? there's a baby in there.

irving kristol was 89 years old.n wall street today the dow jones industrial average gained 36 points to close at 9820. the nasdaq rose 6 points to close above 2132. for the week, both the dow and the nasdaq gained more than 2%. >> woodruff: and still to come on the newshour tonight: india's food crisis; brooks and marcus; and the u.n. climate change summit. that follows our look at the regulation of the financial world, one year after the meltdown. and to jeffrey brown. >> reporter: lehman brothers had declared bankruptcy. the government had pumped tens of billions of dollars into insurance giant aig, and the market plunged amid questions about the real value of trillions of dollars of securities. that was the situation one chaotic week a year ago. >> serious consequences from misjudgement. >> reporter: a year later, various proposals are being put forth in congress and elsewhere to change some wall street habits. today, for example, the federal reserve confirmed to the newshour and other news organizations that it

irving kristol started as a liberal and switched to conservatism. he's the leader of the conservative movement. he worked in think tanks and received the presidential medal of freedom. >>> check out the video out of mexico city. people are in a crowded subway station here. this is yesterday. shots suddenly rang out. you can see people scatter. trouble started when the police tried to stop a man from writing graffiti. a man shot and killed two law enforcement officials. you can see the alleged gunman firing shots. but then the alleged gunman takes cover on the train and keeps on shooting. police arrested him several minutes later. five people were wound in the shooting. >>> a powerful earthquake rattled parts of indonesia today. the magnitude is .4 quake near the resort island of bali. seven people were injured. the people running in to the streets for safety. earlier this month, another earthquake trigger add massi i e landslide that killed 65 people and injured hundreds more. >>> government lawyers are trying to stop a controversial book project. o

no, i think what i said, and maybe mistaken, irving kristol is a great admirer of strauss. you see that very clearly spelled out. yes. but absolutely right. it is one reason i did not want to go down that path. it is an extraordinary exchange between the two. at that time when kendall who was a remarkable figure people should acquaint themselves. if you can get passed to the throat clearing pros he was really marginalized as a political scientists. and it was strauss who really gate and support. minute screening. one of candles ongreat followers, who i happen to think i am alone in this -- release and on because he doesn't agree. he is the one great conservative intellectual. even though he didn't love my book very much. but strauss's will is of very much more complicated one and you are absolutely right and has to deal with ideas about democracy and how it works. strauses notion. when compared with burnham or crystals they seemed to be almost a vulgarizing. strauss was oa much more complicated novel. i actually don't even feel adequate. thank you very much for that. is tha

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bill's father, irving kristol, died friday.godfather of neoconservatism, he helped start a movement for disaffected liberals who had been mugged by reality. when kristol was awarded the medal of freedom in 2002, president bush praised him as a wide ranging thinker whose writings have helped transform america's political landscape. irving kristol was 89. and we'll be right back. an eleven sixteenths wrench over here? here you go. eleven sixteenths... (announcer) from designing some of the world's cleanest and most fuel-efficient jet engines... to building more wind turbines than anyone in the country... the people of ge are working together... creating innovation today for america's tomorrow. thanks! no problem! ♪ tell me who's watching. ♪ i always feel like somebody's watching me. ♪ (announcer) it's right here. it's easy. >> it's one of this country's national treasures. more than five million people visit it here in washington each year, but none of them get to see it the way you are about to. here's our power player of the we

professor burns what i think i said is irving kristol was a great admirer of strauss. you will see that clearly spelled out in the than negative book. yes. but absolutely. that is one reason i did not want to go down that path. it is an extraordinary exchange which i am sure the professor knows very well. strauss, at a time when kendall who was at a remarkable figure, people should buckweed themselves if you can get past that, kendall was marginalized as a political scientist in this point* and it was strauss doing something original what we all take for gnted which was to study the document, the founders taxed with minute sutiny. one of candles own great followers it is scary well who i happen to think i am a loan. really a loan. because he does not agree. i think he is one of the great intellectual conservatives of thisoint* although he did not love my book very much. but strauss's role was a much more complicated one. you're absolutelright it has to do with ideas about democracy and how it works. straussotion when compared with irving kristol, they seem to be almost

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and then later by the neo conservative includingrving kristol who had also been a follower. and you will see him. neoconservatism is an idea. this is a a single foundational premise, andt is a ver important one. i think what happens is at a certn point that alysis bens t dogma and it created a contradiction from conservatism. if one ss a culture and society and government dominated then one is almo logically predetermined, predestined to be at war with much of the institutions in the society itself. and i think once that notion to call i think the president personified most dramatically. then what had begun as a conservative critique became a kind of what we now call cultural war. and at that point conservatism ceased t see themselves engaged in a debate or conversation with liberals who might share about common in is with them. they cse instead of the politics of what i call cultural entity. so one of the beams in thbook, one of the most useful traces is when this entity was transcended by conservatives and liberals alike. that is why i foced onhe 1960's. that was the great

bill kristol, editor of the weekly standard, nina easton, washington bureau chief of fortune magazinedicated columnist, charles krauthammer. bill, let's start with you about fighting troops in fighting the war on terrorism. >> i hope president obama doesn't falter and i hope he accedes to and responds to general mccrystal and general pet tase' request for new troops to succeed in afghanistan. i'm worried that democrats on the hill are heading for the exits. people within his own administration, his chief of staff, rahm emanuel, i'm told, is telling him, you should not be the lyndon johnson of this ear era. don't get your presidency mired down in a tough war. figure out a way to get out of. there i hope president obama goes with the generals and not the political advisors. he cannot lose in afghanistan to withdraw from the place in which 9/11 was launch, what that would do from afghanistan and pakistan, it would be a shot in the arm t would show weakness on the part of america. i think it would be terrible, but i've got to say, general mccrystal and petraeus and admiral mullen and gate

journal the public interest and the father of weekly standard editor and fox news contributor bill kristol. he was 89. our condolences. does iran have the knowhow to build a nuclear bomb and did president obama make the right move by scrapping the european ground-based missile defense shield? we'll talk about all of those questions with the fox all-stars when we come back. cheer clear my mother made the best toffee in the world. it's delicious. so now we've turned her toffee into a business. my goal was to take an idea and make it happen. i'm janet long and i formed my toffee company through legalzoom. i never really thought i would make money doing what i love. robert shapiro: we created legalzoom to help people start their business and launch their dreams. go to legalzoom.com today and make your business dream a reality. at legalzoom.com we put the law on your side. >> our message will be clear. we are serious. we will soon see if the iranians are serious. this is not about process for the sake of process. in new york, we will work with our partners to put iran's choice into focus and to

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and then later by the neoconservatives, including irving kristol, who in his youth had also been a follower and reader of burnham, you will see in his memoir. neoconservatism. i think this is a sing foundational premise of modern conservatism. and it is a very important one i think what happened is at a certain point that analysis became a dogma, and it created a contradiction for modern conservatism. if one sees a culture and society and government dominated by secret contrary, then one is almost logically predetermine, predestined to be at war with much of the institutions in the society itself. and i think once that notion took hold, i think a president who personified it most amatically, again, was richard nixon. then what had begun as a conservative critique became a kind of what we now call the culture war here and at that point, conservatives seized to see themselves engaged in a debate or conversation with liberals who might share common ends with them. and broke off and chose instead to politics, of what i cal cultural entity. so one of the themes in the book, one of the motives it

hume, fox news senior political analyst and contributors mara liasson of national public radio, bill kristol of "the weekly standard," and juan williams also from national public radio. brit, welcome back from your summer vacation. we missed you. >> thank you. >> we're going to put you right to work. what do you make of the taxpayer march on d.c.? what does it say to the obama white house? what does it say to the republicans? >> it is a further reminder that on this issue regardless of what the polls say about who favors what, almost all the intensity is with the people who are resisting the president and the democrats in congress on this issue. even i would say congressman wilson whom you had a very interesting interview with, you see what kind of a man he is. this is a man most of us had not heard of, i think it's fair to say in the country and to many of us in the media. he's a pretty quiet guy. his outburst, these town hall meetings were held with this same sort of atmosphere you saw on the mall yesterday, you add it all up and what you have is all the intensity on the issue is resistanc

conservative movement, his thoughtful commentaries will be missed the father of fox news analyst bill kristolat piece by the way in the new york times if you want to read it todayments thank you for at that update. . >> the first doses of swine flu vaccine may be in the form of the nasal spray variety. this is according to federal health officials, they say 3.4 million doses of vaccine will be available in early october, but the vaccine is only approved for healthy people aged 2 to 49 years old. the world health organization says h1n1 has killed 649 people worldwide since august 30th. the hammer is getting ready for hollywood. former house republican leader tom delay. >> oh, no. >> is brushing up on his dancing skills with partner cheryl burke before he goes on dancing with the stars. so we want to know, does delay think he has some sexy moves? >> no, not sexy just having fun, okay? >> i'm not sexy, believe me. >> but you have the moves, you say? >> not yet they're coming, i'm progressing very well. >> delay originally suffered a pre-stress foot fracture during rehearseals, but says he's goin

board of directors includes conservative columnist william kristol and robert kagen. this is just over an hour. >> i think we'll get our evening session underway. for those who -- of you who are just joining us this evening, this is the final session of the day as part of the foreign policy initiatives conference advancing and defending democratcy. my name is jamie fly, executive director of the foreign policy initiative. some of have been with us so i'm happy you stayed on. this session is called voices of freedom, conversation with dissidents. and it's going to be moderated by jeff, president of radio for europe, radio liberty. jeff has been at radio free europe since early 2007. before assuming that role he was director of the institute in berlin and prior to joining aspen he was executive director of the new atlantic initiative of the american enterprise institute. i'll turn it over to him to introduce the panelists and get us going. >> thank you very much. and warmest thanks to foreign policy nishtifment welcome to everybody here at the w hotel in washington and

journal the public interest and the father of weekly standard editor and fox news contributor bill kristolas 89. our condolences. does iran have the knowhow to build a nuclear bomb and did president obama make the right move by scrapping the european ground-based missile defense shield? we'll talk about all of those bret: welcome back to new york. former c.i.a. directors wrote a letter to the president urging him not to go forward and tell attorney general eric holder to go forward with an investigation into c.i.a. interrogators n that letter is this "attorney general holder's decision to reopen the criminal investigation creates and at moss fear of continuous jeopardy for the cases for whom the department of justice ha previously declined to investigate and there is no reason to believe that the reopened criminal investigations will remain narrowly focused." ellis, you're first. >> these guys are playing to their constituents, i understand that, but it's a big jump of the gun. who should be fearful of the facts here? we're talking about a preliminary investigation. nobody is being indicte