. >> brown: we'll talk to senators sherrod brown and lindsey graham about the bill's components, compromises and politics. >> ifill: then thousands of iranians turn a funeral for a dissident cleric into a full- scale street protest. margaret warner looks at what's next for the opposition in iran and their supporters here. >> brown: what happened in copenhagen and what now. >> now it's up to people to come together because we need a deal that is real. >> brown: ray suarez just back from the climate summit explains. >> ifill: and we'll take a second look at john merrow's reports on an attempt to overhaul a major urban school system, whatever it takes. >> compassion . i think that when you're doing the kind of work that i'm doing in public education where the lives and the futures of children hang in the balance, you cannot ... you can't play with that. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour major funding for the pbs newshour is provided by: >> what the world needs now is energy. the energy to get the economy humming again. the energy to tack

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the massachusetts democrat is joined by republican lindsey graham of south carolina and independent joe lieberman of connecticut. this is almost half an hour. [inaudible conversations] >> thank you, all, for being here today. senator gramm and lieberman and i have been engaged in a lot of meetings over the course of the last several weeks, sitting down regularly with our colleagues to develop a framework that will guide our efforts to develop comprehensive climate change and energy legislation that will pass the senate early next year. today, we are sending a letter to president obama off porting this framework and we are releasing this framework to do and others. this week in the epa's endangerment finding, the obama administration sent a clear message about the serious threat climate change poses to public health. they also sent a crystal clear message to congress, "get moving." impose regulations by definition will not include the job protections and investment incentives that we are proposing in our framework today. in the potential for agency regulation those who aim to grind the l

and lindsey graham, in exchange with lindsey graham, the secretary of defense, said it's our plan and other -- another senator called it a target, and there was no specific disagreement. would the white house agree with that description of july 20, that it's a target and a plan? >> no, july, 2011, is the point in which the president believes our troops are going to begin to transition out, and the responsibility of security is going to go -- beginning to go in certain places to the afghans. >> disagree with the idea that it's a target? >> i did not look at those particular points in the hearing. i'm not necessarily sure that each of the characterizations that you said are contradictory. >> he says he believes at that point? >> well, yes. that's the policy is -- let me be clear. let me be clear because the president was clear. our forces in july of 2011 will transition out of afghanistan. again, understand what he said. this is a conditions-based drawdown. decisions made by the commander in chief. but that's -- understand where we're talking about, understand where we got to july, 2011

everyone from the stokowski, from alaska, the top republican on the senate energy committee, to lindsey grahamst involved in crafting a kind of bill from south carolina. but then you have the two main moderate republicans, as well as a handful of others. bob corker from tennessee. it is a mix. with a lot of the moderate democrats from the country, you're talking but indiana, michigan, ohio, even arkansas. it is a range of people that has çto work on it. it's still our main -- our first call comes from -- host: our first call comes from california. caller: happy new year from california. i am a democrat and i am very upset with president obama. i think he should get the academy award, not the nobel peace prize, because he has just let us all about. i do not think he really cares that he has let us down. with the environment, he led me down there. with health care, he led me down there. host: joanne, how did he let you down with the environment? caller: he really did not say anything. he looks into the camera with this straight face, and he is lying to the american people. democrats especially

everyone from the stokowski, from alaska, the top republican on the senate energy committee, to lindsey grahamt involved in crafting a kind of bill from south carolina. but then you have the two main moderate republicans, as well as a handful of others. bob corker from tennessee. it is a mix. with a lot of the moderate democrats from the country, you're talking but indiana, michigan, ohio, even arkansas. it is a range of people that has çto work on it. it's still our main -- our first call comes from -- host: our first call comes from california. caller: happy new year from california. i am a democrat and i am very upset with president obama. i think he should get the academy award, not the nobel peace prize, because he has just let us all about. i do not think he really cares that he has let us down. with the environment, he led me down there. with health care, he led me down there. host: joanne, how did he let you down with the environment? caller: he really did not say anything. he looks into the camera with this straight face, and he is lying to the american people. democrats especially a

then i watched the hearings before the senate of the jeff sessions and lindsey graham grilling attorneyan, saying that these terrorists in cuba have admitted that they were guilty of participating in 911 -- in 9/11. well, if jeff sessions had been tortured every day for four years and was reported 180 times -- and waterboarded 180 times, he probably would have admitted to being involved in 9/11 also. host: thank you. you were referring to the attorney-general eric holder. there is a report about his deputy. stepping out in february. the individual involved is david ogden, who was also chairman of the administration posture justice department transition team. "he oversaw nearly every time sensitive issue in justice affairs. the attorney general and his staff expressed repeated of frustration when the matter is that popped up in mr. -- bogged up in mr. ogden's office." mike from san antonio, what is on your mind? caller: hello, thank you for c- span. i just want to make a comment on the power of words. the american people are always referred to as consumers. perhaps if we refer to ourselv

in south carolina, jim dementhe and lindsey graham. in tennessee, alexander and bob corker. in texas, john cornyn and kay bailey hutchinson. in utah, robert bennett and orrin hatch. in wyoming, john bo rah sew and michael enby. please remember these names. these are people who have stole health care for this country -- who have staaled health care in this country. they watched as day after day, month after month, people get sick and even die because they have no health coverage. i assure each and every one of you that have done anything to obstruct health care, people will remember. maybe not the people who die, but the people who loved them. the people whose names i read at our website, namesofthedead.com. these are people who are gone but the names, the list grows every single day until we solve this problem. then in the end, when we do solve this problem, and it's inevitable, every other industrial country in the entire world has health insurance for everyone, when we do join the ranks of those countries, people are going to remember who made that happen and show kindness