jeffrey brown will have a report, and we'll talk to former secretary of state madeleine albright and former national security adviser brent scowcroft. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill, in tampa, florida, where we've come for a weeklong look at what americans think about their government. tonight's topic: the economic downturn hits home. first, paul solman reports on florida's real estate crisis, the high cost of foreclosure. >> reporter: do you feel bad? >> absolutely. i cried every night. how can i not pay these people sfwhak this is my home. it's hard. >> reporter: but finally you had no choice. >> no. it's been hard. >> ifill: then, we look at how the sluggish economy is costing individuals their american dreams, and what they want the government to do about it. >> lehrer: plus, ray suarez looks at poland two days after the plane crash that killed 96 people, including the president and other top government officials. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour is provided by: >> what the world needs now is energy. the energy to get the economy humming ag

madeleine albright said letgs@ goá"&@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ y&' is that the purpose?>> i get this question with every appearance. i think that the best way to put it is that the issues of what constitutes true islam and what does not are best answered among muslims and by muslims. and our concern is really with those who seek to use violence as a means to effect our policy and our actions in the world. i would argue that it's a sign of our seriousness that we don't resort to that kind of language precisely because it has had such negative effects in the past when people have gotten themselves tangled up in issue of muslim doctrine. and i think that it is counter productive for american political officials, for officials of any kind to start hopinging forth in terms of terms about what religion says or doesn't. it has not yet gotten us anywhere in the past and i don't think it will get us anywhere in the future h anywhere in the past and i don't think it will get us anywhere in the future. doesn't mean i as scholar didn't write about it and doesn't mean lots of other p

just like the last several mornings, madeleine albright a jack -- maybe a jacket to start the day but i don't think you ill need it the rest of the day. there are high and mid-level clouds. it will be a partly sunny day today. that cold front out to the west will kind of fall part when it gets here. what it will do is allow much warmer air to get in here as that cold air gets shunted off to the north. today, we'll be in the upper 70s and then we'll be talking so80s around here. julie wright weather as we get into tuesday and wednesday. if you are headed out to the baseball game, it should be a very pleasant afternoon with partial sunshine and highs in the upper 70s. >> that sounds nice. also, for the easter egg roll down at the white house, it is usually really chilly and sometimes rainy and nasty but not this year. >> should be great. >> our big story, redskins fans talking about the super bowl already. julie, i thought we were coming to you a little later. >> that's okay. >> well, what do you think about the redskins move? >> that is interesting. donovan mcnabb coming in from philly

we actually had madeleine albright come. >> reporter: the small indianapolis campus was the proud ownerip game before losing to duke, and like duke has a very high graduation rate. >> it confirms for me that it is possible to achieve athletic excellence and academic excellence at the same time. dr. bobby fong is the president of butler. >> the men's basketball team practices at 6:30 in the morning. that's when they all have free from class. >> we spoke to one of the stars. >> we've got the whole final four stuff going on, but the coach is more worry about our grades and making sure we're taking care of that stuff while this is going on. >> what does he think about secretary duncan's proposal. will the organization jump through hoops to get this done? doesn't look that way. in a statement, the ncaa declared, we share arnie duncan's concern. however, imposing a ban on teens for the academic performance a probably not the best course of action. basing postseason bands on graduation rates penalizes the wrong students. the ncaa currently uses a complex point system to ban teens from postseas

madeleine albright saying a price worth paying. i do not understand that remark, either. there is only one bogey in the middle east and only one country with nuclear weapons -- only one bully. that country for the past 60 years by violence approval rating its neighbor's land and occupying its. israel has never been required to account for their nuclear weapons. host: is your view, if israel is allowed to have weapons for self-defense iran should be able as well? caller: israel should not have them. we should not have them. no one should have these weapons. the very idea of that these weapons can and should be used is insane if you know what they do which apparently people did not anymore. host: to there was a demonstration yesterday in iran of their military strength. the headline here from "the baltimore sun." tribune newspaper story. concern over choices on that pteron nuclear policy. -- on the teharan nuclear policy. also in this story -- the morning, iowa. randy, republican color. caller: i think we are all kind of missing the bullet here. iran is not going to attack

and the heart of the storm and the political pressure from those countries from clinton and madeleine albright that forced their hand that cannot make them act in a way that stopped the violence. left to their own devices devices, without that pressure from their own citizens, i would venture to say nothing would have been done. my endorsement of the u.n. is couched in a great deal of caution. >> want to go back to the beginnings of the berlin airlift from the u.n. and the way it happened was josef stalin did not give interviews but occasionally answer written questions. the two correspondents had submitted six questions. one of those, as several, a couple refer to the airlift but the answer was they were published in the hearst papers and read by dean acheson assistant secretary of state gaston had not mentioned currency reform in his answers. and currency reform americans bringing in new currency to the old dieing currency was the trigger point* but he did not mention that one year later. back to send spotted it has the deputy u.s. representative friendly with the soviet ambassador in the me