for margaret. he has done this multiple times, where he has intervened in the life to better the recipients on the other side. >> he wrote a wonderful column one time. he was in africa and he said i am taking 50 of my best sources out to dinner and it was a village in africa and he provided some kind of a feast. and journalism it is perfectly fine to take a congressman out to dinner but it is not supposed to be okay to give a desperate migrant $20 which i think does not make sense. >> in numerous places all around the world. and in the then the other thing is, i go eased in the summertime and michael is to get together at -- my goal is to get to gather some kind of venue where i can gather people to talk about what the situation is here, because so many misinformation and disinformation exists in regard to migrant. and i thought i had it all set up last summer, and thanks to both you and the trio for having written, because those were books that i intended to have in this discourse. >> let me inter

thank you margaret. doctor tom wenz, he's is an expert if anger management and substance abuse treatment and has worked with with many youth throughout his career. he came to me through george anderson who runs an anger management firm. they have taken the science of conflict mediation and made it into an accessible discipline for trainers, people who are working with young people throughout the state and throughout the county. do you know that there's only, i think now one state that mandates anger management in the school and it was texas. and it's only been within the last year. doctor wenz is an advocate. he's also a vietnam veteran who saw many people suffer from substance abuse in the wake of that war and conflict and has a tremendous amount of experience. he as a doctorate. a master's degree in working with children and works in his own consulting business as well. doctor tomas wenz. >> angela chan as worked with san francisco and community based organization in the area of violence reduction and

margaret cooley who writes nonfiction and poetry. also with us from boston but having stepped off the plain from dublina daniel to be lynn a writer at emer son college. i want to start by reflecting back that those of you folks endeavored to reveal hidden histories of your family lives. we have spoken in advanced of today's conversation. it's clear to me you pursued the stories of your families histories for decades through genealogical work and writing and reflection. i'm wondering if can describe how you dot work you do and where the seeds of your curiousity, how they were planted and want compelled you to do this work. >> i would say that i was have much inspired since i lived in san francisco, california. we are a country of immigrants. in san francisco in particular, we have so many first generation americans. my husband is just became an american citizen a couple of months ago. i have friendlieds who are first generation from vietnam. palestine, israel. mexico, as i watch them struggling with their cultural identities and tryin

as margaret said, in 1949 we came to the south bronx, which was an irish neighborhood, mostly. i was sort of a spaced-out kid, destined obviously to be a poet. i was this big at 13 and i was a good rollerskater and the kids were amazed and they befriended me. after a while, they recognized that i had some sort of athletic ability and because i was so spaced out, they mistook it for great courage and if they pushed me, i pushed them back. it was just like a game. so they took to me and asked me to join the shamrocks. i even changed my name from ed vega to ed mcveigh. and this is how they passed me off because most of the teams they played were other irish kids. this was a regular football team so, consequently, they listed me as eddie mcveigh. it was great fun and my friends were jimmy flynn, paddy o'connor. my siblings married the shenny's and i almost married a catherine finerin but it didn't work out. i have a nephew, sean patrick mcflynn. i always question myself because my writing about the irish is really my writing about myself coming to the united states and coming into

. >> i would like to ask, thank you very much, margaret, that was great. i would like to ask principle dierck about an experience at his school when i young person saw another person being victimized and actually a group of young adults were stealing school binders and he was afraid she was going to be victimized. how do you work collaboratively with schools, >> i have 2 stories to relate. the first one, took place at washington high school. we had adopted a hot line many years ago before they were in vogue. this young man call about criminals victimizing kids on the 38 bus line. every day these guys were getting on the same stop and steal shoesing and pack backs from kids and get off the next stop. no one did anything about it. he didn't do anything about it until the guy in the row in front of him got victimized. the police were able to put up a sting operation and that they were able to catch them. another instance. somebody jumped on the bus and beat this boy up and jumped off the bus and the other students at our school have all our students have been

. >> warner: and i'm margaret warner. on the newshour tonight, we have the latest on the escalation in syria as thousands of refugees try to escape government assaults by crossing into neighboring turkey. >> brown: then, we look at defense secretary robert gates' warning that nato faces irrelevancy unless european allies shoulder more of the military burden. >> future u.s. political leaders may not consider the return on america's investment in nato worth the cost. >> warner: plus, we have a special report on dissent in iran in the aftermath of the disputed presidential election two years ago. >> brown: mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. >> warner: and ray suarez examines why a federal espionage case against a former national security agency official fell apart. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> oil companies have changed my country. >> oil companies can make a difference. >> we have the chance to build the economy. >> create j

let's move on to another tape for you, margaret.d his candidacy for president of the united states in new hampshire on thursday. he was on page 3 of the manchester union leader. she was on page 1. she's not running, at least not now. he's been running for a long time. he made it official. it seems like something's screwed up here. >> listen, we're always go going to follow the shiny object. donald trump was not a serious presidential candidate -- >> and got plenty of coverage. and got more coverage when he had pizza with sarah palin this week -- >> the two coming together. you know, all the states in the lower 48 she picked new hampshire. it's not an accident. she wanted to crash his party and she did and she can. so, throughout this campaign, have you to feel sorry for republicans who are serious about it. she can come in at any moment and upset their apple carts. that's just who she is and how much coverage she can get. >> jeff, do we not have that paul reveer sound bite? i'll have to tell our viewers when asked by chris wallace s

of course margaret, we want to see those lights on. my specific question is to the new superintendent, i am a representative of the new high school going to bay view, bay view school of social justice. my specific concern is the attendance on back page from the main topic. there's no professional development and it's not monitored by the district. now connect as a capacity of 4 hundred student s and only attendance of 202. thank you. >> you know, one of the problems with that system, i mentioned that people want to have access to go anywhere they k. they bus themselves out. that's really what happened here. when we review this type of system. we're breaking up neighborhoods without the intention of wanting to do that. the intention was good. we wanted to give everybody access to any school. but we now. it's time. years later to revisit that, wait a minute, what are we doing with this system? we are open to that discussion. as you will see in our new strategic plan. our plan is based upon one thing facing america. recently, a couple of

. >> i really, i completely agree with margaret. when you look at this list, the reason some schools have this is because those schools go out and hustle funds. we are blessed because d.c. yf. we have the city that helps us. we have prop h. but the reality, the bottom route is our state doesn't fund anything. our problem, frustration as a school districts. they are not opposed to doing what texas has done. we would love to have social emotional communities. we don't even have the money to have a basic teacher in every classroom. california is an out right disgrace. how can we be the eighth richest economy? we're the 8th richest economy and we rank 48th. we will be dead last. that means louisiana. mississippi. every one will fund education. better than the 8th richest. every one of our children deserve this. we aren't walking the talk. the reality is, we talk a good line. but we don't walk the talk. this public, all the citizens. not only in san francisco, but in california better start standing up for our kids. we are not funding it

and the third component is similar to what margaret was talking about. i irish american. i didn't know what a pure american was. none of my friends were pure americans. a lot of my friends were lebanese and from syria. i had yewish and irish american friends. all of our identities were mixed. my sense of being american was being in a mix of things. >> margaret could you also reflect in a prior conversation you talked about your father had a sense of where he came from and it was a little more difficult for your mom to articulate that? >> sure. mother's side is irish american my father come from a different heritage. he is a genealogy. he traced his family all the way back to the times when they moved from spain to a region of france. that's where his family came from as peasants in 1850. and for generations, his family members had been going back to this place to visit their distant cousins. they knew exactly where it was. i was thinking that was a year after my irish american family came here. why don't my irish american family know this information. i want to try to fin

>> not quite like this, margaret. there have been other cases where in the middle of a union contract, the company will say we're going to close shop and move, and the n.l.r.b. will bring a lawsuit and say you can't do that. that's retaliation. you're vilth the contract. so the n.l.r.b. has moved against companies moving-- that have moved plants to the south. i think the problem here is boeing-- according to the n.l.r.b., boeing was caught redhanded saying we're doing this to punish you for striking, and to prevent you have striking again. and they say that's a suppression of workers' rights. folks in south carolina are outraged by that. they say-- and boeing is outraged. they say boeing should have the right, like any company, to decide where it wants to locate a plant and federal bureaucrats shouldn't get in the way. >> warner: now, what is the union's role in all this? i noticed at the hearing this week in seattle the judge was urging boeing and the union to settle. >> right. so the machinists brought the case to t

. >> ifill: margaret warner talks to food and drug administration commissioner margaret hamburg about a new campaign to get people to stop smoking by putting graphic warning labels on cigarette packages. >> brown: from cambodia, we have a report on teaching young people about their country's violent past, even as a new round of genocide trials is set to begin. >> many here who lost family members and many others whose parents were in the regime. learning about had history isn't just a school lesson, it's the story of who they are. >> ifill: and judy woodruff explores investment bank j.p. morgan's multimillion-dollar settlement over fraud charges related to the mortgage meltdown. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> okay, listen. somebody has got to get serious. >> i think... >> we need renewable energy. >> ...renewable energy is vital to our planet. >> you hear about alternatives, right? wind, solar, algae. >> i think it's got to work on a big scale. and i think it's got to be affordable. >> so, where are they? >

margaret warner joins me from the white house now for a preview of tonight's address. margaret, in a policy sense, a political sense, the military sense, what is the context behind tonight's speech in >> the context, as you pointed out, gwen, is the military one on the ground. just to put this troop withdrawal in context, president obama has essentially more than tripled u.s. forces in afghanistan from the 32,000 there when president bush left to 100,000. so this year's 10,000 withdrawal will barely nick that. by the end of next year, he'll be back to from t pre-search level, that will be twice as many as president bush had. what play surprise people tonight is the pace of that withdrawal next year, which is that the president will announce that, in fact, those 20,000 coming out next year are going to be out by the end of the summer or by september at the latest. that means they won't be there, all of them, through the full "fighting season" as military commanders add hoped. >> ifill: is this intended for an international audience or is it intended for domestic audienc

. >> warner: and i'm margaret warner. on the "newshour" tonight, we excerpt the president's news conference and assess the current impasse with two senators: new jersey democrat robert menendez and wyoming republican john barrasso. >> brown: then, we get the latest on the insurgent attack on a kabul hotel from pam constable of the "washington post" in afghanistan. >> warner: miles o'brien has the story of some do-it-yourself projects that are fun and serious all at once. >> what does a rolling cupcake have to do with teaching kids about science, technology, and mathematics? well, it's all about the frosting, i'll explain. >> brown: and judy woodruff talks to a father and daughter team-- marvin and deborah kalb, whose new book looks at the shadow cast by the vietnam war on today's military decisions. >> they had to win and yet they lost and so presidents after keep looking back at that experience and say we can't run that risk. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been

thanks so much for having me, margaret. appreciate you coming to virginia last year to do a seminar for all our business leaders. tom, thanks for giving my speech. i do not have much else to say. you covered the waterfront on what needs to be done in this country to promote growth and free enterprise. for all you governors, welcome to what we call northern virginia. it is a treat to be joined by so many distinguished leaders from the other states that are here with us. i am grateful to the chamber for doing this analysis. we are friends but we do like to compete against one another. it said that mr. jefferson did think that these were the laboratories of democracy and also the laboratories of competition. finding ways to work together is critical for the future so i appreciate the chambers work. we are here to help and talk about some of the things that are working in our states. more importantly, for me to learn from you by your questions and your ideas about how we can promote a better free enterprise system here in the u

margaret, this looks like bob ker ree's moment. i don't see what prevents him from running to the front of the pack now. >> well, you have him and song gas who could take advantage of the situation. bill clinton is not that well known. he can show that he can handle a crisis. this is an opportunity to be not like gary hart, whom you'll require was a grim fleeting presence after the donna rice affair. so there is an opportunity. and one thing we know is hillary clinton is not going to break character. she's shown that. she is going to play the good wife all the way through. >> we're going to find out what kind of difference that makes. just four years ago 1988 the democratic front runner gary hart collapsed in a sex scandal. his wife was not very publicly supportive of him. you see hillary clinton trying to hold this together. >> right. last noigt on that special edition of "60 minutes", monster audience right after the super bowl. i happened to be at steve kroft's house for a super bowl party, we watched the interview. afterward i

margaret kmo is an outspoken supporter of gay rights. me her thoughts on the new york law. >> i think it's time. i think it's time that people realize now -- i think conservatives realize that they cannot legs late morality and cannot continue to discriminate against a group of people in order to kind of fulfill their political agenda, that discrimination can no longer be part of the political agenda. this is what conservatives now are getting and that's why things are changing. >> and do you suppose that with gay marriage, with same-sex marriage being allowed in new york, being the sixth state now, this is going to be much more impactful than the previous five and the district of columbia's acceptance of same-sex marriage has ever been? >> i feel like new york cultural, politically, it's really -- it's really something that effects the rest of the world, not just the rest of the country. >> more face-to-face with comedian, actress, author, margaret cho, next month in the cnn newsroom. >>> coming up, a new device measures and tracks your

. >> reporter: that's something margaret phillips knows all too well. the 81-year-old new yorker got shingles 13 years ago. on a 0-10, what was your pain. >> 11. 12. >> reporter: only after her doctors at st. luke's roosevelt hospital center implanted an electric stimulator in her spine was the pain messengerrable. she say now it's a six. you're constantly in pain. >> every second of the day. >> reporter: for as many as one in five shingles patients pain lingers long after the rash clears up. >> we don't know anything that could prevent shingles, other than the vaccine. >> reporter: the shingles vaccine, zostovax, made by merck, is recommended for people 60 and older. but they account for only half the cases. so now, the c.d.c. is considering whether to recommend shingles vaccine at age 50 which would cover two-third of cases. for patients in their 50s, the vaccine lowers the risk of getting shingles by about 70%. for those 60 and over it cuts the odds in half yet only about 10 pes of eligible patients are getting the vaccine. cost may be a big reason.

. >> ifill: and margaret warner talks with the u.s. special envoy for sudan on the mounting violence there, as the nation prepares to split in two. >> out of fighting more than 70,000 people have been displaced. we're very concerned about getting humanitarian aid into those areas. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> okay, listen. somebody has got to get serious. >> i think... >> we need renewable energy. >> ...renewable energy is vital to our planet. >> you hear about alternatives, right? wind, solar, algae. >> i think it's got to work on a big scale. and i think it's got to be affordable. >> so, where are they? >> it has to work in the real world. at chevron, we're investing millions in solar and biofuel technology to make it work. >> we've got to get on this now. >> right now. and the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and fo