margaret, what did you make of that? >> look, i think rob portman acted in a way that was consistent with the love for his son and consistent with a movement happening across the country with republican legislators. piers, many people don't know, more than 205 republican state legislators across the country have voted, elected leaders have voted for the freedom to marry and not lost their seats because of it. 135 members signed on to amicus brief for the supreme court, a solution to a conservative case and a constitutional case for freedom to marry. so, there is a sea change happening within the republican party across the country that is just now with rob portman percolating up to washington. and so i think we are at a tipping point. >> politico is reporting tonight that a lot of the gop elite, apparently, have been very receptive to what senator portman said. i want to play the other side of the coin, which is what rick santorum said by way of his reaction. >> i don't think it, in my mind, it doesn't alter what the rig

correspondent margaret howell. now to iraq where there is a struggle to pick up the pieces after the war that ravaged the country it's a war that cost a lot of lives and a lot of money now a new report says much of the tens of billions of taxpayer dollars the u.s. spent on rebuilding the country went down the drain and there were poor called the learning from iraq the special inspector general for iraq reconstruction stuart bowen details how the sixty billion dollars the u.s. spent to rebuild the country went to waste some projects that the u.s. started but never finished forty million dollars prison one hundred eight million dollar waste water treatment center and a seventy five million dollars pipeline and that's just to name a few so as the country remains in a bitter debate over how to curb government waste how was so much waste able to happen overseas to discuss former senator mike gravel joins us now. welcome there so sixty billion dollars pumped into rebuilding iraq but to what end is there anything to show

i will start with you, margaret, if i may. he was right on the attack, as usual, the weak liberal media, presumably include mess in this, anyone who supports gun control. >> speaking directly to you. >> the line that really got me was this one. let's listen to this. >> the one thing a violent rapist deserves to face is a good woman with a gun. >> now, the thoughts, i would imagine, margaret, i want to you think about it what he is basing it upon is every woman should therefore be armed, is a logical extensions of his argument which would, of course, sell millions more guns and he is, of course, financed by the gun manufacturers. so, is that what this is all about? >> well, i mean, piers, i hate to use your own tool against you, but you just cited polling. the polling across the country is not for assault gun weapons ban with the implementation of it. the polling is much more alined not with every woman owning a gun but people are more -- are closer to wayne lapierre's position than yours. if you were just going to say go with

. >> i want first to introduce 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

thank you that was our to correspondent margaret how. now to iraq where there is a struggle to pick up the pieces after the war that ravaged the country it's a war that cost a lot of lives and a lot of money now a new report says much of the tens of billions of taxpayer dollars the u.s. spends on rebuilding the country went down the drain and the reporter called learning from iraq the special and the special inspector general for iraq reconstruction his name is stuart bowen details how the sixty billion dollar u.s. that the u.s. spends to rebuild the country went to waste some projects that the u.s. started but never finished forty million dollars prison one hundred million dollar wastewater treatment center and seventy five million dollars pipeline and that is just to name a few so as the country remains in a better the bait over how to curb government waste how how it so much away fail to happen overseas the discuss former senator mike gravelle joined me earlier by phone and began by explaining that this report shouldn't come as a surp

margaret there are so what do we know about why the detainees are are on hunger strike what are they demanding so i spoke with prominent attorney today david remes who had just come back from one hundred with a march the fifth and six of his clients spoke to him and depth about exactly you know what they're wanting and the bottom line is they're wanting to know you know are they going to be tried are they going to be held what's happening you know it's that sense of not knowing anything that's really at the heart of this you know they're not in a position to make any type of demands on the asli and they're being held indefinitely there and it seems the feeling that he gave me was that they just want to know when and what is going to happen that's the bottom line and. another thing that he told me some of them would like to know why they're there you know he has a couple of clients who don't even know you know really why they're being held and it just seems to be this indefinite ongoing thing of never knowing what's going to happen i think that's that's what's at the heart of. what do

margaret, i appreciate them coming forward with the plan.ssue was the plan was not being implemented fast enough and was not going to be sufficient enough to resolve the financia crisis. so it was helpful. i ur the to ntinue to work on their efforts on that plan but what i would say is we need to do more. that was the point of adding a financial manager. so let's turn around so let's turn around detroit. we can and will address these financial issues. is. >> warner: mr. orr at your press conference you called this job the olympics of restructuring. what rur r your most pressing medie priiti? wht do you have to do first? >> well, hello, margaret, nice to meet you teleon theally. the first thing we need to do is ensure the citizens of detroit that we are focused on their needs as customers and enhanced city services. the reason i said it was the olympics is because we've got to deal with issues regarding employee and retiree benefits but we have to provide key services to the citizens so we need to look into that and see how there are ways we

margaret eaton and i call her margaret because that's what she liked to be called. i think peggy is a bit of an insult because she didn't like to be called that. she really was somebody who was going up against a different was going at it in a very difficult way. she was outspoken and bold and not a woman's role. issue did she become an for the cabinet? >> her husband killed himself. on a navalrsuer vessel, he killed himself so she a widow. >> with two children. >> yes. and one person who had lived at the o'neal's hotel was john henry one of jackson's closest friends, supporters, a and supporter of rachel throughout all the bad times and he was worried, at margaret's suggestion, that he ruined her reputation. there was a lot of talk they had why herffair and that's husband killed himself and so he asked jackson, should i marry her? and jackson said, certainly. he was always for love and romance. >> and jackson was familiar with her. >> he liked her. >> he stayed in the same boarding house and knew her when she was a young girl so he felt she was perfectly respectabl

everything was so ugly and margaret was totally mortified. among those who gave the cut to margaret was emily donelson. >> we have two quotes from jackson. do you suppose that i have been censured by the people to consult the ladies of washington? here is another one, i tell you, margaret, i rather have live vermin on my back benetton of one of these washington women on my reputation. did it become a constitutional crisis? hisnfortunately, it was defense that turned it from a social crisis into a political crisis. he could not leave it alone. he spent enormous amounts of time trying to defend her honor. tracking down the people would made these terrible comments. mindly, it becomes in his that it has to be an attack against him as well. that is when he sees calhoun behind all of this. >> bringing this back to his niece. he could not abide by family members who disagreed with him. >> she was so influenced by the in thethat she joined ostracism of margaret. he demanded -- she did receive for at the white house -- he demanded that she treat her

in jerusalem. >> brown: margaret, start with the speech there in jerusalem. president has been unpopular in israel. he specifically targeted young israelis in this major address. what did officials there tell you about the message he wanted to get across? >> warner: jeff, he wanted to do very much what he did in the 2008 campaign as a senator in which he directly appealed to younger and uninvolved citizens, people who have been apolitical in the past t get engaged and get involved and actually believe they can change their country. and really very resonant of the '80 8 campaign. he had one line at the end where he said "as we face the twilight of israel's founding generation, young people of israel must claim the future." now, he spent a lot of time talk to some of the founding generation or their sons and daughters here but he is saying to the israeli young people that you are not going to be secure if the israel of the future is still worried about terrorist attacks, rockets coming over the border, increasingly hostile neighborhood and there's -- there are

on the "newshour" tonight, margaret warner is in amman and updates us on the president's middle east trip, capped by a breakthrough between two key u.s. allies. >> woodruff: then, we turn to chicago, where city officials announced plans to close 54 schools, most in overwhelmingly black neighborhoods. >> now we've got to worry about our kids going to another location. worry about what's going to happen to them going to school. >> brown: hari sreenivasan continues our series on broadband technology with a look at a new digital divide over how high-speed access and mobile devices are being used. >> woodruff: and mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and friends of the newshour. 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. >> brown: it was a day of diplomacy for president obama in the mid

on the "newshour" tonight, margaret warner is traveling with the president and briefs us on his first trip to israel as head of state. >> ifill: then, we examine the allegations that chemical weapons have been used in the syrian conflict. >> brown: judy woodruff updates the efforts to pass gun control legislation in congress and around the country. >> ifill: ray suarez talks to an emergency room doctor whose new book recounts his return home to work on the frontlines in inner city newark. >> we have an overflux of patients cong ito the emrgen deptmen andif you're using the ambulance system for a non-emergency issue, you are taking away from that person who's not able to breathe. now imagine that was your grandmother, imagine that was your father. >> brown: and hari sreenivasan begins a series of stories on the impact high-speed broadband is making on our lives. tonight, the changing landscape of the entertainment industry. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> and with the ongoing support of these institution

we begin our coverage with a report from margaret warner who is on the ground there. >> warner: it was all sunshine and smiles as the president arrived on a sparkling day outside tel aviv. his tense, occasionally stormy relationship with prime minister netanyahu momentarily set aside as he began his first presidential visit to israel. >> good to see you. it's wonderful to be here. >> warner: the apparent goodwill led to a moment of levity about a deadly-serious issue that tops the agenda here-- the u.s. and israel's differing views on how to confront iran's advancing nuclear program, and what should be the trigger for military action against it. >> you hear about red lines all the time, right? >> bibi's always talking about redlines. this is all a psychological ploy! >> this was minutely planned! >> warner: netanyahu famously set his redline for action against iran's progress toward a bomb at the u.n. last fall. iran maintains its nuclear program is solely for peaceful energy production. as the arab uprisings convulse the president viewed a missile battery of the iron dome defense syst

once again tonight, margaret warner reports. >> warner: this last working day of president obama's middle east trip saw an unexpected breakthrough on an issue that has hobbled u.s. efforts toñr contain the conflict in syria-- a long-simmering dispute between israel and turkey. on the ben gurion airport tarmac before leaving israel, the president facilitated an ice- breaking phonecall between israeli prime minister netanyahu and turkey's premier erdogan. despite shared concerns about the syrian conflict and other eruptions in the region, they haven't been speaking for nearly three years. mr. netanyahu apologized for the death of nine turkish activists during a 2010 israeli commando raid on an aid ship bound for blockaded gaza. it brought a sudden halt to what had been security cooperation between the two countries. today erdogan and netanyahu agreed to normalize relations again. the president spoke of the call and that relationship's importance this evening in amman jordan >> fortunately, they were able to begin the process of rebuilding normal relations between two very important countrie

borders issue will settle the settlements issue. >> brown: very briefly margaret.n today while the president is there you have rockets coming in from gaza. is that seen as having any immediate impact or is that just more a sense of difficult these are very much still out there. >> i think it's the latter, jeff. if you had big demonstrations from the west bank that would be different but in fact it helps the president prove his point which is that the palestinian authority in the west bank has been doing a good job on security and has a different approach thans if gaza so they didn't seem troubled by that particular incident. that said it does make the point that this situation only grows more perilous by the day for both sides. >> brown: margaret warner in jerusalem, thanks so much >> sreenivas: still to come on the "newshour": congress averts a government shutdown; american manufacturing hits the trade winds; high speed infrastructure and photos from the iraq war. but first, the other news of the day. here's kwame holman. >> holman: more americans are putting thei

unfortunately for margaret, no good deed goes unpunished.the creeps will face their own punishment and in the afterlife if there is one they will have a special place in hell. and now, it is time for the results of our insta-poll. an ohio prosecutor has indicted punxsutawney phil after an awful prediction this year. we asked you should the four legged forecaster get the death penalty. murray wouldll mother nature vote. >> there is no way that this winter is ever going to end as long as this groundhog keeps seeing his shadow. i don't see any other way out. he has got to be stopped. >> judge jeanine: here is what you you had to say. rebecca says if giving incorrect information were a death penalty most politicians would have already been executed. and he steve says make him a politician. says one thing and does the opposite. and karen, absolutely not. with all of the lycoming from the white house, phil is actually he looking pretty darn good. and george, not only should he get the death penalty, he should be served for lunch. well, it was 80 h

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

when i think of being 8, 9, 10, 11, "are you there, god, it's me margaret."e books and those were books that helped define my childhood. >> and she probably turned out to be every bit the woman you hoped that this graut author would be. >> even more magnificent. >> so smart and so impressive and something for adults. thank you very much, chelsea clinton here with us tonight. >> next up, knowing how far is too far and knowing the limit at a place called the onion that's been testing the limits of allowable comedy and satire for many years. a look inside the inner layer when we come back. [ dad ] find it? ya. alright, another one just like that. right in the old bucket. good toss! see that's much better! that was good. you had your shoulder pointed, you kept your eyes on your target. let's do it again -- watch me. just like that one... [ male announcer ] the durability of the volkswagen passat. pass down something he will be grateful for. good arm. that's the power of german engineering. ♪ back to you. ♪ i don'i indulge it.my hair, with l'oreal's new excellence

when the recorded message changed, margaret was heartbroken. moved by her story, tube officials gave margaret a cd version, and they plan to restore the original. >> yeah. why all these changes? >> love that story. why would they need to change it? maybe some of the words in the announcement? i don't know. >> i wonder if she got royalties. >>> time now for a look ahead for you on the "today" show. president obama will welcome the sultan of brunei to the white house. yesterday john kerry welcomed his majesty to the state department. today the president will discuss preparations for a summit of air ya-pacific countries that will be held in brunei in october. >>> cyclists who set out on a ride to newtown, connecticut, will arrive on the capitol steps. it will be joined by bikers, hundreds of supporters and congress members aiming to draw changes. >>> and it's a celebrity sexogenarian trifecta. james taylor, mitt romney and liza minnelli in their 60s today. >>> in an nbc news exclusive, here newly released audio of wikileaks suspect bradley manning

we all know margaret sanger, right to move coined the phrase birth control. started the organization which today is planned parenthood. she was a nurse. she was a socialist to live in the early 1900's. she became a nurse during strikes in helping organize strikes in massachusetts and elsewhere. eventually she settled in new york and started a clinic and she saw lot of poor arab and women who were pregnant and having children that they did not want and would ask her as a nurse for advice about what to do about not getting pregnant, and she had nothing to say to them. she said, al find out. she went to europe. she learned about birth control. birth control ideas. she came back and started propagandizing about birth control in the call, the socialist newspaper, her own newsletter that she started in women's magazines. she began to distribute leaflets in new york, different neighborhoods, telling women about birth control. and she was arrested many times and brought to trial. an incredibly courageous person for doing that. individually the courts sided with her,

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. >> ifill: margaret warner updates efforts to get iran to halt itnuclear program, aer vice president biden says the u.s. is not bluffing about possible military action. >> suarez: and jeffrey brown profiles poet david ferry, still writing verse, reading poems, and receiving honors at age 88. >> every poem, just as everything we say to one another, is an attempt to try to get something clear to the other person or to ourselves. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. 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. >> suarez: researchers confirmed the two-year-old girl born with h.i.v. has been functionally cured and rem

everything was so ugly and margaret was totally mortified.mong those who gave the cut to margaret was emily donelson. >> we have two quotes from jackson. "do you suppose that i have been sent here by the people to consult the ladies of washington?" here is another one - "i tell you, margaret, i would rather have live vermin on my back that let of one of these washington women on my reputation." did it become a constitutional crisis? >> unfortunately, it was his defense that turned it from a social crisis into a political crisis. he could not leave it alone. he spent enormous amounts of time trying to defend her honor. tracking down the people who made these terrible comments. finally, it becomes in his mind that it has to be an attack against him as well. >> bringing this back to his niece. he could not abide family members who disagreed with him. >> she was so influenced by the ladies that she joined in the ostracism of margaret. he demanded -- she did receive her at the white house -- he demanded that she treat her as a friend. she would no

delores mcgee, margaret gray, marcia, karen, joan, mira, janice, jennifer walsh, fudyjud, candice. you in the room or are you busy in the other spots? if you are here, please stand up. and a round of applause. [applause] so, all of these folks are listed in your book, and you all have nametags and so do they. as you go out throughout the day, if you see any of these people, i really encourage you to thank them for all the work they have done because it has been an enormous amount of work to a poll today off. but there are two people that i want us to single out for today's event. that is marie jopling and judy otto. [cheers and applause] you know how you read in the paper about most famous folks in technology? there are those names, right? those companies and those names we read about every day. but we should all hope for having one of those famous people in our lives, and that is to marie and judy really are. these other two women who i think single-handedly moved me into social networking, kicking and fighting the hallway. because i was not born into technology. i really had to b

margaret, and st. michael who instructed her to acquire a horse, soldier's clothing with armor, and an army and drive the english out of france. so her actions are based on her faith in her voices. shaw was a co-director for the first london production in 1924 with sybil thorndike in the title role, and he reminded her that joan was a sturdy, independent 19-year-old woman, not a sweet angelic little girl. the story of joan is fascinating. she was a village girl born in the early 1400s, a warrior in her teens and was accused of heresy and witchcraft because she would not deny her visions and voices and consequently was convicted and burned at the stake. almost 500 years later, joan was canonized by the church. shakespeare, bertolt brecht, maxwell anderson and jean anouilh all have dramatized the joan story, each reflecting a personal point of view and interest. to meet the challenge of that role required a special actress. our guest is that special actress who met the challenge, made theater history wit

to cross not this island dispute i'm joined by lou coffee in washington he's a margaret thatcher fellow at the heritage foundation also in washington we have willard. he is a research fellow at the council on hemispheric affairs and in london we crossed to richard got he is a former latin american correspondent and editor for the guardian or a gentleman cross-talk rules and i think that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it richard if i go to you first the recent referendum overwhelmingly passed so we should recognize self-determination of those people living on those islands yes or no. determination doesn't apply to a smooth group of people living on an island miles away from the mainland of britain ok that was very clear look jump in. i tell you it certainly does it doesn't matter if it's one single person they have the right of self-determination is clearly outlined in the u.n. charter this is a very fundamental rights and they have exercise this right and the world should listen ok you guys are being real quick here alex. it could be short for the past

trend of police brutality this year to talk about all that more i'm joined by our correspondent margaret howell thank you so much for coming on the show was there so you know you've been you've actually been following this story for a while and i'm wondering with skis is like these it seems like public opinion always kind of turns toward toward the police you know they always kind of favor the police narrative on this how how widespread it is how widespread is this we actually know how often this sort of thing happens in the u.s. it is a pandemic i'm telling you we're taught as a society to trust cops not to question them not to question their motives and you know unfortunately that's an old thing and we're seeing this more often than not you know cops are policing themselves so maybe it's time to get a new narrative in this country because obviously leading cops up to you know police themselves just isn't working. do we even know how often this happens so it seems to be rapidly every other year i hear i hear about it a new shooting but what i really don't understand how often does this

two we must ask the question as we hit the ten year anniversary mark was it worth it in washington margaret howell archie. now on to a story based right here in the nation's capital washington d.c. has been suffering from a shortage of ambulances this after a slew of incidents where paramedics were not able to arrive to emergency scenes on time or it is just under hell investigates why those services are being cut back despite the city is healthy revenue stream. after a life threatening x. . minutes can be the difference between life and death yet marching to d.c. a shortage of available ambulances can mean response times of fifteen minutes or more. just last week not a single d.c. ambulance was available when a police officer was struck by a car and just a few days later a stroke victim was transported by a fire engine because the nearest ambulance was seven miles away this is been an ongoing issue for years that i don't believe the city has adequately solved according to chris bauman head of the d.c. police union the problems stem from understaffing lack of recruitment and aging equipment

fought by unmanned aircraft the face of the iraq war has evolved over a decade to correspond to margarethowell takes a look now at how tactics have changed since you rock. since the iraq invasion u.s. military tactics have switched from boots on the ground to robots in the air the cia and pentagon's first drone strike occurred in yemen in two thousand and two and sense then we've ratcheted up our drone activity under this administration the pentagon spending of unmanned aircraft has jumped from two hundred eighty four million in two thousand to nearly four billion last year the number of drones owned by the pentagon rocketed from less than two hundred two thousand two to seventy five hundred now while the bulk of these drones are small shoulder launched ravens heavily armed predators and reapers are also use having accumulated one million hours of combat patrols in the skies over afghanistan and iraq insurgents don't have the ability to shoot them down and they're controlled remotely so even if they crash american soldiers. this makes them quite popular for the u.s. drones provide twenty