i'm margaret held you're watching our t.v. . starting off this hour a may day international workers' rights day or may day as it's known is underway today everywhere from greece to turkey to europe and beyond people from all walks of life are making their way onto the streets protesting current economic inequalities as well as workers' rights historically associated with the labor movement the day has come to encompass many were causes here in the u.s. under the umbrella of the occupy movement issues like wall street reform immigration have taken center stage now for more on this may day is past and present i was joined earlier by r t is political correspondent sam sachs here in d.c. and art's his correspondent on a stasia turkana from new york and i began by asking sam why the stay is so important for the labor community take a listen well i mean the day goes back we've always i mean this goes back to the dark days of the gilded age nine hundred eighty six when workers were trying to organize for an eight hour work day when wor

i'm margaret how well you're watching our t.v. . starting out this hour at the march against monsanto activists have announced a global protest is set for may twenty fifth the focus monsanto's reach in the global food supply will protesters scheduled to take place and more than thirty six countries including the united states in california nick barnaby one of the organizers said that they're looking to inform as well as protest against the proliferation of genetically modified foods we want to spread awareness and we want to start from the ground up so you know the very very you know the easiest thing you can do to know it's in your food is to grow your own food you start there at the very top is you know where we want labeling on a ban but i think we should work from the ground up to have the best results while other organizers around the globe have similar intentions and greece organize a rebirth of spoke about how critical the protests will be and austerity plague southern europe she said it months and who is working very hard to

how with the latest on that story thank you margaret. well mayday has traditionally been a celebration of spring as well as international workers' rights but demonstrations in seattle turned violent again this year. police officers squared off with hundreds of protesters wednesday night marchers broke windows threw rocks and actually threw bottles and fireworks at police officers law enforcement spotted with flash bang grenades and pepper sprayed seventeen people were arrested for property damage now the anti capitalism protesters heard right after a peaceful immigration rally earlier in the day and as i mentioned this is not the first time that the city has erupted in protest during may day festivities last year protesters clad in black race havoc on the city prompting the mayor to make an emergency declaration in order to quell the violence there and that was enough to actually prompt the government to send f.b.i. agents out to seattle even before this year's made protest actually began and to actually track down an artists but even th

so i have two chapters on margaret houston because he and she wrote so many letters. she didn't accompany him very much. she was quiet, and she too was very cultured, a wonderful musicianing by all accounts -- musician by all accounts, very educated. but she liked to be quiet and at home. and so they wrote a lot of letters which means there was a great record about her. now, one of the things i never knew in the history that i had read was that margaret houston had, she has two children, and right after her second birth she had a breast tumor that became very, very painful. and her brother-in-law was very worried about her, sam houston at this time was in washington as a senator. this was 1847. and she -- they decided that she really needed surgery. so asheville smith who was the yale-educated physician who was sam houston's great friend, and he actually started the texas medical association and the university of texas medical school in galveston, but he came to margaret, and he said we have to take this out. and, um,. >> she wrote to sam houston, and she said this, t

ded that's an even harder line policy. >> pelley: margaret, thanks very much. all that tough talk might be working. north korea has withdrawn two missiles that it had threatened to test. president obama is looking to improve relations with members of congress and toward that end he took three members of the senate golfing today at joint base andrews in maryland. almocrat mark udall of colorado and republicans bob corker of ennessee and saxby chambliss of georgia. we don't know if it's working ret chambliss scored a hole in e.e on the 11th hole. in case you were wondering, we did a little bit of checking. it turns out at least four wer,idents have shot a hole in one: eisenhower, nixon, ford, and clinton. none of them, though, while they were in office. let the buyer beware: the days of tax-free online purchases may be ending. pat caused a stretch limo filled with partiers to burst into flames? and a utility is hit with a e fiive fine after an explosion incinerated a neighborhood. that's when the "cbs evening news" continues. ♪ [ male announcer ] pain not sitting

there already has been a cut in the use of drones well margaret i think there was there was a long as there was a lot of before the election there was a lol before the election you think it's going to change that law will remain you think no i don't know i don't think it's going to change i don't believe that the united states is going to give up on the policy on the other hand i believe we're going to see our discussions with the new government to find everybody in a fairly comfortable place ok it's not a sign what do you think about that in washington do you think anything is going to change and what this new government. what i think the obama administration is watching carefully there and there are lots of rapt attention marvin is right i think there will be it will be decided he will be talking to norah sharif who will be having a quiet dialogue with the military or mil to mil kind of contacts but i don't sing as margaret said i don't think it's going to change fortunately i don't i mean i think surprise you guys are saying this because it's a terribly on popular in pakistan what

go ahead in washington jumping margaret you have a role. targeting high where you are targets so i don't know why you're seeing that when that we're talking with our legal targets and then where do you know where do you see. the heavy got to remember if you if you didn't get a good report it was either storm i mean we are we have created arena of terror in . in visitors start. to acquire i mean you know you take i mean so you know the drone the use of drone policy in my humble opinion is nothing but an art of failure it has to be revisited it has we have to have a kind of a discussion we have we have to bring in the pakistani army we have to bring in the pakistani civilians government and really create some stake for them you see and that's what we're that's where we are i mean if we if we want them to be part be responsible stakeholders i can bring the phrase from from us china relations are here if we have to make parties done in a responsible stakeholder then perhaps we can be more effective but more important than that what we are not d

let's start with margaret thatcher. there's been a huge outpouring of tributes to thatcher won the magazine covers and revisiting. your book takes apart some of the myths of margaret thatcher. >> guest: i tried to do that. it's always a challenge because we want to show why somebody is worth knowing about. there's been a lot of revisions come a lot of people correcting the misconceptions about her but of course first you have to establish why it's important in the first place and very few people would dispute that he was usually and immensely important but by getting the hugely important figure, the transfer of that figure, he had generated a lot of the methods. flexible we think of the american conservatives now as this kind of like a pawn of conservatism. well, guess what, she was in favor of national health insurance. she never tried to safely dismantle the national health system in britain because she knew how popular it was. she voted for the law when she was in the parliament and before she voted for the law to de

margaret wilson es legalmente ciega y tiene dos niÑos con discapacidade s.. s.o.t.5:26 si me quitan los fondos mis niñas no pueden al programa después de escuela, yo no quiero ir a estudiar. jennifer es una madre soltera que solicit calworks.. s.o.t. jennifer robason/madre soltera 10:09:22 porque necesitamos esa ayuda para seguir adelante, para sacar a mis hijos, conseguir un buen trabajo, solamente un empujonsito, solamente, no pensamos vivir de esto. los manifestantes dicen que desde el 2008, california ha eliminado 15 mil millones de dlares de programas como calworks, guarderas, nutricin, asistencia para discapacitado s, y para ancianos, entre otros.. s.o.t. pete woiwode/california partnership 11:48:25 this cannot be the new normal for families in california, too many people in poverty, too many people hungry, we need investment now. el organizador agreg que california es ahora el estado con ms pobres en el pas con 23.5% de la poblacin, y que esto no puede convertirse en lo normal. es hora es de restaurar los servicios... s.o.t. jerry brown/gobernador de californ

pretty soon after she rejected him, he went to alabama and met margaret lee. and they had almost instant love, it was a love that lasted. he and she wrote so many .etters.mu she was white and very cultured a wonderful musician by all accounts, very educated. but she liked to be quiet and at home. so they wrote a lot of letters, which means that there was a great record about her. one of the things that i never knew in the history that i wrote was that margaret houston had two children in right after her second birth, she had a breast tumor that became very painful. her brother and mom was very worried about her at this time. she was in washington and this is 1847. they decided that she really needed surgery. so he was a great friend and actually started with the university of texas medical school and he came to margaret and said we have to take this out. and she wrote to him and said, it's going to be a little surgery. and axel smith wrote after he did take the breast tumor out, because she refused even with that he offered to dull the pain. she would only plu

the report to president obama within 30 days. >> margaret brennan, thank you, margaret. cbs political reporter john dickerson is in our studio. good morning, john. >> good morning, anthony. >> margaret talked about the review of the irs, the acting chief has been kicked out. is this enough for the president to move beyond it or will the story linger do you think? >> the best terms of the president moving on from this is that for the moment there is no connection outside the irs to the white house as well. so without that bridge from the president to the irs, it protects him a little bit from that. we'll see as the hearings continue and the real story comes out of the irs just how bad it was. but in order for it to be a continuing headache for the president, it doesn't look good but to be a real headache it has to have some closer tie to him. >> and john aside from the irs, there have been two other scandals this week the ap monitoring benghazi. how well do you think the white house has handled these so far? >> well it was pretty ragged at the beginning, in part because i

margaret warner is in beirut and we spoke earlier today. margaret, let's begin with those rocket atcks in southn beirut. ow mh known abo who might be behind them and why now in these hezbollah-controlled areas? >> well, since this is lebanon, jeff. the land of many conspiracy theories, there are a lot of conspiracy theories about this. from the forces allied with the sunni rebels in syria who are upset about what the hezbollah leader vowed on saturday that hezbollah is going to fight on the side of syria to the end. that to syrian regime. to, you know, ere are oher people in thestreho will say it's the israelis. one person who has talked to investigators said they are looking hard at a radical sunni faction, a couple of them, in palestinian camps that have been here for very long time. and there are some groups that are thought to be allied with either al qaeda or the front which is the jihady rebel group in syria. it will be very hard to tell, however. i was... diplomatic sources told me today that the 107 millimetre rockets were set on de

who could write a book that says, margaret thatcher, the communists, and the ayatollah, and the onan revolution north carolina have a common, never mind pope john paul ii and the resurgence of religion in a factor of polish. how did you come up with putting these things together? >> guest: had to thereto do with my reporting in afghanistan after 9/11. you were there, too. we actually stayed in the same house for a while. you were with washington post, i was with news week, and the house struck me at the time and had this shag carpeting and these tubular light fixtures, and ranch style house, like the kind of houses we were growing up in the '7s so when i was a kid. and i was struck by that. when you went outside in kabul you were driving floindz 1970s american cars, sometimes with eight track tape players in them, if you remember those. or the ministry buildings were built in the 1970ss, and in the book store you found all these great post cards and books about afghanistan 1234e9 70s. what all of this showed was that afghanistan was actually an up and coming country in the 1970s. it

. >> woodruff: then, margaret warner reports on the pentagon's moves to deal with the growing outrage over sexual assaults in the military-- a problem the secretary of defense said today he will do everything necessary to fix. >> brown: mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. plus, a special report with our own macneil and lehrer on covering the watergate hri

i'm margaret how are you watching r t. and information content used to emerge regarding the department of justice keeping tabs on journalist and just who approved of those investigations into who journalists communicate with via phone and email well more than three weeks ago news broke that the department of justice seized phone records of the associated press reporters to find out who had leaked national security information then it came to light that fox white house correspondent james rosen was facing charges as a coconspirator under the espionage act for obtaining classified information from a state department source back in two thousand and nine president obama said that

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your book takes apart some of the myth of margaret thatcher. >> guest: i tried to do that. it's always a challenge because you want to show why somebody is worth knowing about in the first place, right? there's been a lot of revisions of history is much. a lot of people correcting some misperceptions about her. of course, for sure this tells why she is important first place and i think very few people dispute she was hugely and immensely important. but like any huge we important figure, informative figure should generate a lot of myth. there are many myths about it. for example, we think of her, american conservatives now think of her as this kind of icon of conservatism. guess what? she was in favor of national health insurance. she never safely try to dismantle the national health system in britain because she knew how popular it was. she voted for the law when she was in parliament before she became prime minister. criminalizing -- she never interview with gun control. when she had a chance she voted for abortion. so the social issues in which britons are sometimes very

thanks a lot, margaret. we turn now to another nation struggling to cope with the chaos in next door syria, the kingdom of jordan. the country is now home to roughly a third of syria's estimated million and a half refugees. the newshour's foreign editor justin kenny traveled to the kingdom last week and produced this report. >> reporter: this is zatari, it's now second-largest refugee camp on earth. just over a year ago, the site didn't exist. jordan's king abdullah now calls it his country's fifth-largest city. more than 120,000 syrian refugees-- including 60,000 children-- are packed into the camp living in tents and trailers on five square miles of dry and dusty ground. just 15 miles from their homeland's border, they often can hear the fighting between the forces of syrian president bashar al-assad and the rebel free syrian army. the refugees are out of the war zone, but they face plenty of new challenges. >> (translated): my children have all been sick for 20 days now. >> reporter: 25-year-old nadia raj

a part of them in the process are to correspondent margaret howell takes a look at google by the numbers. is google trying to take the world over well the multinational corporation has become an active part of the average internet users digital life but just how much has this company become ingrained we'll let's break it down by the numbers four hundred twenty five million now in june of two thousand and twelve that's the number of users google announced use g.-mail the company's e-mail service during the goals annual io developer conference and this year one hundred and ninety million people are active on google's new social media platform google plus now take a look at this number nine hundred million well that's the number of activated android smartphones so far the google for right end of the smartphone arena has quickly gained user traction now to put that into perspective the company also announced an active smartphone user base of one hundred million all downloading custom apps so what's the catch will those buying those apps from google for their android purchase do it directly f

. >> woodruff: then, margaret warner reports on the pentagon's moves to deal with the growing outrage over sexual assaults in the military-- a problem the secretary of defense said today he will do everything necessary to fix. >> brn: mk shields and dad brooks analyze the week's news. plus, a special report with our own macneil and lehrer on covering the watergate hearings. >> good evening from washington. in a few moments, we're going to bring you the entire proceedings in the first day of the senate watergate hearings. >> we are running it all each day because we think these hearings are important. we are doing this as an experiment to give you the whole story, however many hours it may take. >> woodruff: 40 years after the scandal that brought down an american president. robert macneil and jim lehrer rlect owateate's legacy and the gavel-to-gavel coverage that gave rise to the program

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your book takes apart some of the myths of margaret thatcher. >> guest: i try to do that. it's always a challenge because you want to show why someone is worth knowing about. there have been a lot of revisionist history of thatcher and a lot of people correcting some misperceptions of her but of course first you have to establish why she was in port in the first place and very few people would dispute that she was hugely and immensely important. as a transformative figure she has generated a lot of myths and for example we think of her, american conservatives now think of her as an icon of conservatism. well guess what? she was in favor of national health insurance. she never seriously tried to dismantle the national health system ticket she knew how popular it was. she voted for the law to criminalizing homosexuality. she never interfered with gun control. when she had a chance she voted for abortion, so the social issues which sometimes are very different opinions with american conservative she doesn't look like a traditional conservative at all. one of the most interest

last week, margaret warner talked to former state department vali nasr.he offered a behind-the-scenes critique of policymaking in the obama administration. tonight, margaret gets a different view. >> warner: the united states is erreaching abroad and under- perfming at home. that's the thesis of council on foreign relations president richard haass in his new book, "foreign policy begins at home: the case for putting america's house in order." it's a surprising viewpoint from a former top state department and national security council official. richard haass joins me now to discuss his book and his recommendations for rebalancing our country's priorities. richard haass, welcome. you have spent your entire life dealing with how america shld me challees abroad. now you're saying it's time to refocus here at home. what led to this turnaround? >> it's not a book i ever thought i'd be writing. it surprised me. in part of what wasn't going on in the world. there's no challenger out there of the scale of nazi germany or soviet union during the cold war. so despit

at this point. >> rose: margaret brennan, as usual, enormously helpful. thank you so much. >> thank you, charlie. >> rose: margaret brennan, chief state department correspondent for cbs news, we'll be right back. stay with us. >> rose: vali nasr is here, he's dean of john hopkins school of advanced international study. from 2009 to 2011-- two years-- he served as senior advisor to the late richard holbrooke, president obama's envoy for pakistan and afghanistan. nasr describes his time in the administration as a deeply disillusioning experience. his new book is called "the dispensable nation: am$j$can foreign policy in retreat" zbigniew brzezinski writes about this book "an impressive and sweep regular view of the escalating geopolitical challenge that the united states needs to address more intelligently." m pleased to have vali nasr back at this table. welcome. good to see you. >> good to be here. >> rose: you and i have had many conversations at this table so now that you have written this book, you say the following as we continue quoting. >> my time i

economic climate that's inspiring this may day do you think well margaret definitely a lot of issues and again many of the issues that were brought up by occupy wall street when that movement was kind of on it at its peak are certainly people are still talking about the corporate greed the low wages the wealth inequality the one percent versus the ninety nine percent all of these messages we've heard before we talk to them again today about what they think is the major disconnect between the political and economic realities and the concerns of the people on the street this is what they told us candy years ago sixty percent of the people in this country are in unions today it's down to thirty percent if we don't get out there or voice our opinion it will just keep going further and further down it's not about what we want today we want tomorrow when the next to get for my children it's actually about a long term decline in the power of workers against the corporate really it's a corporate state right the states completely controlled by private capital. so certainly margaret and sam pe

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i'm margaret how well you're watching our t.v. starting this hour new developments in the case against hacker and activist jeremy hammett well early tuesday morning hammond pled guilty to violating the computer fraud and abuse act in connection to hacking into computers a global intelligence firm stratfor him and has been held over a year without trial facing a potential life sentence along with pleading guilty for his role in the stripper attack him and also to blame for compromising the computer networks of information security firms and law enforcement agencies are she's already harvest was at the courthouse and brings us the latest. the first american to face trial for a crime involving wiki leaks just agreed to a plea deal twenty eight year old jeremy hammond pled guilty to one count of violating the computer fraud and abuse act in a manhattan federal court for his involvement with anonymous and hacking security company stratfor among other websites hammond then distributed those internal files to transparency organization wi

margaret brennan is our cbs news state department correspondent. she joins us from washington tonight. so, margaret, what does this do to u.s. plans for that peace conference they've been talking about? >> well, that rejection by the opposition puts those peace talks in jeopardy. and it's a setback for the obama administration which still hopes that it can broker a political solution to end the fighting and to get assad to leave power. on top of that the administration's point man on syria, ambassador robert ford, who's been personally trying to get the opposition to the peace talks is now stepping down in just a matter of months and that could hurt the administration's efforts. >> dubois: against this backdrop does the united states change course or stay the course here? >> well, there are many voices inside the administration who will say in private that they want to do more, whether it's arming the rebels or establishing a no-fly zone. but that ultimately is president obama's decision and he has made clear that he does not want to take any actio

howell thank you for joining me now margaret for years people have been dealing with this in the real world in terms of buying gifts or or actually buying things for themselves event was this online sales tax just inevitable or inevitable no magen now we live in a consumer driven market and this bill does more than level the playing field for consumers and businesses alike when i went to the senate floor today to listen to these arguments both for and against why we need this bill there are several questions that are left unanswered which is concerning for me so let's talk about what exactly this bill establishes ok certainly so well first of all this bill is great for be. businesses like wal-mart and amazon the bill would establish essentially a universal tax on all all online sales which means that the small businesses who maybe aren't aren't offering or aren't making their customers pay that would be forced to also states that don't have the brick and mortar stores can can go after online businesses that are doing commerce with their citizens sure enough president obama and numerou

she cited gondi, margaret thatcher, and angela merkel as her role models. she said the german chancellor deserves respect for her handling of the eurozone crisis. -- she cited gandhi, margaret thatcher, and angela merkel as her role models. >> even if it is not popular, or you lose power, you at least invest in the sustainable future of your country. >> the charlemagne prize was also a chance to send a message to all europeans that they all must do their share to create a better europe. >> getting back to the crisis in europe, portugals unemployment rate has climbed further to hit a new record high. it came in a 17.7% for the first quarter of 2013. that represents a rise of nearly 1% on a year ago, and the government in lisbon expects the number to go up even more next year, when 30,000 public sector jobs are eliminated. the job cuts are part of a harsh austerity program agreed with the european union in exchange for billions of emergency loans that have been dispersed to lisbon since 2011. >> well, now on to the country seem most likely as -- seen as most

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