. >> 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

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. >> 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

margaret warner is in beirut and we spoke earlier today. margaret, let's begin with those rocket attacks in southern beirut. how much is known about 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. frothe foesallied wihe 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, there are other people in the street who 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 alled with either a 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 s

margaret warner is in lebanon continuing here series of reports on the syrian war spillover effects in the region. earlier today she spoke to general idris and she joins me from beirut. margaret, the general had been involved in serious fighting near the lebanese border. fighting you could see in the distance. how does he see the situation on the ground in and around cue ai? >> he said the situation is really quite desperate in the sense that they've run out of food and medicine. many civilians are dead, many fighters are dead, many wounded they can not get out and he described them as sort of hunkered down. but when i said "how long can you hold out?" he said "for a very long time." and this they are sending -- the free syrian army is sending reinforcements. he said that they had inserted 300 more fighters today, that he and his commanders had established some sort of an operating center where they hoped to get 700 more fighters nearby by tomorrow night and take -- get them in with food, water, medicine and ammunition. so far from getting ready for a defeat-- which is what you're hear

margaret warner reports. >> warner: it was the news most americans had waited nearly a decade to hear >> today, at my direction, the after a firefight, they killed osama bin laden and took custody of his body. >> warner: but for many of the people who'd helped find osama bin laden, their work had started nearly two decades earlier, long beforthe st- wanted man on earth had ened his infamy. their story of the c.i.a. analysts and officers who'd tracked down the al qaeda chief is told in the documentary hbo film "manhunt", debuting tonight. it's based on the book by cnn's peter bergen. >> in 1997 osama bin laden had declared war on the united states and no one was paying attention. >> there was just warning after warning. we knew something huge was going to happen. >> warner: but long before that september day, their chase began in a near-total information vacuum. >> well we certainly didn't know that al qaeda existed. we didn know there was a terrorist organization. we knew there was a very wealthy >> warner: the group tracking the elusive saudi militant was known as alec station, and w

margaret warner has more. >> warner: the army announced late yesterday that a sergeant who handled sexual assault cases at fort hood, texas is being criminally investigated on sex crime allegations. no charges have been filed. in response, defense secretary chuck hagel ordered the pentagon to re-train, re-credenti and re-screen all military recruiters and sexual assault prevention officers. the latest revelation comes just ten days after the air force's sexual assault prevention chief was arrested on charges of sexual battery. and a pentagon survey last week estimated that 26,000 military members were sexually assaulted last year. joining me to discuss all this is craig whitlock of the "washington post." craig, welcome back to the program. >> thank you. >> warner: so the situation at fort hood, what is alleged to have happened? >> well, criminal investigators from the army are looking into allegations that the sergeant committed sexual abuse involving multiple women and in one case they're looking into allegations that he may be charged with pandering. that's military crime speak for esse

back to jeff. >> brown: the issue of sexual assault in the military was back the spotlight tod a margaret warner repts >> warner: defense secretarychu hagel and joint chiefs chairman martin dempsey offered no new solutions to the military's sexual assault crisis at today's much anticipated pentagon briefing. hagel did vow once again to do everything necessary to address the problem. >> we've in many ways failed. the problem will be solved here in this institution and we will fix it and we will do everything we need to do to fix it. there's not a military lear who was in that room who's not completely committed to that. >> warner: the press conference comes on the heels of a recent pentagon survey estimating that 26,000 military members were sexually assaulted last year-- a significant jump from 2011. yet only 3,400 of those assaults were actually reported by the victims. >> there is no silver bullet to solving this problem. >> warner: president obama had some stern words yesterday after summoning hagel, dempsey and other senior military leaders to the white house. >> they care about this. and th

margaret warner has our update on the conflict and renewed efforts to put an end to the bloodshed. >> brown: ray suarez explores how demographic shifts and biblical ideas of helping others are changing the ways evangelical christians view the

margaret warner reports. >> warner: the announcement came in moscow from russia's federal security service, the f.s. b. releasing these photographs and video, they say u.s. diplomat ryan fogle in a blond wig and hat had been detained in moscow overnight. officially he's a diplomat at the u.s. embassy but the russians said he works for the c.i.a. and was caught trying to recruit a russian intelligence agent to work for the u.s. later today, the russians handed him over to the embassy and ordered him expelled from the country. in washington, the state department's patrick ventrell confirmed a u.s. diplomat had been detained but declined to elaborate. the incident came as the u.s. is seeking russian cooperation in two key areas-- the investigation of the boston bombing suspects and efforts to end the syrian civil war h. secretary of state john kerry was in moscow last week announcing a joint effort to bring about syrian peace talks. for more on this, i'm joined by "washington post" moscow correspondent will englund. will, welcome. this sounds like something out of a spy movie. how did this al

. >> ifill: then, margaret warner reports on more troubling allegations of sexual assaults in the military, as leaders charged with protecting victims are accused of abuse.

margaret warner is on the ground in beirut with the latest. >> brown: we have a report from bangladesh. the workers are deman

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

margaret warner reports. follow. >> warner: election night saw supporters of the pakistan muslim league party or p.m.l.n. pour into the streets in triumph. by today they appeared on course to win a majority in the new pakistani parliament. that virtually guarantees that their leader will be prime minister. he served twice before during the990s. >> for the sake of the nation, for your sake, for the sake of pakistan's 180 million people and in order to end this wretched unemployment, poverty and inflation, i want to ask my opponents to come and sit with us. >> warner: chief among those opponents was a former cricket player turned founder of the reform-minded "movement for justice" party. but it fell far short of expectation. he spoke sunday from a hospital where he's recovering from a serious fall. he complned of vote riggin rig >> the election was rigged in different ways through the administration. >> warner: this is the first time in pakistan's history that one civilian government is poised to hand over power

margaret warner looks at whether the tech giant used offshore companies to skirt paying

margaret warner reports. ing this story contains some graphic images. >> warner: the rain today didn't seem to dampen the public unity of the president and the turkish prime minister on syria. >> we both agree that assad needs to go. he needs to transfer power to a transitional body. that is the only way we're going to resolve this crisis. >> ( translated ): we also agree that we have to prevent syria from becoming an area for terrorist organizations. we also agree that chemical weapons should not be used and all minorities and their rights should be secured. >> warner: but turkey has been pushing the u.s., nato and the united nations, publicly and privately, for tougher action to stop the carnage and again after bombs killed 51 people in the turkish border town of reyhanli on saturday. reyhanli is home to 60,000 syrian refugees, among the more than 400,000 syrians who have fled to turkey. the prime minister has charged the bombings were linked to the syrian regime, which damascus denies. in the meantime, the

margaret warner has our book conversation, which was recorded before president obama's national security speech yesterday. >> warner: in his new book "the defensible nation: american foreign policy in retreat" vali nasr, a former advisor to the u.s. special representative to afghanistan and pakistan blames the white house for mishandling those countries and the broader middle east. politics and the pentagon drove too many decisions, nasr argues, while overlooking broader strategic solutions offered by his former boss, the late richard holbrooke and then secretary of state hillary clinton. vali nasr joins me now. welcome. why did you feel the need to write this book? >> i think it's important for us to have a good gauge of our foreign policy making, particularly with regard to afghanistan, which is very important foreign policy issue at the beginning of the obama administration and because i think the way we handled it has an impact on our standing in the region and our standing globally and i think we in many ways did not handle that war and the end of that war in a way they that protect

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. >> ifill: then, margaret warner reports on more troubling allegations of sexual assaults in the military, as leaders charged with protecting victims are accused of abuse. >> brown: spencer michels has the story of a push by the san francisco police to increase the use of surveillance cameras in the city in the wake of the boston bombings. >> everybody likes video, juries

giant apple is the subject of criticism and scrutiny on capitol hill for using tax practices that margaret warner the story. >> now, apple executives want the public to focus on the u.s. taxes the company has paid, but the real issue is the billions in taxes that it has not paid. >> warner: chairman carl levin laid out the findings of his senate panel's investigative report today. giant apple, maker of the iphone, ipad and other popular devices has for years used a complex web of irish subsidiaries to avoid paying billions of dollars in taxes to the u.s. or any other country. that strategy meant apple paid little or no corporate taxes on at least $74 billion in the past four years, according to the report. saved apple at least $9 billion in u.s. taxes last year, ranking member john mccain showed the outrage was bipartisan. >> today, apple has over 100 billion, more than two thirds of its total profits stashed away in an offshore account. that's over $100 billion that are not currently subject to us corporate income taxes and therefore cannot be used to help ease the deficit or help invigorate the

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