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there we'll nd our hope.' >> brownthe pontiff did not mention a christmas eve indent in st. peter's basilica. a woman jumped a securit barrier and briey pulled the 82 yr old benedict to the ground. it turneout the same woman, susanna maiolo, unsuccessfly ied the same thing last year today, a vaticanpokesman said the's no such thing as "zero risk", but he promis a security review. >> ( transled ): look, i don't think we can act much dierently. we've en that security tervened promptly once again i ink they did their job. sometimes you gethere in time, at other times you don't, t it seems to me th this time the incident was not so seous for the ly father, who was able, as we have seen, to rever in a couple of minutes. >>rown: indeed, the pope was unharmed, but a retired vacan diplomat bro a hip in the scuffle. in the meantime, religious celebrations in belehem were relatively upbeat. crowds packed the church othe nativity, maing the traditional rthplace of jesus. >> warr: now for the other news of thday, here is hari sreenivasan in o newsroom. sreenivasan: a passenger allegedly

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hari sreenivasan, our newsroom, previe what you'll nd there. hari.b site tonight, you c compare how people who le in different types of economies a faring this holidayeason. our "patchwork nion" hardship dex measures gas prices, foclosures and unemployment. on our "worlview" page, we've asked the heads of threelobal aid organizationto describe the worst and leascovered humanitarian crises of009. and someood news from elkhart, all at and more is on our web si, newshour.pbs.org. >> ifill: and th's the "newshour" for tonight. i'm gwen ifill >> woouff: and i'm judy woodruff. we'll see you -line. and again re tomorrow evening. thank you and od night. major funding r the pbs newshour is ovided by: >> what thworld needs now is energy. the energy to t the economy humming again. the ergy to tackle challenges like climate cnge. wh is that energy came from an engy company? everyd, chevron invests $62 million in people, in ideas-- seeking, teaching, buildg. fueling owth around the world to move usll ahead. th is the power of human energy. chron. and e william an

they nd to know who these people e and care about them and all of that. that was a big point to you. >>ell, i learned that actuallthroughout my naval career i've been in man countries. and learned that it is jt lot easier to undersnd othepeople's problems and othe people's views iyou are listeni to them and you understand little bit about their culture. and in these wars, iraqnd fghanistan, it is been absolutely critical. and that's a lesson we learned in iraq he identical requirement exists in afghanistan. obvusly it's a diferent culture. and so studying the language, understanding their background and wh they carebout, and real connecting withhem in that regard is reay going to be important. >> lehr: you, a young marine aske you, admiral you honestly believe 30,000roops will do -- 30,000 more troops wi do the job. and you sid i honestlyo. >> right. >> lehrer: why did you s that. >> well, because i do. we have been through a lon debate here over theast manweeks. and the requirements are laid out there, wat is really imrtant about those 3000 is the vast m

i agree with jacob there nds to be something in the stem that's a forcing devicnot just for the insure but the local regionalugust law peas among hospitals and sition groups. the real drivers the peoe n't understand with healthca cost isn't just thinsurance companies,t's the regional market pow of the provider grps that no politician wants to take on or lk about. it's t missing aspect of the cost debate thate'll be dealing with for years >> ifill: is there me, is there part te pressure on harry reid at this poi as we move along? talkbout break throughs every couple weeks ask thewe're back here. >> thethe piece was set up he wants to get this do pie chrimas. there's talk he nts the president to be le to sign is before the state of the union d then we move on to talkbout what, i don't know the econy maybe, unemployment and those things it'siterally tied up in the house saying we don't care wt the senate doing we know we've got to talk about jobsnd unemployment. th's what we're going to do. they want to bable to move on to other you topic as i said ery day this is out here, it's not just

afan president karzai said his government might nd at least five yrs to take over all security.nd the u.s.ommander in afghistan, general stanley mcchrystal, said he thinks he cabegin withdrawing u.s. forces in 2011, without asking for more. judy. >>oodruff: jim, the newshour contues now online. for a preview of what yoll fi this evening on our brand new website. back to harireenivasan in our newsroom. hari. >>ari: judy, on our web site today we've given ecomic correspondenpaul solman's making sense series makeover. u can watch a preview of his upcoming story about older workers in seah of jobs. and ask paul questions abo the recession. e president's plan for creating jobor other economic topi on your mind. ray suarez has twoideo postcards fr ann arbor, michigan one on zingerman's deli and e other on the re of digital mea. and jeffrey brown's art beat bl our correspondents pick their favote books, movies and performances of 2009. all of that, and our n blog of ne and insight it'called 'the rundo', and we update it throughout the day. you can find it all newshour.pbs.org. judy. >>

one that recognizes our mutual nd promises a future in which those who kill innocents are isolated by those who stand up for peace and prosperity and human dignity. finally, we must draw on the strength of our values for the challenges that we face may have changed, but the things that we believe in must not. that is why we must promote our values by leaving them at home, which is why i have prohibited torture and will close the prison at guantanamo bay. we must make it clear to every man, woman, and child on the world who lives under the dark cloud of tyranny that america will speak out on behalf of their human rights and tender for the light of freedom and justice and dignity of all people. that is who we are. that is the source, the morrill source of america's authority. -- the moral source of america's authority. since the days of franklin roosevelt and our grandparents and great grandparents, our country has borne a special burden in global affairs. we have this bill american blood in many countries on multiple continents. -- we have spilled american blood in many countries on mu

. >> the reason why we nd this money because it is increasi day and night because the climate changes. and ofhich the climate changethey're the ones making us to suffer. e effects of climate change. >> suaz: former irish president mary robinn and retired south african archbishop desmo tutu were on hands to adtheir own calls for the wealy industrialized countrys to ke changes now, from self-interest er bit as much as from charity. >>f we don't get an reement here, we have posed an enorms threat to our one world. and i have four grandchildren who wille in their 40s in 2015. i not no an irish granother who doesn't want them to have a safe world. american grandmothers doot kn that their grandchildren will have a sa world. >> suarez:ot so fast says bjn, the danish teacher and writer oenvironmental issues is a cmate change skeptic but not the way that's usual. maybe he shod be called a climatchange conference skeptic. >> maybe it would be a good thing for climate if this meetg was to fail because fundamentally it seemso me we're ju doing the same faed strategy for e last 18 years. we'rpromi

forery has to be negotiated along withechnology transfers, and adaptation, and finance,nd sevel of thether big areas ofegotiation, and they have had a cole of breakthroughs, and they've real been trumpeting that progress but a lot of the n.g.o.'shat organize around forest issues say theris really less than mes the eye in that draft docunt since, again, all the tougst nuts -- all the really rd bargaining that has to go on bween countries over eservation of forecasts in t deveping world is still all remaining be set out in tail. the document ifestooned with phrases like, "deemed appropriat" and "appropriate cisions by countries" and really, what's appropria remains to be hashed out >> reporter: we're talking aut what's going on inside the hl ere you arthere. we saw thoseictures and you reported on the otests outside. can you tellow much of that resonates insidend in the meetin? >> suarez: the prosts from earlier in t week were pretty genial, because they were planned. the utes and locations were work out between the authorities anthe protesters. this was somethingf another order all toge

. >> an al-qaeda offshore shoot group claims it was behind the airliner plots- nd had provided the home-made bomb that failed to explode. abc news obtained this photo of the bomb, reportedly a packet of the chemical petn, sewn into his underpants. today's "washington post" cited federal sources saying there was enough explosive in the packet to blow a hole in the side of the airplane, if it had gone off. there were also reports today of extensive internet postings by abdul mutallab. his facebook profile shows him dressed in a pink polo shirt and lists 287 people as "friends". but his postings on the islamic forum website painted a picture of a conflicted, lonely man. in january of 2005, after a time at a british boarding school, he wrote: "i have no one to speak too [sic], no one to consult, no one to support me and i feel depressed and lonely. i do not know what to do. and then i think this loneliness leads me to other problems." in other postings, he seemed be struggling to balance his upbringing, as the privileged son of a prominent nigerian banker, with becoming an increasingly devout mu

i face the world as it is,nd cannot stand idle in the fe of threats to t american people.or ma no mistake: evil does exist in the world a non-violent movementould not have halted hier's armies. negotiatns cannot convince al qaeda's leaders to lay dn their ar. >> woouff: developing his theme, mr. oma forcefully dended the notion "just war" and the united stes' role in the world. >> we will not edicate violent conflict iour lifetimes. there will be mes when nations ting individually or in ncert will find the use of force not only necesry but morally justied. whatever mistakes we have ma, the plain ct is this: the united states of america h helped underwrite global security for more an six cades with the blood of our citizens and the sength of our ms. >> woodruff: the president ced numerous threats to th global secuty in particular, the islast extremism behind the atcks of september 11th. >> these extremists are nothe fit to kill in the name of god, t cruelties of the crusades are amply record. t they remind us that no hol war can ever be a just war. such a warped view of rel

nd of the decade, according to their governor. gov.york -- governor paterson of new yorkxd wrote that states do not have this money. i have cut mississippis budget by 5%Ñi this year, with more -- mississippi's budget by 5% this year, with more cuts to come. Ñievery state is cutting its current budget and recognize there will be more cuts to next in my case, in addition to the hundreds of millions of dollars clearcutting this year, we have to cut $750 million out of next year's budget, as compared to the current budget. that will be more than 10%. indeed, i think this is very under reported. some states like our neighbors in tennessee have already tapped enrollment in medicaid. it is just the opposite of what the congressional democrats plan will do. but medicaid is one of the most difficult problems in state budgets today. as i said, senator alexander's governor has had to tap medicaid. -- cap medicaid. that means no one else can enroll in tennessee's medicaid plan. the other thing is that this is no -- this is not only bad policy, the

nd as such -- and as such must be dealt with by a military justice.od bless america. >> [applause] >> ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, our final three speakers lost their sons in iraq. kyle was an american hero. ron and robin griffen has kept up the fight and they are here to speak with us right now. ron and robin. [applause] >> good afternoon. it's a great honor to be here today to join with all of you in sending a clear and unmistakable message to attorney general eric holder and president obama, that their decision to allow the five terrorists to step foot on american soil is an abomination. [applause] it is beyond despicable. it is sacrilegious. it is inconceivable to me that at some date in the future of these terrorists will stand in a court room of our country and have bestowed on them all the rights of the country they want to destroy. this is more than a debate about the finer points of law. it is about the raw emotions of the american spirit. 9/11 to us is a connection because 9/11 was ckyle's birthday. in 2001 on 9/11 he was in georgia at the for

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nobody inspects it and they love you american people, just people senator i love being tribal nd i'vew what the last comment has to do with healthcare bullet as dres how disappointed he is with what the president promise and the healthcare bill. guest: well reality is if people need to compare what we're considering now as what we're going to have if we don't enact legislation and if we don't enact legislation we'll see premiums continue to go up. healthcare costs going u( and up. the deficit growing as a result of the growth of healthcare. and we're doing to continue to see 50 million americans without coverage. more every month i would point all th out. more employ my years are fi'ding it harder to cover they're employees and about 14 thousand people lose coverage every year. trend is clear things getting worse under the current legislation. this tries to reverse that and i think it's worthwhile for that reason. host: norma, independent from long island. caller: good morning, i'm a senior that voted for president barack obama. i hope the white house is listening. many of us are extr

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nobody inspects it and they love you american people, just people senator i love being tribal nd i'vehis country for 600 years. thank you. host: i don't know what the last comment has to do with healthcare bullet as dres how disappointed he is with what the president promise and the healthcare bill. guest: well reality is if people need to compare what we're considering now as what we're going to have if we don't enact legislation and if we don't enact legislation we'll see premiums continue to go up. healthcare costs going u( and up. the deficit growing as a result of the growth of healthcare. and we're doing to continue to see 50 million americans without coverage. more every month i would point all th out. more employ my years are fi'ding it harder to cover they're employees and about 14 thousand people lose coverage every year. trend is clear things getting worse under the current legislation. this tries to reverse that and i think it's worthwhile for that reason. host: norma, independent from long island. caller: good morning, i'm a senior that voted for president barack obama. i

lockhart was chief spokesman, as you all know, for the clinton white house and is now a joe lockhart was nd managing director of the global park group, which is a large and flourishing specialist in media relations, and, of course, very familiar around this town as well. adam boulton is an extremely familiar face on british television, but knows his way around washington as well. he was here in this town for the first 100 days of the obama administration. but he is also one of the most experienced and respected commentators on not only british politics, but politics around the world for "sky news." and last, but not least, david gregory, who is the host of "meet the press" for nbc. a chance, here, i think, to change you for allowing us to be present at your program yesterday. it was much appreciated. thank you very much. congressman, if i can start with you. imagine we're sitting here a year from now and you're looking back on 2010. apart, presumably, from the heroic republican victory in the midterm, what would be your highlights of the political year? >> well, you know, if we're a year fr

budget office dated november 18 that states just that on page 18, the congressional budget office says,ndi quote -- "if employers if employers increase or decrease the amount -- amount they provide in the amount of health insurance, the congressional budget office and joint commission on taxation assume that offsetting changes will occur in wages and other forms of compensation which are generally taxable to hold total compensation roughly the same." mr. president, i have a chart that shows that very point for each of the years this bill is in effect. looking over, first, on the left, 2013, and then it goes each year, 2014, 2015, but the green is the percent of total tax revenue due to wages. and the white is the total due to excise tax, the increased taxes that the person have to pay. increases far outstrip taxes paid according to the congressional budget office and joint committee on taxation. as that chart illustrates, the overwhelming majority of the revenue raised from the excised tax will come from increased wages. only 17.5% of the wages will be atube routable to the excised test,

>> we're back here because he nd we know it's a war. and we're back here in the spot where they declared war against us 16 years ago. and when they declared war with us, they were using bombs. and we answered with subpoenas. they attacked and we indicted. and we brought them to that building where they could have a jury -- a trial before a jury of their peers. and now they want to give khalid sheikh mohammed a trial before a jury of his peers. when i look out at my fellow new yorkers, i don't see khalid sheikh mohammed's peers. i see khalid sheikh mohammed's enemies. [applause] >> we're here 'cause we don't want to go back to september 10th. and no one should dare tell new yorkers that we're here because we're afraid of khalid sheikh mohammed. there are people up here who before 9/11 were facing down terrorists when the people who were running this government now were porting terrorists. there were people here after 9/11 were fighting terrorists. while the people who were running this government were at guantanamo bay representing terro

nd write. >> you took the two points.quality of the training and that is the wave of the program of instruction, which currently is 80 week week. i teach at the university of baltimore law school and i would not let the quality upper teaching to go down. how would you view it in to pressure to get too high numbers was placed on the beat. get them on the beat regardless of quality. program of instruction with shortened to some of the number. >> thank you. i think one of the considerations and it is a debate that is ongoing for some years is, what are the responsibilities of the police? if you define them to beat civil policing and the need to conduct themselves appropriately, defend themselves at a minimum if not the population in some respects against taliban extremists and al qaeda, the half to have trading that includes creating the technical capability similar to what basic army recruits we see. so i think that is a pretty densely packed program as it is. cutting it i think would be probably -- this is just my gut feel

nd -- and i have a big, nice photograph of les on my desk. les passed away a couple of three years ago. i spent a lot of time with him at the hospital and his wife and family. just a wonderful picture of les gramsted on my desk. it reminds me of what we have to do for the people of libby and all the people in our state and our nation, help people like les gramsted. it means that much to me. but i have not forgotten les and i won't forget les, and that's why this provision is in here, and i think les right now up there, he would be smiling, says yep, we did not forget libby, we did not forget les, and that's what this provision is all about. mr. president, i yield the floor. mr. president, i might say there is a photograph behind me of les, les gramsted in libby, montana. he is at a cemetery there, lots of graves of lots of people of libby who have died. les played a pretty mean guitar. he was a great guy. he still is and always will be. and i yield to my colleague from montana, senator tester. the presiding officer: the senator from montana.

. >> what message does that se nd main street? >> help is on the way.that sends the message that your economic vitality is just as important as anybody that lives or works are breeze on wall street. that is the message the president has hoped and wanted to send for his entire it ministration. and that is what he has done in the recovery plan. that is what he will continue to do tomorrow in his speech. no, she said what would that mean? that is easy. that is both noble and announce. then it is not hypothetical. i think i largely dispensed with that clause. >> when the announcement was made on the peace process, the white house said that the money would be donated to charity. has a decision been made on the charity? >> no. >> republicans argued that the funds on obligated should go to debt reduction only. >> no decisions had been made and once those decisions are made, we will enunciate those on hypothetical decisions. the boys can you even make that decision? >> i don't have any guidance other than the decision has not been made. >> al mullen said today