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that's all ahead on tonight's pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour is provided by: >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy productive life. 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. >> lehrer: there was word today the federal government will levy new fees on major financial institutions. it came as president obama faces public frustration over bailouts and bonuses. judy woodruff has our story. >> woodruff: on wall street today, there was every expectation big banks will announce sizable profits for 2009 plus new bonuses for employees. in response, the obama administration is weighing taxes to recoup losses from the $700 billion bailout program and other measures to rescue the financial system. the still unconfirmed plan could also help pay down the defic

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and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> lehrer: president obama road tested his new focus on jobs and the economy today. margaret warner begins our coverage of the tune i don't know aftermath. >> reporter: the president was greeted with applause by a friendly audience in tampa, florida. he and vice president joe biden unveiled $8 billion in grants for high speed rail, part of their new focus on jobs creation the president said again he understands what americans are going through. >> last night i've spoken about where we need to go and i've said these are difficult times, these challenging times for our country. in the last two years, we've gone through the deepest recession since great depression. think about that. a big chunk of the people here, certainly the younger people here, have never even seen a recession. they don't even... it doesn't register on their minds. this is by far the toughest thing that the country's gone through economically since the 1930s. >> warner: the president also repeated his tune

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. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's "pbs newshour."or funding for the pbs newshour is provided by: >> what the world needs now is energy. the energy to get the economy humming again. the energy to tackle challenges like climate change. what is that energy came from an energy company? everyday, chevron invests $62 million in people, in ideas-- seeking, teaching, building. fueling growth around the world to move us all ahead. this is the power of human energy. chevron. pacific life. grant thornton. the national science foundation. supporting education and research across all fields of science and engineering. 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. >> lehrer: president obama prepares to deliver his state of the union address tonight at a crucial time for the nation and his presidency. >> ifill: the address comes as mr. obama reaches the lowest point yet in

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and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> lehrer: president obama went at it with house republicans today at a conference in baltimore. it was a rare no-holds-barred session between the chief executive and the opposition. we begin with excerpts. >> part of the reason i accepted your invitation to come here was because i wanted to speak with all of you, and not just to all of you. so i'm looking forward to taking your questions and having a real conversation in a few moments. and i hope the conversation we begin here doesn't end here, that we can continue our dialogue in the days ahead. >> i am optimistic, i know many of you individually. and the irony, i think, of our political climate right now is that compared to other countries, the differences between the two major parties on most issues is not as big as it's represented. but we've gotten caught up in the political game in a way that's just not helping. it's dividing our country in ways that are preventing us from meeting the challenge of the 1s century. i'm

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. >> lehrer: that's all ahead tonight's pbs nehour. major funding for e pbs newshour is providedy: >> what makes us an engine f e economy? plants across america. nearly 200,000 jobs create we see beyond cars. >> cvron. this is thpower of human energy. >> were intel, sponsors of tomorrow. the national science fouation. supporti education and rearch across all fields of science and engiering. and with the ongoingupport of these stitutions and foundations. and... this program was me possible by the corporation for public broadcastin and by contributio to your pbs statn from viewers like you. thank you. >> lehrer: t official story of how the airline bo plot eluded u.s. security was ma public day, and at the white house, president obama orded changes in t handling of information on potential threats the report said the gornment had sufficient iormation to potentially disrupthe plot. it faulted u.s. intelligenceor failinto focus more resources on the al qaeda grp that claimed respsibility for the attempted attack. and itaid the c.i.a. and th

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and by contributions to yo pbs station from viewe like you. thank you. >> wdruff: president obama offered a smalpeek today at wh he'll say wednesday night in his state of the ion address. it was a n attempt to offer help to the cotry's long- strugglingiddle class. >> today's announcement was the president's latest effo to shift focus back to the economy and rapture the political inittive. he aressed the middle class task force cired by vice president biden. >> we're going to keep fighting to rebuild our econy so that rd work is once ain rewarded, wages and incomes are once again rising, and the mile class is once ain growing. >> the propols include doubling the child ce tax creditor families earning less than $85,00a year. capping the size of studt loan rayments, increasing aid for families taking care of eerly relatives, and creating automatic retirement savings account at the workpce. >> theiddle class has been under assat for a long time. too many americans he known eir own painful receions long before any economts declared that there was r

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and by contributions to yo pbs station fr viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: the spotlit on the deficicame as the congressiol budget office warned risinfederal debt could strangle the enomy. >> woodruff: the flurrof terest and calls to cut spending came from both endsf pennsylvania avenue. from the white hse... >> we haveo get our fiscal house order. >> woodruff: ... to congss... >> we can no longer afford t spend money we do not have >> woodruff: ... the focus i shington today was on red in and reining in spendin >> thicountry's going to have to pay the piper. >> woodruf the president's proposal to frze outlays for three years is expected toome nexteek, when he submits his budget to congress. it would take effect in tober, and leave untouched programs like medicarand social curity, and national defense ite house spokesman robert gibbs said the cuts uld be stragic. >> the president wilcut programshat are duplicative or see what he believes is no important purpos and instead inve in, as families do, investments for the ture. >> woouff: the

and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> lehrer: the supreme court delivered a landmark decision on campaign finance today. it has the potential to shake up the national political scene-- starting with this fall's mid- term elections. jeffrey brown begins our coverage. >> brown: it was a five to four decision-- to wipe away limits on corporate and labor union spending in campaigns for president and congress. justice anthony kennedy wrote the majority opinion-- joined by chief justice john roberts, and justices samuel alito, antonin scalia and clarence thomas. they threw out key provisions of campaign finance laws dating back to 1907, plus two of the high court's own decisions from 1990 and 2003. specifically, the justices overturned a ban on letting companies and unions tap their own treasuries to produce their own campaign ads. the decision also eliminated the so-called mccain-feingold ban on issue-oriented ads within 30 days of a primary, and 60 days of a general election. the justices dissenting from those c

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robert reich, al hunt, judy woodruff from the pbs news hour. >>> i don't think there's any truth to the rumor. nbc only cancels you when you're in first place. so we're fine. >>> the white house was hoping that some good news in last friday's jobs report would help turn the corner on a tough first week of 2010. it wasn't meant to be. the jobs engine stalled again. we'll get to the fallout, the surprise christmas bombing and democratic retirements as well. we begin with the white house take on why the economy is losing jobs. we speak to christina romer. welcome. >> great to be with you. >> what went wrong? most economists were expecting small job loss or slight increase. >> what is true is it was some what of a setback. in november, we added jobs. in december, we lost, as you put, 85,000. i think it is important to put them in context. they are i think still part of the overall trend of moderating job losses. in the first quarter of 2009, we were losing on average 691,000 jobs per month. with the new numbers in the fourth quarter, we were losing 69,000. >> that's true. still 660,000 peop

there are very good things about pbs by the way. i don't want to deny and every once in awhile they'd do something beautiful and worthwhile. i thought the can spurns piece about the national parks, america's best lady was a wonderful piece of television and i'm glad the was created with corporate underwriting. but the since people have on public tv i think is common to the sense people have in most colleges and we university's public and private, which is we are smart, we are good, we are beautiful, we are not less than other people therefore we are required to look down on them and there is a sense of the virtue of the nonprofit sphere. is that because i get paid less the meantime better than someone else makes more. i would argue logically and empirically you can make the case the fact one earns less money is not a sign of superior virtues are productivity. >> if i can jump in the position at the heritage foundation -- [inaudible] -- dedicated [inaudible] >> certainly. >> one additional line perhaps is the business programs in ant

and i often set my 12 years with pbs were three of the happiest weeks of my life. [laughter] >> but anyone who believes that pbs are inherently superior because they are nonprofit because they are dependent upon taxpayer support, anyone who believes the art that is great with taxpayer support, one of the insanity of the obama administration is, i don't know if you've heard this yet but we have a deficit, right, it's a one point for $2 trillion this year. it is a nightmare. the obama administration provided a 20% increase in funding for the national endowment for the arts. try to imagine what kind of person isn't who says no, i want to listen to music. i want to go to place. i want to read books that are government supported. first of all, none of the most popular or esteemed or worthwhile work would fall into that category. the truth is the profit system works better. because the profit system encourages good behavior. and morality. and i conclude my book with that argument. if you are in business to make a profit, you must take other people into account. you can't

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when you talk about the pbs news hour -- bloomberg is certainly. i go to bloomberg regularly for my news. that is the first place. >all i am saying is this is appealing to -- we should just the knowledge it is appealing to very narrow stratum of the american public, and when you keep talking about is the general level of discourse as opposed to the discourse taking place here tonight, for example. but the general level of discourse is what matters here. every individual has a vote, and most individuals do not pay the kind of attention they should. >> my theory is in terms of what we're talking about with frustration and mixture of opinion, we are always getting some sort of opinion. how many times have you heard walter cronkite cited for saying how wonderful it is to take a stand. you are always giving something. you always know where to stand and what to get your information. now it is hard to decide who is credible and who is not. people are responding to personal brands if not network once, because they want to know what they are going to get. m

ming sai owner of ming's restaurant in wesley, massachusetts, host of "simply ming" on pbs, scallops,e super-light, the thing i love about this dish. they've been seared on both sides. we then do a pan sauce in the same. so a pat of butter, right? you don't need a lot. just for flavor. i leave all the stuff in there. a little bit of shall otts, a little bit of ginger, a little bit of thyme and some carrots. this is the sauce. it's basically done. we deglaze with a little bit of white wine. let this come together and a little bit of chicken stock. and your one-pan sauce is done. >> chicken stock, not fish stock? >> chicken stock. in the cans is not bad. as that's reducing, let's make cous-cous. this is wheat-free tamari. this is boiling water. the ratio is three to two, three parts boiling water to two parts cous-cous. it takes about ten minutes only and that's what you have here. >> the magic of television, tada. >> here we scrape it with the back of a fork. go like that. and i take some thai basil, hand-rip thai basil into this. and we can plate this up. what i did before you got her