jerry butler: and now another pbs reunion. this is a special time for me, you all ready know that the song came on in 1959, you know that. know that. this is a special type of jam right here. just like that, just like that. ♪ ben e. king: when the night has come. ♪ ♪ and the land is dark. ♪ and the moon is the only light we'll see. ♪ ♪ and no i won't be afraid, i won't be afraid. ♪ ♪ just as long as you stand, stand by me. ♪ ♪ stand by me and charlie thomas. ♪ ♪ charlie thomas: darling stand by me, oh, ♪ ♪ stand by me. ♪ oh stand, honey why don't you stand by me. ♪ ♪ whenever you're in trouble, why don't you stand by me. ♪ ♪ whoa stand by me, whoa stand come on baby stand by me. ♪ ♪ before me there was bobby hendricks, way before me. ♪ ♪ bobby hendricks: whoa, whoa, i know, i ♪ ♪ know, i know, i know. ♪ if the sky that we look upon. ♪ ♪ should tumble and fall. ♪ and the mountains should crumble down to the sea. ♪ ♪ i won't cry, i won't cry. ♪ no i won't shed a tear. ♪ just as long as you stand, stand by me. ♪ ♪ listen, before

that's why i was asking about pbs. it's a very -- it's a great audience, but it's a different kind of -- it's a very, very smart audience that's very attentive, very curious, and so it doesn't surprise me to hear that they're paying attention to all those details. >> yeah. >> but they do also sometimes read into details. tavis: yeah. >> why did you call the dog something, and >> that's -- too, yeah. >> -- i think it's because on the 14th of june in [laughter] 1959 you fell over or something. tavis: yeah. >> you think, where do they get this? that, i found rather extraordinary -- and why people, characters, have names. although i know why cora is called cora, because when we were filming "gosford park" at a house called wrotham, just on the edge of london. at the bottom of the staircase was this wonderful sergeant and this beautiful woman who'd been a great american heiress who'd saved the family, and she was called cora, countess of stafford. so when i was thinking about it, i thought that's who we'll name her for, bec

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and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: the obama administration today laid out its case, in detail, that the syrian government used chemical weapons on its own people last week. secretary of state john kerry minced no words in a blunt accounting of the attack. and, president obama made clear the u.s. is still making plans for a punitive military strike. again, be advised that some of the images may be disturbing. >> the united states government now knows that at least 1,429 syrians were killed in this attack, including at least 426 children. >> brown: the chilling numbers stood out from the u.s. intelligence assessment released this afternoon. and lest anyone doubt, the secretary of state insisted, "its findings are as clear as they are compelling." >> our intelligence community has carefully reviewed and re- reviewed information regarding this attack. and i will tell you it has done so more than mindful of the iraq experience. we will not repeat that moment. >> brown: kerry said the evidence this time

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and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you.nk you. >> brown: the united states worked today to firm up the intelligence behind claims that syria used chemical weapons and to win support for a possible military strike. meanwhile, a united nations team began wrapping up its own efforts to find out just what happened last week, in a suburb of the syrian capital. outside damascus, u.n. inspectors made a third trip to the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack. collecting samples in gas masks and protective gear, while the u.n. secretary general, ban ki- moon, said their mission is nearly over. he spoke in vienna. >> they will continue investigation activities until tomorrow, friday and will come out of syria by saturday morning, and will report to me as soon as they come out of syria. >> brown: the inspectors' exit could set the stage for possible military action by the u.s. and other western powers against the syrian regime. today, in washington, the obama administration was still marshalling its evidence and still not ready t

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yourd by contributions to pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: stephen stills' 50-year career has taken him on a formidable solo career and has been written in red the finding and comes, like "for what it's worth. " a four cd set called "carry on," curated by graham nash. here he is singing the song he wrote, suite judy blue eyes. -- sweet judy blue eyes. ♪ ♪ ♪ tavis: when you look at this box set, you think what about these five decades? >> i focus on what has come next. , we call that i did ourselves the ride. .e have nice elderly rides it's all about the band, name the band. which i hadn't played in many years. buffalo springfield was hard enough. >> we go over to rehearse at the guy's house and they are working on the street. an enormous steamroller came through. tavis: it was a sign from god, like a bruise brothers moment? -- blues brothers moment? signed atdue to get any moment, so we had a month or two. tavis: buffalo springfield it became. about the blues project in the second. back, what do you think of all those years later? >> w

but first: this is pledge week on pbs. this break allows your public television station to ask for your support. >> brown: finally tonight, an unusual way to weed a cemetery is giving new meaning to the kwame holman is back with the story. >> holman: it's a part of washington where only one barnyard beast is most often invoked. >> pork! >> pork! >> pork! >> they call it pork! >> holman: in a city filled with animal mascots and icons, from the democrats' donkey, to the republican elephant and the "rino," or "republican in name only." this week, with congress well and gone from its hill during these dog days of summer. it was the goats' town for the taking. a trailer-full was loosed on a once-neglected quarter of capitol hill-- the 200-plus-year old historic congressional cemetery. >> we have a lot of english ivy, poison ivy, kudzu and i knew the goats were the solution to take care of that. >> reporter: paul williams is president of the association that safeguards the cemetery; it is not affiliated with the u.s. congress, e

pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: ethan hawke has started in "training" and "precinct 13" but whatever he accomplishes as a director or writer he will probably be remembered in part for the character of jesse who along with julie delpy is a couple who moviegoers have followed two decades first in "before sun rise" and again "before sun set" and let's take a look at a clip frp the film. >> i knew when i started this particular case that i might stumble on a few things that maybe somebody would have overlooked. >> might stumble, you in fact did uncovered some additional information that the cops overlooked. >> first, let me say there are a lot of good police officers an i do not in any way disparage what they do. but in police world doing something wrong can mean ruining somebody life. what does better seeing your movie or see your book that is now on the best seller list? >> the justice. tavis: that's not before midnight. >> that's my favorite work with my favorite theme partner of all time. tavis: th

only on pbs.captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> woodruff: edward snowden, the leaker of u.s. surveillance secrets, was granted asylum in russia today. he walked out of the moscow airport where he had been holed up for more than a month. good evening, i'm judy woodruff. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight: we get reaction from washington and moscow and talk with former national security agency officials about the scope of u.s. spying programs.

. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. -- >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley at pbs.org. >>vis: hi, i'm tavis smiley. imagine you have just direct did marvelbased on characters and you have just agreed to make the sequel. here is joss whedon. you made it in your own th backyard in 12 days, and this is what you come up with. >> are you sure benedict loves entirely?o >> did they bid you tell her of it? >> they did not, but i persuaded them if they love benedict. >> why did you so? does not the gentleman deserves as full of bad -- a be? womanure never framed a of as proud of stuff as beatrice. >> then kingsley came through, and when he does it is through a to go conversation without shakespeare making a cameo, so i will ask you. what is it about shakespeare? language, and it is how personally i relate to it. with it even before i could understand it. i love the poetry, but the more i studied it, the more i go, this is about me. is 400kes me that it years since he wrote it, and the jokes sti

. >> and by contributions to your pbs stations from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: when wayne shorter was studying music in the 1950s, he beer -- he first confused and then him pressed his professors by combining classical music with jazz. thatbegan his insistence musical barriers needed to be broken. his new cd is called "without a net." there are so many clips i can share with you about history career, but i decided to pick this one from 1967. ♪ ♪ tavis: congrats on the's 80 years sir. >> thank you. tavis: what do you make of this 80-year journey so far? i said at my birthday party the other day that i'm eight. that same feeling that i had when i was eight years old, i'm collecting all of these statuettes of captain marvel and one woman. [laughter] tavis: let me ask it another way. still have feel to the pipes to do what you do at 80? >> a lot less oxygen now. one reason it helps not to have rehearsals and read music that is written because you have to play long lines with a lot of wind. tavis: right. >> so i have to find another way to express written impr

. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers likethank you. tavis: please welcome laura dern by on this program. the oscar nominees is enjoying great success on her series called "enlightened." here is a scene from "enlightened." >> where have you been for two days? >> i was in la. >> and? >> i do not want to talk to you about this kind of stuff. it would be great if you were happy for me, but it never works out that way. >> happy for what now? >> things are going to change for the better, so when the time is right. >> you have a new boyfriend or what? >> it is more than that. the bigger liar i dream about. be happy, mom. that is all i need from you. tavis: all right, then. how cool is that? >> it was cool getting to work with my mom. tavis: it really is mom. since you were last year a few things have happened. you actually won a golden globe for the series. >> which is so amazing. i will say the foreign press and the critics and you, there were so many champions of the show, which was huge for us to find our following and get to the second se

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thanks to everyone at pbs, i am so happy to be apart of your farewell season; this is wonderful.y, to whoever found all those clips, thank you for sharing them with everyone. what a wonderful trip down memory lane and a little detour down mullet street. that was um. i, of course, want to thank mark twain. is he here tonight? if you see him, thank him. i've never read mark twain, but to be fair he never saw my hbo special; so i guess that's. it's really incredible. when i heard i was going to be getting this award and traveling to our nations capital i was so excited. i thought, "this is a big deal to go to new york city and accept this, this is." and then people were like, "you know new york is not the capital?" and i was like, "i know, i know and i love boston." so. they're like, "it's not boston." so long story short, i'm happy to be here at the kennedy center where so may space shuttles have been launched. what a beautiful. [audience laughing]. i don't know where i am. i'm extremely grateful, i can't believe my life. i have emmy's and i have peoples choice awards and i have a

but first: this is pledge week on pbs. this break allows your public television station to ask for your support. and that support helps keep programs like ours on the air. >> woodruff: for those stations not taking a pledge break, we have an encore look at a recent spike in an airborne disease known as valley fever, spreading throughout the southwest. ray suarez has our story. >> reporter: the mojave desert is known for extreme heat and fierce wind. recent years of hotter and drier seasons have only intensified those conditions. drivers sometimes need headlights to navigate through thick dust storms. you might think of a blast of gritty breeze as uncomfortable, rather than threatening, but westerners have good reason to worry about what that wind is carrying. biologist antjie lauer is at the desert's western edge-- the nasa dryden center- to study one tiny local inhabitant she suspects is actually benefiting from prolonged drought-- a microscopic fungus called coccidiodes or cocci. >> they adapt to desert soils. so they ca

. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: phil jackson quit after learning -- earning 11 rings. practicallyt stop every team in the league from pursuing him to come back. coach, no questions about your comeback. that decision may be forthcoming, we shall see. he spends a lot of time in montana where he writes books, detailing his philosophy about winning and losing. "11 rings, the soul of success." i really love the subtitle. >> everything pales behind winning. make a big statement, the losses to detroit and to boston were real moments that were tough to get by. player, we lost to the lakers and 71, 72. we were able to win 72 and 73 against the laker team. tavis: if one can get addicted to winning, what is the antidote for that? it is an addiction like anything else, you see where i am going with this. what do you do about that? if you lose, it is a deep thought. it was the innovator of the triangle offense. players ofed the your own success through the last success of the night. you are not a success right now. we are

provided by the annenberg foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. once again, live from washington, moderator gwen ifill. gwen: good evening. the president of these united states strolled into the white house east room today to unburden himself of a few things. before he follows congress' lead and escapes washington for a summer vacation. but the next 10 days will clearly not be a vacation from work. in his briefcase, how to soothe fears about domestic surveillance programs. how to paper over a cold war-like rift with vladimir putin and how to brace for republican pushback on various domestic issues like health care. >> my friends in the other party have made the idea of preventing these people from getting health care their holy grail. their number one priority. the one unifying principle in the republican party at the moment is making sure that 30 million people don't have health care. gwen: but let's start with the president's comments on domestic surveillance programs where he promised greater transparen

. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: taylor branch is, of course, the brilliant writer of the trilogy "the king years." he has distilled the epic story into one book. it is called "the king years: historic moments in the civil rights movment." he joins us from washington. taylor, good to have you on the program. >> i wish i could be with you. tavis: i wish we could have you in the studio. you have spent basically your life working on this icon a trilogy, and then you end up with a book that basically distills it all down. why did you do this? >> teachers have told me for many years that while they love the story, 800-page books are a little much to assign college students, let alone high school, and that weighed on me. the other thing is that it has been 50 years since the crest of the movement, and america still does not really appreciate how much we benefit from that. there are still many people hiding from the great benefits of the 1960's, so i wanted to do something to crystallize that. the lessons from the pe

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yourd by contributions to pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: with her eclectic mix of musical styles that combine r&b, soul, jazz, folk, and even hip-hop, india.arie has always defied easy classification. after a four -year gap she's just released her latest cd. it's called "songversation," love that title. let's take a look at india singing a cut from the new cd, called "cocoa butter." >> ♪ ♪ ♪ tavis: we were just [laughter] -- y'all missed that. >> oh, i'm terrible. tavis: when the brother started walking at the end, india said, "hey." >> "hey." [laughter] "hey,"and i was saying, when i saw you at the beginning of the video> >> thank you. tavis: all right. we were talking while the clip was playing about whether or not it seemed like four years to you, because to your fans, myself included, it felt like four years. you? >> yeah. tavis: that's a long time. >> yeah. tavis: why you do that to us? >> [laughter] i needed to get myself together. i needed time to just -- what's the word? there's so many -- i have like all these words just pop

and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: there was a flurry of activity around the world today on what happens next in syria. at the united nations, britain submitted a resolution to the security council condemning syria for an alleged chemical attack, and authorizing the use of force in response. the u.n. envoy to syria, lakhdar brahimi, warned any military action must have the world body's approval. but russia and china appeared likely to use their vetoes, as they have on previous syria resolutions. in turn, u.s. officials made clear that plans for a possible military strike are continuing-- with or without u.n. approval. and in syria, u.n. inspectors returned to the site of the alleged gassing, protected by rebels. the u.n. secretary-general said they need four to five days to finish, but the assad regime demanded they also investigate chemical attacks by rebel forces. this was how things stood when president obama sat down with judy and me at the white house a short time ago. hello, mr. president. th

and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: the situation in egypt took another volatile turn today with news that former president hosni mubarek might be released from prison. this comes amidst continuing violence, this time with mass shootings on the sinai peninsula. peninsula. a state of emergency remains in please stand by for captions. please stand by for captions. please stand by for captions. please stand by for captions. please stand by for captions. please stand by for captions. please stand by for captions. please stand by for captions. please stand by for captions. please stand by for captions. please stand by for captions. please stand by for captions. please stand by for captions. any egyptians are being killed. as far as i'm concerned one egyptian that is one too many. we have to look at in in an objection way. when people are attacked that -middle of unfarmed demonstrators, there's going to be a gun fight and people are going to get hurt. if it was up to the muslim brotherhood leadership to a

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