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. >> thankou. >> paul: my guestrik ristuben of rsell investment. >> susie: recappintoday's rket action: wall street end five-day winning streak. thdow drops 22 points and the nasdaqoses three points. to learn more about eñatories in tonht's broadcast, to watch our streaming video anto take part in our daily bl, go to "nightly busess report" on pbs.org. you n also email us at nbr@pbs.org. can the consumer help pu this economy ouof recession and into recover tonighs two ways to play takes a look. re's kevin depew of minyanvill >> reporter: it's only septber, but pretty soon were going to be inundated wi gloom and doom about the upcing holiday shopping sean. a desperatelweak consumer is now a foregone conclusion, a fothat reason alone bears might want to consid a more optimistic ocome. the idea thathe u.s. consumer must retreh due to high debt levels is simply false. let'look at the real numbers. 30% of consumers havno debt whatsoever. 40% to 50% have reasonle debt levels. that lves just 20% to 30% that havgotten into trouble. if t other 70% to 80% are able to spend and csumers prove re r

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. >> thankou. >>> in central america,he situation in honduras is tense after manel elaya, the lefst president sted in a coup three months ago, sck back into the country yesterday. he took refugein a brazilian embassy to avoid arrest. today police usedear gas and water cannon to chase away thousands of zelaya suorters who violated acurfew. zelaya says he wants to meet with the de facto predent who isn't recognized b any other government. >> translator: my esence here a new opportunity to open the possibilities of dialogue. to turn honduras into what hondans want, thatis a society with pea and dialue and consensus and dissent and debate whe it's needed. >> fromurope tonight, a foow-up to a stor that we first told yo about last week. the immigration debate in france, whe hundreds of illegal immigrants, manyrom afghantan, are trying to find their way to a better life in great britain. well today the northern french portity of calais, the authorities made good on tir threat to shut down a camp where the migrantswere waiting to ke their journey. we hear in this report froitn. reporter: the police c

. >> rose: thankou for coming. it is a fcinating time right now and to seeou again, it was a pleasure for us. we will talk tomorrow night with the fense minister of israel ud barack, but i thank you very much r coming and we continue the dialogue here and hopefully in the regions well. >> thank y so much. >>ose: salam fayyad the prime nister of the palestinian authority. coming up next, rich cohen has written a new book called "israeis real," with a ok at some new ideas with fm the israel perspective. but rst a look ahe this wee at conversations with two remarkle basketball players in separate intervis. th are lebron jamesnd chris pull. oh, my goodness! what a look away by chris paul! >> rose: has every part of the dream been realized for you? >> i'm almosthere. >> rose: one big thing. >> one more drea >> rose: n.b.a. championship? >> absolutely. yogot it. rose: and lastear when you dn't get it,ow did that hit you? >> it hurt. any ti i set ou aoal and, you know, i feel like it's. i careach it and it's like right th

." >> thankou. gwen:so where al qaeda, and how much of a reat do they po?we may havgotten one incation this week with the exsure and arrestf an afghan-american terroruspect who authoritiesay was planning bomb attacks it may seemhat weve hear about a lot oplots like this before. why is this one different? pete? >> if you think abo the lots we have seen ince 9/11, most f them are pple trying to learn to become terrorists by gong to correspondence schl. they go on tthe internet, downlo material to build bombs and find oer people through the internet. if we belve what the vernment says, here is someo o went to school tobecome a terrorist. the government says thisan, najibullah zazi who ves in suburban denver actuly went to pakistan with e purpose of attendinging an al qaed training camp. they said he hasadmitted dog this ihis conversations with e f.b.i. other peopleave done that, too, have comeo the united states after going to pakist but thehave lost nrve or lost their way. th say, no, went byond that, too, and bgan to immediately put in effect what he learned

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. >> thankou, charlie. >> charlie: if you want to know more about nuclear kin of things, david's books called "the heritance" which is a remarkable read. back in a moment. r conversation thursday of last week before any of this broke with mahmo ahmadijad -- the psident of iran. stay with us ♪ ♪ >> crlie: mr. president, thank you veryuch for this third oprtunity to talk with you. tell me in your words what happed in the electio in iran and why it resulted in so man people in thstreets. so many people arrted. so much talk about arrests, torture, death in prisons, cluding children of highly respected irians. anare you sily going to leave it to the judiciy as to what hapns now about people on trial? te me your story of the election. and aftermh. >> you know that in iran, electionare real elections. reallycompletely popular ones. >> charlie: in conast to? >> we, no, i mean, t entire election is not controlled by the people -- you know ver well what i am saying here. there are places where -- mean, elections are simply a show in thend of the day but in iran this just not possible. you can't

. >> thankou. some of them landed on pakistani soil and they used them to reverse engineer a pakistani cruise missile. >> one personal story that comes through in the/11 commission record. you did not touch on when we talk about the fascination with people and how you explore them. and that's one guy that i wonder if you knew about and if you did why you choice not to write about him. and it's one of the 19. that's the jada. it seems to be the only one who had a lover and goes back and forth visiting with her. she comes and spends time with her in florida. he calls her on the airplane. they were secretly married. i was very interested in him. what's up with that? that breaks the mold here. that's a weird story. >>im, i decided consciously that i wasn't going to really write about the hi jackers. for one thing, i didn't want to overpop late the book. but at some level, i wasn't interested in this. especially, i spent time and looked into, ipent some time in cairo talking to people around ota and so

thankou for being here tonight, cop. [applause] >> is this yours? you are the secretary. [laughter] that is th wrong tng to say? >> hi to introduce the president of the association and he has a presentation >> we do not do this evyday this was given 10 years ago but we want to do the honorable life membership [applause] >> >> you have to come to the gun show. [laughter] >> i should put omy field jacket retrofire away. we have 15 minutes for questions. any topic at all. >> on the ied how far away we they from the vehic? >> the one that you saw the flaming vehicle was a pressure play. one of the interesting things that has happen in aq and the ied was very, very sophisticated they are not that sophisticated yet in afghanistan and large part because there is only one paved highway and all of the afghanistan. there is o paved highway in the entire country. iraq h a more advanced infrastructure so they put them behind guard rails. there are noris afghanistan. everything is a dirt track so pressure plaq its wok pretty good as y might imagine weave sophisticated intelligence tha

. >> thankou. thank you, charlie. >> ros in fact,e talked th m at the time in yo opinion prison. >> yes. >> rose: just... tell me the story. is it fair to your mother to ke sure iave the a she w so she can appreciate e sense... >> sure,ure. ihad... i went toisit my mother and spent chrtmas with her cause she was... sheas an austria and lived in iran so shecelebrated chstmas. and i spent theeek with her anon the 30th of december, 2006, i said good-bye to her, tellinheri'll be bac for the persn new year in marc" anheaded to the airpo. halfy on the route t the airport, i was...he car was stopped and we were pushed to the se and four knife-wielding men jumped out of the car. >> rose:knife-wielding? >> yes, they wereaving kves attached to their waist and, you know, th were quite large knives. and one of them came and sat next to me and the other one told th driver topen the trk, he took my suitcase, o took. the third one took my carron bag, which was on the front seat next to t dver, and the guy who sat

nathan gruber, m.i.t., in massachusetts and michae cannon from the indicat owe institute, thankou bothry much. >> thank you. you're welcome. lehrer: you can listen to a series of conversaons about health care reform on our b site, newshourbs.org. onlineow is our interview with the thor of an article titled "how amerin health care killed my father." finally tonight, novel take on e future. jeffrebrown talks with author margaret atwood. >> brown: in a beautif leafy nehborhood of toronto, margaret atwood tends her garden. cuttg back the overgwn lemon balm and pepper mint. on ts day the world seemed re than fine. but in a new novel atwood conjures up a nasty future in which religious cult cald god's gardeners struggles to rvive. biological experents run amok, diminishing food supply and a pandemic tat leads to the end of theorld as we knowt. the book is titled "the year the flood," part of a genre atwood calls speculative fiction. >> the oy reason i use that term is scice ficti often means people plnet x, talking cabbas, very far-out things, the attack of blizzard- men. that's not what i w

and i am considerably amazed at how sturdy ts music is >> thankou very much. >> lehrer: youan learn more music makeover on our art beat page at newshour.p.org. and yocan watch video clips, including one out the making sergeant pepper's lonely hearts club nd. >> lehrer: finally tonig, a ibute to walter cronkite. he was remembered todaat a memorial serce at lincoln center in w york. two pridents along with colleagues andriends spoke. here are some excerpts. >> wter cronkite was the most cuous man i have ever met. he always nted to know everything aut everything. and he wanted know it before everyone else knew i us to call us around the beats, one day he callednd asked a questi for the first ti i could actually answer. he said, well thank you b, this old grey head had a question mark above . really talked that way! >> i thought he was an astonishg man. liked his inquiring mind and his caring heart. and he did somethingor my familyhat was so simple and en now, it's hard to talk about. but in a very tultuous summer in our personal lives, 1998,e were up on martha's vinerd. walter asked us to g

. >> thankou. lehrer: we have more about both afghanistan a the anniversary the 9-11 attacks on our web site newshour.pbs.org you can listen to a repoer's podcast abouthe war and president oba's popularity in europe and watch slide show of ages of the september 11th morial sites in new york, washington and pennsvania. >> lehr: in other news today, a coast ard training exercise in wasngton touched off a flurry of confusion as 9/1 anniversary services were taking place at the pentagon. newshour corresponnt kwame holman h this report. >> holman: four coast guard securityoats darted and dashed across theotomac river this morning, in a planned, but unannounced exercise both cnn and fox ns broadcast liveerial pictures of the boats on the river, and ported shots had en fired. cnn ported the coast guard had fired n rounds at a suspicious bo near the bridge president obama's motorcade crsed. the repos drew fbi agents to e scene and prompted the deral aviation administratio to order a briefalt to flights at

. >> thankou.thank you very much. >> lehre you can listen to a reporter's podcast abouthe taliban's military strategy our web site, newsur.pbs.org. >> lehrer:inally, another in our on-going series on poetsnd poetry. tonight, heather mchugh. she was justoday awarded a macarthur fellowship, populay known as the "geni award." hugh is author of more than zen books of poetry, translation d essays. her newest colction, "upgraded to serious will be published in november. >> my me is heather mchugh. i live in seattle and take breaks in glorus victoria, c.. i have always lived on waterfnts. if you live the edge of an enormous mountain or an ormous body owater, it's harder to think of yourself as bei self- important. that seems uful to me, spiritually. my father was a marine biologt. there's something of that ne in me, probably, tstudy the creatures that move fluent, fluid wa. ho needs it" "if language could be trusteto be true, thhardest would be loudest, soft were soft. but ink again: the joke's on you. ag

. >> thankou. >> we have time for three more people here. >> you are to be congratulated r coming forward like this. you should run for president. >> there a good idea. [laughter] the reason i say that is you haven't mentioned the busines schools and we had a president who had a business school education and that didn't seem to help. what advice woul you give people in the business sools to prevent something like this from happening? >> you know it's funny y ould ask that. about a month and a half ago i was invited to speak to a conference, business school deans. and the scho a dartmouth is the one who invited me and he said, you know, the problem isn't that we were teaching them the wrong models for all of these securitizations and risk. the problem is they were no understanding whatur models were all about. [laughter] which i am sorry and i like the man of what, i think that is bologna. i do thinc that is bologna. the business schools were absolutely crucial in a developing @ lot of the squirrely models used to structure subprimal mortgage-backed securities, and it was interesting in th

. >> thankou very much. >> no problem. thank you so mh. >> y, sir. >> come over down to henderson and sees. >> definitely. >> we would welcome u. >> all right. >> all right. >> yes, s. >> chris paul, t book is long shot, neveroo small dream big, an increble story of an incrediblyoung man. thank you for joining us. see you next time. ptioning sponsored by rose communications captioned media accessroup at wgbh cess.wgbh.org

. >> thankou. nice to be here. >> rose: very good to see you. let's begin wi what' transpired in the st year. how did the government do? well, the governmen was faced with acrisisof proportions thataven't been seen sin the 10s, anyway, d when you got to the fall and thisind of exploded in a rate they certainly didt anticipate with succession of failuresnd new failures arting with their desion to support faepld and faekd whh are already gornment supported institions, thing deteriorated and they reacted very strongly at that point with pporting theemaining investme banks, a.i.g., the world's biggt insurance company, they recapitalized or began to rapitalize in a maer of weeks theiggest nks in the united states. meanwhile air,road someing similar had been gog on but basically the financial stem was taken over and supportedy the deral government, a really remarkable event. and then as this have evolved the gornment has provid not to sole source credit in the the economy, but amazily a large proportion of the flow of credit throughhe economy, which i

. >> thankou. >> wner: what do you hope to achieve in new york nt week that will improve prospectforetting a deal copenhagen. >> this is thenly meeting th is going to bring together alleads of state and government fro countries around t world. major industrialid countrie island nions that may disapar because of climate change. and i hope that the will collectively send a signal that they want copenhagen to succeed. >> warr: they sent a similar signal around th g8 eting in italy in jy yet the u. negotiator and othe involved in these lks that have been so involvedn say they really ar't going well. they're no on paste to get a deal by december. w share that view? >> wl, i would agree that the gotiations are moving slow. but part of e reason why no big adnces were made in thg8 is bcause countries feel more comfortab negoating climate change in the broader setting of the u.n. with everybody at the stable rather an the small group. so that was part of the reason. >> now energy secretary chu of the o mba administraon said last ek that cop enhagen is not could come bac in two to fewer years.

. >> thankou very much and thank everybody for coming. was at a book reading in portland few weeks ago and someone said to me afterwards you never worked for the uw and you're not latino so why did you write this book? so i thought i would start by sort of explanning that in case some of you wer wondering. you know, i was always fascinated by people i'd come across who when they were very young often teenagers still g involved with this organization that became so transformative that after they had their contact with the ufw they spent the next 30-40 years of their lives working for social justice. and i thought it's amazing people need to know what is it about this organization that had that kind of dramatic impact. because there was a l of organization of the 60s and 70s but none exceeded the ufw in buildings -- building paep's confidence and instilling a lifetime commitment to social justice. and so that's why i wrote "beyond the fields"nd m own connection to the ufw began in the 1970s because i was living in berkeley and i met someone

. >> thankou. >> moyers:efore we get to afghistan, let me ask you about is photograph of a young marine who died. and tha.p. as you know circuled the picture, even thgh the parents and robert gates, the sectary of defense, objected. what was your reaction to th? >> you know, when at photo came out, i talked ta friend of mine, she's a coloneln the my. she served in ir and many years ago, she'd lost her dauger, who was a toddler at the time to illness, so she could speak tot as a soldier and a parent. and she was real angry about the photo. shsaid, "no one has the right tell me what my last memory of my child should be." and it really stay with me. and so as i could have emphy for the familyand i felt a lot of pain, bause i can only imagine having that image ared in your mind. but m conflicted, because as a jonalist, and as someone who has to go out and sethis war day in a day out, it's hard to say that these ptos shouldn't be seen. in a way, i feel like the wa in iraq d afghanistan have been sanitized. and that photoas gruesome as it i captures the reality of war. it's ugly. and it's wt

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demint: thankou. i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be suspended. i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. demint: thank you for serving in the chair. today marks the 8th anniversary of america's war on terror. today we -- the day we began to fight backut 9/11 was not the day the war began. radical islamic terrorists were at war with the united states ng before that harrowing morning eight years ago. that's crucial to remember now. as the terror and tragedy of that day recedes into the past. this war did not begin with the 9/11 attacks. or when we sent troops to afghanistan. and it will not end when we defeat terrorists on any battlefield. our goal cannot be merely to end one war but to win the war on terror. we will not win by trying to appease the grievances of our enemies. they do not hate our policies. they hate us. our freedoms. and our way of life. the 3,000 murders on 9/11 were the consequence of a bad bipartisan failure of american leadership to understand that hat

she got up and came out and touched my eht shoulder very gently and she whispered comment thankou. because they had never heard a pulled from a black ma and said 1098 take that book, and show it mind mom? i was so happy it would have given her my c she had memorize what of the pm that ha a dream what happens to a dream? does it dried up like a raisin in the sun cracks the next day i was fired for reading data and other poem from langston hughes they have a list just like today that said langston hughes was th eighth great poet and i read him in fourth grade. sohe formal charge against me if i recall it was on the front page of "t new york times" because peoe were astonished, the charge was curriculum deviati "the boston globe" our local paper of course, played with this and there have line with something likehodes scholar fired from fourth grade. it did not hurt me. i was dired for curriculum deviation a couple months later the federal government hired me for curriculum development. why people can take tse risks i had my harvard degree that was like my american express gold card. d

thankou for helping celebrate the 75th anniversary of the national archives. [applause] our special booktv programming begins with former governor howard dean on his book, howard dean'srescription for real health care refor this is a little less than an hour. >> i thought i would just talk for ten minutes, not long time because i want to hear from you. i do tend to give long answers so when u.s. me question about something i have not talked about yet he may get a longer answer then you would like. i wrote the book because i thought there is the desperate need for a book that explains health care in plain english. this is an incredibly arcane subject. it is clearly the most complicated domestic policy we have. it is very hard to understand and it is usually put together by people who really know a lot but have trouble communicating in spite, or communicating in a straightforward way because it is so incredibly complex. i have to wonderful co-authors, faiz shakir and igor volsky. they started outhis fact eckers but ended up writing a number of factors but they r

. >> thankou, jodie.y name is billy sinclair and as jodimentioned, this book is 42 years in the making because it was an 1966 ai was convicted of capital murder and some seven, eight months later was sentenced to death in the electric chair today louisiana state penitenti@ry. so, naturally i have an increased interest in the death penalty. have for many years. it was a subject of morbid interest while it was on death row because i studied all of the methods of execution. wanted to become familiar with how people are put to death by the state. and had a particular interest becaus that is wt the mo of death or life faced. and so capital punishment has been an oning interest of mine. after i was released from death row in 1972 and in the later years while in prison i became celebrated prison journalist recipient of a number of prestigious journalism awards including the george polk robert f. kennedy sidy hillman and civil gavel of words, and i found it a common theme in the award for example the poll -- polk

soufan, thankou for serving our country. >> thank you, sir. >> and i appreciate your view of how we shouldave. the point that we are trying to make is that weo forward that we get this right. and as we look back in dhe past, we don't want to shade is on way or the other unnecessarily. is it your testimony that enhanced interrogation techniques that were employed right after 9/11 yielded no good information? >> ian only speak about my own personal experience. >> that's the point, isn't? >> get. >> and i admire you. i really do. i appreciate what you are doing. mr. chairman, i think there is some information out there that shows that enhanced interrogation techniques did you good informaon. and i would like it to be part of this inquiry if we're going to have a. buthaving said that, mr. soufan, i oppression which were telling u were you involved in the ksm interrogation at all? >> no, sir. after mike stand up al qaeda, and what i believe is right, i was out of the program stack i don'doubt that at all and i don't doubt that you are trying to help the country. i just think that this idea that

>> all right, andrea, thankou very much. andrea mitchell at the united nations this morning. benjamin netanyahu is the prime minister of israel. mr. prime minister, it's good to have you here. good morning. >> good morning. >> let me put that picture right back up, okay, the handshake between you and mr. abbas. does it mean anything? does it show any sign of progress or is that a long-overdue photo op? >> well, i think it's long overdue and i don't think it's just a photo op. i mean, i've been -- since being installed as prime minister, which is about six months ago, i said let's meet and let's talk peace. let's not talk about talking peace. let's just get together and do it. and i'm glad that president obama hosted this meeting, and i think with goodwill from all sides, we can get this thing going. >> but where do we stand? the president -- you're saying the right things, president obama's saying the right things. he says it's time to act. there's a window of opportunity. he's going to send hillary clinn and george mitchell back to the middle east and try to build on this pr

.> thankou >>> that a good shot. >> yeah. >> wow!ally don't. i have a birthday party to go to for a girlfriend of mine. i think i'll stay inside and read a lot of books. >> my neighborhood block party tomorrow. are we going to get rained out? >> yes! >>> still to come, hoda and kathie lee revea theea t resultf our ambush makeovers. >>> also, chef curtis stone. >> first, these messages and your local news. >>> our time is 9:56. it is raining. 61 degrees. good morning. i'm joe krebs on this friday, september the 11th, 2009. >>> in the news, more than a dozen people have been injured in an accident involving a metro bus an a charter bus. 19 people were injured in the accident earlier this morning in the 2300 block of good hope road and southeast. six of the victims are children. none of the injuries are considered to be life threatening. we have a news crew on the scene. we will bring you more information throughout the morning, of course. >>> police are offering a reward for information that helps them find the driver who hit and kille

. >> thankou.this is one of the most important hearings the senate judiciary committee will hold this year. i have listened to my friend from south carolina. i hav listened to each of his several conclusions that he made during his opening statements. i also heard him speak of the ability of the law. i would urge senators not to raise from and try to and determine the hearing. let's listen to the witnesses who are going to testifying rather than raising hypotheses and facts really not in the record. i applaud t chairman of the white house for doing this. his own background makes him eminently suited. i think it is one of the most important hearing we will have because it raises the questn of how we got to a place where the department of justice's the, the office of legal counsel, an office that basically sets the standard for the who federal government came into a predetermined and premeditated legal opinion that allowed president bush to authorize the torture of those in american custody and contr

so thankou, everybody, thanks very much and thanks the entire team many of whom are in the room for just tremendous work. thank you. >> thank you all. >> >> live now to a discussion on efforts to improve emergency communications since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. we'll hear from former homeland security sretary michael chertoff, on your screen, the harris communications firm is hosting this event, and you're watching it le on c-span2. >> but also to recognize the distance we still have to travel. as the 9/11 commission found in its report on the events of 9/11, one of the significant deficiencies at ground zero particarly in new york was the lack of communications and interoperability among communications for the first responders. in particular, police, firefighters and other emergency personnel couldn't talk to one another. and this has been an issue which has been at the top of the list of things to be done to deal wefective response in the eht years that have passed since september 11th. i can tell you there has been a significant amount of progress that has occurred. first of all, in

thankou. >> thank you for your work through the decades on the important subject to our nation. ouitnesses today are garry hall of the united states navy, major general robert steel, admiral james wisecup, united states marine corp director and war college. we will put the timer on you gentleman. your written statements will be part of your record. when you see the red light, we are not going to shoot you. but you should feel free to continue if you need, the challenge that we have with six, we wanted to have all of you together. we thought that would be good. if you all go 10 minutes instead 5, it will be an hour before weet to any questions. admiral we will begin with you and move on dn the le. thank you for being here. the written statements will be part of the record. thank you all. >> goomorning. thank you for the opportunity to be here today. based on your opening statements i know that you really get it, and what we're trying to tablish at our schools. ive on a come daunt for 80 months. and we've worked with jusunder 100 facility members. m extremely proud of the institut

alexander: thankou, very much. mr. president, we have two speeches by the president of the united states today and tomorr tomorrow. th one today is to the schoolchildren of america. the one tomorrow night is to us, to a joi session of congress and to theountry. for the last several days, there's been a small uproar about t president's speech to schoolchildren and in some ways that's very understandable. the country's very wary right now of more washington takeovers. we've seen takeovers of banks and insurance companies and -- and car companies and student loans and even farm ponds and health care and all of a sudden some people may have thought that the president was intending to take over the classrooms of america as well. and that was compounded by the fact tt the early lesson plans, probably drawn up by someone either in the white house or wan department of education, made the speech seem more about the president than about the children and inviting the children to help the president fulfill h goal the way he wants

. >> thankou, david. this presentation is now open for questions. jonathan and then jill. >> that was very helpful. thank you for filling in a big " i want to explore with you, and maybethers -- thank you for filling in. >> what i want to explore with you, and manmay be others, you mentioned the privacy and e form of consent. what does this mean for the therapeutic relationship? when does a client enter into a therapeutic relationsh)p with you, your company, the ants, thempyees of your company? we know you're not in that relationship if you' a dermatologist and your first and let me and they're slapping baby oil on yourself. you cannot go up to them and say that you should not be doing that. understandably, that person on the beach did not go to her and say, you are my doctor, tell me what i need to do. maybe i will do it and maybe i will not. t tell me what you think that ought to do orot to do. the paradigm case of entering that relationship is, when you to a doctor, you say, take care of me. if there is a non voluntary situation which is, i feel