Page 52 - First Network News Today

Congress arent trying to help. Yeah. Its hard. But it is worth it. The president was in boston trying to reboot the conversation around the new health law. House republicans were back in washington, hard at work. Investigating the laws troubled debut. Republican colleagues trying to scare everybody. Will the gentleman yield . I will not yield to the monkey court. The mun keonkey court was in session with health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius fielding questions, of congressmen. Di...

And if it was hard doing it just in one state, it is harder to do it in all 50 states. Especially when the governors of a bunch of states and half of the congress are not trying to help. Yeah. It is hard, but it is worth it. The president was in boston trying to reboot the conversation around the new health law. House republicans were back in washington hard at work investigating the laws troubled debut. Once again, here we have my republican colleagues trying to scare everybody. Will the gentle...

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. Ifill president obama made his first secondterm foray outside washington today, with a call to stop gun violence. It was part of a campaignstyle effort designed to goad congress into action. We dont have to agree on everything to agree its time to do something. Ifill the presi...

Captioning sponsored by Macneil Lehrer productions brown president obama took his push for tighter gun control laws on the road today to a Police Department in minnesota. Good evening. Im jeffrey brown. Ifill and im gwen ifill. On the newshour tonight, we get reaction to the president s proposal to ban assault weapons and Institute Universal Background checks from two local Law Enforcement officials. Brown then, we have the story of a navy seal, a sniper in the iraq war and bestselling author wh...

Captioning sponsored by Macneil Lehrer productions brown president obama took his push for tighter gun control laws on the road today to a Police Department in minnesota. Good evening. Im jeffrey brown. Ifill and imwen ifill. On the newshour tonight, we get reaction to the president s proposal to ban assault weapons and Institute Universal Background checks from two local Law Enforcement officials. Brown then, we have the story of a navy seal, a sniper in the iraq war and bestselling author who ...

That uses a checklist to evaluate and keep the best of them in the classroom. We have parents, students peer and principal surveys, so the teachers are really getting a whole 360 take on what they are doing well and what they need to improve. Ifill the 500yearold bones unearthed in a parking lot in england are those of king richard iii. John burns of the New York Times fills us in. Brown and we close with a conversation with a master of the short story, writer George Saunders. For me, the approa...

Bond, andrew young, gwen eiffel ifill, and Dorothy Gilliam. To pick up on what and a young just said, let me put on my reporter hat for a minute, over the years when most people think about the march on washington they only think about the dream speech and that part of the speech. They dont think about anything else and you are right. He said a lot harsher things than anyone talked about. This is including the absence of women on the stage on purpose. They even missed the dream part of the speec...

Hall of National Memory remind us of the many thousands who made their way from every corner of this nation. Through great effort, to be here on august 28, 1963. For an event they would never forget. For an event that we as a nation must never forget. Thank you. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, jesse norman performing a version of ladies and gentlemen, jesse norman performing a version of the song performed at the 1963 march on washington for jobs on freedom. He has got the whole world in his ha...

Most important trends for women, which was that american womens Labor Force Participation increased. Not only do they not go home after world war ii, they increasingly enter the labor market across the 19th the 1950s. A history of women in the workplace sunday at 1 p. M. Eastern. Next, highlights from season one of first ladies, influence and image. The 50thdiscussion on anniversary of the march on washington, and the legacy of Martin Luther king jr. Series, first ladies, influence and image. Ov...

Good wednesday morning, everyone. Today, a critical day in the George Zimmerman trial, as the defense wraps this case up before the jury. Tensions ran high in the courtroom late into the night, ending only when the judge walked out. Abcs preeti arla has more on the angry words exchanged. Reporter a tense day in the courtroom, during the George Zimmerman trial. A day that lasted well into the night and had plenty of fireworks. Were you its 10 00 at night. We started this morning. Weve had full da...