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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 the nations Third Largest bank, citigroup, announced big job cuts as it continues to scale back in the wake of the financial crisis. The 11,000 employees to be laid off worldwide, make up about 4 of the companys workforce. More than 6,000 of those jobs are in consumer ba...

Many of them dying because Ocean Temperatures are rising and the waters are more acidic. I remember seeing fields of elk horn coral that you couldnt see through it and you couldnt see beyond it and those same areas are dead you know 99 dead. Ifill and we close with a remembrance of jazz great dave brubeck who died today, one day shy of his 92nd birthday. Woodruff thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these in...

Good evening, we begin tonight with an important story, details of which may sound very familiar to a lot of americans, given our history over the past few years in places like iraq. Tonight, pentagon sources are telling nbc news syria is preparing chemical weapons for their possible use against the Syrian People in the form of aerial bombs. It is believed this specific intelligence is the reason why president obama took a hard line against syria just a few days ago, warning them there would be ...

Good evening, we begin tonight with an important story, details of which may sound very familiar to a lot of americans, given our history over the past few years in places like iraq. Tonight, pentagon sources are telling nbc news syria is preparing chemical weapons for their possible use against the Syrian People in the form of aerial bombs. It is believed this specific intelligence is the reason why president obama took a hard line against syria just a few days ago, warning them there would be ...

Countrys Credit Rating in the new year. Each day toward the fiscal cliff is also another day closer to the country maxing out on its borrowing limit. President obama talked to Business Leaders today. The only thing that the debt ceiling is good for as a weapon is to destroy your Credit Rating. Reporter hes worried republicans may re newsto raise the countrys debt ceiling to get their way on spending cuts and risk defaulting on the countrys loans. That is a bad strategy for america. Its a bad str...

19 people were down. Six of them died. That was an extended clip. The gunman had another one in his pocket and two shorter ones in his pocket and had it not been for the quick action, the courageous action of people there, he would have loaded and 30 more bullets would have been discharged. I come to this issue as a parent and a grandparent. I was on my way to the rural part of my district on friday when i heard the news about the shootings in connecticut. First i heard three had died. That was ...

Referring to the 93 other facilities. We have some initial reporting on those. As of yesterday, given the department 12 individual reports for them to examine and to determine what action would be appropriate in view of the specifics of each of those reports. Very much active. I can tell you that at 42 different facilities of the 93, we found the practice of using the next available date as a desired date. It is something we reported in the final report and interim report. We have 19 facilities,...

Management that pushed. It is a combination. When something is going on for as many years, not everywhere, but at a number of facilities, it is an accepted way. Involved in scheduling, and they come in as a new hire, someone says, this is hour you do t they may not realize that someone is telling them the improper way to do it. It is a combination of things, the bottom line is, who is in charge. When you get them a policy directive from vha, do you enforce it or ignore it . That is the bottom li...

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Those of you who are here in the audience those of you who have joined online on cspan. Welcome. This is going to be a riveting conversation and i say that as someone who is a historian. So just a couple of minutes of comments before i turn it over to my friend and colleague steve moore who really will be running the show tonight. And that is in 1994. I was president of my universitys college republicans. And it was more than a dream as a son of the reagan revolution. That army would soon be the...