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Coverage continues sunday with Lyndon Johnsons november 27 of just to congress and your questions live with robert caro and president ial historian to medina tolly timothy naftali. Jfk on American History television this weekend on cspan3. Discussion on proposed changes to nsa surveillance and foreign intelligence gathering. This begins with remarks from jim sensenbrenner. He is one of the authors of the 2001 patriot act. He is followed by a Panel Discussion beard this is hosted by the georgetow...

Host Robert Mcdowell, what is your reaction . Isst i think tom wheeler the type of leader who is going to do what he says he is going to do. I have known tom a long time. He is saying there is that hole in the fence, and he will look at other ounces. Whether it is under the Legal Authority the cap Court Granted him under section 706, i think he will explore that. I think you will explore all his options. ,t may be full court of appeals or an appeal to the Supreme Court and it could be an attempt...

Then, Federal Reserve chair janet yellen testifying about the Federal Reserve and monetary policy. Likes this week, david medine, chairman of the privacy and Civil Liberties review board. They give for being here. What is the argosy and Civil Liberties review board . We decide what went wrong and what could be done better. We created the 9 11 commission to look at how we could he for intelligence gathering and connect the dots. Far downnot to go too that line to sacrifice our Civil Liberties. Yo...

Please let us know and whatever per whatever appropriate form we have and whether or not wouldnni arab countries follow soon. Could you get that pretty quickly . , we will try to provide a written assessment of that. If in fact enrichment of uranium spread throughout the , would you agree that that would be a very bad scenario for the National Security of the United States and israel if nations throughout the mid east turned to enriching uranium . Yes, particularly if it were for other than peac...

But also not to go too far down that line to sacrifice our Civil Liberties. You are an independent board. Who do you report to . We dont. We inform congress and the president , but there is no review of our report. We issued a report recently about the Metadata Program and surveillance report. The board voted and issued our report. We also briefed the president before his speech with our recommendations. I think that is where ellen wants to pick up. Your board got constituted and met at a very o...

Prohibition of chemical weapons wednesday 2013 Nobel Peace Prize, we will speak with paul walker of green cross international. He just won the right livelihood award, otherwise known as the alternative nobel, for his work on dismantling chemical weapons. We will also speak with professor Stephen Zunes on how the Bush Administration forced out the former head of the opcw ahead of the iraq war. Then the committee to protect journalists criticizes the Obama Administrations crackdown on journalists ...

Prohibition of chemical weapons wednesday 2013 Nobel Peace Prize, we will speak with paul walker of green cross international. He just won the right livelihood award, otherwise known as the alternative nobel, for his work on dismantling chemical weapons. We will also speak with professor Stephen Zunes on how the Bush Administration forced out the former head of the opcw ahead of the iraq war. Then the committee to protect journalists criticizes the Obama Administrations crackdown on journalists ...

Issues related to meat and poultry is closed. In japan, radiation levels in seawater around a damaged reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant have hit their highest level in two years. The Plant Operator said contaminated soil was displaced by pressure as workers pumped chemicals into the ground in an attempt to harden it and prevent water from leaking into the ocean. On wednesday, the operator said six workers were doused with radioactive water after an employee mistakenly detached the p...

Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. 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. Woodruff an agreement on how much and what the federal government should spend money on took a giant step toward final approval in congress today. The s...

Shiller and auto sales. The nikkei closed up 56 . The best performance in 41 years. This final shortened trading week, all the major indices coming off big gains last week. As we look back on this great year for the equity markets, did 2003 end up stealing gains from 2014. Well take a closer look. But this year was not a good one for gold. The precious metal having its worst year in more than three decades breaking a 12year winning streak. Google and apple are expanding their fight for tech supr...