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Woodruff plus, president obamas ambitious plan to overhaul Higher Education for nearly nine Million Community college studenpand pay for their first two years of school. And its friday, mark shields and david brooks are here, to analyze the weeks news. Those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. We became a nation of light. A nation powered by Che...

Soldiers thoughts on closing gitmo. I have no doubt that closing this jeopardizes the safety and security of the United States and our citizens abroad. If the success or the failure of the mission at gitmo is based on the number of attacks against the United States after 9 11, im confident everyone in this room would join me in judging the mission has been successful. Intelligence collection and National Security have been strengthened as a result of gitmo and america remains a safer place thank...

Already a widow for three months. For four years i lived with my grandparents. They did not have much money. Nobody did at the end of world war ii. I spent a lot of time in the country with my great where parents who by any standard were very poor, but we did not really know that we were poor, because we cared for each other, we did not make excuses. We believed in the American Dream and the value of hard work. We also believed government had an obligation to help people get ahead in were doing ...

Opening a modest business a junkyard in russell, kansas. Let me tell you something a man who has walked across europe to escape the czar and the violent prejudice of his neighbors knows what americas promise of opportunity really means, and he passed that on to me. And i believe i know what the promise of opportunity in this country means, and i intend to protected for every man, woman, and child in this country by instituting an Economic System which will provide unlimited opportunity for every...

That reward companies that stash profits overseas, we can reward companies that invest here in america. We know if we close loopholes that allow the top 1 to avoid paying taxes on their accumulated wealth, we can use that to help middle class families pay for child care and send their kids to college and that will help the entire economy grow. We need a tax code that helps working americans trying to get a leg up in this new economy. And thats what were fighting for. So we dont just talk the wal...

Clog traffic on this road. Delia goncalves joins us live from the scene with more on the break and the sheet of ice that is there too. Delia . Reporter right, we just learned moments ago that the crews who are here have located the water main break. They are locating the pipe via the valve rather and just trying to get to the valve so they can shut off the water. Of course they have to dig through all the snow and ice that is covering the valve. But in the meantime, yeah, sheet of ice here on ri...

And children from the wealthiest neighborhoods will have access to the same information. The blessings of Technology Gives us the means to breach the walls of ignorance and the isolation. At the dawn of every new century we face the prospect of our founding ideal that all men and women are created equal by giving americans access to information and knowledge, and an equal opportunity to not only pursue but to obtain happiness. Education is the great equalizer. Used wisely it will end in the face...

And also, oversight over how tax dollars apart from social insurance are spent. This is an arena which is, at present, shaped heavily by corporations that, despite record profits, pay far less in taxes as a percent of the federal budget than in the 1950s and 1960s. The democracy gap in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote or listlessly vote for the least worst every four years and then wonder why after another cycle the least worst g...

Law enforcement. Just for example when i was in phoenix a couple of weeks ago to inspect the security of the super bowl i met with state and local law enforcement. It was pointed out to me that all the communications equipment, all although surveillance equipment there was funded by my department. As long as we are on this er we are unable to do these very important things for Homeland Security. So we need a fully funded department of Homeland Security especially in these challenging times. So t...

That is live at 12 25 eastern time on cspan2. Here is some of the featured program for this president s day weekend on the cspan networks. On booktv saturday morning at 9 00 live coverage of the savannah book festival, nonfiction authors and books on topics like the disappearance of michael rockefeller, a British Company of the elephants in world war ii and four women spies during the civil war and at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on afterwards former Senior Adviser for president Obama David Axelrod on his...