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Potential family conflicts arise for Joe Biden and aides as his administration drafts new ethics rules Updated: December 14, 2020 Published December 14, 2020 Share on Facebook Print article The last time Joe Biden worked in the White House, his son-in-law Howard Krein mentioned that executives from his health-care start-up firm would be visiting Washington. The vice president promptly arranged a meeting between the group, which included Krein’s brother, Steven, and President Barack Oba...

diligence you could actually probably put the entire pressure cooker back together. >> brown: we take a closer look at the interstate 5 bridge collapse in washington state and what it says about problems plaguing the nations infrastructure. >> ifill: and margaret warner talks to richard haas about why he believes american foreign policy should start at home. >> brown: thats all ahead on tonights newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> more than two year...

there. with enough time and enough diligence you could actually probably put the entire pressure cooker back together. >> brown: we take a closer look at the interstate 5 bridge collapse in washington state and what it says about problems plaguing the nations infrastructure. >> ifill: and margaret warner talks to richard haas about why he believes american foreign policy should start at home. >> brown: thats all ahead on tonights newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been...

>> in a black history month special, we spend the hour with legendary pianist randy weston. he has been a pioneering jazz musician incorporating the hair could of africa. we will speak about his collaboration with langston hughes, and we will talk but his friendship with afrobeat artist fela kuti. >> it has the rhythm from southern part of africa. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. email your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or...

e cpra, the national trust and so on to reassure them and their millions of members that the proposed changes to the planning system dont represent a blank check for the development? >> well, im very happy to meet anyone to discuss this. and i know that the national trust -- i know that the national trust -- the national trust have specifically met already with the planning minister the right honorable member and have had a lot of reassurances about what these planning changes mean. an...

is all that is important. i think for mitt romney, it is not as much a big deal in 2012, at least publicly. economic concerns, a tea party and all that. with rick perry getting in the race, he also has michele bachmann and rick santorum doing the dirty work for him. he can come across as the mainstream guide. host: this is from a research poll that came out in may. what are the chances that you would vote for mitt romney as a mormon? 44% saying they would not vote for a mormon candidat...

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down and it wouldnt work anymore. we should lift the federal restriction on tolling. if they want to take on that decision and wont explain it to the taxpayers, thats their risk. in terms of separating out transit from the trust fund, transit because it is -- its actually not so exclusively in big cities as people would suggest. in pennsylvania we have 39 mass transit systems and some of them are in counties with less than 10,000 people. and bus lines are the only way that working peop...

this is 50 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> to have everybodys attention, please? can i have your attention so we can start? thank you very much. we are very honored today to have as our special guest of the presidents national security advisor, tom donilon. thomas had a distinguished career in government works generally over some 30 years. i first met tom when i was working under president carter. tom had just graduated from catholic university, came to work in the white house an...

good evening. in this tough economy, nothing seems to come easy. the dow took a step forward today, hitting 11,000 for the first time in five months. but that came after we heard about two steps back. down beat news on housing and jobs. we learned that more jobs were lost in september, as a new foreclosure crisis threatens to freeze up the just recovering housing market. bank of america, the countrys biggest bank, put a nationwide halt on foreclosures, joining the list of lenders under...