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Evening with part one of a twopart conversation about the presidency of barack obama and the next four years joined by doris kearns goodwin, jon meacham, bob woodward, bob caro, and Michael Beschloss. I know its the consensus that were barack obama has to do is get along with the republicans. Id like to Say Something about that. President obama is fond of quoting and if he isnt, i am Martin Luther kings statement the moral arc of the universe bends slowly but it bends towards justice. In the first term, president obama did bend that moral arc. He got health insurance, peace of mind for more th...

First inauguration. That of course saw a recordsetting crowd, nearly 2 Million People. No one is expecting anything quite like that this time around but still, folks have been finding spaces on the mall tonight since the sun came up. You can see them setting up spots now. We will be covering the entire inaugural ceremony live. And if youre not at your tv you can watch our live stream on our home page at news hour. Pbs. Org or follow us on twitter. This earmarks the 150th anniversary of the manspation proclamation. You can see bill and Hillary Clinton on the podium. There are also people there ...

Of battle, are unmatched in skill and courage. On the same day that president obama gives his inaugural address, the u. S. Drone strike kills three people in yemen. Today we look at the new documentary, dirty wars the world is a battlefield. Dimons sue was nothing like kabul. Life is defined by the war. Everything revolves around it. In yemen, there was no war, of these not officially. The film, dirty wars, follows Jeremy Scahill to afghanistan, somalia, and yemen as he chases down the hidden truth behind americas expanding covert wars. We will speak with jeremy and the films director, rick ro...

As a nation, this is the kind of the best of america in action. This is something we do well and this is a living History Lesson today. Yes, all of us who are here to cover it love this sort of thing and wouldnt miss it for the world, but this is how an interest in history and politics can get kindled at a young age. And its one of the great spectacles available for free from home. Savannah guthrie, i heard someone say this past week that this time around, four years later, the highs are not so high and the lows are not so low, meaning yes, the crowd wont number 2 million. The history of this ...

Captioning sponsored by Macneil Lehrer productions my fellow americans, we are made for this moment and we will seize it so long as we seize it together. Ifill president obama called for unity and equality in his second inaugural address, delivered today on the west front of the capitol. Good evening. Im gwen ifill. Brown and im jeffrey brown. We devote tonights newshour to the 57th inauguration. With full coverage of the pageantry, the ceremonial swearingin, the speech, the parade, and more. Ifill ray suarez reports on the sights and sounds from the nations mall, where hundreds of thousands o...