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woodruff: and it s friday, mark shields and ramesh ponnuru analyze a full week of news. all that and more on tonight s pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. lincoln financial is committed to helping you take charge of your future. the ford foundation. working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. and with the ongoing support of these institutions: and friends of the newshour. 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: president obama strongly suggested today that russian president vladimir putin was at the heart of the computer hacks on the democratic party. and he defended his administration s restrained response in his year-end news conference. as expected, the issue of alleged russian hacking of the u.s. electio ....
finally the snow. have you been outside tonight. some places are already seeing snow. to escaping it you ll get a dose of winter weather and winter does not even officially start until next week. i m iain page. i m lucy noland. it s physical all right. let s get straight to meteorologist kathy orr. tis the season, kathy. it certainly is. and here it is. for the first time i m seeing white popping up close to philadelphia movement of this not making it to the ground but we do have some flurries making it across northern parts of, let s see, delaware and also into chester county, new castle county, delaware county in pa. temperatures right now cold enough for snow in most of the area. philadelphia 36. wilmington 34. but in allentown it is 27 degrees. so we ll go hour by hour and see those snow showers developing mainly through delaware and south jersey and moving off the shore by about 3:00 a.m. so just a couple of hours of snow but it will be a burst of snow an ....
others in the nfl. i mean, they answer my phone calls. they answer my questions. sometimes it s on the record. .. my phone calls, the answer my questions. sometimes it s on the record, sometimes it s on background. billy being in major league baseball is communicative, he s a vice president with the league soi have a great relationship .i think because i have, and jim byzantine my business partner, we demonstrated fairness, that were going to say when we think you misstep and when we think you got wrong . when we think you got it right, were going to say that to and i hear from people that they respect that we are honest a host: young talk flint be interviews you have done with players. are the players open to talking with you? guest: i talk in book about going to in the nfl players association event and a representative of the nfl pa, having a problem with me askingf gay questions of their new players. back three or four years ago. there have been a couple who did ....
that ben & jerry s was willing to take a stand on an issue that was not in its own financial self-interest. it was for the common good. that was the big difference. business is always taking political stance. business is a very political animal. it is always lobbying to not raise the minimum wage. business is always lobbying to not add any more environmental regulation. business is always looking out for its financial self-interest. but when business takes a stand for the common good, people stand up and take notice. this is something that is different. that really set ben & jerry s on the path to being a different kind of company. and as ben said, soon there after the cold war ended, so it was very successful. [laughter] host: i must say, there are most days i have to say i love my job, and today is one day i especially love my job. i got to have this amazing conversation and on behalf of all of us that put this together, we have something for you. [applause] host: tha ....
came to us about her drone warfare book, i joined the movement. i joined the group out on the street and i no longer was that person who occasionally went to the bay area and i no longer was an armchair activist so thank you medea. a little bit about her. she has been involved for 40 years, this small woman who has a voice of equal rights, social justice for the entire world. is that better? no? that s the one, i apologize. i will not start again. so maybe it has received the martin luther king junior peace prize from the fellowship of reconciliation, the marjorie kellogg national peacemaker award, the thomas merton center peace award, the peace foundation memorial award in recognition for her creative leadership on the front lines of the antiwar movement and the peace award for promoting enduring peace. she s the cofounder of the woman s lives peace group code pink, it s why we all wear our pink in honor of her. that group began to fight against the war in iraq. it is ....