Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by theres a saying around here you stand behind what you say. Around here, we dont make excuses, we make commitments. And when you cant live up to them, you own up and make it right. Some people think the kind of accountability that thrives on so many streets in this country has gone missing in the places where its needed most. But i know youll still find it, when you know where to look. 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. Ifill the Supreme Court heard new arguments today over the rights of antiabortion protesters. The case involved a Massachusetts Law that keeps activists at least 35 feet away from clinics. The court last dealt with the issue in 2000, upholding a sim
Protest outside the fcc, calling for the commission to save the internet. We will host a debate. And fast food workers go on strike for higher wages. I feel now it is the time for not only me, but all workers across the nation is stand up and speak out and come out of the shadows and let the public be aware of how we live our daytoday lives, which is very poorly. As fast food ceos make 1200 times as much money as the average fast food worker, we will speak with one worker on strike in the fight for a livable wage. Then, to walmart. That is what walmart understands and walmart is pretty good at counting its pennies. Just days after president obama spoke at a walmart, over 18 1800 warehouse workers in california settle a major wage theft lawsuit against walmart and one of its largest contractors. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Nigeria has a currently ruled out talks of a prisoner swap with the boko hara
The impact, hey, theyre back there calling the shots. Would that have a demoralizing impact on the unit . If you were still with that unit . Oh, no. American forces are going to do whatever they can every single day to do what theyre supposed to do. I dont think theyre really worried about anybody else. Okay. Mr. Walsh, in terms of permanent impact on policy, have we set a precedence by doing this in regards to all the other terrorists groups 1234. I believe we have, congressman. I believe weve set a dangerous precedent and id encourage this body to look at future efforts towards release and calls to close guantanamo. We had these gentleman detained. Men and women gave their lives to detain them. And now, unfortunately, i believe, men and women will give their lives to capture or kill them once again. Thank you. And i want to thank the panel. I yield back. The chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Vargas, for five minutes. Mr. Chairman, thank you, again. Thank you for hol
For the week to come. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Hoyer mr. Speaker, before i inquire of the majority leader, i want to say at the outset, i have now and have had Great Respect for the majority leader. The majority leader is a person of significant intellect, he cares about this institution, cares about our country and works hard on behalf of the principles which he believes in and which his party believes in. And i have enjoyed the opportunity to work with him. We obviously, as people have seen from the colloquys from time to time, have not always agreed on what we ought to be doing. Mr. Cantor, from the state of virginia, served in his house of delegates, in his General Assembly for eight years. He served there with distinction and then was elected to the house of representatives in 2000 to succeed a good friend of mine, the former mayor of richmond, tom bliley, who mr. Cantor chaired his campaign for at least three cycles. Obviously su
But, you know, without an american advisory effort and american units to partner with, theres no one there to oversee bad commanders, to say this guy needs to be relieved. When we were there, for instance, maliki removed every single bedivide commander in the Brigade Commander in the National Police and twothirds of the [inaudible] some of them twice. So we forced accountability on the state. But when we removed that check on malikis baser tendencies, he was able to do whatever he wanted to do starting with the attempted arrest of the Vice President of the state of iraq. And just to follow up on that , maliki has his own set of Political Considerations only some of which are to have an effective fighting force and some of which are to create Patronage Networks and all those sorts of things. One of the things that was interesting to me about your account of the charge of the knights is it wasnt clear to me whether maliki thought the u. S. Was actually vital in his inning. And maliki may