considers cutting the food stamp program, we debate the potential impact on the roughly 46 million americans who receive assistance from it. brown: paul solman has the second of two takes on policy- making in times of economic crisis. tonight, he talks to nobel- prize-winning economist paul krugman. it s all very easy now, now that it turned out that we did not have a collapse in the auto industry to say, oh well everything would have been fine if we did nothing, but that s certainly not the way it looked we did need to act and it s a good thing we did. woodruff: and on this anniversary of d-day ray suarez talks to author rick atkinson, whose new book chronicles the hard road to victory for allied forces in world war two. the horror of it is difficult to imagine some 70 years later and continued until almost the last gun shot. brown: that s all ahead. on tonight s newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 y
tonight, he talks to nobel- prize-winning economist paul krugman. it s all very easy now, now that it turned out that we did not have a collapse in the auto industry to say, oh well everything would have been fine if we did nothing, but that s certainly not the way it looked we did need to act and it s a good thing we did. woodruff: and on this anniversary of d-day ray suarez talks to author rick atkinson, whose new book chronicles the hard road to victory for allied forces in world war two. the horror of it is difficult to imagine some 70 years later and continued until almost the last gun shot. brown: that s all ahead. on tonight s newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. more than two years ago, the people of b.p. made a commitment to the gulf. and everyday since, we ve worked hard to keep it. today, the beaches and gulf are open for everyone to enjoy. we shared
san diego and atlanta, 1.2 million each. i mean, this comes from an ad membership vision administration in 2012 said no government agency can spend more than $500,000 on any singular conference. they went well above that in all these cases. you get a chance to today to talk to faris fink. faris fink played spock in the star trek parody. what will you ask faris fink? be interesting to see if he comes in unform. not every day you get to interview spock. you smile and get this snarky little thing. you look at it, say what in the world were you doing? so far the irs in holding people accountable has only put two people on administrative leave for getting free food. the total disregard for the people s money. the outrageous spending, going outside the pa rammers it of scope of what they re allowed to do by their own internal rules doesn t seem to be paramount because
anaheim, california, three years ago, the most expensive. $4 million for 2600 employees. almost 1600 bucks per person. the four officials on the hot seat today, the irs inspector general, j. russell george is back, screen left. new irs chief denny danny werfel. and faris fink who played the role of spock in the spoof video. jason chaffetz we ll talk to who will ask some questions at the hearing. jason chaffetz, good morning. welcome back to america s newsroom . thank you, bill. bill: think about the spending in government culture, what this shows you, they have the money, they will spend the money. yeah. it is just out of control. it is just pervasive culture with total disregard for, it s the people s money. whenever there s a decision to spend money, you re taking money out of somebody s wallet to give it to somebody else.
faris fink. you may have seen him in the infamous irs video playing the role of dr. spock. captain, there may be another solution. i took the liberty doing a time warp scan of the galaxy. i found leaders who could be of assistance. they met back in the 21st century in anaheim, california. earth, sir. bill: hand him the oscar. that and other irs videos costing you $50,000. now the irs has to answer for it. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel live from the hill. the hits keep coming from this group. other than spock, what do we expect from the hearing when it starts in 30 minutes? reporter: makes you wonder when he goes with the vulcan live long and prosper when they swear him in. the one of the early questions will be, what were you thinking? this was going on with the nation in a very deep recession when many americans were losing their jobs and homes. one top house leader predicts we re just scratching the surface of