Wings. Woodruff and its friday mark shields and david brooks are here to analyze the weeks news. Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by charles schwab, proud supporter of the pbs newshour. And by bnsf railway. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. 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 formally nominated his choice today to be the next u. S. Secretary of health and Human Services. And he praised the woman whos held the job for five years, during the battle over health care reform. Kathleen will go down in history for serving as the secretary of health and Human Services when the United States of america finally declared that Quality Affordable Health Care is not a privilege, but it is a right for every s
Wings. Woodruff and its friday mark shields and david brooks are here to analyze the weeks news. Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by charles schwab, proud supporter of the pbs newshour. And by bnsf railway. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. 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 formally nominated his choice today to be the next u. S. Secretary of health and Human Services. And he praised the woman whos held the job for five years, during the battle over health care reform. Kathleen will go down in history for serving as the secretary of health and Human Services when the United States of america finally declared that Quality Affordable Health Care is not a privilege, but it is a right for every s
Tour of asia. In the include stops philippines and malaysia. Were american doctors killed by an Afghan Security guard who opened fire at a kabul hospital. One headline from the wall street journal. Troops truce with russia crumbles. You can send us a tweet at cspanwj. Facebook at us on facebook. Com cspan or you journal cspan. Org can send us an email at journal cspan. Org journal cspan. Org. The clemency shift is consistent with the white house effort to address the rising cost of prison overpopulation and what it sees as an unfair justice system, especially to those serving longer sentences because of tough criminal penalties put in place years ago. Theres is also this headline with a photograph of the Deputy Attorney general who made the announcement officially yesterday. With crime rates at historic lows, eric holder has urged the sentencing system be overhauled, portraying it as a civil rights issue. Here is more from the Deputy Attorney general yesterday. [video clip] looking to
Education landscape. First, we are opening the phone lines to ask for your ideas on the best way to improve education in the United States. Atents and students can call 202 5853880. Educators can call at 202 5853881. You can catch up with us on all of your social media pages on twitter. You can send us an email. A good Tuesday Morning to you. Taste of the backtoschool stories. Heres the front page of the richmond times. Local children in the richmond, Virginia Area head back to school today. The front page story ahead of the class, students head back to school. Sandpoint high school being highlighted in that story. The atlantic journalconstitution talked about the end of year testing. Here is the press telegram out of long beach and california. School uniforms still in style after 20 years is one of the headlines. New are being conversation on schools is being sought. There is an aim of encouraging more factbased National Discussion about the challenges of Public Education and possible
Effectiveness or is defining the effectiveness is the global , and i will give you one anecdote. This is on the prevention of overweight, obesity, and meeting, and at that ncd, arned about mexicos policy they enacted about three months earlier, and they stage, andis on the part of it was a major value said,tax on drinks, and i how on earth did you get the big Beverage Industry to agree to be and they said it wasnt that easy. They said initially it was , but then west looked to the european union, and there was a directive that all the Beverage Companies had signed up to, including , so they drew on this eu directive, brought it to mexico, and said if you are able to sign onto a directive in europe, why arent you able to sign on to a similar directive whatxico, and that is mobilized the Beverage Industry to sign on. They realized that by having a they would look at the public side anonymously, so i am using that as an , because what is the value of an eu directive . I mean, g, that is b