Sreenivasan and its friday, david brooks and ruth marcus 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 with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. 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. Sreenivasan after months of leaks and growing criticism, president obama laid out surveillance reforms today. He said the National Security agency must no longer be the storehouse for phone metadata that it collects. And, he promised an end to spying on allied leaders. We will hear some of what the president said, and have reaction, right after the news summary. Later the president signed a spending bill that puts an end to the budget wars for now, he held a ceremony
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 with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. 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. Sreenivasan after months of leaks and growing criticism, president obama laid out surveillance reforms today. He said the National Security agency must no longer be the storehouse for phone metadata that it collects. And, he promised an end to spying on allied leaders. We will hear some of what the president said, and have reaction, right after the news summary. Later the president signed a spending bill that puts an end to the budget wars for now, he held a ceremony, the bill funds Government Operations through the rest of th
suspect paul kevin curtis. curtis said he had been framed and mentioned dutschke as a possible suspect. on tuesday this case took another turn and he was released. all the charges filed against him were dropped. the attention seemed to turn to dutschke. that focus included several searches at places related to dutschke. he was associated with a marshal arts studio. that location was searched by fbi agents. and agents also were searching here at his home earlier this week. now we have been in contact with dutschke s attorney all week. she has told us in the past her client had nothing to do with the ricin letters sent to president obama as well as two government officials here in mississippi. today she released a statement just a little while ago saying that it is her understanding that authorities have confirmed dutschke s arrest. however, she has no comment at
arrested. one other man was briefly under suspicion but was cleared. we have the latest. bring us up to date. reporter: carol, this is the latest twist and turn in this investigation. james everette dutschke was taken into custody by fbi agents. it it happened early this morning before 1:00 in the morning here at his home in mississippi. now dutschke has been turned over to the u.s. marshals office but we have been told by the fbi that his arrest is in reference to the ricin investigation. we first learned about dutschke at a hearing on monday that was for the initial suspect in this case. his name is paul kevin curtis. he said in that hearing he had been framed and he mentioned dutschke as a possible suspect. then on tuesday another twist. curtis was released.
ricin that fits on the head of a pin could be fatal to an adult if inhaled. this isn t something that we take our time and make sure. it was when all the indications are from somebody who has mailed letters earlier who has come up in similar situations without the ricin but no with ricin and they had enough information to convince the u.s. magistrate he needs to get pked up while they look at this. it s because of the degree of lethality of ricin that led to that. so do they have the right guy this time or are they, again, rushing to judgment, so to speak? i guess we ll have the facts come out shortly. but they have been investigating it since dutschke s name has come up and been doing searches and analyzing things in his possession. whether or not he had ricin in one of his locations of his home