0 going to happen. the whether or not he will national financial system is going to come into washington by television and say oh, my god, this will be a gigantic heart attack. the entire economy will collapse. you guys can t be responsible. okay. this is gingrich who shut government down in the 90s. everyone the wall street journal said this morning you can t take a hostage you aren t prepared to shoolt. i think there s two things here. one, i think newt gingrich might be underestimating just how intent house republicans are, first of all. second of all, it really worries me, the republicans themselves don t seem to actually understand what they re proposing. john cornyn said you must shut the govlt down. that s not what he s proposing. there s a whole bunch of people that the u.s. owes money to. contractors we have to pay, the salaries of u.s. senators. and what they re saying is some small subset of those, on a certain day, you should stop paying. partial. what the heck d
us live from tahrir square. what s the scene like? reporter: well, we ve got more people coming in to tahrir square. just a short while ago we watched them bun posters of one of the presidential candidates. he was mubarak s prime minister. the anger seems to be going into the direction of shafiq because he s got a good shot of becoming president when the egyptians go to the polls in the middle of the month for the second and final round of those presidential elections. now what s important to note here is that the muslim brotherhood, egypt s largest and best organized and political bloc has called upon the protesters to join the protest in tahrir square, and normally when they say people should come out and protest, you do see large numbers, so it does seem that a lot of durcht political groups and many just ordinary egyptians are heeding their call to come out and join these protests as the temperature mounts in egypt following that verdict against hosni mubarak and his in
egypt with an iron fist for 30 years is now in a maximum security prison where he ll spend the rest of his life. earlier today an egyptian court found hosni mubarak guilty of making orders to shoot and kill civilians. the angry mubarak was taken by ambulance to the cairo police academy where the verdict and life sentence was handed down. he was wheeled in on a gurney under heavy guard. six of mubarak s former military men were acquitted. that sparked an uproar inside and outside the courtroom. [ chanting ] . furious protesters called it wrong and want to topple the regime. the security is very tight. 5,000 police have been deployed. our senior international correspondent ben wedeman joins us live from tahrir square. what s the scene like? reporter: well, we ve got more people coming in to tahrir square. just a short while ago we watched them bun posters of one of the presidential candidates. he was mubarak s prime minister. the anger seems to be going into the direction o
where voters overturned a law curbing union rights. brown: ray suarez updates the scandal at penn state university as coach joe paterno announced he ll retire at season s end. woodruff: special correspondent john tulenko reports from indiana where a voucher program allows families to choose religious schools, charter schools and even public schools in neighboring districts. if we re going to break this cycle of poverty, we have to provide those options. it s not our obligation as a state to support every choice that everybody wants to make. brown: and margaret warner looks at the charges of gross mismanagement in handling remains of america s war dead at dover air force base. woodruff: that s all ahead on tonight s newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy productive life. and with the ongoing support of these instit
voucher program allows families to choose religious schools, charter schools and even public schools in neighboring districts. if we re going to break this cycle of poverty, we have to provide those options. it s not our obligation as a state to support every choice that everybody wants to make. brown: and margaret warner loks at the charges of gross mismanagement in handling remains of america s war dead at dover air force base. woodruff: that s all ahead on tonight s newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy productive life. 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. brown: first greece and now italy. fears that europe s debt crisis has tak