and amphibians. i want to be an engineer and technology engineer and i m going to have to go to mit. ifill: margaret warner talks to diana nyad after she was plucked from the florida straits today, ending her fourth attempt to swim 103 miles from cuba to florida. three single things we were up against was an obstacle, a huge tropical depression storms. the jellyfish each night i was stung badly. no matter what. brown: and judy woodruff sits down with former congressman mickey edwards. his new book blasts both parties for a dysfunctional government and offers solutions for breaking the stranglehold. ifill: 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. 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 found
brown: from seattle, hari sreenivasan has the story of a year-round program that asks students as young as ten to commit to graduating from college. garance franke-ruta. jon ward. ted schadler. sylla. diana nyad. mickey edwards. brown: i m jeffrey brown. an epidemic of whooping cough and briz winning whnchs i grow up. i want to be a paleontologist because i want to study reptiles and amphibians. i want to be an engineer and technology engineer and i m going to have to go to mit. ifill: margaret warner talks to diana nyad after she was plucked from the florida straits today, ending her fourth attempt to swim 103 miles from cuba to florida. three single things we were up against was an obstacle, a huge tropical depression storms. the jellyfish each night i was stung badly. no matter what. brown: and judy woodruff sits down with former congressman mickey edwards. his new book blasts both parties for a dysfunctional government and offers solutions for breaking the str
i want to be an engineer and technology engineer and i m going to have to go to mit. ifill: margaret warner talks to diana nyad after she was plucked from the florida straits today, ending her fourth attempt to swim 103 miles from cuba to florida. three single things we were up against was an obstacle, a huge tropical depression storms. the jellyfish each night i was stung badly. no matter what. brown: and judy woodruff sits down with former congressman mickey edwards. his new book blasts both parties for a dysfunctional government and offers solutions for breaking the stranglehold. ifill: 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. 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. thi
and charlie summers. as a husband and a father, i found representative akin s comments shockingly offensive. he should resign effective immediately. and the party apparatus came crashing down on akin s head. first karl rove s group. they had a new round of ads scheduled to start wednesday. they announced they re pulling the buy for good. senator john kor anyone announced that nrsc would also pull their support. over the next 24 hours congressman akin should consider what is best for him, his family, the republican party and the values that he has fought for throughout his career. then he went on the best known station in missouri, kmox to make it crystal clear the gop wants akin out. we have victory centers and volunteers that do work around
hitting mitt romney on his tax returns. plus, echoes of 1994 have ted kennedy s tactics to defeat mitt romney have influenced mitt romney this time around? good morning, from new york, it s tuesday, august 21st, 2012. this is the daily rundown. i m chuck todd. this morning an issue where president obama and mitt romney are hesitant to go. their religion. they both gave interviews on the roles religion plays in their lives with the national cathedral magazine. we have the very first look at those interviews. but first, let s get to the first reads of the morning. the clock is ticking. there are less than nine hours to go to get congressman todd akin off the ballot in missouri, and the republican party is doing everything they can to force him out by 5:00 central time. what s most remarkable is the speed and force with which the entire weight of the party has fallen on akin s head. the party s leader rushed to distance himself in an interview with new hampshire s wmar.