Personalities driving the politics and gridlock in washington with two authors and veteran political journalists Robert Draper and Mark Leibovich. You do wonder, when people are in office, when people are in power, who are they really working for . Are they in it to serve the public good, or are they in it for selfservice . Woodruff thats all ahead on tonights 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 alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. 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. Suarez president obama took aim at the soaring cost of college today with an ambitious plan to rate schools and link tuition price
Around the world. Suarez a fresh series of secret tapes reveals former president nixons attempts to control the watergate scandal. We hear excerpts and discuss what they tell us. Woodruff and we look at the personalities driving the politics and gridlock in washington with two authors and veteran political journalists Robert Draper and mark leibovich. You do wonder, when people are in office, when people are in power, who are they really working for . Are they in it to serve the public good, or are they in it for selfservice . Woodruff thats all ahead on tonights 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 alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting
Agriculture sector. They say that 40 of his food and drugs come from europe and he is really hurting the russian people. Yeah, thats right. I mean, its tragic in my view. Not least because we worked several years when i was in the government to try to increase trade and investment including food imports to russia. And at the end of the day, who is going to be hurt is the Russian Consumers both because these goods will no longer be on the russian market and because their absence will increase inflation. Thats just simple market logic. The consumers in russia are the ones that are going to be hurt, not the americans. And there are a number of ceos who have been here in washington for this africa summit. Theyre bidding on african contracts trying to counteract china which has been investing so heavily in the continent. Theyve all been largely affected because these are big global players. They say that it isnt good for their companies but they think the u. S. Is doing the right thing. I t
Signed, of course, by bill clinton and then was not renewed. Their sadness over what happened to the brady bill and for all of their efforts for gun law changes. Yeah, and indeed. That assassination attempt that, traumatic moment for the country, it did change not just, you know, the nation but it actually changed a lot of the debate in washington. You saw democrats in Congress Give a lot more latitude to the reagan agenda after that happened. The sense of sympathy in the country. That era, just talk about the importance of it in terms of the way it changes really the legislative process, the tone in the country, et cetera. Well, after coming out of the hospital, first of all, the way president reagan responded and joked to the Emergency Team at George Washington hospital and to the surgeon and just joking about whether or not the surgeon who operated on him was a republican or a democrat and then saying to nancy reagan, honey, they missed me, we did not know for decades how seriously
This unusual problem. Hey there, everyone. Welcome to weekends with alex witt. We have developments of the first ebola person from the United States to enter the United States. The foreign aide worker is at Emory University hospital in atlanta. He walked off an ambulance. Its enkoushlging thcouragin seems to be improving and were hoping that hell continue to improve. Ebola is a scary disease because its so deadly. The planned fact is we can stop it from spreading in hospitals and we can stop it in africa. We know that brantlys wife, who is seen here in this undated photo on this samaritans purposes website has visited him along with his mother and father and sister. The plane is on its way back to liberia to pick up nancy writebol. Dr. Nancy snyderman is joining me. Good morning to you, dr. Nancy. We were watching the doctor walk with that minimal assistance. Why did that impress you so much . Well, i think it was stunning because we expected, as is usually the case, for a patient to b