Recognizes so for five minutes for purpose of the Opening Statement 21st century chairs sector is a monumental achievement as the product of a bipartisan vote the love effort from the committee to bring the of laws and to the modern era in one year since signed into law i remember remarking at that press conference one year ago to imagine a world that government was not the obstacle but in allied to deliver drugs and devices and cures to patients. Looking into the implementation the transformational bill to give them packed the village to researchers and scientists with the latest breakthrough there peas is seeking treatment to give help to them and their loved ones and advocates for. This morning well hear from those of are responsible for all of the Biomedical Research provisions in the commissioner of the fda coming back to the subcommittee your schedules switched and we appreciate you coming before us today at the time of the launch of the 21st Century Cures Initiative the statemen
Adequately supportive of that traditional ally. People look at the arab spring which has developed into something unsparing like. The question is how much did an american president have to do with that . What can an american president do in response to that . Those are legitimate questions and they are questions you can be sure historians will be debating for a very long time to come. But that in a curious way goes back to my point, like him or dislike him, whatever, the fact that barack obama, and whatever his legacy is will engage the interest and attention the support and hostility of historians and others for a long time to come only testifies to the significance of his presidency and the magnitude of what he has attempted. Richard norton smith is our guest talking about the reporting after the president s win on the trade bills and also the relation ship with the Supreme Court on samesex marriage and their reporting that this was his best week ever. We are discussing his legacy. Y
Lyndon johnson 70 white house and listen to people outside and listened to people outside ask how many kids did you kill today . It doesnt get more divisive than that. It has become unfortunately, the norm. I think we should ask ourselves some tough questions about how we got to this point, and why there is such a bipartisan distrust, not only towards government and People Associated with government, but whoever happens to occupy the presidency. The whole industry of this country, there are networks on the right and left that thrive on the basis of denigrating whoever happens to have that job. It is a Significant Development that say, ronald reagan, who could go on tv and summon thousands of people to make phone calls to southern democrats to pass his budget. Those are no longer available to an american president. The caller has talked about this president being different. Part of that is responding to the different media environments. It is not your grandfathers presidency. The bully
Stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions 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. Woodruff the government of afghanistan confirmed today it has opened direct talks with the taliban. Its their first, formal face toface encounter since a u. S. Coalition ousted the taliban from power in 2001. Afghan president ashraf ghani said the goal is to change this meeting into a process of continuing talks. Officials said the talks are taking place in pakistans capital city, islamabad. Ifill u. S. Strategy to defeat the Islamic State came in for heavy criticism today from senate republicans. John mccain, chairing the Armed Services committee, challenged the president s policies on isis at a hearing. There is no compelling reason to believe that anything we are doing currently
Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions 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. Woodruff the government of afghanistan confirmed today it has opened direct talks with the taliban. Its their first, formal face toface encounter since a u. S. Coalition ousted the taliban from power in 2001. Afghan president ashraf ghani said the goal is to change this meeting into a process of continuing talks. Officials said the talks are taking place in pakistans capital city, islamabad. Ifill u. S. Strategy to defeat the Islamic State came in for heavy criticism today from senate republicans. John mccain, chairing the Armed Services committee, challenged the president s policies on isis at a hearing. There is no compelling reason to believe that anything we are doing currently will be sufficient to achieve the president s l